Reid Thompson III, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Reid Thompson III
Primary Academic Title
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Background
Dr. W. Reid Thompson is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His areas of clinical expertise include pediatric cardiology, cardiomyopathy, muscular dystrophy, and echocardiography. Dr. Thompson is a member of the pediatric cardiovascular team at the Heart and Vascular Institute at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Thompson was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina, where he was also Phi Eta Sigma and Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.D. from the Wake Forest University Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and performed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at The Children’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Thompson's research interests include evaluation of ventricular function in patients with muscular dystrophy, Barth syndrome, and status post chemotherapy. He also studies novel methods of teaching and diagnosing heart disease through cardiac auscultation.
Dr. Thompson is a physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital as well as the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He was awarded an Individual National Research Service Award by the National Institutes of Health. He was also an American Heart Association Bugher Fellow and a Child Health Research Center New Program Development Awardee.
Centers and Institutes
- Blalock-Taussig-Thomas Pediatric and Congenital Heart
- Heart and Vascular Institute
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Research Interests
Evaluation of ventricular function, Exploring new methods of teaching cardiac auscultation, Stress echo, Use of AI in screening for heart disease
Lab Website
Reid Thompson Laboratory
- Reid Thompson's research interests include evaluation of ventricular function in patients with muscular dystrophy and Barth syndrome, and in patients who have completed chemotherapy. He also studies novel methods of teaching and diagnosing heart disease through cardiac auscultation.
Selected Publications
Thompson WR, DeCroes B, McClellan R, Rubens J, Vaz FM, Kristaponis K, Avranmopoulos D, Vernon HJ. New targets for monitoring and therapy in Barth Syndrome. Genet Med. 2016; doi:10.1038/gim.2015.204
Bilchick KC, Plitt D, Salerno M, Dori Y, Crawford TO, Drachman D, Thompson WR. Prevalence and distribution of regional scar in dysfunctional myocardial segments in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy based on myocardial tagging and echocardiographic assessments of circumferential strain. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2011; 11:13-20
De Meo R, Matusz PJ, Knebel J-F, Murray MM, Thompson WR, Clarke S. What makes medical students better listeners? Curr Biol. 2016;26:R519-20
Leung DG, Herzka DA, Thompson WR, He B, Bibat G, Tennekoon G, Russell SD, Schuleri KH, Lardo AC, Kass DA, Thompson RE, Judge DP, Wagner KR. Sildenafil does not improve cardiomyopathy in Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy. Ann Neurol. 2014; 76(4):541-9
Tran JC, Ruble K, Loeb DM, Chen ARS, Thompson WR. Automated functional imaging by 2-D speckle tracking echocardiography reveals high incidence of abnormal longitudinal strain in a cohort of pediatric oncology patients. Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2016; 63(6): 1075-80
Honors
- Individual National Research Service Award, National Institutes of Health
- Bugher Fellow, American Heart Association
- New Program Development Award, Child Health Research Center
Locations
- Johns Hopkins Children's Center
- 1800 Orleans Street, Suite 2201, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5987
- fax: 410-614-9942
Expertise
Education
Boston Children's Hospital
Fellowship, Pediatric Cardiology, 1992Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency, Pediatrics, 1987Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Medical Education, Medicine, MD, 1984Board Certifications
Pediatric Cardiology
American Board of Pediatrics, 1994Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)