Professor Roos will discuss Good Life with Osteoarthritis in Denmark (GLA:D®), one of the newly recognized Arthritis-Appropriate, Evidence-Based Interventions. About the speaker: Ewa Marie Roos, Professor The Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics Research Unit of Musculoskeletal Function and Physiotherapy University of Southern Denmark Professor Roos has the passion to advance the frontiers of knowledge in muscle and joint health. Her focus is on patient-reported outcomes, exercise therapy, surgical treatments, and clinical care pathways. Professor Roos is the author of 300+ peer-reviewed publications, her work is cited 26.000+ times and her H-index is 74. For 30 years, she has published methodological papers on patient-reported outcomes and ground-breaking randomized trials comparing exercise therapy to orthopaedic surgery in high-impact journals, such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the British Medical Journal. Professor Roos is an internationally leading researcher and change agent in the field of musculoskeletal health. She has been able to produce high-impact methodological and clinical research and translate that research into PROMS including the KOOS, HOOS, and FAOS and clinical tools such as Good Life with Osteoarthritis in Denmark (GLA:D®), which is available in 10 countries where more than 100.000 patients have received evidence-based osteoarthritis care. The OA Action Alliance Lunch & Learn webinars keep you up-to-date on the latest osteoarthritis research, news and activities. Each monthly webinar begins at 12:00 pm ET and runs for 30 minutes. Webinars are free and open to the public. Webinars are archived on our website events page (URL: oaaction.unc.edu/webinar) and on the OA Action Alliance YouTube channel in case you missed one or can’t get enough!
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