Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Group
Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Group
Renee and Meyer Luskin Children's Clinic of Orthopaedic Hospital
1530 Arizona Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 395-4814
Specialty:
Pediatric Orthopaedics
Board Certified:
1980
Subspecialty:
Cerebral Palsy
Medical School:
Georgetown University Medical School, 1970
Residency:
Chief Resident in Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Washington, 1977-1978. University of Washington, 1974-1976, with an internship at San Francisco General Hospital, 1971.
Fellowship:
Girdlestone Fellow, Nuffield Orthopaedic Center, Oxford, England, 1977-1978; Fellow in Pediatric Orthopaedics,
Orthopaedic Hospital, Los Angeles, 1978-1979.
William L. Oppenheim, MD is the Margaret Holden Jones Kanaar Professor and Emeritus Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics
at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles. He did his undergraduate work in Chemistry at the
University of Maryland in College Park, then attended Medical School at Georgetown in Washington, DC where he
graduated Magna Cum Laude. He interned at San Franciso General Hospital, and subsequently served in the US Air Force
in San Antonio, TX and in Washington, DC at the Pentagon. He resumed his medical training with an Orthopedic Residency
at the University of Washington, interrupted by a year as the Girdlestone Scholar in Oxford England at the Nuffield
Orthopaedic Centre. While there, he served as a Registrar in the NHS, and worked with colleagues in the Hans Krebs
Laboratory studying chemical changes occurring with severe trauma. He returned to Seattle to finish his Residency
Training, and then moved to Los Angeles as a Fellow in Pediatric Orthopedics at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital.
Following that year, he accepted a position at UCLA where he has been for 30 years and where he is currently the
Director of the Orthopaedic Hospital / UCLA Center for Cerebral Palsy. He is a consultant to Shriner's Hospital of
Los Angeles, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America, the
American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, and The American Orthopedic Foot and Ankle Society, and is Past President of
the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine. He has published over 60 peer reviewed articles,
presented at over 250 Regional or National Meetings, authored 21 text book chapters, and is a former AOA North American
Traveling Fellow, a recipient of the Los Angeles based Abilities First White Swan Award, and has four times been named
as one of America's Best Doctors. He has served as a Visiting Professor in Europe, the Far East, and throughout
North America.
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