Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, MSc
Professor, Radiology
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 12/28/2024
Conaghan PG, Katz N, Hunter DJ, Guermazi A, Hochberg MC, Somberg K, Clive J, Knight C, Johnson M, Zhao L, Goel N. Exploring a novel outcome measure of symptom progression in knee osteoarthritis utilizing a large randomized trial. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2024 Dec 28. PMID: 39734047.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/17/2024
Hayashi D, Regnard NE, Ventre J, Marty V, Clovis L, Lim L, Nitche N, Zhang Z, Tournier A, Ducarouge A, Kompel AJ, Tannoury C, Guermazi A. Deep learning algorithm enables automated Cobb angle measurements with high accuracy. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Dec 17. PMID: 39688663.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/29/2024
Lassalle L, Regnard NE, Durteste M, Ventre J, Marty V, Clovis L, Zhang Z, Nitche N, Ducarouge A, Laredo JD, Guermazi A. Evaluation of a deep learning software for automated measurements on full-leg standing radiographs. Knee Surg Relat Res. 2024 Nov 29; 36(1):40. PMID: 39614404.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/26/2024
Roemer FW, Jansen MP, Maschek S, Mastbergen SC, Marijnissen AK, Wisser A, Heiss R, Weinans HH, Blanco FJ, Berenbaum F, Kloppenburg M, Haugen IK, Eckstein F, Hunter DJ, Guermazi A, Wirth W. Fluctuation of Bone Marrow Lesions and Inflammatory MRI Markers over 2 Years and Concurrent Associations with Quantitative Cartilage Loss. Cartilage. 2024 Oct 26; 19476035241287694. PMID: 39460605.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/25/2024
Hayashi D, Roemer FW, Guermazi A. Osteoarthritis year in review 2024: Imaging. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Jan; 33(1):88-93. PMID: 39490728.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/17/2024
Ye C, Leslie WD, Bouxsein ML, Dufour AB, Guermazi A, Habtemariam D, Jarraya M, Kiel DP, Suri P, Samelson EJ. Association of vertebral fractures with worsening degenerative changes of the spine: a longitudinal study. J Bone Miner Res. 2024 Oct 17. PMID: 39418326.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/14/2024
Chang AH, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Almagor O, Lee JJ, Chmiel JS, Muhammad LN, Song J, Sharma L. Reply. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2024 Oct 14. PMID: 39400989.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/3/2024
Liew JW, Petrow E, Tilley S, LaValley MP, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Lewis CE, Torner J, Nevitt MC, Lynch JA, Felson D. Comparison of definitions of early knee osteoarthritis for likelihood of progression at 2-year and 5-year follow-up: the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 Oct 03. PMID: 39362696.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/16/2024
Wáng YXJ, Xiao BH, Leung JCS, Griffith JF, Aparisi Gómez MP, Bazzocchi A, Diacinti D, Chan WP, Guermazi A, Kwok TCY. The observation that older men suffer from hip fracture at DXA T-scores higher than older women and a proposal of a new low BMD category, osteofrailia, for predicting fracture risk in older men. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Sep 16. PMID: 39284928.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/4/2024
Chang AH, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Almagor O, Lee JJ, Chmiel JS, Muhammad LN, Song J, Sharma L. Do Existing MRI Definitions of Knee Osteoarthritis Identify Knees That Will Develop Clinically Significant Disease Over Up To 11 Years of Follow-Up? Arthritis Rheumatol. 2024 Sep 04. PMID: 39229747.
Read at: PubMed
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