CDR Thompson is a Director of the Investigations Branch in the Office of Pharmaceutical Quality Operations, Division I, within the Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is responsible for pharmaceutical quality inspections and investigations, working in conjunction with the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation & Research and the Center for Veterinary Medicine. He has over 15 years of inspectional experience with the FDA. Prior to working for the FDA, he was a Senior Research Scientist for a contract research organization conducting small-molecule drug discovery. CDR Chad Thompson has a Masters in Chemistry from the University of Albany and a Bachelor’s in Chemistry from Gardner-Webb University. He currently resides in Albany, NY with his wife, Heather, and their four children.