Keith P. Thompson, MD, is a board certified ophthalmologist and founder and CEO of InView. He has 16 years of experience performing refractive surgery.

He completed his undergraduate education at Texas A & M University in College Station and earned his Medical Degree with honors from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Following an internship in internal medicine, Dr. Thompson completed his Ophthalmology Residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, where he developed a research interest in new technologies for refractive surgery. He completed a two-year National Institutes of Health sponsored research fellowship studying corneal wound healing following excimer laser surgery and biomaterials for synthetic corneal lenses. Dr. Thompson also completed a clinical fellowship in cornea and anterior segment surgery at the Emory University Eye Center.

Dr. Thompson's commitment to education is apparent in that he has published over 80 peer reviewed articles and abstracts, authored over six patents on ophthalmic technologies, and has lectured at over 179 scientific meetings throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He authored a book on refractive surgery and has authored 11 book chapters. He has also trained more than 22 fellows through the Emory Fellowship Program.

Dr. Thompson provides leadership and maintains active involvement in numerous refractive surgery committees and societies. He is chairman of the Advocacy Committee for the International Society of Refractive Surgery and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Refractive and Corneal Surgery. He has been elected a Member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, a Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Thompson's current research interest is wavefront aberrations of the eye, which led to the development of InView's exclusive InterWave® technology. He has received 11 grants for vision research including excimer lasers. His extensive research efforts have received over $5 million from industry and have been featured in USA Today, CNN, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, the Wall Street Journal, and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

Dr. Thompson is married to Georgia H. Thompson, MD, a radiologist at Piedmont Hospital. They have three daughters: Kristina, born in 1989, Katherine, born in 1992, and Kandace, born in 1996. He is an active member of the Peachtree Presbyterian Church. He is a pilot, holding commercial and instrument ratings. He also enjoys running and an occasional game of golf.