Dr. Jamie Thomas Named to Additional Vice Presidency at St. Luke’s

Bethlehem, PA (1/6/2017) – St. Luke’s University Health Network proudly announces Jamie L. Thomas, DO, has been named Vice President of Medical Affairs at the St. Luke’s Hospital - Warren Campus. In this role, Dr. Thomas will focus on medical staff relationships, the quality and efficiency of clinical operations, patient experiences and clinical programming opportunities.

Less than a year ago, Dr. Thomas was named Vice President of Medical Affairs at St. Luke’s Monroe Campus. She will continue in that position, as well.

A distinguished physician who has been a key member of St. Luke’s Interventional Radiology team since 2007, Dr. Thomas has been closely involved with the St. Luke’s Hospital - Warren Campus since the very beginning of that campus’s journey with St. Luke’s on February 1, 2012.

Dr. Thomas is also the medical director of St. Luke’s Warren Campus’s vascular lab. For the past several years she has worked on key strategic initiatives with Warren Campus President Scott R. Wolfe and former VPMA, Ed Gilkey.

Dr. Thomas earned her medical degree from Midwestern University in Downers Grove, Ill., and spent her internship and residency at Saint Francis Hospital in Evanston, Ill. She completed a Fellowship in Interventional Radiology at the University of Chicago Hospitals.

Licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Dr. Thomas is a Certified Physician Executive, and currently is an MBA candidate at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Dr. Thomas is married to Dr. Peter Thomas, a trauma surgeon and medical director of the Trauma Program at St. Luke’s University Hospital – Bethlehem. The Thomas’s live in Coopersburg with their three children, Andrew, Hallie and Alex.

About St. Luke’s

Founded in 1872, St. Luke’s University Health Network (SLUHN) is a non-profit, regional, fully integrated and nationally recognized network providing services at seven hospitals and more than 270 outpatient sites. The network’s service area includes Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Schuylkill, Bucks, Montgomery, Berks and Monroe counties in Pennsylvania and in Warren County in New Jersey. Dedicated to advancing health education, St. Luke’s operates the nation’s oldest School of Nursing and 22 graduate medical educational programs and is considered a major teaching hospital, the only one in the region. In partnership with Temple University, St. Luke’s created the region’s first Medical School. Repeatedly, including 2016, St. Luke’s has earned Truven’s 100 Top Major Teaching Hospital designation as well as 50 Top
Cardiovascular program in addition to other honors for clinical excellence. St. Luke’s is a multi-year recipient of the Most Wired award recognizing the breadth of St. Luke’s information technology applications such as electronic medical records, telehealth, online scheduling and pricing information. St. Luke’s is also recognized as one of the state’s lowest cost providers in comparison to major teaching hospitals and other health systems.
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