Dr Rachel Black
Treasurer
MBBS, FRACP, PhD
Dr Rachel Black is a Consultant Rheumatologist based at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and The Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She also provides a rheumatology service to the Clare Valley, where she visits on alternate months. She is an active clinician researcher, with an interest in rheumatoid arthritis, epidemiology and glucocorticoids. She is a member of national and international collaborative research groups including the RESOURCE consortium and the OMERACT Glucocorticoid Working Group. Rachel also enjoys mentoring young researchers and supervises medical students, rheumatology trainees and PhD students.
Rachel was previously President of the South Australian branch of the ARA from 2023 to 2025 and served as SA Honorary Treasurer from 2020-2023. She was an inaugural member of the ARA Early Career Group steering committee from 2019-2020 and a member of the ARAD steering committee from 2018-2021. She was also a member of the SA Rheumatology Advanced Training Selection Panel (2016-2023), having chaired this group from 2017-2020.
She enjoys travel, reading and spending time with her family.