Ali Guermazi

Boston University School of Medicine

Ali Guermazi, MD, PhD, MSc is a Professor of Radiology and Medicine, Director of the Quantitative Imaging Center, and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion at Boston University School of Medicine. He is the Chair of Radiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Prof. Guermazi was Deputy Editor of Radiology for almost 7 years (2013-2019). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Skeletal Radiology, the official journal of the International Skeletal Radiology and also the President of the International Society of Osteoarthritis Imaging since 2019.
Prof. Guermazi’s interest is in musculoskeletal diseases. Of particular note are his scientific contributions in the diagnosis, incidence and disease progression assessment of osteoarthritis using MRI. His work has focused on identifying structural risk factors for developing and worsening osteoarthritis. Prof. Guermazi has been involved as an MRI reader for the past 25 years in several large U.S. studies including the Health Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) study, the Boston Osteoarthritis Knee study (BOKS), the Multi-center Osteoarthritis STudy (MOST), the Framingham study, Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), and other large NIH-funded studies, as well as several Pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials. Prof. Guermazi is the author of over 60 peer-reviewed PubMed publications, 12 books, over 50 chapters and Investigator on numerous research grants related to MRI reading for Osteoarthritis. He is the recipient of many awards among these the OARSI Excellence in Clinical Research in 2018 and the RSNA Margulis Award for the Best Paper in 2022. He has been invited to lecture in more than 70 countries world-wide.