David Johnson, MD
President, Board Member
"Try it — you'll like it"
David Johnson, MD was graduated from Harvard College and completed his medical training at Columbia University College of Physician and Surgeons. His internship and internal medicine residency was at the University of California San Francisco, where he was chief resident at Moffitt Hospital in 1968. After two years at the Boston Naval Hospital, he came to Redding, CA in 1970 and was the first physician in the area to institute advanced hemodynamic and respiratory therapy in critical care while continuing to attend as faculty at University of San Francisco, CA.
Dr. Johnson assisted in the formation of Kritikus Foundation in 1987 and was part of the team that developed the 240 hour program for critical care nurses which continues to be used in northern California.
His interests include echo cardiography, ARDS, shock and computerization of bedside critical care informatics. Dr. Johnson is currently Chief of Staff at Mercy Medical Center and a member of the board of directors at Shasta Regional Medical Center, Redding, CA. He is involved with the process improvement at both hospitals. He continues to practice full time critical care medicine.