Timothy Johnson (medical journalist)

Timothy Johnson (medical journalist)
G. Timothy Johnson
Born 1936
Education - Augustana College
- North Park Theological Seminary
- Albany Medical College
-Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University
Occupation -Academic
-Minister
-Physician
-Television journalist
-Writer
Religious belief(s) Christian (Evangelical Covenant Church)
Notable credit(s) Medical Reporter — ABC News
Chief Medical Correspondent — ABC News

G. Timothy Johnson (born 1936) is an American academic, pastor, physician, television journalist and writer who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is best known to television viewers as the longtime chief medical correspondent for ABC News on the ABC television network.

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Education

Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. In 1963, he graduated from North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois and became an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church.

After two years in the ministry, he entered medical school[1] and graduated summa cum laude from Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, and subsequently received a master's degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Medical career

For many years he has been a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School at Harvard University and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility in Boston, Massachusetts.

Television career

Early television career

Johnson started his television career in the 1970s at WRGB-TV in Schenectady, NY while at Albany Medical Center. He then moved to Boston and WCVB-Channel 5's Sunday Open House with a live, weekly segment interviewing other medical professionals about current medical issues.

ABC News

In 1975, he joined ABC News as the medical reporter and later became the "Medical Editor" of Good Morning America (GMA), ABC News's morning-news-and-talk program upon its première on November 3, 1975. In over three decades at ABC News, he has reported for their various programs including World News Tonight, a daily evening-news program; Nightline, a late-night hard and soft news program; 20/20, a prime-time television-newsmagazine program.

Ministry

He continues as a pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church.

Bibliography

Johnson published a book Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey (2004) (InterVarsity Press, ISBN 9780830832149) describing his journey of how he became a Christian, and answering a series of questions, such as "Why Bother With Religion and the Bible?" and "What Did Jesus Teach?"

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