Martin Englund, MD, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Musculoskeletal diseases are a rapidly growing cause of disability, chronic pain, and reduced quality of life in an ageing population. My research aims to gain novel insights into these diseases, osteoarthritis in particular – their etiology, occurrence, natural history, treatments, prediction, disease monitoring, and disease burden – to allow for better healthcare decision-making and disease prevention. I also have a particular interest in the role of meniscus in osteoarthritis. I use a multidisciplinary approach to study osteoarthritis, including tissue biobanking and proteomics, structural imaging, and population-wide register based studies of epidemiology and health economics.

Publications

  • Published 2/3/2026

    Tasa A, Vinblad J, Nåtman J, Tillander J, Nyberg F, Englund M, Rolfson O. Type 2 diabetes is not associated with excess risk of periprosthetic joint infection in obese patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2026 Feb 03; 27(1). PMID: 41634666.

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  • Published 1/1/2026

    Honkapää K, Eskelinen ASA, Mikkonen S, Ebrahimi M, Finnilä MAJ, Saarakkala S, Korhonen RK, Englund M, Tanska P. Depth-Wise Changes in Tibial and Femoral Human Knee Joint Cartilage at Different Severities of Osteoarthritis. J Orthop Res. 2026 Jan; 44(1):e70104. PMID: 41388902.

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  • Published 12/21/2025

    Turkiewicz A, Henriksen M, Runhaar J, Englund M. Why most responder analyses are misleading. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Dec 21. PMID: 41435964.

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  • Published 12/18/2025

    Sjögren A, Bodahl S, Hughes V, Turkiewicz A, Aspberg A, Hellberg I, Karjalainen VP, Ali N, Önnerfjord P, Englund M. Histological analysis of age-related degeneration in human female and male knee cartilage and meniscus. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2026 Mar; 8(1):100734. PMID: 41536416.

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  • Published 11/24/2025

    Hada S, Kaneko H, Aoki T, Nojiri S, Englund M, Ishijima M. Medial plica is associated with progression of medial meniscus extrusion in middle-aged persons with Kellgren-Lawrence grade 0: data from the osteoarthritis initiative. J Orthop Surg Res. 2025 Nov 24; 20(1):1030. PMID: 41286955.

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Education

  • Lund University, MD
  • Lund University, PhD
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MSc

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