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Overview

Leigh F. Callahan is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily centers on medicine with a significant focus on rheumatology. Contributions also span related fields including surgery, psychiatry and mental health, pharmacology, and general health professions.

Their published work totals more than 270 papers, reflecting expertise across various topics in musculoskeletal and joint health. Key areas of study include osteoarthritis treatment and mechanisms, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, outcomes of total knee arthroplasty, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome research, hip disorders and treatments, and lower extremity biomechanics and pathologies.

Among recent significant publications involving or related to their field are:

  • 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee, 2020, Arthritis Care & Research
  • 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee, 2020, Arthritis & Rheumatology
  • Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Geographic Disparities in the Epidemiology of Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis, 2020, Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America
  • Effect of Diet and Exercise on Knee Pain in Patients With Osteoarthritis and Overweight or Obesity, 2022, JAMA
  • Knee osteoarthritis and time-to all-cause mortality in six community-based cohorts: an international meta-analysis of individual participant-level data, 2021, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research

Their collaborative work includes frequent co-authorship with several researchers, such as Yvonne M. Golightly, Amanda E. Nelson, Rebecca J. Cleveland, Todd A. Schwartz, and Joanne M. Jordan.

Common publication venues for their research encompass:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
  • Arthritis Care & Research
  • Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

Best Publications

  • 2019 American College of Rheumatology/Arthritis Foundation Guideline for the Management of Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee

    Sharon L. Kolasinski;Tuhina Neogi;Marc C. Hochberg;Carol Oatis

  • Development of a PROMIS item bank to measure pain interference

    Dagmar Amtmann;Karon F. Cook;Mark P. Jensen;Wen Hung Chen

  • Severe functional declines, work disability, and increased mortality in seventy-five rheumatoid arthritis patients studied over nine years

    Theodore Pincus;Leigh F. Callahan;William G. Sale;Arthur L. Brooks

  • Prevalence of knee symptoms and radiographic and symptomatic knee osteoarthritis in African Americans and Caucasians: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.

    Joanne Marie Jordan;Charles G. Helmick;Jordan B Renner;Gheorghe Luta

  • Special article the economic cost and social and psychological impact of musculoskeletal conditions

    Edward Yelin;Leigh F. Callahan

  • The burden of musculoskeletal conditions at the start of the new millennium

    J. Agel;K. Akesson;P. C. Amadio;M. Anderson

  • Evidence of significant radiographic damage in rheumatoid arthritis within the first 2 years of disease.

    H. A. Fuchs;J. J. Kaye;Leigh F Callahan;E. P. Nance

  • The measurement of helplessness in rheumatoid arthritis. The development of the arthritis helplessness index.

    P M Nicassio;K A Wallston;L F Callahan;M Herbert

  • Prediction of Long-Term Mortality in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis according to Simple Questionnaire and Joint Count Measures

    Theodore Pincus;Raye H. Brooks;Leigh F. Callahan;Leigh F. Callahan

  • Taking mortality in rheumatoid arthritis seriously--predictive markers, socioeconomic status and comorbidity.

    T. Pincus;Leigh F Callahan

  • Longterm drug therapy for rheumatoid arthritis in seven rheumatology private practices: II. Second line drugs and prednisone.

    T Pincus;S B Marcum;L F Callahan

  • A genomewide screen in multiplex rheumatoid arthritis families suggests genetic overlap with other autoimmune diseases.

    Damini Jawaheer;Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Wei V. Chen

  • Social conditions and self-management are more powerful determinants of Health than access to care

    Theodore Pincus;Robert John Esther;Darren A Dewalt;Leigh F Callahan

  • A simplified twenty-eight-joint quantitative articular index in rheumatoid arthritis.

    Howard A. Fuchs;Raye H. Brooks;Leigh F. Callahan;Theodore Pincus

  • Developing and testing the health literacy universal precautions toolkit

    Darren A. DeWalt;Kimberly A. Broucksou;Victoria Hawk;Cindy Brach

  • Most chronic diseases are reported more frequently by individuals with fewer than 12 years of formal education in the age 18-64 United States population.

    Theodore Pincus;Leigh F. Callahan;Richard V. Burkhauser

  • A randomized, double-blind, crossover clinical trial of diclofenac plus misoprostol versus acetaminophen in patients with osteoarthritis of the hip or knee.

    T. Pincus;Gary G Koch;T. Sokka;J. Lefkowith

  • Self-report questionnaire scores in rheumatoid arthritis compared with traditional physical, radiographic, and laboratory measures.

    Theodore Pincus;Leigh F. Callahan;Raye H. Brooks;Howard A. Fuchs

  • What is the natural history of rheumatoid arthritis

    Theodore Pincus;Leigh F. Callahan

  • Screening the genome for rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes: A replication study and combined analysis of 512 multicase families

    Damini Jawaheer;Michael F. Seldin;Christopher I. Amos;Wei V. Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Theodore Pincus
Theodore Pincus Rush University Medical Center
Larry W. Moreland
Larry W. Moreland University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
S. Louis Bridges
S. Louis Bridges University of Alabama at Birmingham
Charles G. Helmick
Charles G. Helmick Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Graciela S. Alarcón
Graciela S. Alarcón University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nigel K. Arden
Nigel K. Arden University of Oxford
Richard F. Loeser
Richard F. Loeser University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David T. Felson
David T. Felson Boston University
Christine Rini
Christine Rini Northwestern University
Jay S. Kaufman
Jay S. Kaufman McGill University

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