Red X iconGreen tick iconYellow tick icon
Professor Rebecca GraingerMBChB (Dstn), BMedSci (Dstn) MIsntD, FHiNZ, FRACP, PhD

Professor, Department of Medicine
Rheumatologist, Te Whatu Ora Capital Coast and Hutt Valley

Tel +64 4 806 1031
Email rebecca.grainger@otago.ac.nz

Rebecca is an academic rheumatologist who is passionate about patient-focused care and engaging with colleagues in primary and secondary care to provide the highest quality collaborative care for people with arthritis.

A University of Otago medical graduate, she undertook rheumatology training in Melbourne and her PhD examined inflammatory mechanisms in gout.

Rebecca's clinical work focuses on assessment and management of inflammatory arthritis and her particular clinical interests include inflammatory arthritis, gout, and scleroderma. Rebecca's academic interests are wide but she aims to undertake research in clinical rheumatology, health professions education and technology.

Research and Interests

  • Development and assessment of mobile health tools for clinical care and self-care for clinicians and health care users
  • Social media for participatory health and medical education
  • Enhancing engagement and active learning in medical education
  • Outcome measures in musculoskeletal and rheumatic disease
  • Gout including inflammatory mechanisms, pharmacological treatment and clinical assessment

I am interested in supervising postgraduate students in any of the research areas listed above. Please contact me directly by email.

Publications

Venuturupalli, S., Peck, A., Jinka, Y., Fortune, N., Davuluri, N., Nowell, W. B., … Grainger, R., & Curtis, J. R. (2024). Home-based telemedicine in rheumatology: A scoping review. ACR Open Rheumatology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/acr2.11660

Lopez-Alcalde, J., Wieland, L. S., Barth, J., Grainger, R., Baxter, N., Heron, N., … Witt, C. M. (2024). Methodological challenges in systematic reviews of mHealth interventions: Survey and consensus-based recommendations. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 184, 105345. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105345

Yazdany, J., Ware, A., Wallace, Z. S., Bhana, S., Grainger, R., Hachulla, E., … Machado, P. M. (2024). Impact of risk factors on COVID-19 outcomes in unvaccinated people with rheumatic diseases: A comparative analysis of pandemic epochs using the COVID-19 Global Rheumatology Alliance Registry. Arthritis Care & Research, 76(2), 274-287. doi: 10.1002/acr.25220

Grainger, R., Liu, Q., & Gladman, T. (2024). Learning technology in health professions education: Realising an (un)imagined future. Medical Education, 58, 36-46. doi: 10.1111/medu.15185

Kanagasabai, P., Ormandy, J., Filoche, S., Henry, C., Te Whaiti, S., Willink, R., Gladman, T., & Grainger, R. (2024). Can storytelling of women's lived experience enhance empathy in medical students? A pilot intervention study. Medical Teacher, 46(2), 219-224. doi: 10.1080/0142159x.2023.2243023

Back to top