Martin Englund MD, PhD
Adjunct Associate Professor, Rheumatology
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 638-5300englund@bu.edu
Sections
Rheumatology
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.
Education
MD, Lund University
Medicine, PhD, Lund University
Epidemiology, MSc, Boston University School of Public Health
Publications
Nevanranta EA, Karjalainen VP, Brix M, Hellberg I, Turkiewicz A, Shakya B, Önnerfjord P, Ylisiurua S, Sjögren A, Elkhouly K, Hughes V, Tjörnstrand J, Saarakkala S, Englund M, Finnilä MAJ. Characterizing Meniscal Calcifications with Photon Counting-Based Dual-Energy Computed Tomography. Ann Biomed Eng. 2026 Jun 12. PMID: 42283929.
Published on 4/30/2026Kalske R, Sihvonen R, Paavola M, Malmivaara A, Itälä A, Joukainen A, Kalske J, Nurmi H, Toivonen P, Sillanpää N, Kiekara T, Turkiewicz A, Englund M, Taimela S, Järvinen TLN. Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy for Degenerative Tear - 10-Year Outcomes. N Engl J Med. 2026 Apr 30; 394(17):1757-1759. PMID: 42054686.
Published on 4/22/2026B Wrammerfors ET, Pierantoni M, Dejea H, Sjögren A, Orozco GA, Das Gupta S, Gstöhl SJ, Schlepütz CM, Nygård K, Englund M, Isaksson H. Synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography reveals the impact of degeneration on the 3D structure of human articular cartilage. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2026 Apr 22. PMID: 42031145.
Published on 3/1/2026Kvist J, Liu A, Giannotti N, Filbay S, Hedevik H, Stålman A, Frobell R, Gauffin H, Englund M. Structural Changes of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL), Evaluated by MRI, and Their Relation to Clinical Outcomes, Within 2 Years After ACL Injury. Results From the NACOX Cohort Study. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2026 Mar; 56(3):209-219. PMID: 41764172.
Published on 2/3/2026Tasa 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.
Published on 1/1/2026Honkapää 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.
Published on 12/21/2025Turkiewicz A, Henriksen M, Runhaar J, Englund M. Why most responder analyses are misleading. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2026 May; 34(5):716-720. PMID: 41435964.
Published on 12/20/2025Mahmoudian 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.
Published on 12/18/2025Magnusson 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.
Published on 12/18/2025Sjögren A, Bodahl S, Hughes V, Turkiewicz A, Aspberg A, Hellberg I, Karjalainen VP, Ali N, Önnerfjord P, Englund M. Histological analysis of age-related degeneration in human female and male knee cartilage and meniscus. Osteoarthr Cartil Open. 2026 Mar; 8(1):100734. PMID: 41536416.