Kenneth S. Thompson, MD, is a psychiatrist and the medical director at Milestone Centers. Dr. Thompson provides care at the Duquesne University Psychology Clinic and the Center for Aviation Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA. He was the principal investigator (PI) of a Robert Wood Johnson Grant linking Pittsburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, in pursuit of achieving health equity and resilience; is a Soros Physician Advocate Fellow; and is the founder of Visible Hands Collaborative, a nonprofit that imports integrative community therapy and solidarity care from Brazil. Dr. Thompson has focused his career on social medicine and community psychiatry emphasizing public policy, public health, and the struggle for health equity, democracy, and human rights. He graduated from Kenyon College and Boston University School of Medicine, where he was a National Health Service Corps Scholar. He was a resident in psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY, and a postdoctoral fellow in mental health services research at Yale, where he was a founder of the Grant Street Partnership in New Haven, a treatment shelter, and the PI of the related National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism service demonstration grant. He joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 1990. Over the next 20 years, he was the director of the Institute for Public Health and Psychiatry, the chief medical officer of the Harrisburg State Hospital, and the director for medical affairs at the Center for Mental Health Services in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He then served as the medical director of Recovery Innovations, a multistate crisis service and rehabilitation program, and subsequently worked at the HIV clinic in the Allegheny Health Network. Dr. Thompson is currently the chief medical officer of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Leadership Council, a policy and advocacy organization he helped found, and he leads the mental health program at the Squirrel Hill Health Center, Pittsburgh, PA, an FQHC.