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OrthoRaMS Seminar Series – Avinash Chandran, PhD
Join us for the fall OrthoRaMS Seminar series featuring Avinash Chandran, PhD presenting “Injury and Life Course Health in Women: Integrated Perspectives from Injury Epidemiology and Aging-focused Observational Research” on November 13, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM on Zoom.
A substantial faction of girls and young women in the United
States engage in sports, which, while offering numerous benefits,
also increases their risk of sustaining injuries. Existing research
indicates that female athletes often experience a higher burden
of injury as compared with their male counterparts. Emerging
evidence indicates that physical activities and injuries experi-
enced during early life can have significant and enduring effects
on women’s health as they age. Understanding the relationships
between early-life activities, injuries, and subsequent health out-
comes is imperative for elucidating the etiologies of various
pathologies and developing effective strategies to prevent or
delay onset of chronic disease and morbidity during aging. This
talk serves as an introductory guide to the epidemiology of injury
in female athlete populations and explores how early-life activity
behaviors and injuries can enhance our understanding of
later-life health outcomes in women.
About Dr. Chandran:
Dr. Avinash Chandran is the Chief Science Officer and Managing
Director of the NCAA Injury Surveillance Program at the Datalys
Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention, where he leads
initiatives to monitor and analyze injury patterns in collegiate
athletics. His expertise spans injury epidemiology, public health
surveillance, and longitudinal study design. Supported by funding
from domestic and international government agencies, private
industry, and nonprofit organizations, Dr. Chandran’s research
program focuses on the lifelong health impacts of activity-related
injuries. Dr. Chandran earned his MS and PhD in Epidemiology at
the George Washington University, following undergraduate stud-
ies in Public Health at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr.
Chandran completed postdoctoral training at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also currently holds an
adjunct faculty position in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science.
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