NEUROSPECIALIST NAMES AS SURGERY OVERSEER
July 21, 2011
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Christine M. Fredric
VP Business Development
The Medical Center of Plano
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Christine.Fredric@hcahealthcare.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEUROSPECIALIST NAMED AS SURGERY OVERSEER
PLANO, Texas (July 21, 2011) – The Medical Center of Plano has announced the appointment of John R. Tompkins, M.D., as Chief of Surgery for a two-year term. Dr. Tompkins previously served as his department’s vice chief.
“We are very fortunate to have a physician of Dr. Tompkins’s caliber fill this important seat on our Executive Committee,” says Troy A. Villarreal, FACHE, president and chief executive officer at The Medical Center of Plano. “His strong leadership, collaborative, and technical skills will be invaluable to us.”
Born in Bloomington, Ill., in 1963, Dr. Tompkins received his medical degree in 1990 from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn. After an internship in general surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, he remained at Baylor through the summer of 1995 completing an internship in internal medicine and training in neurology.
Dr. Tompkins then spent four additional years as a neurological surgery resident at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. In 1999, he moved to North Texas to enter private practice, and joined the medical staff at The Medical Center of Plano in October of that year.
Dr. Tompkins is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
About The Medical Center of Plano
The Medical Center of Plano is a full-service, 427-bed acute-care facility with some 1,500 employees and 1,000 physicians on staff, representing more than 70 specialties and subspecialties. Accredited by The Joint Commission, The Medical Center of Plano continued its legacy of firsts in 2007 by becoming the first hospital in Collin County to achieve elite Magnet recognition from the American Nurses Association, and again in 2011 with its verification as a Level II Trauma Center. For more information, visit www.TheMedicalCenterofPlano.com