COL Amy Thompson is the Deputy Commander for Clinical Services for Keller Army Community Hospital/West Point Market.
She is from San Francisco, CA and graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a Bachelor of Science in Biology where she also commissioned into the Army through the Army ROTC program in December 2000. She went to medical school on an Army HPSP Scholarship and graduated from Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences in 2005. She is board certified in Pediatrics and has two subspecialty board certifications in Adolescent Medicine and Sports Medicine.
She completed her residency in Pediatrics at Madigan Army Medical Center in 2008. She then served as the Chief of Pediatrics and as the Flight Surgeon at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, CA through 2010. She served at Brooke Army Medical Center for four years where she completed the Adolescent Medicine and Young Adult Fellowship program and then served as Deputy Department Chief of the Adolescent Medicine Clinic which spanned across Fort Sam Houston and Lackland AFB. She deployed as the Battalion Surgeon for the 2/506th Infantry BN with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) to FOB Salerno Afghanistan in 2014. She served as the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team Surgeon, 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, KS from 2014-2016 where she also deployed to Kuwait, Jordan, and Iraq as the Brigade Combat Team Surgeon. She then went on to serve as the Division Chief for Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. While at Walter Reed she was hand selected to serve as the first Defense Health Agency Liaison Officer for the Joint Staff Surgeon at the Pentagon, where she served both the DHA Director and the Joint Staff Surgeon interlinking the Combat Support Agency in support of the Joint Force. She was selected to serve as the Division Surgeon of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, KY from 2019-2022. She then completed a fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at the University of Kansas for the past year prior to arriving at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Her military awards include the Flight Surgeon Badge; Expert Field Medical Badge (honor graduate); Air Assault Badge (honor graduate); Joint Staff Badge; The Order of Military Medical Merit; Military Health Systems Army Junior Female Physician of the Year 2013; Defense Meritorious Service Medal; Meritorious Service Medals; Army Commendation Medals; Army Achievement Medals; National Defense Service Medal; Global War on Terrorism Service Medal; Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal; Afghanistan Campaign Medal; Overseas Service Ribbon; Army Service Ribbon; NATO Medal.