David T. Felson MD, MPH
Professor, Rheumatology
Professor, Epidemiology
650 Albany St | (617) 638-5180david.felson@bmc.org
dfelson@bu.edu
Sections
Rheumatology
Centers
Arthritis & Autoimmune Diseases Research Center
Framingham Heart Study
Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
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
Education
Medicine, MD, Johns Hopkins University
Public Health, MPH, Boston University School of Public Health
History/Biochemistry, AB, Harvard College
Publications
DeMoya CD, Joenathan A, Lawson TB, Felson DT, Schaer TP, Bais M, Albro MB, Mäkelä J, Snyder BD, Grinstaff MW. Advances in viscosupplementation and tribosupplementation for early-stage osteoarthritis therapy. Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2024 Jul; 20(7):432-451. PMID: 38858605.
Published on 5/31/2024Haugen IK, Felson DT, Abhishek A, Berenbaum F, Bierma-Zeinstra S, Dziedzic KS, Edwards JJ, Englund M, Hermann-Eriksen M, Herrero-Beaumont G, Hill C, Ishimori ML, Jonsson H, Karjalainen T, Leung YY, Maheu E, Mallen CD, Marshall M, Moe RH, Ramonda R, Ritschl V, Ritt MJ, Stamm TA, Szekanecz Z, van der Giesen F, van de Stadt LA, van der Meulen C, Wittoek R, Greibrokk E, Laheij H, Kloppenburg M. 2023 EULAR classification criteria for hand osteoarthritis. Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 May 31. PMID: 38821712.
Published on 4/18/2024van Buuren MMA, Riedstra NS, van den Berg MA, Boel FDEM, Ahedi H, Arbabi V, Arden NK, Bierma-Zeinstra SMA, Boer CG, Cicuttini F, Cootes TF, Crossley K, Felson D, Gielis WP, Heerey J, Jones G, Kluzek S, Lane NE, Lindner C, Lynch JA, Van Meurs J, Mosler AB, Nelson AE, Nevitt M, Oei E, Runhaar J, Tang J, Weinans H, Agricola R. Cohort profile: Worldwide Collaboration on OsteoArthritis prediCtion for the Hip (World COACH) - an international consortium of prospective cohort studies with individual participant data on hip osteoarthritis. BMJ Open. 2024 Apr 18; 14(4):e077907. PMID: 38637130.
Published on 4/17/2024Bacon KL, Felson DT, Jafarzadeh SR, Kolachalama VB, Hausdorff JM, Gazit E, Stefanik JJ, Corrigan P, Segal NA, Lewis CE, Nevitt MC, Kumar D. Gait Alterations and Association With Worsening Knee Pain and Physical Function: A Machine Learning Approach With Wearable Sensors in the Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2024 Jul; 76(7):984-992. PMID: 38523250.
Published on 4/2/2024Liew 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.
Published on 3/25/2024Misra D, Felson DT. Evidence-Based Review of Nonsurgical Treatments for Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis. Eur J Rheumatol. 2024 Mar 25; 11(Suppl 1):S48-52. PMID: 38705970.
Published on 2/23/2024Whittaker JL, Kalsoum R, Bilzon J, Conaghan PG, Crossley K, Dodge GR, Getgood A, Li X, Losina E, Mason DJ, Pietrosimone B, Risberg MA, Roemer F, Felson D, Culvenor AG, Meuffels D, Gerwin N, Simon LS, Lohmander LS, Englund M, Watt FE. Toward designing human intervention studies to prevent osteoarthritis after knee injury: A report from an interdisciplinary OARSI 2023 workshop. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2024 Jun; 6(2):100449. PMID: 38440780.
Published on 2/22/2024Surendran T, Park LK, Lauber MV, Cha B, Jhun RS, Capellini TD, Kumar D, Felson DT, Kolachalama VB. Survival analysis on subchondral bone length for total knee replacement. Skeletal Radiol. 2024 Aug; 53(8):1541-1552. PMID: 38388702.
Published on 2/15/2024Felson D, Lotz MK, Jin Y, Jones M, Kim JS, Spindler K. New approach to testing treatments for osteoarthritis: FastOA. Ann Rheum Dis. 2024 Feb 15; 83(3):274-276. PMID: 37821213.
Published on 2/14/2024Felson DT, Misra D, LaValley M, Clancy M, Rabasa G, Lichtenstein A, Matthan N, Torner J, Lewis CE, Nevitt MC. Essential Fatty Acids and Osteoarthritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2024 Jun; 76(6):796-801. PMID: 38225177.
Media Mentions
Published on 3/20/2024
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Researchers suggest new approach for testing treatments for osteoarthritis.
Published on 10/26/2023
PCPs and Knee OA: When to Keep Treating, When to Refer
Published on 10/13/2023
BU researchers novel osteoarthritis treatment testing idea
Published on 10/12/2023
Published on 12/20/2022
Can Metformin Reduce Need for Total Joint Replacement in Diabetes?
Published on 3/15/2022
The Safety of Corticosteroid Injections for People With Knee Osteoarthritis
Published on 12/21/2021
Are Cortisone Injections Good or Bad for Arthritic Knees?
Published on 9/21/2021
Suffer From Knee Osteoarthritis? Stay Away From This Common Exercise
Published on 2/19/2021
Intense Strength Training Does Not Ease Knee Pain, Study Finds
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