Rachel Thompson, MD

Rachel Thompson, MD

Cerebral Palsy, Hip Disorders & Arthrogryposis

Director for the UCLA/LuskinOIC Center for Cerebral Palsy
Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics
Residency Program Director, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Specializes In

Dr. Thompson attended medical school at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and completed her residency in orthopaedic surgery at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. She completed her first fellowship in pediatric orthopaedics and scoliosis at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, TX and her second in neuromuscular orthopaedics at Nemours A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, DE. She additionally completed a travelling fellowship in adolescent and adult hip dysplasia in Aarhus, Denmark before joining the faculty at LuskinOIC and UCLA. Her primary area of practice is pediatric orthopaedics, with a specialization in neuromuscular orthopaedics/cerebral palsy and hip dysplasia/disease. She is on staff at LuskinOIC, and she is an Assistant Clinical Professor-in-Residence in the Department of Orthopaedics at UCLA. She serves as the Director for the UCLA/LuskinOIC Center for Cerebral Palsy and she holds the William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics. Her clinical and research interests are in cerebral palsy and adolescent hip disease, in utilizing gait analysis to improve surgical decision making, and in the molecular basis for the muscular pathology seen in cerebral palsy.

Specialties

Cerebral Palsy

Hip Disorders

Arthrogryposis