Dr Graeme Thompson

Dr Thompson completed his medical degree with first class honours at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, followed by radiology specialty training at Groote Schuur Hospital. He is an experienced consultant musculoskeletal radiologist, having practised in the field for over 15 years in Cape Town, South Africa before joining Oxford University Hospitals and OMR.

Dr Thompson’s skills cover a wide range of musculoskeletal imaging modalities and interventional procedures, with special interests in sports and peripheral nerve imaging. During his time in Cape Town, he was the lead musculoskeletal radiologists in a practice spanning 9 hospitals, where he performed MRI, CT and interventional US for a wide range of patients and professional athletes, including Provincial and South African rugby and cricket players.

Dr Thompson was a founding member of the South African Musculoskeletal Imaging Group (SAMSIG) in which role he lectured both locally and internationally, including ultrasound instruction for the South African Sports Medicine Association. He was a guest lecturer for both the Sports Science Institute post-graduate program and the academic department at Groote Schuur Hospital.

Since joining OMR, Dr Thompson has become a member of and has lectured for the British, European and International Skeletal Societies. He is a member of the ESSR Sports subcommittee and has co-authored several book chapters on Knee Imaging as well as publishing a number of articles in Skeletal Radiology, the journal of the ISS. At the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, he has taken on the role of optimising and maintaining MSK MRI protocols across the Oxford University Hospitals.

As an ex- rugby forward and a 3 time Ironman veteran, Dr Thompson has a personal understanding of the challenges of musculoskeletal pain and injury. He is married with three children, all of whom have shunned medicine.