Carol L. Thompson, PhD, RN, CCRN, ACNP, FNP-BC, APN, FCCM, FAANP

Carol ThompsonProfessor
The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Nursing
877 Madison Avenue
Room 631
Memphis, TN 38163

Office Phone: 901-448-8116
Toll free: 800-733-2498
Fax: 901-448-4121

Email: clthompson@utmem.edu

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Dr. Carol Thompson received her BSN from Florida State University, MS from the University of Maryland, and her PhD from Case Western Reserve University. She has been a nursing faculty member at UTHSC since 1988, and presently is a tenured Professor of Critical and Acute Care Nursing. Her clinical practice is as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in the Emergency Department at Methodist University. Her research focus has been dyspnea in mechanically ventilated adults, procedural pain, and simulation. She has been a critical care nurse for 35 years and is certified as an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Family Nurse Practitioner. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Nurse Practitioners and a Fellow of Critical Care Medicine.

She is the Option Coordinator for Acute Care Nursing and teaches MSN, DNP, and PhD students. She has received excellence in teaching awards. She has served on the Board/Council for both the American Association of Critical Care Nursing and the Society of Critical Care Medicine and now on the Tennessee Board of Nursing. She is an NIH Fellow in Genetics.

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877 Madison Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38163
901-448-6128
Fax: 901-448-4121
Toll Free: 800-733-2498
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