Top Diversity Leaders in Healthcare - 2023

Thompson co-launched TeamHealth’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee, which focuses on employee demographic benchmarking, education, patient experience and clinical outcomes, and communication and change management. Thompson advises all TeamHealth’s employee resource groups and has helped launch three new ones—for LGBTQ employees, Black employees and Hispanic or Latino employees—in the past year. More groups are in development. An emergency medicine physician by training, Thompson is also chief clinical officer for TeamHealth LifePoint Group, a partnership between TeamHealth and LifePoint Health. He also serves on the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee of the American College of Emergency Physicians.