Leigh F. Callahan

Leigh F. Callahan’s research interests include self-management of disease outcomes, musculoskeletal outcomes, evaluation of physical activity and arthritis, and social predictors of chronic disease outcomes. She has received number of grants from NIH and CDC. She has been working as a Principal Investigator for a study that explored complementary and alternative medicine use among persons diagnosed with arthritis from settings in family medicine practices, rheumatology/orthopaedic clinics, and a rural community-dwelling population-based cohort. Dr. Callahan has over 20 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. She has authored more than 170 publications and articles and is a frequent presenter at conferences and meetings worldwide. Dr. Callahan received her B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina and her Ph.D. degree from Vanderbilt University. She serves as an Associate Professor at the Departments of Medicine and Social Medicine and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She serves as the Director of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center's Methodology Core at the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, Codirector of the North Carolina Family Medicine Research Network and she has taught clinical epidemiology and aging and health courses at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr. Callahan has served on a number of editorial boards, is a Former Editor for the Arthritis Care and Research journal. She currently serves on the US Decade of Bone and Joint Disease Board of Directors. Dr. Callahan is a long-time volunteer for the Arthritis Foundation (AF) on both the state and national level.

Biography Updated on 25 October 2010

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