Cardiovascular
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Respiratory and Acute Care
B. Taylor Thompson‚ MD
Associate Professor of MedicineB. Taylor Thompson‚ MD received his undergraduate degree in Physiology from the University of California‚ Davis in 1974 and his MD from the University of California‚ Davis Medical School in 1978. He completed an internal medicine residency and chief medical residency at the New England Deaconess Hospital in 1982 and his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in 1985 where he subsequently joined the Staff. He directed the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship program until 1990 and has been the director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit since 1991. He is actively involved with clinical research and since 1995 has been the Medical Director and CO-PI of the NHLBI-funded ARDS Network Clinical Coordinating Center. He has served on or chaired numerous Data Monitoring Boards for the NHLBI and the pharmaceutical industry and has held three Investigational New Drug applications with the FDA. His other interests include computerized bedside decision support‚ pulmonary embolism diagnosis‚ and ICU process improvement. He is a member of the American Thoracic Society and the American Physiological Society.
