The Center's focus areas are:
1) Methods for clinical musculoskeletal studies using novel study designs, including pragmatic/effectiveness clinical trials;
2) Investigating new approaches, such as machine and deep learning, to the use of electronic medical record data;
3) Providing analysis-ready data sets and services for conducting clinical musculoskeletal research;
4) Fostering communication and outreach to the musculoskeletal research community, expanding the community of investigators performing high-quality musculoskeletal clinical research.