Amanda Nelson began her medical studies by earning an M.D. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the University of South Alabama, and went on to serve her internal medicine residency at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.

Her honors and awards include the Young Investigator Award from the Osteoarthritis Research Society International, and the Medical Resident Research Award from the American College of Rheumatology, Research and Education Foundation.

Through her Hartford Fellowship with the Center for Aging and Health, she is a Rheumatology Fellow at the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center. Dr. Nelson’s presentation at the most recent American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting was on the topic “Racial Differences in Individual Radiographic Features of Hip Osteoarthritis in African American and White Women and Men: The Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.”