Carey C. Thomson, M.D., MPH

Dr. Carey Thomson is the Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care and the Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Thomson is an expert in implementation medicine and education with a clinical concentration in lung cancer. She started and directs the Lung Cancer Screening and Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program at Mount Auburn and is involved in leading statewide and national efforts to improve implementation of lung cancer screening programs through her work on the Massachusetts Learning Collaborative on Lung Cancer Screening, and within the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Thoracic Oncology Assembly, and the American Cancer Society’s National Roundtable on Lung Cancer. She served on the board of directors of the ATS for four years. She has led a number of initiatives to improve clinical education and implementation and currently serves on the Quality Improvement and Implementation Committee. Dr. Thomson has also had a research career in epidemiology and public health concentrating on tobacco cessation and public health interventions for tobacco control. She mentors trainees in quality improvement around lung cancer screening both locally and nationally.