Theodore Johnson, Ii MD, MPH

Ted Johnson received his MD from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and completed his fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Johnson attained his MPH at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health.

Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Geriatric Medicine within the Emory School of Medicine and holds secondary appointments as Professor in the Department of Urology and in the Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, of Emory University. Dr. Johnson’s directorships include: Director of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology at Emory; Director of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center for Health in Aging; Program Director of the Atlanta Regional Geriatric Education Center; and

Dr. Johnson is the recipient of several federal and VA peer-reviewed grants and sees patients needing specialty care for lower urinary tract disorders at the Atlanta VA Medical Center in Decatur, GA, and at the Wesley Woods Center of Emory University. Though his primary clinical research focus is that of lower urinary tract disorders and nocturia, as a geriatrician Dr. Johnson is particularly concerned with understanding the functional capacity and quality-of-life experiences of persons as they age, to include building better communities that are safer for and more attentive to the needs of older adults.