Amanda Nelson

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Nelson is a board-certified internist and rheumatologist with a Master’s in Clinical Research in Epidemiology. She is clinically active in musculoskeletal ultrasound clinic and is involved in clinical training and mentoring. She has been lead PI of the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project (JoCoOA) since 2017 and the Johnston County Health Study (JoCoHS) since its inception in 2019. In addition to directing these two large longitudinal cohort studies, she also leads the NIAMS P30-funded UNC Core Center for Clinical Research and a T32 training grant. Her first research question was about multiple joint OA (MJOA) resulting in several grants and papers on this understudied topic.