POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (May 29, 2019) — MidHudson Regional Hospital in Poughkeepsie, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), welcomes longtime local orthopedic surgeon William O. Thompson, MD, FAAOS, to the hospital’s medical staff.

Dr. Thompson — certified by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, with a certificate of added qualification in sports medicine by the ABOS — practices at WMCHealth’s Advanced Orthopaedics office in MidHudson Regional Hospital’s Atrium, 1 Webster Ave., Suite 502, in Poughkeepsie. The office’s phone number is 845-896-4178.

Before joining Advanced Orthopaedics, Dr. Thompson practiced at Advantage Orthopaedics in Poughkeepsie since 2001.

Dr. Thompson served as the Mets’ assistant team physician from 1997–1998, was the Marist College Athletics Department’s team physician from 1997–2000 and was the Vassar College Department of Athletics & Physical Education team physician from 1998–2015.

Originally from Kingston, Dr. Thompson received his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed a general surgery internship through Pitt Med at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, a research fellowship at Pitt Med and an orthopedic surgery residency at UPMC. Dr. Thompson was also an orthopedic surgery clinical instructor at Pitt Med.

He followed his Pittsburgh training with a sports medicine and shoulder surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.

His special interests now are in arthritis and sports medicine, including arthroscopic surgery, arthroscopic shoulder reconstruction and joint replacement.

Dr. Thompson lives in Saugerties and is an avid triathlete, completing many Ironman triathlons and national and international marathons since 2008.


About MidHudson Regional Hospital, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network
MidHudson Regional Hospital, located in Poughkeepsie, New York, is home to the mid-Hudson Valley’s most advanced healthcare services. This 243-bed facility cares for more than 10,000 inpatients annually while performing hundreds of thousands of outpatient procedures each year. MidHudson Regional Hospital operates the area’s only ACS-verified Level II trauma center, is home to the Redl Center for Cancer Care and Center for Robotic Surgery, and operates one of the busiest emergency departments in the region, with most patients seeing a healthcare provider in 30 minutes or less. For more information on MidHudson Regional Hospital, visit MidHudsonRegional.org or follow the hospital at Facebook.com/MidHudsonRegional and Twitter.com/MidHudsonRH.


About Westchester Medical Center Health Network
The Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth) is a 1,700-bed healthcare system headquartered in Valhalla, New York, with 10 hospitals on eight campuses spanning 6,200 square miles of the Hudson Valley. WMCHealth employs more than 12,000 people and has nearly 3,000 attending physicians. From Level 1, Level 2 and Pediatric Trauma Centers, the region’s only acute care children’s hospital, an academic medical center, several community hospitals, dozens of specialized institutes and centers, skilled nursing, assisted living facilities, homecare services and one of the largest mental health systems in New York State, today WMCHealth is the pre-eminent provider of integrated healthcare in the Hudson Valley. For more information about WMCHealth, visit WMCHealth.org.

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