Ronald Tompkins

Ronald G. Tompkins, MD, ScD, was a leading trauma and burn physician and trauma specialist at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Tompkins, along with Dr. Wenzhong Xiao, led the Harvard ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center, whose funding was provided by the Open Medicine Foundation. He passed in 2022.

Positions

 * Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School


 * Division Chief, Surgery, Science and Bioengineering, Division of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital


 * Founding Director, The Institute for Bioengineering and Biotechnology, a division in Surgery at Mass General


 * Founding Director, Center for Engineering in Medicine, Mass General
 * Director of the American Board of Surgery in 1994
 * Chief of Staff Emeritus at Shriners Hospitals for Children―Boston
 * Co-leader of the Harvard ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center

Education

 * BA, Chemistry, Tulane University, 1972
 * MD, Medicine, Tulane University, 1976
 * SM, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 1983
 * ScD, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 1983
 * Honorary M.A. from Harvard University

Boards and committees

 * Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Open Medicine Foundation


 * Member of the Working Group which offers their expertise and resources to the ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Stanford University

Talks and interviews

 * 29 Sep 2018, Second Annual Community Symposium on the Molecular Basis of ME/CFS 2018; talk title - ME/CFS Collaborative Research Center at Harvard - (Video)
 * 14 Jan 2019, Inflammation, Neural Function and ME/CFS Episode 103 of MECFS Alert
 * 31 May 2019, Speaker at the 14th Invest in ME Conference 2019; Speech title: Harvard Plans for Clinical Research into ME/CFS - (Video)

Learn more

 * Massachusetts General Hospital bio page