Matthew J. Thompson

Dr Matthew Thompson is a Senior Clinical Scientist at the University of Oxford Department of Primary Health Care, and Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University in the USA. He is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Monitoring and Diagnosis (http://madox.org) which is an NIHR-funded research programme looking at more effective ways of monitoring chronic conditions and making diagnoses in primary care settings. His main research interest is finding more effective ways to recognize serious infections in children in ambulatory and emergency care settings. This has included work on early clinical features of meningococcal disease, and more effective ways of using vital signs to identify children with potentially serious illness. He has published widely in the field of primary care paediatrics, with seminal papers in the Lancet and BMJ. He also coordinates the ERNIE group, which is a collaborative research study of serious infections in children involving the Universities of Oxford, Leicester, Leuven and Rotterdam. He has also carried out several systematic reviews, including steroids for sore throat, and neuraminidase inhibitors for influenza. He is an Editor for the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections group and teaches medical students and postgraduate courses in evidence-based medicine at the Centre for Evidence-based Medicine in Oxford. He works clinically as a Family Physician.