Investigators

BWH’s musculoskeletal investigators are involved in innovative studies to identify disease risk factors, enhance imaging techniques toward optimizing early detection and monitoring of musculoskeletal diseases, and employ nanotechnology to develop novel therapies and improve existing treatments.

Radiology Investigators

Piran Aliabadi, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology
Email: paliabadi@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Musculoskeletal Radiology. Major research interest in osteoarthritis and is an integral collaborator with Boston University and UCSF Arthritis Research for the past several years with main work at the present time scoring knee osteoarthritis for the MOST and OAI projects.

Katherine P. Andriole, PhD, FSIIM
Associate Professor of Radiology
Email: kandriole@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Medical Imaging Informatics, Design and Integration of PACS and Information Management Systems, Digital Radiography, Medical Image Processing and Analysis, Medical Display Workstations and Graphical-User Interface Design, Technology Assessment, Imaging Informatics Education.

Jeff Duryea, PhD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Email: jduryea@bwh.harvard.edu

Clinical and Research Interests: Musculoskeletal Imaging, Quantitative imaging, Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Computer Image Analysis, Physics.

Glenn Gaviola, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Email: ggaviola@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Interventional Musculoskeletal Procedures and Quality, Spine, Medical Education, Tumor Imaging.

Varand Ghazikhanian, MD
Email: vghazikhanian@partners.org

Ramin Khorsani, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Radiology
Telephone: 617 732-7941
Email: rkhorsani@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Informatics, Evidence Based Medicine and Quality in Imaging. PACS, Abdominal Imaging and intervention

Bharti Khurana, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Email: bkhurana@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Emergency Radiology, Musculoskeletal Trauma, Sports Medicine, Spine, Fracture Healing and Imaging

Meryl S. Leboff, MD

Professor of Medicine
Telephone: 617-732-6155
Email: mleboff@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Osteoporosis and Metabolic Diseases, Bone Densitometry, pQCT, body composition measures, and other Musculoskeletal Imaging, Vitamin D and bone, Stress Fractures, Osteoporotic Fractures, Fracture Healing, Causes of Secondary Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Osteoporosis, Physical Performance Measures, Musculoskeletal Health.

Violeta Nikac, MD
Telephone: 617-732-7537
Email: vnikac@partners.org

Steve E. Seltzer, MD
Philip H. Cook Professor & Chairman of Radiology
Telephone: 617-732-6273
Email: sseltzer@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Abdominal imaging, particularly advanced applications of helical CT. Perception and psychophysics, focusing on improving understanding of how radiologists detect, locate and classify abnormalities on diagnostic images. Health Policy.

Nehal Shah, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Telephone: 617-732-7537
Email: nshah5@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: MR Imaging, Techniques, and Protocol development, Cartilage, Sports Imaging.

Kristin Small, MD
Instructor in Radiology
Telephone: 617-732-7537
Email: kshu@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Sports Imaging, MRI.

Stacy Smith, MD
Assistant Professor of Radiology
Telephone: 617-732-7537
Email: ssmith70@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Tumor Imaging with emphasis on Advanced Imaging, Sports Imaging, Trauma, Metabolic and Rheumatologic Disease , Resident and Medical Education and Evaluation Tools, Informatics and Quality.

Emily Stern, MD
Lecturer on Radiology
Telephone: 617-732-9127
Email: estern3@partners.org

Research Interests: Functional and molecular neuroimaging of neuropsychiatric disorders, including methodological development; Research education.

Barbara Weissman, MD
Professor of Radiology
Telephone: 617-632-7251
Email: bweissman@partners.org

Clinical and Research Interests: Musculoskeletal Imaging, Granuloma and Prosthesis Imaging, Osteoporosis and Metabolic Diseases, Resident Education.