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Dr. Ali Guermazi is Section Chief of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Associate Professor of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Guermazi worked at Synarc, Inc. and University of California, at San Francisco. He is a board certified radiologist with special interest in musculoskeletal diseases, in particular note are his scientific contributions in the diagnosis and disease progression assessment of osteoarthritis using MRI. His work has focused on identifying structural risk factors for developing and worsening osteoarthritis. Dr. Guermazi had been involved in developing several original and widely accepted radiological methods to assess osteoarthritis disease risk and progression, including the WORMS and BLOKS for the knee, and fixed-flexion radiography for measuring joint space width. Dr. Guermazi has been involved as an MRI reader for the past 9 years in several large U.S. studies including the Health Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) study, the Boston Osteoarthritis Knee study (BOKS), the Multi-center Osteoarthritis STudy (MOST), the Framingham study, Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), and other large NIH-funded studies, as well as several Pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials.
Dr. Ali Guermazi is also expert in oncology particularly Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and kidney cancer. Dr Guermazi is the recipient of many scientific awards including the Visiting Scholar Program of the French Society of Radiology in 1997 and the European Association of Radiology Exchange Program in 1996. He has written over 130 medical and scientific articles and 24 book chapters. He also edited 4 text books, and lectures regularly at scientific and medical congresses around the world. |
