About Katherine Thompson

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

