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 4/11/2025

    Sara LK, Felson DT, Tilley S, LaValley MP, Lewis CE, Lynch JA, Segal NA, Guermazi A, Roemer F, Stefanik JJ, Lewis CL. The relation of walking forces to structural damage in the knee: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Apr 11. PMID: 40222627.

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  • Published 3/19/2025

    Oliinyk M, Mastbergen SC, Marijnissen AKCA, Felson DT, Hunter DJ, Nevitt MC, Weinans H, Jansen MP. Comparing Five Major Knee Osteoarthritis Cohort Studies: Similarities, Differences, and Unique Aspects of CHECK, OAI, FNIH, IMI-APPROACH, and MOST. Cartilage. 2025 Mar 19; 19476035251326276. PMID: 40105347.

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  • Published 3/16/2025

    Neogi T, Dubreuil M, Peloquin C, Marinko L, Camarinos J, Felson DT, Kumar D. Association of Physical Therapy Care With Use of Intra-Articular Injections in People With Knee Osteoarthritis: A Real-World Cohort Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2025 Mar 16. PMID: 40091450.

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  • Published 3/8/2025

    Vanhaverbeke T, Miller G, Ukonu NC, Wittoek R, Haugen IK, Felson D. Presence of erosions is not a risk factor for the development of knee OA in a hand OA population: Results from the Framingham OA study. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2025 Jun; 7(2):100591. PMID: 40144956.

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  • Published 2/1/2025

    James KA, Neogi T, Felson DT, Corrigan P, Lewis CL, Davis IS, Bacon KL, Torner JC, Lewis CE, Nevitt MC, Stefanik JJ. Association of walking cadence to changes in knee pain and physical function: The multicenter osteoarthritis study. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2025 Mar; 7(1):100575. PMID: 39995587.

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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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