BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Graduating with a M.D. granted by the University of Alabama, Birmingham in 1978, Dr Thompson completed internship at Carraway Methodist Medical Center in 1979; residency and chief residency in neurology at University of Alabama Hospitals 1982; fellowship in neuromuscular disease and EMG 1983; instructor in neurology 1983. From there he has been involved in private practices in Dothan, Alabama, Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee; assistant professor department of neurology at Meharry Medical College 1994 through 2000.

Dr. Thompson’s clinical experience includes participation in the development of sleep disorders centers, a memory disorders clinic, electrophysiology laboratory, MRI imaging center, and carotid ultrasound imaging, all including clinical evaluation and testing of patients via EMG, neurosonology, EEG, Evoked potentials, Polysomnography, and neuroimaging with MRI and CT scanning. He moved his practice of general neurology to The Vanderbilt Clinic in March 2007, as assistant professor of neurology. He is board certified in neurology and interests are general clinical neurology, as well as headache and neuromuscular disease and sleep disorders.

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