Professor Debbie Turner is the Discipline Lead Program for Podiatry at QUT. Since graduating in 1996 she has always worked clinically and developed a specialist scope of practice in the area rheumatology and wound care. She gained an Arthritis Research UK academic fellowship in 2007 and undertook training in musculoskeletal ultrasound and injection therapy to support her research activities. She has published extensively in the field of rheumatology, helped to build capacity in podiatry rheumatology research through PhD supervision and is currently working on a number of research studies where ultrasound is a fundamental component of the work.