Ian Thomas, MD

Dr. Thomas has a passion for using ultrasonography to promote health equity by overcoming barriers to quality care and counts writing a $50,000 grant to develop the point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum at his residency as one of his top professional accomplishments. He was awarded the American Academy of Physicians (AAFP) Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education, an honor given to only 12 Family Medicine residents in the country. 

He was also awarded the Best Leadership Project Award and Best Overall Leadership Project Awards from the AAFP Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) out of thirty chosen in the country where he dedicated his project to building an ultrasound workshop for the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians in 2023 as well as raising funding for the ultrasound curriculum for the only Family Medicine Residency in Malawi, Africa. 

After completing his Interventional Orthopedics/Sports Medicine Fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, he accepted a role as the Director of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum at Western Michigan University Medical School and Grace Health Family Medicine Residency as well has opened his own practice Thomas Sports and Regenerative Orthopedics (TSARO).