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Dr. David Felson is a professor of medicine at the Boston University (BU) School of Medicine and a professor of epidemiology at the BU School of Public Health. He is the section chief of the Clinical Epidemiology Research and Training Unit in the department of medicine at the Boston Medical Center. He also serves as a part-time professor of rheumatology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.

In addition, Dr. Felson is the principal investigator of the BU Clinical Research Training Program, and the National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center Grant at BU. A fellow of the American College of Rheumatology, he also serves on the editorial boards of several journals: Arthritis Care and Research, Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, American Journal of Medicine, and Journal of Rheumatology. He has published more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is the author of 40-plus book chapters. He has also written the book, Osteoarthritis Pain (Wiley, 2008).

Dr. Felson received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Case Western University Hospitals in Cleveland, and finished his clinical and research fellowship in arthritis and connective tissue disease at BU, where he went on to earn his master's degree in public health.