Our team


Joshua Lumsden, PA-C

Candor and compassion always win.

-Joshua Lumsden

Starting Spring 2025
Please note that we are not yet scheduling new patients for Joshua. Former patients from his previous practice may scroll down to add their name to be contacted.

Joshua Lumsden (he/him) brings expertise, empathy, and a forward-thinking approach to queer-affirming primary care. A proud Seattleite since 2003, Joshua was born and raised in Southwest Washington.  As a physician assistant who specializes in queer affirming primary care for adults, he blends his evidence-based clinical skills with an approach that is candid and compassionate.   Prior to working as a physician associate, he worked in mental health and developmental disabilities case management for eleven years.

Joshua earned his Masters in Clinical Health Services in Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Washington in 2016. He began his clinical career in adult internal medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center, where he practiced for eight years, while concurrently working in psychiatry at Sound Mental Health for four years. 

Joshua’s clinical passions include HIV treatment and prevention, gender-affirming hormone therapy, and optimizing health through exercise, fitness, and nutrition. He has completed advanced coursework through the World Professional Association of Transgender Health and has published on PrEP implementation. At Virginia Mason, he led pioneering initiatives on suicide prevention, PrEP initiation, and expanding access to gender-affirming care.

Joshua lectures nationally and locally on HIV care and gender-affirming health.  He is a past president of the Washington Academy of Physician Associates. In 2022, he was honored with the inaugural Carol Verga Advanced Practice Provider of the Year award from Virginia Mason Franciscan Health.

Joshua’s patient care philosophy is science based, and focuses on preventing chronic conditions, while emphasizing patient autonomy.   He emphasizes creating a safe, sex-positive space where patients are encouraged to make decisions that align with their personal goals and values.

For patients of Joshua’s from other clinics who wish to follow him to Capitol Hill Medical, or for current CHM patients who wish to transfer to Joshua, please sign up to be contacted here. 

Please note: Joshua will only be in-network with one insurance plan: Premera Blue Cross, and will bill Premera for his primary care services. For all other patients with other plans, he will be available as a direct primary care (DPC) provider. Read about DPC here. If you have Premera insurance, or if you are interested in starting direct primary care with Joshua, please sign up below. 

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Thomas L. Thomson, MSN, AGNP-C

We must fight for your life as though it were our own - which it is.

-James Baldwin

Starting June 1, 2025.

Thomas Thomson (he/him) is an adult primary care nurse practitioner trained in primary care, queer and transgender healthcare, HIV medical care, and harm reduction medicine. He completed graduate studies at Yale University’s School of Nursing, where he graduated with a concentration in Gender and Sexuality Health Justice. After four years in the VA healthcare system, he is extremely excited to be joining Capitol Hill Medical.

Prior to beginning his nursing career, Tom worked as an HIV prevention counselor/tester and medical case manager at Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia, a groundbreaking community health organization dedicated to empowering and caring for people living with HIV/AIDS and providing affirming and excellent medical and mental health care for LGBTQIA+ people throughout the mid-Atlantic states. He completed his initial training as a registered nurse at Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University, and before moving on to graduate school, he served as the nurse manager for the Jonathan Lax Treatment Center, an HIV primary care clinic in Philadelphia with a strong history of grass-roots activism.

As a queer nurse practitioner, Tom is deeply committed to advocating for and working alongside other people within Seattle’s LGBTQIA+ communities in the effort to provide and normalize excellent, affirming primary healthcare. He cares for patients of all sexual orientations and genders and provides gender affirming care for transgender and non-binary folks including hormone therapy. He also provides primary care for people living with HIV. 

Outside of patient care, Tom enjoys hiking throughout the Pacific Northwest, seeing all manner of live music (and being a music nerd,but not an insufferable one) and a more limited manner of live sporting events (Storm/Reign/Sounders games), and doing street medic work at protests and for mutual aid projects.

Thomas will be in-network with all major commercial plans, but will only be open to patients who previously saw Alice Manos, MD, Troy Flaherty, ARNP, or Jessica Rongitsch, MD, who wish to transfer care. For those patients who wish to transfer care to Thomas, please sign up below. For all other patients, please check back periodically to find out when he is open to new patients.

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Vy Chu, MD, FACP

I view the doctor/patient relationship as a partnership and feel that the best medical decisions are trustworthy, made possible through open communication, education and in many cases, compromise.

-Vy Chu

Board certified,
American Board of Internal Medicine

Vy Chu (pronounced "vee choo"; he/him) has committed his career to the service of our community as one of the founding members of Capitol Hill Medical. He grew up in McLean, Virginia, a suburb of D.C., and attended college at Duke University in North Carolina. Upon graduation, he enjoyed a few years working as an emergency medical technician and medical assistant.

He received his M.D. from the University of Washington and completed his residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. He is board certified in Internal Medicine. He is a Clinical Instructor at the University of Washington School of Medicine and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP).

Vy's passion for the primary care of the queer community originated during residency, when he completed a rotation at the San Francisco City Clinic, a downtown public health clinic on the forefront of gender-affirming care, HIV care, and STD medicine. His experiences here led directly to his founding of Capitol Hill Medical in 2008. Several years into practice, he was invited by the UW School of Medicine to revamp and teach an elective course on LGBTQ healthcare disparities, which eventually became an integral component of the School’s LGBTQ Health Pathway curriculum. Vy has been a guest expert on Dan Savage’s “Lovecast” several times.

Dr. Chu is not currently taking on any new patients.