Professor Susan Davis video

Voiceover: "Professor Susan Davis is a renowned women’s health researcher.

"She holds the Chair of Women’s Health in the Monash University Department of Medicine at the Alfred Hospital and is a consultant endocrinologist."

Susan Davis: "My research team’s direction at present is to address the issue of the chronic diseases that women experience with increased life expectancy. So we are particularly interested in looking at factors that influence cognitive decline, the development of cardiovascular disease and other issues like osteoporosis and osteoarthritis."

Voiceover: "Professor Davis graduated from Monash with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in 1980 and completed her PhD in 1989.

"She helps develop international best practice guidelines and shares her expertise with the public, her students and young clinicians."

Susan Davis: "Because my work is not laboratory-based but involves interacting with a range of people. It involves research, patient care, education, communication… there is never an average day. And that’s probably what’s so exciting about it. Often things come from completely left field and the whole course of the week completely changes."

Voiceover: "Professor Davis’s ground-breaking clinical research helps women in Australia and around the globe… and she finds new research questions working with her patients…"

Susan Davis: "In my professional career, I think I get my greatest inspiration from my patients. I do clinical practice one day a week, and in doing that I meet so many challenges and I see all the medical questions that remained unanswered in my field, and that really inspires me to go and seek out those answers."

Voiceover: "Monash University applauds Professor Susan Davis for her commitment to women’s health and her exceptional research achievements."

Description:Professor Susan Davis (MBBS 1980, PhD Med 1989), Monash University logo.

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