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Johnson is past chief of staff of Baptist Medical Center Downtown and is a partner in the Florida Radiation Oncology Group. As a committed educator, he currently holds an appointment as an assistant professor of Oncology at the Mayo Clinic Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota, and previously held a similar appointment at Stanford University, California.

Long interested in clinical research, he has served as a principal investigator for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group, authored more than 30 publications, written research protocols and patented a medical device used in breast cancer treatment.

He has served in several leadership positions at Baptist Downtown, including chairman of the Institutional Review Committee (2002-03) and chief of staff (2004- 06). In addition, he has held several positions in the local unit of the American Cancer Society. Johnson served in the U.S. Air Force for 24 years (active duty and reserves) and retired in 1999 as a colonel and medical center commander. He is keenly interested in the management of pediatric and adult tumors of the brain and spine, as well as breast cancers, prostate cancers and malignant lymphomas.