ISAKOS 2025 Congress Faculty

Brian G. Pietrosimone, PhD, ATC

University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC UNITED STATES

Brian Pietrosimone is a Professor and Director of the MOTION Science Institute in the Department of Exercise and Sports Science at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is also a founding Co-Director of the UNC Sports Medicine Institute, a clinical and research collaboration merging multiple departments across the University to deliver the best Orthopaedics care and conduct the highest quality sports medicine research. He is a co-founder and president of Vetta Solutions, a start-up company developing wearable solutions for gait retraining for people with musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. Overall, his research focuses on understanding and treating the biomechanical factors linked to knee osteoarthritis development and progression. Dr. Pietrosimone has published over 230 peer-reviewed scientific papers. His work has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense as well as other foundations including the Arthritis Foundation, National Athletic Trainers’ Association, the Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, and the American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association.