David Robert Thompson (born 10 February 1955) is a British academic nurse and psychologist.

[1] He holds honorary and adjunct professorial positions in the United Kingdom, Ireland, China and Australia[2] and is an editor of European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.

He was the lead author of the first series of studies to examine circadian rhythms of chest pain in myocardial infarction.

[7][8][9][10] Between 1998-2001 Thompson was the only person ever to serve as Professor of Nursing Research at the United Kingdom Department of Health and Social Care.

Thompson has over 600 publications listed on Web of Science that have been cited more than 15,000 times, giving him an h-index of 60.