Samuel L. Thomsen, M.D. is a board-certified ophthalmologist who specializes in Laser Vision Correction, Cataracts and Glaucoma Management and Surgery.  Dr. Thomsen is a native of the Beatrice area and graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University.  He received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska Medical Center and is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Society.  Dr. Thomsen completed his ophthalmology residency at the Mason Eye Institute at the University of Missouri.  He went on to specialize in glaucoma by completing a fellowship at the Dean McGee Eye Institute at the University of Oklahoma.

Dr. Sam Thomsen joined Eye Surgical Associates and Sutton Linder & Sutton in August of 2020.  He is a member of the America Glaucoma Society, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, and Lancaster County Medical Society. He has professional appointments at Lincoln Surgical Hospital, BryanHealth, CHI Health St. Elizabeth and Nebraska Surgery Center in Lincoln along with Jefferson County Hospital in Fairbury and Fillmore County Hospital in Geneva, NE.

Dr. Thomsen and his wife, Gaby, have a son, Ezra and are excited to introduce him to their love of Husker sports.  They enjoy spending time outside, gardening, traveling to state and national parks, camping, hiking, skiing and other sporting activities.  Through their strong faith and involvement in their church, they have enjoyed medical missionary work to Nepal and Haiti.  Dr. Thomsen is more than an avid sports fan, he has completed 7 full marathons, 4 half marathons and successfully climbed and summited Mt. Rainier.  One of his dreams is to climb the ‘Seven Summits’.