Michael M. Johns Iii MD

Johns is founder and director of the Emory Voice Center. He developed and now directs a multidisciplinary center for comprehensive care of patients with voice disorders that is novel to Emory Healthcare and the Atlanta metropolitan area. Founded in 2003, this center has become one of the premier specialty clinics of its kind in the nation, and is a recognized center of excellence for its academic endeavors. The center has grown to an eight-clinician multispecialty clinic with strong research and innovative teaching programs. More than 3,000 patients are treated annually by the physicians and speech pathologists at the Voice Center.

The first of its kind specialty specific speech language pathology fellowship was founded in 2004 and has been ongoing for the past six years. In 2009, a fellowship in voice disorders for otolaryngologists was started and has received instant interest filling in its first year. The members of the Voice Center have produced more than 100 publications and have received six extramural grants. It has been viewed as a model for multidisciplinary academic center development for Emory University at the Midtown Campus