Chris Thompson, MD

Thompson

Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy
Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

Medical School: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, 1996
Residency: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Internal Medicine, 1999
Fellowship: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Gastroenterology, 2002
Brigham and Women's/Massachusetts General Joint Nephrology Fellowship, Advanced Endoscopy/Gastroenterology, 2003

Dr. Christopher Thompson is the Director of Developmental Endoscopy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He is also on staff at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston, and is co-director of the DoD funded CIMIT Working Group on Endoscopic Surgery.  He is an active clinician with focused interest in advanced endoscopy as it applies to post surgical complications, bariatric endoscopy, reflux, and pancreatic disease.  He has also established an active animal lab geared toward device development and industry partnering.  The lab currently has several active protocols for Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) and the development of endoluminal devices.  His research interests include: Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES), Endoscopic Suturing, GERD, advanced endoscopy research and device development, and bariatric endoscopy.

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On the Frontier of EUS: Management of Walled Off Necrosis moderated by Dr. Varadarajulu with panelists, by Kenneth Binmoeller, MD, and Chris Thompson, MD Video

On the Frontier of EUS: Management of Walled Off Necrosis moderated by Dr. Varadarajulu with panelists, by Kenneth Binmoeller, MD, and Chris Thompson, MD

Watch our evening with the experts, opinions on the frontiers of EUS as they relate to the management of walled off necrosis (WON). Moderated by Shyam Varadarajulu, MD interviewing panelists Kenneth Binmoeller, MD and Chris Thompson, MD.