She holds affiliations as a Research Associate with the Manitoba Palliative Care Research Unit headed by Dr. Harvey Chochinov, the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba, and with Riverview Health Centre. Dr. Thompson holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator Award and in 2012 she was awarded the Canadian Association for Nursing Research Outstanding New Investigator Award. She was recently awarded the 2015 University of Manitoba RH Award (Health Sciences), awarded to two top early career researchers in health science for innovation and impactful research. Dr. Thompson’s research program has been funded through several grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and is focused on the palliative and end-of- life care needs of older adults and their family caregivers who are living in long-term care.