Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD
Professor, Radiology
Biography
Dr. Guermazi is a French board-certified radiologist. 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. Dr. Guermazi interest is 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, BLOKS and MOAKS for the knee, HOAMS for the hip and fixed-flexion radiography for measuring joint space width. Dr. Guermazi has been involved as an MRI reader for the past 14 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. He is author of over 275 peer-reviewed publications and Investigator on numerous research grants related to MRI reading for Osteoarthritis.
Other Positions
- Section Chief, Musculoskeletal Radiology, Radiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
- 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
Publications
- Published on 3/15/2023
Demehri S, Kasaeian A, Roemer FW, Guermazi A. Osteoarthritis year in review 2022: imaging. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2023 Mar 15. PMID: 36924919.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/3/2023
Costello KE, Felson DT, Jafarzadeh SR, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Segal NA, Lewis CE, Nevitt MC, Lewis CL, Kolachalama VB, Kumar D. Gait, physical activity and tibiofemoral cartilage damage: a longitudinal machine learning analysis in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Br J Sports Med. 2023 Mar 03. PMID: 36868795.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/23/2023
Ibad HA, Kwee RM, Ghotbi E, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Demehri S. Radiographically detectable intra-articular mineralization: Predictor of knee osteoarthritis outcomes or only an indicator of aging? A brief report from the osteoarthritis initiative. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2023 Jun; 5(2):100348. PMID: 36923363.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/14/2023
Roemer FW, Engelke K, Li L, Laredo JD, Guermazi A. MRI underestimates presence and size of knee osteophytes using CT as a reference standard. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2023 Feb 14. PMID: 36796577.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 2/8/2023
Schache AG, Sritharan P, Culvenor AG, Patterson BE, Perraton LG, Bryant AL, Guermazi A, Morris HG, Whitehead TS, Crossley KM. Patellofemoral joint loading and early osteoarthritis after ACL reconstruction. J Orthop Res. 2023 Feb 08. PMID: 36751892.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/24/2023
Liew JW, Rabasa G, LaValley M, Collins J, Stefanik J, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Lewis CE, Nevitt M, Torner J, Felson D. Development of an MRI-based definition of knee osteoarthritis: Data from the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Jan 24. PMID: 36693143.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/10/2023
Heiss R, Weber MA, Balbach E, Schmitt R, Rehnitz C, Laqmani A, Sternberg A, Ellermann JJ, Nagel AM, Ladd ME, Englbrecht M, Arkudas A, Horch R, Guermazi A, Uder M, Roemer FW. Clinical Application of Ultrahigh-Field-Strength Wrist MRI: A Multireader 3-T and 7-T Comparison Study. Radiology. 2023 Jan 10; 220753. PMID: 36625744.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/9/2023
Roemer F, Maschek S, Wisser A, Guermazi A, Hunter D, Eckstein F, Wirth W. Worsening of Articular Tissue Damage as Defined by Semi-Quantitative MRI Is Associated With Concurrent Quantitative Cartilage Loss Over 24 Months. Cartilage. 2023 Mar; 14(1):39-47. PMID: 36624993.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/6/2023
Friedman JM, Diaz LE, Roemer FW, Guermazi A. Imaging of common hip pathologies in runners. Jpn J Radiol. 2023 Jan 06. PMID: 36607548.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/1/2023
Jarraya M, Roemer FW, Bäuerle T, Kogan F, Guermazi A. PET Imaging in Osteoarthritis. PET Clin. 2023 Jan; 18(1):21-29. PMID: 36442963.
Read at: PubMed
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