ValerieTThompsonMD(She/Her)

Summary

• Dr. Valerie Thompson is a Miami-based pediatrician specializing in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System in 1992 after graduating from McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in 1989. Her Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellowship was completed at Jacobi Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Currently, she holds dual roles as the PEM Division Chief at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine and Director of Pediatric Emergency Services at Jackson Health System. Dr. Thompson has expertise as a medical educator /academician and physician administrator and leader. She also served as the Pediatric Emergency Department Medical Director and PEM Division Chief of at the Univ of Miami- Miller School of Medicine- Jackson Memorial /Holtz Children's Hospital and Harlem Hospital Center in affiliation with Columbia Medical Center. She has worked in educational roles at NY Presbyterian- Queens, Maria Fareri Children's Hospital at Westchester Medical Center. Prior to her current roles, she worked as the director of Pediatric Emergency Department at Plantation General Hospital and as an attending physician at Hoffman Park Emergency Physicians. She has contributed significantly to the field through publications in leading medical journals such as "Annals of Emergency Medicine" and "Pediatrics".