Geoffrey Bates Johnson MD, PhD

Dr. Geoffrey Johnson is a thoracic radiologist and nuclear medicine physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and is chair of the nuclear medicine division. He received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering at MIT, his medical degree from the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, and his Ph.D. in Immunology from Mayo Graduate School. He specializes in nuclear cardiology, nuclear medicine, thoracic imaging, and nuclear radiology and is experienced in nuclear therapy, amyloidosis, positron emission tomography (PET/CT and PET/MR), and lung neoplasms. He has a joint appointment in immunology. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include PET and SPECT imaging of malignancy, infectious and inflammatory diseases, cardiac and systemic amyloidosis, and radionuclide therapy. He has served as principal investigator (PI) and co-principal investigator on radionuclide therapy trials and was the PI on the Mayo Clinic’s early access protocol for 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET imaging.