David T. Felson, MD, MPH
Professor, 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.
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
Education
- Johns Hopkins University, MD
- Boston University School of Public Health, MPH
- Harvard College, AB
Publications
- Published on 7/6/2023
Liew JW, Jarraya M, Guermazi A, Lynch J, Wang N, Rabasa G, Jafarzadeh SR, Nevitt M, Torner J, Lewis CE, Felson DT, Neogi T. Relation of intra-articular mineralization to knee pain in knee osteoarthritis: A longitudinal analysis in the MOST Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Jul 06. PMID: 37410792.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/26/2023
Karsdal MA, Tambiah J, Felson D, Ladel C, Nikolov NP, Hodgins D, Bihlet AR, Neogi T, Baatenburg de Jong C, Bay-Jensen AC, Baron R, Laslop A, Mobasheri A, Kraus VB. Reflections from the OARSI 2022 clinical trials symposium: The pain of OA-Deconstruction of pain and patient-reported outcome measures for the benefit of patients and clinical trial design. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2023 Oct; 31(10):1293-1302. PMID: 37380011.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 6/2/2023
Chock EY, Dahal S, Grimshaw AA, Suter L, Liew Z, Felson D. Offspring neurodevelopmental outcomes born to parents with chronic inflammatory arthritis using antirheumatic therapies: A scoping review. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2023 Aug; 61:152230. PMID: 37295300.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/23/2023
Lewis CL, Segal NA, Rabasa GV, LaValley MP, Williams GN, Nevitt MC, Lewis CE, Felson DT, Stefanik JJ. Hip Abductor Weakness and Its Association With New or Worsened Knee Pain: Data From the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2023 May 23. PMID: 37221156.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/26/2023
Liew JW, Rabasa G, LaValley M, Collins J, Stefanik J, Roemer FW, Guermazi A, Lewis CE, Nevitt M, Torner J, Felson D. Development of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Definition of Knee Osteoarthritis: Data From the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2023 Jul; 75(7):1132-1138. PMID: 36693143.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/22/2023
Jarraya M, Guermazi A, Liew JW, Tolstykh I, Lynch JA, Aliabadi P, Felson DT, Clancy M, Nevitt M, Lewis CE, Torner J, Neogi T. Prevalence of intra-articular mineralization on knee computed tomography: the multicenter osteoarthritis study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2023 Aug; 31(8):1111-1120. PMID: 37088266.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 4/20/2023
Studenic P, Aletaha D, Stamm TA, de Wit M, Lacaille D, Smolen JS, Felson D. Response to: Correspondence on "Testing different thresholds for patient global assessment in defining remission for rheumatoid arthritis: are the current ACR/EULAR Boolean criteria optimal?" by Boers. Ann Rheum Dis. 2023 Sep; 82(9):e202. PMID: 37080713.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/27/2023
Baker MC, Sheth K, Lu R, Lu D, von Kaeppler EP, Bhat A, Felson DT, Robinson WH. Increased risk of osteoarthritis in patients with atopic disease. Ann Rheum Dis. 2023 Jun; 82(6):866-872. PMID: 36987654.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/27/2023
Baker MC, Sheth K, Lu R, Lu D, von Kaeppler EP, Bhat A, Felson DT, Robinson WH. Increased risk of osteoarthritis in patients with atopic disease. Ann Rheum Dis. 2023 Mar 27. PMID: 36987654.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/3/2023
Costello KE, Felson DT, Jafarzadeh SR, Guermazi A, Roemer FW, Segal NA, Lewis CE, Nevitt MC, Lewis CL, Kolachalama VB, Kumar D. Gait, physical activity and tibiofemoral cartilage damage: a longitudinal machine learning analysis in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Br J Sports Med. 2023 Aug; 57(16):1018-1024. PMID: 36868795.
Read at: PubMed
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