Dr. Robert P. “Bud” Thompson, Jr., MD, FACS, CHCQM has joined the WoundCentrics medical staff and wound care team at the Christus Santa Rosa Medical Center Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center. Dr. Thompson began working for WoundCentrics May 10, 2021 and will be responsible for the clinical management of both the outpatient and inpatient advanced wound care programs at the Christus Medical Center Hospital.
Dr. Thompson will begin accepting patients May 25th in the Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center and is already available to assist with inpatient wound care consults. He recently completed his onboarding at Wound Care University in New Braunfels, Texas at the WoundCentrics corporate offices. With an extensive background as a General Surgeon, Dr. Thompson has been managing surgical wounds his entire career and more recently an increasing number of diabetic wounds.
Dr. Thompson relayed, “I am looking forward to working with WoundCentrics and their existing team of wound care experts to begin specializing more deeply in advanced wound care techniques.”
“WoundCentrics is pleased to have a veteran, experienced physician and surgeon like Dr. Thompson join our company and lead the wound care program at Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in the South Texas Medical Center,” stated Stuart Oertli, Chief Operating Officer for WoundCentrics. “The community and patients will be well served through his clinical and leadership skills,” said.
Dr. Thompson was most recently employed as a General Surgeon by the Seton Surgical Group in Kyle, Texas for the past 8 years. Prior to that, he was a General Surgeon based in the Texas Medical Center in Houston and nearby Brazosport Hospital in Lake Jackson, Texas beginning in 1990.
He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and completed his General Surgery Internship and Residency at The Stamford Hospital, Stamford, Connecticut. He completed clinical surgical rotations at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Babies Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, both affiliated with New York Medical College.
The CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Medical Center Wound Care and Hyperbaric Center has been managed by WoundCentrics for the past 12 years. WoundCentrics employs a multidisciplinary team of professionals, providing the most advanced, state-of-the-art treatment currently available for chronic non-healing wounds.
The Wound Center utilizes advanced treatment techniques such as Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, artificial skin applications, and aggressive wound care strategies with the goal of preventing amputations and restoring patients to the full quality of life they experienced before the onset of their non-healing wounds. The goal is to restore a patient's quality of life through individualized treatment planning as well as through education to patients and their families.
To learn more about WoundCentrics go to the website at www.woundcentrics.com
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