Katherine Thompson
PA-C ’16, PhD

About Katherine Thompson

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Job title: Program Manager in Forensic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Expert Witness, Researcher

Degrees: PA-C ’16, PhD

Career stage: Mid-career

State of practice: Snoqualmie, Washington

Current practice settings: Community hospital / clinic, Research – academic, industry or government, Healthcare administration / leadership

Lived career experiences/transitions:

  • Changing specialty
  • Leaving a practice
  • Non-clinical careers
  • Rural medicine
  • Burnout & recovery
  • Work/life balance
  • Trauma in the workplace
  • Forensics for PAs, expert witness / legal work

Graduation year from the UW School of Medicine: 2016

Specialty/subspecialty: Forensic Medicine / Emergency Medicine

Teaching roles: Adjunct Professor for multiple universities in interpersonal violence / forensic medicine

Research or other professional interests: Interpersonal violence, nonfatal strangulation, forensic medicine

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