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Maggie Elizabeth Horn

Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery, Physical Therapy
311 Trent Drive, Box 104002, Durham, NC 27710

Research Interests


Dr. Horn’s research agenda focuses on understanding the multifactorial experience in patients with musculoskeletal pain by leveraging secondary data from claims, administrative, clinical outcomes, and registry data sources. She has a particular interest in developing sustainable and scalable processes to collect patient-reported outcome measures and clinical data through the EHR to undertake research and quality improvement projects and develop data analytics platforms. 

Selected Grants


Biomarkers to Advance Clinical Phenotypes of Low Back Pain (BACk)

ResearchBiostatistician · Awarded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases · 2023 - 2028

Mentoring in Musculoskeletal Pain Phenotypes

ResearchCollaborator · Awarded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases · 2022 - 2027

Lumbar Stenosis Prognostic Subgroups for Personalizing Care & Treatment

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by University of Washington · 2020 - 2025

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research


Total Joint Arthroplasty Learning Health Unit · 2020 - 2024 Co-I · Awarded by: Duke The goal of the TJA LHU is to 1) improve patient care and develop novel payment programs aligned with stakeholder needs embedded in data-driven decisions 2) Engage payors to collaborate on novel payment programs that address the challenges and resources required to care for TJA patients.