Dr Michael Thompson graduated from the University of Tasmania with a Bachelor of Medical Science with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery in 2012. He completed basic physician training at the Royal Hobart Hospital and subsequently specialised in Endocrinology. He has trained with some of Australia’s leading experts in osteoporosis and medical weight management at the Austin Hospital Endocrine Centre of Excellence. In 2023 he completed his PhD, funded by a prestigious NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship, on sun exposure, vitamin D, osteoporosis and bone health in adults under the supervision of Professor Graeme Jones at the Menzies Institute in Hobart.

Since completing his specialist training, Michael has taken up a Staff Specialist role at the Royal Hobart Hospital, where he runs the Endocrine Metabolic Bone Disease (Osteoporosis) and Medical Weight Management Clinics. He is also Visiting Medical Officer at Calvary and Hobart Private Hospitals. He has received numerous prizes including the inaugural Tasmanian AMA President’s Award for Excellence, the Tasmanian RACP Physicians Prize, Vice Chancellor’s Leadership Award and the Tasmanian RACP Trainee Research Award (2014, 2018 & 2020). Michael regularly publishes his research in prestigious international journals and presents at local and national conferences.

Michael is a keen educator and has held various competitive teaching posts with the University of Tasmania (Senior Lecturer and Examiner), Postgraduate Medical Council of Tasmania and Royal Hobart Hospital (Medical Education Advisor and Chief Registrar). He enjoys using these skills to help educate patients about their health, medical condition(s) and how these can be best managed. Outside of work he an avid bushwalker and trail runner.