Dr. Jerome Thompson, MBA has been selected to participate on the Lay Review Committee of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, (JDRF). 
Dr. Thompson will be one of 27 members of The Lay Review Committee (LRC) whose responsibilities include reviewing and debating grant requests from researchers. The LRC is responsible for recommending grants for funding to the JDRF's Board of Directors.

Dr. Thompson is chairman of the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center's UT Medical group. He developed the Pediatric Ear Nose and Throat Division for the University of Tennessee at Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.