Aside from being President of Pass My Physical, Dr. Thorpe is Board Certified in Occupational Health, is a DOT Certified Medical Examiner, and is considered a DOT medical subject matter expert. He has worked with the trucking industry for greater than 30 years. During that time he helped in the development of the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners, and has provided training to greater than 5000 medical examiners to prepare them to sit for the NRCME certification examination. In addition to this he works as a consultant to both medical examiners and motor carriers around the country to help find solutions for the medical certification of truck drivers.
Aside from his professional role within the trucking industry, he has published a number of articles in professional journals, has authored a clinical reference manual for medical examiners, and he serves on the post graduate faculty at Northwestern Health Sciences University teaching courses in occupational medicine and other related topics. He is a well sought after speaker and has lectured at numerous events, organizations and at other colleges and universities around the country.