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Mark B. Johnson, MD,
MPH, FACPM
President-Elect
Dr. Johnson has been the
Executive Director of Public Health and Environment of
Jefferson County (CO) Department of Health and Environment since April 1990. He
was raised in Grand Junction, Colorado, and attended Campion Academy and Pacific Union College before going to
medical school in Loma Linda, California. After graduation
from medical school, he served for three years as a
Commissioned Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service in
the National Health Service Corps in Springfield,
Colorado, a rural community in the southeast corner of the
state. He is currently a Major in the U.S. Army Reserves
Medical Corps.
Dr. Johnson received his
specialty training at Johns Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland, and became board certified in
Preventive Medicine and Public Health in 1988. He served
as the Medical Director for the Center for Health
Promotion at Loma Linda University, then as the Director
for Preventive Medicine Services and the State
Epidemiologist in Wyoming before moving back to Colorado
in 1990.
He has been active in
national and state public health and medical
organizations, serving as the President and then the
Affiliate Representative to the American Public Health
Association for both the Wyoming and Colorado Public
Health Associations. He also has been an alternate
delegate to the American Medical Association House of
Delegates and a delegate to the Colorado Medical Society’s
House of Delegates for the past seven years. He currently
is finishing a nine-year term on the American Board of
Preventive Medicine. He is also serving as a member of the
Preventive Medicine Residency Review Committee. He has
been active in the administration of health care in
Colorado, serving on the Boards of Trustees for the
PorterCare Adventist Health System, the Centura Health
System, and the Adventist Health System.
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