Carla Kinnunen, BS

Carla Kinnunen obtained her BS in Behavioral Neuroscience from University of San Diego in 2017. In July 2017, she joined the Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research Group in the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging as a summer research student. Her work focused on understanding the correlation between intramuscular fat in gluteus muscles and hip pathologies like femoroacetabular impingement through use of quantitative magnetic resonance imaging. She was later hired on as a Staff Research Associate to continue her student work. In September 2018 she transitioned to Clinical Research Coordinator and coordinates various studies focusing on osteoarthritis.