Martin Englund, MD, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Musculoskeletal diseases are a rapidly growing cause of disability, chronic pain, and reduced quality of life in an ageing population. My research aims to gain novel insights into these diseases, osteoarthritis in particular – their etiology, occurrence, natural history, treatments, prediction, disease monitoring, and disease burden – to allow for better healthcare decision-making and disease prevention. I also have a particular interest in the role of meniscus in osteoarthritis. I use a multidisciplinary approach to study osteoarthritis, including tissue biobanking and proteomics, structural imaging, and population-wide register based studies of epidemiology and health economics.

Publications

  • Published 2/3/2026

    Tasa A, Vinblad J, Nåtman J, Tillander J, Nyberg F, Englund M, Rolfson O. Type 2 diabetes is not associated with excess risk of periprosthetic joint infection in obese patients undergoing total hip arthroplasty. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2026 Feb 03; 27(1). PMID: 41634666.

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  • Published 1/1/2026

    Honkapää K, Eskelinen ASA, Mikkonen S, Ebrahimi M, Finnilä MAJ, Saarakkala S, Korhonen RK, Englund M, Tanska P. Depth-Wise Changes in Tibial and Femoral Human Knee Joint Cartilage at Different Severities of Osteoarthritis. J Orthop Res. 2026 Jan; 44(1):e70104. PMID: 41388902.

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  • Published 12/21/2025

    Turkiewicz A, Henriksen M, Runhaar J, Englund M. Why most responder analyses are misleading. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Dec 21. PMID: 41435964.

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  • Published 12/20/2025

    Mahmoudian A, King LK, Liew JW, Wang Q, Berenbaum F, Das S, Ding C, Emery CA, Filbay SR, Hochberg MC, Ishijima M, Kloppenburg M, Lane NE, Losina E, Mobasheri A, Thomas Appleton C, Englund M, Stefan Lohmander L, Runhaar J, Turkiewicz A, Hawker GA, Neogi T, Haugen IK. Reframing early-stage symptomatic knee osteoarthritis (EsSKOA): A strategic lens for trial design. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2026 May; 34(5):647-651. PMID: 41429384.

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  • Published 12/18/2025

    Magnusson K, Turkiewicz A, Dell'Isola A, Kiadaliri A, Englund M. Metformin and incident osteoarthritis: Causal insights from a co-twin control study. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2025 Dec 18. PMID: 41421423.

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Education

  • Lund University, MD
  • Lund University, PhD
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MSc

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