Behavioral interventions to manage obesity and osteoarthritis – January 15, 2025
January 15, 2025
About the Speaker:
Stephen P. Messier, Ph.D.
Professor
Director of the J.B. Snow Biomechanics Laboratory
Department of Health & Exercise Science
Wake Forest University
Dr. Messier is Professor and Director of the J.B Snow Biomechanics Laboratory at Wake Forest University. He has been at Wake Forest for 42 years and has 32 years of experience in clinical trials research specifically related to knee osteoarthritis (OA). He 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). He has published over 125 original manuscripts including 20 over the past 5 years. He and his OA research team are well known for their work on the effects of exercise and weight loss on gait, strength, function, and pain in knee OA.
Dr. Messier is currently the principal investigator of the multi-center The Osteoarthritis Prevention Study (TOPS). TOPS is a primary prevention intervention trial of dietary weight loss, exercise, and weight-loss maintenance for females at risk for the development of knee OA designed to reduce incident structural and symptomatic knee OA.
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