RACHEL THOMPSON
Assistant Professor-in-Residence, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Residency Program Director, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; Director, UCLA/Luskin Orthopaedic Institute for Children Center for Cerebral Palsy
On staff at LuskinOIC, Rachel Thompson, MD is also an assistant professor-in-residence, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA. She serves as the director for the UCLA/LuskinOIC Center for Cerebral Palsy, and she holds the distinguished William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics. Her clinical and research interests focus on cerebral palsy and adolescent hip disease. Her work looks at how gait analysis can improve surgical decision making and trace the molecular basis for the muscular pathology seen in cerebral palsy.
In 2021, UCLA Health announced the appointment of Dr. Thompson as the Residency Program director of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. In the past two years, Dr. Thompson has implemented a series of transformative policies in the program that aim to improve the channels of communication among residents and faculty.
