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 2/7/2025
Yinh J, Jarraya M, Guermazi A. Ultrasonography in the assessment of calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease. Skeletal Radiol. 2025 Feb 07. PMID: 39918638.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/31/2025
Moradi K, Mohajer B, Guermazi A, Hadidchi R, Mohammadi S, Cao X, Wan M, Roemer FW, Demehri S. Statin use and longitudinal bone marrow lesion burden: analysis of knees without osteoarthritis from the Osteoarthritis Initiative study. Skeletal Radiol. 2025 Jan 31. PMID: 39890641.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/8/2025
Issa W, Mercer R, Yinh J, Guermazi A, Jarraya M. Imaging and management of calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease. Skeletal Radiol. 2025 Jan 08. PMID: 39775910.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/2/2025
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. 2025 Jan; 84(1):115-123. PMID: 39874225.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 12/31/2024
Lassalle L, Regnard NE, Durteste M, Ventre J, Marty V, Clovis L, Zhang Z, Nitche N, Ducarouge A, Tran A, Laredo JD, Guermazi A. Validation of AI-driven measurements for hip morphology assessment. Eur J Radiol. 2025 Feb; 183:111911. PMID: 39764865.
Read at: PubMed - 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. 2025 Mar; 33(3):383-390. 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 11/29/2024
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 Nov 29; 39(12):1744-1751. PMID: 39418326.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/19/2024
Gløersen M, Kjeken I, Tveter AT, Kazemi A, Sexton J, Dziedzic K, Felson DT, Stamm TA, Guermazi A, Hermann-Eriksen M, Sæther MI, Lundby K, Esperø EL, Olsen M, Norheim KB, Fister EB, Hoff M, Uleberg JK, Midtgard IP, Andreassen T, Sjølie D, Sletten H, Hammer HB, Haugen IK. Study protocol for the PICASSO trial: A randomized placebo-controlled trial to investigate the efficacy and safety of intraarticular steroid injections and an occupational therapy intervention in painful inflammatory carpometacarpal-1 osteoarthritis. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2025 Mar; 7(1):100542. PMID: 39669005.
Read at: PubMed
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