Robert and Karen were married in June of 2003 and have chosen to make the Peninsula their new home. Dr. Thompson has practiced medicine in Anchorage for twenty years specializing in Obstetrics, Gynecology, Infertility, and Reproductive Surgery. He is one of about five hundred certified Reproductive Surgeons in the world and is certified as an advanced Laparoscopic and Hysteroscopic surgeon by the Accreditation Council of the American Association of Endoscopic Surgeons. He was also chosen “Best Physicians in America in 1996”. He has served Alaska as a founding member of the University of Washington Satellite Invitro Fertilization Program and has an active fertility practice.

Major Thompson has just returned from two weeks active duty in the United States Army, training at Ft. Sam Houston Texas. He and his wife have been immersed in music their whole lives. Karen is a former US Jazz champion singer and Robert is a concert violinist. They have both concentrated on gospel and praise and worship music. Together, they have four children, Nathan 19 (a professional hockey player, drafted by the Boston Bruins), Tiffany 17 (a senior at Dimond High School in Anchorage), Ryken 13, and Kaden 8. Karen has been employed as a flight attendant with Alaska Airlines for over 7 years.

Dr. Thompson’s practice of medicine is unique, including extensive nutritional counseling utilizing tissue and hair mineral analysis and salivary and urine hormone testing. This has an incredible reliability and reproducibility in helping patients make the correct changes in their nutrition and health, long term. One area this has been especially helpful, has been in preventing osteoporosis.

It seems that our population has embraced the calcium message, and gone overboard. Over 90% of patients tested show an excess in intracellular calcium levels. This causes thyroid hormone resistance, adrenal suppression, slowed metabolism, and calcium build up in areas where it may cause problems such as gallstones, kidney stones, arteriosclerosis, premature aging of the skin, to name a few. Remember, our bones are made up of minerals, not just calcium. We need all of them. This also has important implications in pregnancy when the mother loses over four pounds of minerals to the baby, largely from her bone marrow stores.

Dr. Thompson has also trained in integrative medicine and utilizes natural healing techniques when appropriate. Natural hormone replacement therapy is another area that has made significant contributions to his practice. It has become apparent, that the impacts of mineral deficiencies, environmental estrogens, and cancer risks have placed a huge portion of our population at risk. Understanding the complexities of this area and reliable and reproducible testing has allowed Dr. Thompson to utilize bio-identical hormone replacement therapy effectively and safely.

He offers complete office based urodynamic testing, endometrial biopsies, office hysteroscopy, and endometrial ablation (a technique to stop menstrual periods permanently without removing the uterus or changing hormones). For over seven years, he has been treating varicose leg veins, spider veins, birth marks, rosacae, and various other skin cosmetic problems.

Dr. Thompson is also certified in Hyperbaric Medicine and is the Medical Director of the American Hyperbaric Center in Anchorage. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is utilized in the treatment of wound healing, carbon monoxide poisoning, smoke inhalation, stroke recovery, crush injuries, decompression sickness, reperfusion injury, leg and foot ulcerations due to diabetes as well as many other medical problems.

His office is located at 161 N Binkley, Suite 201, Soldotna, 260-6914. For those that have made him and his wife feel so welcome, Thank You! Please have a Merry and Joyous Christmas and New Year.