Associate Professor Claudia Di Bella was born in Italy and gained her medical degree from the oldest medical school in the Western World at the University of Bologna. Associate Professor Di Bella then went on to complete her orthopaedic training at one of Europe’s premier specialist orthopaedic hospitals at the Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute. Nowadays living in Australia, Claudia is a Fellow of the Australian Orthopaedic Association, specialising in joint replacement surgery and the complex subspeciality of orthopaedic oncology treating bone and soft tissue tumours. Claudia is also the head of the Cartilage Regeneration Program within the department of surgery at the University of Melbourne.