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David A. Johnson, MD, MACG

Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, VA

David A. Johnson, MD, MACG, is Professor of Medicine/Chief of GI at the Eastern Virginia School of Medicine. He has published >600 articles/abstracts. He edited the books,"Esophageal Disease and the Role of the Microbiome "Sleep Effect on Gastrointestinal Health and Disease: Translational Opportunities for Promoting Health and Optimizing Disease Management" (2018), "Gut Microbiome: New Understanding and Translational Applications for Disease Management" (2015), He is a Past President of ACG (2006-2007). Since 2000, served on both the GI Multi-Society CRC Screening Task Force and ACG guidelines committee for CRC screening and has co-authored these screening guidelines and others. He has delivered multiple named lectures, including the AJG Lecture in 2005, the Emily Couric Memorial Lecture in 2010, and the J. Edward Berk Distinguished Lecture in 2015. In May 2012, he was acknowledged as the invited lecturer at the National Institutes of Health as a "Great Teacher" (this distinction is awarded to 2 non-NIH physicians each year). He has been honored by ACG as a "Master of Gastroenterology," received ACG's Berk/Fise Clinical Achievement Award in 2012 for lifetime achievements and contributions, and received the William D. Carey ACG Board of Governors Award for lifetime distinguished contributions in 2015. In 2016, Dr. Johnson received the AGA Distinguished Educator Award, and in 2018, was named as Master of the ACP. He served for 6 years on the American Board of Internal Medicine (Gastroenterology) Board of Examiners, is currently section editor for MedScape GI, and was esophageal section editor for Journal Watch Gastroenterology (NEJM) 2000-18. He led and reported the first colonoscopy screening trial in the world for CRC screening. In 1999-2000, he worked with State Senator Emily Couric to develop the historic legislation to mandate colon cancer screening with colonoscopy as the preferred standard.

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