PHR Board of Directors
Gerald E. Thomson, MD
Dr. Thomson is the Lambert and Sonneborn Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Columbia University. Earlier, at the State University of New York-Kings County Hospital Center, Dr. Thomson directed one of the nation's first artificial kidney units for the maintenance of patients with end stage renal failure. He
joined the Columbia faculty in 1970, serving
as Director of Medicine at the affiliated
Harlem Hospital Center. Later, he was Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Senior Associate Dean at Columbia.
Dr. Thomson has served on and headed numerous National Institutes of Health and other agency advisory committees on hypertension, end stage renal disease, cardiovascular disease, public hospitals, minorities in medicine, and access to health care. Dr Thomson co-chaired a Physicians for Human Rights panel on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medical Care. He is Chair of the Board of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Thomson was Chair of an Institute of Medicine committee that issued a 2006 report which reviewed the National Institutes of Health Strategic Research Plan on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Thomson is a former Chairman of the American Board of Internal Medicine and past President of the American College of Physicians.
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