Richard J. Johnson

Richard J. Johnson

Richard J. Johnson
Professor and Chief
Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine
2003

Degrees earned:
M.D., University of Minnesota, 1979
B.S., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1975

Professor Richard Johnson is currently the J. Robert Cade Professor of Medicine and the head of the Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Transplantation.  He is an outstanding researcher, educator, clinician, and leader who has received funding from the NIH for the last 20 years.  He currently has three NIH grants totaling more than $3 million and is principal investigator of a NIH training grant.  Johnson is the program director of a James and Esther King Team Science grant for tobacco-related research from the State of Florida and a project leader of a program project grant from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.  He is a U.S. representative to the International Society of Nephrology, and has three patents issued and seven patents pending. Johnson has written more than 350 papers and more than 40 chapters (published or in press), which cover a wide range of research topics in nephrology and hypertension. He has been recognized as one of the most frequently cited researchers in clinical medicine.  He is one of the editors of the textbook Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology (Elsevier), which is one of the authoritative clinical textbooks in nephrology.