Dr. Robert Thompson

Dr. Robert S. Thompson, DO, MS, CPE, FAAFP, is a highly accomplished, board-certified physician executive and Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice with over three decades of diverse clinical, academic, and managed care leadership. A significant asset to his comprehensive background is his specialized training in women’s health; after graduating with high honors from medical school, he was selected as one of only four physicians for a premier charter class fellowship program in obstetrics and gynecology for family medicine. Dr. Thompson has consistently utilized this advanced training throughout his career, contributing to the field as the editor of a FP-OB/Gyn alumni newsletter and presenting on complex pregnancy complications at a national medical assembly. His extensive clinical versatility includes a 28-year career in emergency medicine, serving as Senior Medical Director for two critical access emergency departments, heading the preoperative evaluation division for a major academic health system, and completing 46 diverse medical assignments across the United States and abroad, including a year at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. In the corporate managed care sector, Dr. Thompson has served as a Senior Medical Director for Fortune 50 health insurance companies, where he chaired quality and utilization committees across five distinct specialties, including OB-GYN. He also served as the COO and cofounder of the Sports Medicine Center of Sarasota. Dr. Thompson holds a Master’s degree in Health Services Administration and continues to safeguard clinical integrity by serving as a board member for the state medical disciplinary commission.