Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Surgery
Attending Physician

Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedics, Keck School of Medicine of USC
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Bianca Edison, MD, MS is an attending physician in the Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center, and is assistant clinical professor of Orthopedics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Dr. Edison’s clinical interests and experience include orthopedic conditions affecting young children and athletes, such as dance injuries, sports-related concussion, injury prevention, and biomechanics.

Dr. Edison is a team doctor for various sports teams throughout Los Angeles. She brings a personal understanding to the challenges facing young athletes, as she grew up with a passion for sports and participated in ballet, tennis and track, and currently enjoys tennis, swimming, skiing, hiking, running and yoga.

Dr. Edison is on the Positive Coaching Alliance-LA Chapter Board.

In the News

LA Parent Concussion update
Infant and Toddler Injuries 

Clinical Interests

Dance medicine, female athletes, sports-concussion, adolescent overuse injuries, nutrition, and injury prevention

Education

Medical School: 

Baylor College of Medicine

Internship: 

University of California Los Angeles Medical Center; Pediatrics

Residency: 

University of California Los Angeles Medical Center; Pediatrics

Fellowship: 

Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Sports Medicine

Accomplishments

Certification: 

Pediatrics

Professional Memberships: 
American Medical Association, 2004-Current
American Academy of Pediatrics, 2008-Current
American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, 2011-Current
American College of Physicians, 2008-Current
American College of Sports Medicine, 2015-Current
International Association for Dance Medicine and Science 2015-Current
Student National Medical Association, 2004-Current
Awards: 
Top Doctors Designation, Pasadena Magazine, 2013, 2014
Publications: 
Lin, Ann, Bianca Edison et al.: Assessment of Parental Knowledge and Attitudes
Toward Pediatric Sports-Related Concussions. Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary
Approach 20(10), 2015.
 
Kuo, Alice, Bianca Edison et al.: Do Medial Professionalism and Medical Education
Involve Commitments to Political Advocacy? Academic Medicine 86(9): 1061-1062, 2011.
Research Interests: 

Dance medicine, injury prevention, overuse injuries, female athletes, nutrition, sports-related concussion

Children's Hospital Los Angeles

4650 Sunset Blvd.
MS #69
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone: 323-361-2142Office

Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center - Arcadia

468 E. Santa Clara St.
Arcadia, CA 91006
Phone: 626-795-7177Office
Fax: 626-357-4052Fax

Jackie and Gene Autry Orthopedic Center - South Bay

3440 Torrance Blvd.
Suite 100
Torrance, CA 90503
Phone: 310-303-3890Office
Fax: 310-303-3893Fax