Rachel Mednick Thompson, M.D.

Bio

Rachel Thompson is currently an associate professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California San Diego. She will be serving as the co-Director for the Southern Family Center for Cerebral Palsy at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego. She completed a residency in orthopaedic surgery at Northwestern University and fellowships in pediatric orthopaedics and neuromuscular orthopaedics at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children and A.I. duPont Hospital for Children, respectively. Prior to joining the staff at Rady Children’s Hospital, she spent seven years at UCLA, where was served as the Residency Program Director for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and held the William and Patricia Oppenheim Presidential Chair in Pediatric Orthopaedics at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. While at UCLA, she served as the Director for the Center for Cerebral Palsy at UCLA/Luskin Orthopaedic Institute for Children.

Along with her research team, she has developed numerous assays to study the muscular changes that occur as a result of the spasticity and decreased mobility associated with cerebral palsy. Her team’s ultimate goal is to identify the pathways that lead to joint contracture and weakness so that they may develop biologic treatments to prevent contracture and disability. Through this work, she has developed a mouse model that has been validated for the muscular pathology associated with CP. She plans to continue to develop this model and utilize it to test current and develop future treatment modalities for CP musculoskeletal pathology. Her clinical research is focused on surgical outcomes in cerebral palsy, pain management and narcotic stewardship in the pediatric population.

Publications

Percutaneous Screw Fixation for the Management of Delayed Unions in Pediatric Lateral Humeral Condylar Fractures
Chang E, Gajewski C, Thompson RM, Silva M.

Reliability of a Photo-Based Modified Foot Posture Index (MFPI) in Quantifying Severity of Foot Deformity in Children With Cerebral Palsy
eorgiadis AG, Davids JR, Goodbody CM, Howard JJ, Karamitopoulos MS, Payares-Lizano M, Pierz KA, Rhodes JT, Shore BJ, Shrader MW, Tabaie SA, Thompson RM, Torres-Izquierdo B, Wimberly RL, Hosseinzadeh P.

Multi-disciplinary team approach for pediatric hemimegalencephaly: Insights from a single institutional case series
Edmonds B, Ngo JP, Groves A, Reyes B, Gott RA, Chia DJ, Mirbaha H, Magaki S, Khanlou N, Pineles SL, Salamon N, Thompson RM, Newman M, Rajaraman RR, Hussain SA, Fallah A, Russell B, Nariai H

Efficacy of a multimodal surgical site injection versus epidural anesthesia for hip surgery in pediatric patients with cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled trial
Greig D, Sun C, McBride D, Young B, Swaroop V, Thompson RM

CORR Insights®: Low Rate of AVN and Complications in Unstable SCFE With Epiphyseal-metaphyseal Discontinuity After Treatment With a Modified Dunn Procedure
Thompson RM

Musculoskeletal pathology in children: It’s a two-way street
Thompson RM, Silva M

CORR insights: Does a history of slipped capital femoral epiphysis in patients undergoing femoroacetabular osteoplasty for femoroacetabular impingement affect outcomes scores or risk of reoperation?
Thompson RT

Online video resources pertaining to cerebral palsy: A YouTube-based quality-control study
Thomas ND, Melchor J, Carr RA, Ripps SJ, Pham N, Golan R, Talathi N, Spence D, Thompson RM

Closing-wedge osteotomies: Can we do and teach better?
Weltsch D, Juels M, Chen KY, Talathi N, Silva M, Thompson RM

Are our actions matching our words? A review of trainee ethnic and gender diversity in orthopaedic surgery
Trikha R, Lauach L, Sharma V, Thompson RM, Bernthal N, Williams RJ, Jones KJ

Is the story over? Progression after bracing in AIS
Thompson RM, Hubbard E, Jo CH, Virostek D, Karol L

Single event multilevel surgery in cerebral palsy: Value added by a co-surgeon
Nahm NJ, Ludwig M, Thompson RM, Rogers K, Imici A, Dabney KW, Miller F, Sees JP

When should instrumentation to the pelvis be considered in minimally ambulatory adolescents with neuromuscular scoliosis?
Douleh DG, Greig D, Thompson RM, Garg S

National trends in total hip arthroplasty bearing surface usage in extremely young patients between 2006 and 2016
Hart CM, Chen C, Hsiue PP, Farshchi R, Silva M, Zeegan E, Thompson RM, Stavrakis A

The utility of virtual reality in orthopaedic surgical training
Cevallos N, Zukotynski B, Greig D, Silva M, Thompson RM

The utility of IR-guided biopsy in treatment of pediatric osteomyelitis
Gajewski C, Upfill-Brown A, Chen K, Silva M, Thompson RM

Slow-motion smartphone video improves reliability of visual gait assessment
Brodke DJ, Makaroff K, Kelly EG, Silva M, Thompson RM

Modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors for failure of non-operative treatment of pediatric forearm fractures: Where can we do better?
Talathi NS, Shi B, Policht J, Mooney B, Chen K, Silva M, Thompson RT

Non-metallic anterior hemi-epiphysiodesis of the distal femur with a low profile, pre-tensioned implant: A case report
Talathi N, Weltsch D, Thompson RM

Are our actions matching our words? A review of trainee ethnic and gender diversity in orthopaedic surgery
Trikha R, Lauach L, Sharma V, Thompson RM, Bernthal N, Williams RJ, Jones KJ

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