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Kenneth S. Thompson, MD, grew up as a fan of Roberto Clemente and went to meetings of the Medical Committee for Human Rights in the mid 1960's with his father, a physician who was on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Thompson's undergraduate degree is from Kenyon College and he went to Boston University Medical School, where he was a National Health Service Scholarship recipient. He did his residency in psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine during which time he served as psychiatric liaison for the Primary Care Team at Jacobi Hospital Primary Care Clinic, a public hospital in the Bronx. While there he also served on the executive committee of the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), the national housestaff union. Subsequently he did a Post Doc Fellowship in Mental Health Services at Yale University, where he joined the faculty, working in the Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven. |
Five years ago, Dr. Thompson, a board certified psychiatrist, joined the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. He is the Director of the Institute for Public Health and Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic (WPIC) where he focuses his energies on the mental health needs of persons and communities forced to live in the margins of our society in poverty and under oppressive conditions. In addition, he is the Medical Director for Community Services and Training at WPIC. He has had a leadership role in developing systems of mental health care for under served and/or stigmatized, marginalized populations. These include substance abusers, persons with severe and persistent mental illness, homeless individuals, public housing residents and minority communities. He is currently working in a satellite clinic of WPIC located in the Hill District, an economically distressed, predominately African-American community. He has extensive experience in state/community/university collaborations including having been principal investigator on an NIAAA research demonstration project at Yale University entitled Research on Services for Homeless Substance Abusers. In Pittsburgh, Dr. Thompson was the lead person in WPIC's Unified Systems Project, creating community supports for persons with severe and persistent mental illness. He also has extensive experience in organizing and training physicians in issues related to community oriented health care provision. In addition, Dr. Thompson is Associate Editor of "The Community Psychiatrist", the newsletter of the American Association for Community Psychiatrists. His wife, Andrea Fox, MD, is a geriatrician and a member of the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. They have three children. |
CURRICULUM VITAE: Dr. Thompson's Curriculum Vitae is available by clicking here.
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