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Tina-Ann Thompson MD

  • Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
    Assistant Professor
  • (770) 925-2010
  • tkerr@emory.edu
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Overview

Tina-Ann Thompson, MD is Director of the Division of Family Medicine and the Emory Program Lead, Primary Care.

Dr. Thompson received her Bachelor of Science from Yale University in 1996, her medical degree at Boston University in 2001, and graduated from the Emory Family Medicine residency in 2004. In 2006 she purchased Rockbridge Family Medicine, which soon expanded into two locations. In 2015, she became Medical Director-Clinical Services for the DeKalb Medical Physicians Group, and in 2016, the Chief Medical Officer for Primary Care. She has served as adjunct faculty in the Division of Family Medicine since 2005 and became a full faculty member in 2019. In 2022, she became the Division Director.

As DMPG Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Thompson provided oversight of DMPGs Quality Department.Through this role, she provided guidance and leadership for quality performance guidelines, data reporting, and generation of incentive revenue and address emergency preparedness and safety issues.Her accomplishments included enhanced timely physician documentation with the creation and implementation of task completion policy, increased volume of annual wellness visits, and screening low dose lung CT scans with the creation and implementation of workflow changes. She assisted with Root Cause Analyses of medical errors and SAFE Reports and coordinated needed workflow changes.

In her role as Program Lead, Emory Primary Care, Dr. Thompson has partnership and oversight of all primary care practices in The Emory Clinic and Emory Specialty Associates. As well, she will have collaborative oversight with Dr. Ted Johnson and the VP of primary care, Ms. LeShea Turner, on all recruitment and retention programs, marketing and strategic growth, financial, quality, patient satisfaction, and performance strategies.

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Publications

  • Investigation of hypertension and type 2 diabetes as risk factors for dementia in the All of Us cohort.
    Sci Rep Volume: 12 Page(s): 19797
    11/17/2022 Authors: Nagar SD; Pemu P; Qian J; Boerwinkle E; Cicek M; Clark CR; Cohn E; Gebo K; Loperena R; Mayo K
  • Managing Care Transitions to the Community During a Pandemic.
    J Nurs Adm Volume: 50 Page(s): 438 - 441
    09/01/2020 Authors: Landor M; Schroeder K; Thompson T-AK
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