Tijana Popovic, MS

Tijana received her Master’s degree in Exercise, Fitness, and Health Promotion (major field: biomechanics) from the George Mason University, Virginia in 2016. She served as a graduate research and undergraduate teaching assistant at GMU for two years and has been involved with several studies in Sport Medicine Assessment Research & Testing (S.M.A.R.T.) Laboratory. She completed her Master’s thesis titled “The effect of reduced relative implicit and explicit feedback on lower extremity jump-landing mechanics.” Tijana joined the Musculoskeletal Quantitative Imaging Research Group at the UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging in October 2016 as a Staff Research Associate II. Her research interests focus on development and progression of hip osteoarthritis with the aid of advanced quantitative MRI and motion analysis.