About us

Gloria R. Gogola, MD, is a board-certified and fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon specializing in pediatric hand and upper limb surgery. Her clinical expertise includes congenital hand differences, upper limb deformity and growth arrest, limb length discrepancy, and treating the upper limb in cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis, and syndromic conditions. 
She’s also an associate professor in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. 
Gogola received her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Following an orthopedic surgery residency at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, she completed fellowship training in hand surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Before joining UT Physicians, she was the chief of hand and upper limb surgery at the Shriners Hospitals for Children – Houston Hospital.
Gogola is a member of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine, and the Orthopedic Research Society. She has served as the chair of the scientific committee of the Ruth Jackson Orthopedic Society and as president of the Houston Orthopedic Society.  
Gogola has authored many publications in scientific journals and presented at national and international meetings on the development of pediatric dexterity, evaluation of hand function, and upper limb motion analysis. Her research interests include improving the clinical methods of measuring treatment outcomes in children with spasticity and congenital hand differences.