Kenneth S. Thompson, MD, lives in Pittsburgh. He graduated from Kenyon College and Boston University School of Medicine, where he was a National Health Service Corps Scholar. He was a resident in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and a postdoc in mental health services research at Yale. He has been faculty at Yale and the University of Pittsburgh. He was the Director for Medical Affairs at the Center for Mental Health Services in SAMHSA in the US Department of Health and Human Services. He was the PI of a Robert Wood Johnson Grant linking Pittsburgh and Glasgow, Scotland in pursuit of achieving health equity and resilience. He is the Chief Medical Officer of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Leadership Council, a policy and advocacy organization. He is a Soros Physician Advocate Fellow. He is the founder of Visible Hands Collaborative, a non-profit organized to import Integrative Community Therapy and “solidarity care” from Brazil.
