Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, MSc

Professor, Radiology

Ali Guermazi
617.638.6610
820 Harrison Ave

Biography

Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, MSc is a Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Director of the Quantitative Imaging Center, and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Boston University School of Medicine. He is the Chief of Radiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Prior to joining Boston University, he was Director of the Osteoporosis and Arthritis Research Group (OARG) at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and then Director of Clinical Research at Synarc, Inc. in San Francisco. Before that, Prof. Guermazi spent 12 years in Paris and worked mainly at the prestigious Saint-Louis University Hospital. Prof. Guermazi obtained his MD from Sfax University (Tunisia), then his specialty from Rene Descartes University in Paris (France) and his PhD from Jikei University in Tokyo (Japan). He is Visiting Professor at Jikei University in Tokyo and the Prefectorial University in Kyoto, Japan.

Prof. Guermazi was Deputy Editor of Radiology for almost 7 years (2013-2019). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Skeletal Radiology, the official journal of the International Skeletal Radiology and also the President of the International Society of Osteoarthritis Imaging since 2019.

Prof. Guermazi’s interest is in musculoskeletal diseases. Of particular note are his scientific contributions in the diagnosis, incidence and disease progression assessment of osteoarthritis using MRI. His work has focused on identifying structural risk factors for developing and worsening osteoarthritis. Prof. Guermazi has been involved as an MRI reader for the past 25 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.

Prof. Guermazi is also interested in Interventional nonvascular radiology and imaging in Sports Medicine where he is The Expert Radiologist to the International Olympics Committee and Paris Saint-Germain Football team. Prof. Guermazi is the author of over 670 peer-reviewed PubMed publications, 12 books, over 50 chapters and Investigator on numerous research grants related to MRI reading for Osteoarthritis. His h-index is 111. He is the recipient of many awards among these the OARSI Excellence in Clinical Research in 2018 and the RSNA Margulis Award for the Best Paper in 2022. He has been invited to lecture in more than 70 countries world-wide.

Other Positions

  • Chief, Radiology, VA Boston Healthcare System
  • Assistant Dean, Diversity & Inclusion, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Professor, Rheumatology, Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Education

  • University of Sfax, MD
  • Jikei University School of Medicine, PhD
  • Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), MSc

Publications

  • Published on 4/1/2024

    Wáng YXJ, Griffith JF, Blake GM, Diacinti D, Xiao BH, Yu W, Su Y, Jiang Y, Guglielmi G, Guermazi A, Kwok TCY. Correction to: Revision of the 1994 World Health Organization T-score definition of osteoporosis for use in older East Asian women and men to reconcile it with their lifetime risk of fragility fracture. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Apr; 53(4):627-628. PMID: 37993557.

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  • Published on 3/1/2024

    Guermazi A. AI is indeed helpful but it should always be monitored! Diagn Interv Imaging. 2024 Mar; 105(3):83-84. PMID: 38458733.

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  • Published on 2/27/2024

    Wáng YXJ, Blake GM, Tang SN, Guermazi A, Griffith JF. Quantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older East Asian women should be lower than the value for Caucasians. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Feb 27. PMID: 38411702.

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  • Published on 2/19/2024

    Liew JW, Jarraya M, Guermazi A, Felson D, Nevitt M, Lewis CE, Torner J, Roemer FW, Crema MD, Wang N, Rabasa G, Becce F, Pascart T, Neogi T. Intra-Articular Mineralization on Knee CT and Risk of Cartilage Damage: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2024 Feb 19. PMID: 38369918.

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  • Published on 2/8/2024

    Roemer FW, Wirth W, Demehri S, Kijowski R, Jarraya M, Hayashi D, Eckstein F, Guermazi A. Imaging Biomarkers of Osteoarthritis. Semin Musculoskelet Radiol. 2024 Feb; 28(1):14-25. PMID: 38330967.

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  • Published on 1/31/2024

    Yu W, Guan WM, Hayashi D, Lin Q, Du MM, Xia WB, Wang YJ, Guermazi A. Vertebral fracture severity assessment on anteroposterior radiographs with a new semi-quantitative technique. Osteoporos Int. 2024 Jan 31. PMID: 38296865.

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  • Published on 1/24/2024

    Jarraya M, Bitoun O, Wu D, Balza R, Guermazi A, Collins J, Gupta R, Nielsen GP, Guermazi E, Simeone FJ, Omoumi P, Melnic CM, Yee S. Dual energy computed tomography cannot effectively differentiate between calcium pyrophosphate and basic calcium phosphate diseases in the clinical setting. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2024 Mar; 6(1):100436. PMID: 38384979.

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  • Published on 1/19/2024

    Moradi K, Kwee RM, Mohajer B, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Ibad HA, Haugen IK, Berenbaum F, Demehri S. Erosive hand osteoarthritis and sarcopenia: data from Osteoarthritis Initiative cohort. Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 Jan 19. PMID: 38242637.

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  • Published on 1/18/2024

    Yu SP, Deveza LA, Kraus VB, Karsdal M, Bay-Jensen AC, Collins JE, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Ladel C, Bhagavath V, Hunter DJ. Association of biochemical markers with bone marrow lesion changes on imaging-data from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Osteoarthritis Biomarkers Consortium. Arthritis Res Ther. 2024 Jan 18; 26(1):30. PMID: 38238803.

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  • Published on 1/10/2024

    Roemer FW, Jarraya M, Hayashi D, Crema MD, Haugen IK, Hunter DJ, Guermazi A. A perspective on the evolution of semi-quantitative MRI assessment of osteoarthritis: Past, present and future. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2024 Jan 10. PMID: 38211810.

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