James Thompson
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Office
(727) 767-3333
Fax (727) 767-8990 601 5th Street South Suite 260 Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
Primary Specialty
Pediatric Cardiologist
Practice
Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Gender
Male
About
James Thompson
Dr. Thompson specializes in interventional cardiology at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida. He joined the hospital staff in 2020. He was previously a pediatric cardiologist and medical director for Child Cardiology Associates in Fairfax, Virginia, and chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiology of the Inova Heart and Vascular Institute at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He earned his medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency, serving as chief resident, at Children’s National Medical Center. He then completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship with a focus in catheterization and interventional cardiology at University of California, San Francisco. He has been a principal investigator for multiple clinical trials for devices to close defects in the heart through catheters rather than open-heart surgery. He has performed device closures of over 1,500 defects. He was the first physician in the United States to use a novel transcatheter suture delivery system and is leading a multicenter, multinational trial on that device. His passion is the delivery of compassionate care to his patients and their families.Services
James Thompson provides pediatric cardiology in Saint Petersburg, FL 33701. A Pediatric Cardiologist is a physician who has chosen to specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases and defects of the heart and circulatory system. These diseases or defects may be present at birth or may develop later in life.Please call James Thompson at (727) 767-3333 to schedule an appointment at 601 5th Street South Suite 260, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 or to get more information.