Professor Peter Youssef, attended Sydney University graduating with first class honours in Medicine in 1986. He then did training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology in Sydney. Peter became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 1993. He completed his doctorate in 1997 at the Flinders University of South Australia and then post-doctoral studies in Dublin returning to The University of New South Wales as a post-doctoral fellow. He is a clinical Professor of Rheumatology at Sydney University. Since 2007 he has been the rheumatology subeditor of the Internal Medicine Journal.