Erin Tompkins MD MHA MPH

Biography

LTC Erin Tompkins is an active duty Army physician who has served in the military for 15 years in a breadth of assignments representing a fulfilling career as a well-rounded medical leader. She attended The Uniformed Services University School of Medicine. She then completed her internal medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center, followed by a two-year general internal medicine fellowship which included an MHA from the Uniformed Services University. After completing fellowship, she served as Chief, Division of Medicine at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, MD, and then returned to USU as a clinician educator, researcher and fellowship director for the National Capital Region General Internal Medicine Fellowship.

She has also served overseas with the Army’s 210 Field Artillery Brigade in Korea as Brigade Surgeon, as a staff internist at Womack Army Medical Center at Fort Liberty, and as a physician in the field for the Advanced Camp Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, KY. Dr. Tompkins also has robust academic and administrative experience through her work as a General Internal Medicine fellow. During this time, she completed an externship with the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. This experience allowed her to contribute to research that informed congressional representatives about topics on defense health policy. Through CRS, she also authored publications on obesity and impacts on the military, nutrition in the military and global health engagement policy.

Dr. Tompkins has also instructed over 500 medical providers within the DoD, in the federal system and international U.S. partners on the recognition, diagnosis and treatment of human infections by potential biowarfare agents. She has presented tabletop exercises to simulate potential outbreaks from biowarfare agents in resource-limited environments. Dr. Tompkins is also passionate about medical research. She has published 12 manuscripts in peer-reviewed publications and has made a number of presentations at local and national conferences. She is currently an associate investigator (AI) on COVIVA, a clinical trial to evaluate ivabradine in those with POTS as one of their long-haul COVID symptoms.