Research and Training

The Research and Training Committee establishes scholarship criteria, reviews applications and selects scholarship winners.  The Committee will review existing OARSI research tools on the website and recommend updates, review OA research gaps and future directions for OA position papers.

Chair

Changhai Ding, MD, PhD
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Southern Medical University
 Guangzhou, China

Board Liaison

Martin van der Esch, PhD
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Reade, Centre Of Rehabilitation and Rheumatology
 Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Committee Members

Shabana Ali
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Henry Ford
 US
Kay Crossley
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LaTrobe University
 Australia
Annegret Mündermann
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University Hospital Basel
 Switzerland
Helen French
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RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
 Ireland
Suzanne Eldridge
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William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London
 UK