Phillip M. Thompson, Ph.D., J.D.

Bio

Phillip M. Thompson has law degrees from the University of Georgia (J.D.) and DePaul University (LL.M. Health Law) and a Ph.D. from the Committee on the History of Culture on Catholicism and Science from the University of Chicago. After being a trial lawyer for a decade and managing a law firm, Dr. Thompson attended the University of Chicago and then spent twenty years in academic life beginning as the Patricia A. Hayes Professor of Ethics at Saint Edward’s University, Leadership Studies at Georgia Tech, and director of the Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory University. For the five years, he was the Vice president of Mission for Mercy Hospital, a hospital on Newsweek’s top 400 hospitals in the world where he participated in and oversaw clinical ethics and medical ethics instruction as well as the community health and pastoral care departments. He is the author of three books and over twenty-five articles on bioethics, Catholic social thought, Catholicism and science and technology, business ethics, law and society, leadership, and Catholic themes in movies. His current research interest is focused on Artificial Intelligence and Health Care.