Kathryn Bacon receives RRF Career Development Research Award
Dr. Kathryn Bacon, Instructor of Medicine in Rheumatology, has received a Career Development Research Award from the Rheumatology Research Foundation.
Kathy’s research, titled “Machine-Learning Analysis of Longitudinal Gait Data in Osteoarthritis,” leveraging data from the MOST cohort (a large longitudinal cohort of people with or at risk of osteoarthritis) will use machine-learning methods to analyze gait data generated by wearable sensors and relationships with knee pain, structural severity of radiographic osteoarthritis, and self-reported physical function.
Through this study, we hope to better understand the effects of osteoarthritis on gait, particularly in the early stages, and how this may lead to disability and identify new treatment strategies.