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 9/1/2024
Link TM, Palmer WE, Guermazi A. Introduction to the International Skeletal Society 50-Year Anniversary Special Issue-50 years of labor, adaptation, and success. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Sep; 53(9):1665-1666. PMID: 38949679.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/29/2024
Guermazi A. Navigating the future of artificial intelligence and fracture detection of the spine and extremities-"friend not foe". Eur Radiol. 2024 Jul 29. PMID: 39075302.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/24/2024
Moradi K, Mohajer B, Guermazi A, Kwoh CK, Bingham CO, Mohammadi S, Cao X, Wan M, Roemer FW, Demehri S. Cachexia in preclinical rheumatoid arthritis: Longitudinal observational study of thigh magnetic resonance imaging from osteoarthritis initiative cohort. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2024 Jun 24. PMID: 38923846.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/21/2024
Wáng YXJ, Chan WP, Yu W, Guermazi A, Griffith JF. Quantitative CT lumbar spine BMD cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older Chinese men can be the same as that of older Chinese women, both much lower than the value for Caucasians. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Jun 21. PMID: 38902421.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/17/2024
Lassalle L, Regnard NE, Ventre J, Marty V, Clovis L, Zhang Z, Nitche N, Guermazi A, Laredo JD. Automated weight-bearing foot measurements using an artificial intelligence-based software. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Jun 17. PMID: 38880791.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/6/2024
Moradi K, Mohajer B, Mohammadi S, Guermazi A, Ibad HA, Roemer FW, Cao X, Link TM, Demehri S. Thigh muscle composition changes in knee osteoarthritis patients during weight loss: Sex-specific analysis using data from osteoarthritis initiative. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2024 Jun 06. PMID: 38851527.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/15/2024
Moradi K, Kwee RM, Mohajer B, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Ibad HA, Haugen IK, Berenbaum F, Demehri S. Erosive hand osteoarthritis and sarcopenia: data from Osteoarthritis Initiative cohort. Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 May 15; 83(6):799-806. PMID: 38242637.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/15/2024
Hart HF, Crossley KM, Patterson BE, Guermazi A, Birmingham TB, Koskoletos C, Michaud A, De Livera A, Culvenor AG. Adiposity and cartilage lesions following ACL reconstruction. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2024 Jul; 32(7):931-936. PMID: 38631554.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/10/2024
Wáng YXJ, Yu W, Leung JCS, Griffith JF, Xiao BH, Diacinti D, Guermazi A, Chan WP, Blake GM. More evidence to support a lower quantitative computed tomography (QCT) lumbar spine bone mineral density (BMD) cutpoint value for classifying osteoporosis among older East Asian women than for Caucasians. Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2024 May 01; 14(5):3239-3247. PMID: 38720829.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/2/2024
Liew JW, Jarraya M, Guermazi A, Lynch J, Felson D, Nevitt M, Lewis CE, Torner J, Roemer FW, Crema MD, Wang N, Becce F, Rabasa G, Pascart T, Neogi T. Intra-Articular Mineralization on Computerized Tomography of the Knee and Risk of Cartilage Damage: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2024 Jul; 76(7):1054-1061. PMID: 38369918.
Read at: PubMed
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