Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health
University of British Columbia

Holder, CIHR Fellowship and Michael Smith Foundation Graduate Award

Dr. Charles Ratzlaff is a research scientist and orthopaedic and sports physical therapist currently on a research fellowship at Harvard medical school (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) studying recent advances in hip and knee MRI . His thesis investigating the interaction of lifetime physical activity and local joint factors (leg alignment, hypermobility, balance, proprioception) on the prevalence of hip / knee OA was based out of the Arthritis Research Centre of Canada in Vancouver. His research interests include the study of risk factors for hip and knee osteoarthritis, femoroacetabular impingement, hip labral tears and their relation to hip OA, and sport injury prevention.