Behavioral Interventions to Manage Obesity and Osteoarthritis

OAAA Lunch & Learn: Behavioral Interventions to Manage Obesity and Osteoarthritis featuring Stephen Messier, PhD
About the speaker: Dr. Messier is Professor and Director of the J.B Snow Biomechanics Laboratory at Wake Forest University. He has been at Wake Forest for 43 years and has 33 years of experience in clinical trials research specifically related to knee osteoarthritis (OA). Currently, Dr. Messier is the principal investigator of the Weight loss and Exercise for Communities with Arthritis in North Carolina (WE-CAN) trial and The Osteoarthritis Prevention Trial (TOPS). WE-CAN is a pragmatic randomized clinical trial of 823 older adults with knee OA, and overweight and obesity that is designed to determine if the diet and exercise intervention implemented in a highly controlled efficacy trial (IDEA) could be successfully implemented in diverse community settings. TOPS is an osteoarthritis prevention study for people at risk for knee OA. These studies are funded with grants from the National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal, and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), the Arthritis Foundation, and the CDC. Dr. Messier has received the lifetime achievement award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (2022), the Borelli Award from the American Society of Biomechanics (2020) for outstanding career accomplishment through exemplary research in biomechanics, and the career achievement award from the American College of Sports Medicine Biomechanics Group (2009).
Original air date: January 15, 2025
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