David T. Felson, MD, MPH

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. David Felson's research interests include: understanding how to prevent osteoarthritis and treat osteoarthritis. In osteoarthritis, Dr. Felson’s interests include studying whether treatments for rheumatic diseases are effective and particularly in osteoarthritis, identifying biomechanical risk factors for disease and testing biomechanical treatments and characterizing MRI features of normal knees and knees with pain. He also studies outcome measurement in rheumatic disease and has focused in this work on rheumatoid arthritis trials.

Publications

  • Published 9/16/2025

    Felson DT, Stokes AC. Obesity, Weight Loss, and Knee Osteoarthritis: The Role of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists. Ann Intern Med. 2025 Sep 16. PMID: 40953448.

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  • Published 9/15/2025

    Huang CH, Segal NA, Felson DT, Sherman DA, Lewis CL, Bacon KL, Lynch J, Lewis CE, Stefanik J. Impact of Knee Extensor Power on Knee Pain in Adults With or at Risk for Osteoarthritis: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. J Rheumatol. 2025 Sep 15. PMID: 40953946.

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  • Published 9/12/2025

    Park N, Sieberer JM, McGinley B, Manafzadeh AR, Lynch J, Segal NA, Lewis CE, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Stefanik J, Felson DT, Fulkerson JP. Measures of Patellofemoral Morphology Predict the Risk of Local Cartilage Damage Progression: A Yale/MOST Collaborative Study. Am J Sports Med. 2025 Oct; 53(12):2881-2888. PMID: 40938089.

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  • Published 8/18/2025

    van den Berg MA, Boel F, van Buuren MMA, Riedstra NS, Tang J, Ahedi H, Arden NK, Bierma-Zeinstra SMA, Boer CG, Cicuttini FM, Cootes TF, Felson DT, Gielis WP, Heerey J, Jones G, Kluzek S, Lane NE, Lindner C, van Meurs JBJ, Mosler A, Nelson AE, Nevitt MC, Oei EH, Runhaar J, Weinans H, Krijthe JH, Agricola R. Hip morphology-based osteoarthritis risk prediction models: development and external validation using individual participant data from the World COACH Consortium. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2025 Aug 18. PMID: 40826979.

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  • Published 7/1/2025

    Sherman DA, Neogi T, Hornsby S, Felson D, Lavalley M, Stefanik JJ. Association of Knee Pain Frequency and Severity with Quadriceps Strength but Not Rate of Decline Over Four Years. ACR Open Rheumatol. 2025 Jul; 7(7):e70067. PMID: 40586171.

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Other Positions

  • Professor, Epidemiology
    Boston University School of Public Health
  • Investigator
    Framingham Heart Study
  • Member, Arthritis & Autoimmune Diseases Research Center
    Boston University
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
    Boston University
  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

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Education

  • Johns Hopkins University, MD
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MPH
  • Harvard College, AB

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