Dr. Ali Guermazi is 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 previously served for seven years as Chair of Radiology at the VA Boston Healthcare System.
Before joining Boston University, he was Director of the Osteoporosis and Arthritis Research Group (OARG) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and later Director of Clinical Research at Synarc, Inc. in San Francisco. Earlier in his career, he spent 12 years in Paris, working primarily at the prestigious Saint-Louis University Hospital.
Dr. Guermazi obtained his medical degree from Sfax University in Tunisia, completed his specialty training at René Descartes University in Paris, and earned his PhD from Jikei University in Tokyo. He is also a Visiting Professor at Jikei University in Tokyo and at the Prefectorial University in Kyoto, Japan.
He served as Deputy Editor of Radiology for nearly seven years, from 2013 to 2019. Since 2022, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Skeletal Radiology and has served as President of the International Society of Osteoarthritis Imaging since 2019.
His main scientific interest is in musculoskeletal diseases, with particularly significant contributions to the diagnosis, incidence and assessment of osteoarthritis progression using MRI. His research has focused on identifying structural risk factors associated with the development and worsening of osteoarthritis.
For the past 25 years, Dr. Guermazi has been involved as an MRI reader in several major U.S. studies, including the Health Aging and Body Composition Study (Health ABC), Boston Osteoarthritis Knee Study (BOKS), Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST), Framingham Study and Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI), as well as other large NIH-funded studies and pharmaceutical-sponsored clinical trials.
He is also interested in interventional nonvascular radiology and sports medicine imaging. He serves as Expert Radiologist to the International Olympic Committee and the Paris Saint-Germain Football Team, bringing extensive experience in imaging applied to elite athletes and high-performance sport.
Dr. Guermazi is the author of more than 770 peer-reviewed PubMed publications, 12 books and over 50 book chapters, and has been an investigator on numerous research grants related to MRI assessment of osteoarthritis. His h-index is 129. Among his distinctions are the OARSI Excellence in Clinical Research Award in 2018 and the RSNA Margulis Award for Best Paper in 2022. He has been invited to lecture in more than 80 countries worldwide.
At BAIS 2026, Dr. Guermazi will bring his extensive expertise in musculoskeletal and elite sports imaging to three key sessions: “Imaging at the Olympic Games”, “Imaging of Muscle Injury”, and “Findings in the Asymptomatic Athlete”, addressing imaging under the demands of elite competition, muscle injury assessment and the challenge of distinguishing physiological adaptation from pathology in asymptomatic athletes.
