DESCRIPTION:

Dr. Leigh F. Callahan has over 35 years of experience in arthritis and health outcomes research, and experience in public health as a former arthritis epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). Her specific areas of expertise are in four major areas: outcomes and epidemiological research, establishing collaborations in communities across
North Carolina and the nation, leadership roles in professional and nonprofit arthritis
organizations, and setting arthritis public health agendas.

She educates others on managing Osteoarthritis through behavioral lifestyle interventions, such as weight management, self-management education, physical activity and injury
prevention, which are the four key evidence-based public health interventions for Osteoarthritis (OA).  Dr. Callahan also speaks about The Osteoarthritis Action Alliance (OAAA), which is supported, in part, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and has numerous free resources available for managing OA.

GUEST BIO:

Dr. Leigh F. Callahan is the tenured Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine in
the School of Medicine and professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of
North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of
Epidemiology in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is Associate Director of the
Thurston Arthritis Research Center (TARC). She is also Director of the Osteoarthritis Action
Alliance (OAAA), a coalition of more than 160 organizations committed to elevating
osteoarthritis as a national health priority. Dr. Callahan has an undergraduate degree from UNC,
Chapel Hill and a PhD from Vanderbilt University.

https://oaaction.unc.edu

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leigh-callahan/