Kevin B. Johnson
Kevin B. Johnson is an American physician and biomedical informatician.[1][2] He is the David L. Cohen University Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Computer and Information Science, Pediatrics, and Science Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and Vice President for Applied Informatics in the University of Pennsylvania Health System.[1][2] He previously served as chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics and as chief informatics officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.[3][2]
Johnson's work has addressed electronic prescribing, clinical documentation, health information exchange, and, more recently, artificial-intelligence tools for ambulatory care.[4][5] He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2010.[2]
Life and career
[edit]Johnson studied at Dickinson College and earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins. He later completed graduate training in medical informatics at Stanford and held faculty appointments at Johns Hopkins before moving to Vanderbilt in 2002. In 2021, he joined the University of Pennsylvania.[1][3]
In 2015, Johnson executive-produced the documentary No Matter Where, about the development and limits of health information exchange systems in the United States.[6][7] In the 2020s, his research at Penn has included studies of ambient AI documentation tools and the development of outpatient-care research resources such as the Observer repository.[8][9]
Johnson received a 2023 NIH Director's Pioneer Award for a project titled "Helping Doctors Doctor: Using AI to Automate Documentation and 'De-Autonomate' Health Care."[10] He was elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows in 2022 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2013.[11][4] He has also served on the NIH Council of Councils.[12]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "Kevin Johnson, MD, MS, FAAP, FAMIA, FACMI". Penn DBEI. University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- 1 2 3 4 "2025 Annual Meeting Program" (PDF). National Academy of Medicine. National Academy of Medicine. 2025-10-20. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- 1 2 "Kevin Johnson, MD, MS". Vanderbilt Clinical Informatics Center. Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- 1 2 "Society of Scholars inducts new members". The JHU Hub. Johns Hopkins University. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ Johnson, Kevin B.; Lehmann, Christoph U. (2013). "Electronic Prescribing in Pediatrics: Toward Safer and More Effective Medication Management". Pediatrics. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ Proffitt, Allison (2015-09-10). "'No Matter Where' Documents Rise and Challenges of Health Information Exchanges". Clinical Research News. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ Versel, Neil (2015-11-17). "'No Matter Where' brings health information exchange to big screen". MedCity News. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ Duggan, Matthew J.; Gervase, Julietta; Schoenbaum, Anna; Johnson, Kevin B. (2025-02-19). "Clinician Experiences With Ambient Scribe Technology to Assist With Documentation Burden and Efficiency". JAMA Network Open. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ Johnson, Kevin B. (2026). "Observer: creation of a novel multimodal dataset for outpatient care research". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ "NIH Director's Pioneer Award Funded Research". NIH Common Fund. National Institutes of Health. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ "Kevin B. Johnson, MD, MS". AIMBE College of Fellows. American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. 2022-02-18. Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- ↑ "Council of Councils Meeting – May 30, 2024 Meeting Minutes" (PDF). Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives. National Institutes of Health. 2024-08-01. Retrieved 2026-05-07.