John W. Thompson, Jr MD

Dr. John W. Thompson, Jr. received his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He completed psychiatry residency training and a forensic psychiatry fellowship at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida. He is Board Certified in psychiatry with added qualifications in forensic psychiatry and addiction psychiatry.

He is presently the Director of Forensic Neuropsychiatry and Vice-Chairman of the department of Psychiatry and Neurology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. In addition, Dr. Thompson is the Director of the Tulane Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry and is Clinical Director of Feliciana Forensic Facility, a 255 bed forensic hospital in Louisiana. Dr. Thompson's major research interests include the fields of competency restoration, gambling and the insanity defense.