{"id":107495,"date":"2024-02-02T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=107495"},"modified":"2024-02-14T10:44:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T16:44:59","slug":"faculty-spotlight-shaun-thompson-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/02\/02\/faculty-spotlight-shaun-thompson-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Spotlight: Shaun Thompson, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><strong>Name: <\/strong>Shaun Thompson, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hometown:\u00a0<\/strong>Omaha, Nebraska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Title and department at UNMC and  Nebraska Medicine:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Associate professor, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical Care Anesthesiology Fellowship director, UNMC Department of Anesthesiology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medical director for Extracorporeal Life Support Services, Nebraska Medicine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical care anesthesiologist, Nebraska Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why I chose anesthesiology:&nbsp;<\/strong>As I completed all my rotations in medical school, I enjoyed many aspects of all of them and wished there was a field where I could be involved in all realms of patient care. 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