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Daniel C. Norvell, PhD

Senior Research Epidemiologist/Principal Investigator
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Center for Limb Loss and MoBility, Washington, United States

Dr. Norvell is a U.S. Army Veteran who served with the 2nd Battalion/75th Ranger Regiment as their Chief of Sport Medicine where he developed and ran their sports medicine program and introduced injury prevention strategies. His epidemiology career began with that experience which led him to pursue his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Washington’s School of Public Health which he received in 2003. During his training, he held a VA pre-doctoral fellowship where he began his research in veterans with limb loss. Dr. Norvell is currently a Principal Investigator at the Center for Limb Loss and MoBility in Seattle and an epidemiologist in the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Washington. His research focuses on veterans with limb loss including racial and gender disparities in amputation level and prosthesis prescriptions and developing prediction models using big data and machine learning. These models include AMPREDICT Mobility, AMPREDICT Mortality, AMPREDICT Reamputation, and AMPREDICT PROsthetics that has led to the translation to the clinical point of care AMPREDICT Decision Support Tool and the AMPDECIDE Patient Decision Aids. He is also the co-developer of the Amputee Single Item Mobility Measure (AMPSIMM) which is being used world-wide and within the VA medical system as an efficient method for measuring the full spectrum of amputee outcomes including wheelchair mobility to independent community ambulation. Dr. Norvell is also the lead trialist for the Center’s ankle arthritis study comparing ankle arthrodesis to ankle arthroplasty and the treatment of hallux rigidus comparing arthrodesis to various motion sparing procedures. He has expertise in the areas of study design, protocol development, data collection, data analysis and grant writing and has published over 125 peer review articles and has been co-editor on 7 textbooks including the topics of clinical research, orthopaedic outcomes and orthopaedic measurements.

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