Rate My Professor David Gonzalez

Associate Professor David Gonzalez serves in the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at The University of Adelaide as Associate Professor in the Discipline of General Practice and Head of Research at the Adelaide Rural Clinical School. An Ecuadorian medical doctor and paediatrician with over 20 years of clinical experience, he obtained his MD from Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil (1994-2001), MSc in Epidemiology from Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil (2005-2006), PhD in Epidemiology with a concentration in Lifecourse Epidemiology from the same institution (2007-2009), and specialization in Infectious Paediatric Diseases from Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain (2002-2005). He completed postdoctoral training in body composition analysis at Universidade Federal de Pelotas (2009-2010) and specialist training in professional education from Serviço Nacional de Aprendizagem (SENAC), Brazil (2007-2008). Before joining the University of Adelaide in 2015 as Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in the Discipline of General Practice, he worked as Assistant Professor at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (2010-2015), developing and coordinating postgraduate courses in biostatistics, epidemiology, and research methods, and as a consultant for Rio Grande University Foundation.

At The University of Adelaide, Gonzalez transitioned to a continuing position in 2017, became Head of Research and a member of the Executive Committee at the Adelaide Rural Clinical School in 2018, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020. His research specializes in the design, implementation, and analysis of quantitative studies such as cohorts, cross-sectional studies, and randomised controlled trials, focusing on rural health, primary care, medication safety, health equity, diabetes monitoring and control among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, influenza surveillance and vaccination, cardiovascular disease prevention, endometriosis diagnosis using imaging and AI, psychotropic medications in children and adolescents, and multimorbidity phenotypes. Key publications include co-authorship in The Lancet on worldwide trends in underweight and obesity from 1990 to 2022 (Phelps et al., 2024), diabetes prevalence and treatment (2024), and general and abdominal adiposity and hypertension (2024); first-authored or lead papers on time spent in rural placements and working rurally after graduation (Australian Journal of Rural Health, Williams et al., 2026), concurrent prescribing of opioids and sedative-hypnotics (Pharmacol Res Perspect, 2025), diabetes monitoring among Aboriginal peoples (BMJ Open, 2025), and cardiometabolic monitoring in youth on antipsychotics (Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 2025). He has earned awards including Brazilian Best PhD Thesis in Public Health (CAPES, 2010), Northern Communities Health Foundation Prize (2019), Scientific Research Productivity Fellow (CNPq, 2015), and multiple best conference abstract prizes. Gonzalez has supervised and co-supervised 20 postgraduate students in medicine, nutrition, epidemiology, and public health.