Journal of Spine

 

In 1986 she obtained her medical degree at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where she completed her medical training with a special focus on orthopaedics and surgery. In 1995, after specialising in radiology at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, she spent three years at the University of San Francisco California (UCSF). There, she undertook fellowships in musculoskeletal radiology and neuroradiology, before taking on clinical, teaching and educational roles as an adjunct professor in musculoskeletal radiology. Three years later, she joined the University of Bern and Inselspital, Switzerland, as Chief of the musculoskeletal radiology section, which she built up over a period of ten years. In 2005 she received a further degree in radiology (Habilitation, Privatdozent) from the University of Bern. 

 

Professor Anderson's focus is on education in musculoskeletal radiology and interdisciplinary research funded by government bodies and industry. She is also currently finishing off a Swiss National Foundation multicentre study on whiplash.

 

She has authored or co-authored 50 peer-reviewed or invited review papers, and several book chapters. She reviews for several international medical journals, such as European Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, RadioGraphics, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, and Skeletal Radiology.