July 30, 2008

Dr. Gary Alan Johnson has joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine as a professor of obstetrics and gynecology and chief of the gynecologic oncology division.  He is director of the Gynecologic Oncology Clinic at the SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU.

Previously, he was on the faculty for 15 years at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine in Oklahoma City, most recently as an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the director and chairman of the palliative care committee.  While at Oklahoma, he was awarded numerous teaching awards.

Johnson completed a three-year gynecologic oncology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center in Orange (1993).  He completed his obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Wisconsin in Madison (1990), his medical degree at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City (1986) and his bachelor’s degree in accounting at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. (1977).

He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and gynecologic oncology by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.  Johnson is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.  His memberships include the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Society of Critical Care Medicine, American Society of Clinical Oncology and Sigma Xi.  He has been involved in 30 clinical trials, published more than 40 professional journal articles and has given more than 100 presentations.  His research interests include ovarian cancer and palliative care.

Johnson, a native of Kansas City, is married to Rhonda Johnson, Ph.D., associate professor of psychiatry and chief of the oncology patient and family supportive services division for the SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU. 

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