Dana Thompson

Описание: Inspiring Change from Within: What Can We Do to Address Bias and Health Inequity in the Era of Value Based Medicine?
Dana M. Thompson, MD, MS, MBA, FACS
Dr. Thompson is the Lauren D. Holinger Professor of Pediatric Otolaryngology at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She received undergraduate and medical degrees in the six-year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She completed a master’s degree in clinical outcomes research at the Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Medicine and MBA from National Louis University. She is uniquely fellowship trained in both Laryngology and Pediatric Otolaryngology. Including a faculty position, residency and a laryngology/dysphagia clinical outcomes research fellowship, she spent 18 years of her career at the Mayo Clinic and was the founding chair of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology and in 2011 achieved the academic rank of Professor, making her the first African American woman professor in the speciality of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in the United States. Today she’s talking about Inspiring Change from Within: What Can We Do to Address Bias and Health Inequity in the Era of Value Based Medicine?