Understanding OA is just one part of a long journey for healthcare professionals, but is an even longer and more difficult road for patients with OA. This module focuses specifically on the patient experience, helping healthcare providers better understand the treatments and lifestyle modifications that have been proven most effective in patients with OA. The module will explain how community- and evidence-based, structured physical activity programs and self-management programs help reduce arthritis symptoms and support participants in safely managing their OA.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, learners should be able to:

• Prescribe non-pharmacologic treatment options
• Understand available public health interventions, including public policy and environmental strategy
• Identify patient-centered organizations for patients with OA
• Educate patients in effective self-management treatments

Module Five Syllabus:

• Global impact on society
• OARSI core treatment that effectively addresses the need
• OARSI non-pharmacologic treatments
• OARSI treatment algorithm
• Physical activity and exercise
• Public health interventions for OA
• Public policy and environmental strategy
• Patient-centered organizations
• Patient evidence-based programs
• Self-management in OA
• Weight management and OA
• Injury prevention in OA
• Clinical support
• The future strategies
• Summary
• Assessment questions

Meet the Instructors

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  Leigh F. Callahan

  Leigh F. Callahan, PhD is the Mary Link Briggs Distinguished Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.  She is Associate Director of the Thurston Arthritis Research Center and Director of the Osteoarthritis Action Alliance, a coalition of 134 organizations committed to advancing the OA Public Health Agenda.

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  Ali Mobasheri

  Professor Ali Mobasheri is President of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) and Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology in the Research Unit of Medical Imaging, Physics and Technology within the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Oulu in Finland. Ali holds the position of Chief Researcher in the State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine in Vilnius, Lithuania and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedics and the Departments of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology at University Medical Centre Utrecht in the Netherlands; Visiting Professor, Harvard University, Boston, USA; Visiting Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China.

  Ali has authored more than 300 papers and served on several editorial boards. He was educated at Dulwich College London, Imperial College London, the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate from Wolfson College Oxford. His current H-index is 59 and he is ranked as one of the top 10 leading experts in the world on osteoarthritis on expertscape.com.

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  Corné Baatenburg de Jong

  Corné Baatenburg de Jong is the Vice President of the Dutch Arthritis Society. This hybrid NGO is working in the field of OA from a patient perspective. Giving grants but also building impact funds. His personal background is business economics in social studies at the University of Utrecht.

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  Kerry E. Costello

  Kerry E. Costello, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral fellow at Boston University. Her research is focused on understanding the interaction between gait and physical activity and its effect on knee osteoarthritis progression. She is also the host of OARSI's Hey OA podcast and will be developing podcast episodes highlighting the work of this task force.