Timothy Johnson

medical editor, ABC News, WCVB-TV5

Dr. G. Timothy Johnson is one of the nation's leading medical communicators of health care information. As Medical Editor for ABC News, Johnson provides on-air medical analysis for *World News Tonight*, *Nightline* and *20/20*. He has provided commentary on medical problems and answers for viewers of ABC News' *Good Morning America *since the program's debut in 1975. Johnson's programs and feature reports have won several awards, including a National Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as well as two Emmy Awards from the Boston/New England Chapter of the same organization. He earned a Gabriel Award in 1999 in the best news story category for the two-part piece, *Alzheimer's: A Faded Memory*. Johnson was selected as the recipient of the 1998 Bradford Washburn Award presented by the Museum of Science, Boston. In 1988, he received the Lewis Thomas Award for Communications from the American College of Physicians, and in 1987 and 1989, he won the Howard W. Blakeslee Award given by the American Heart Association. Originally headed for the ministry, he graduated from North Park Seminary in 1963, then decided two years later to enter medicine. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Augustana College, he graduated summa cum laude from Albany Medical College and holds a masters degree in public health from Harvard University. He is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson is married with two children and one grandchild.