Academic rank

 Associate Professor

Office address

Hutzel Women's Hospital
3990 John R, 7-Brush N
Detroit, MI 48201

 

 

 

Biography

Dr. Jeffrey R. Johnson is a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist who has joined the faculty at Wayne State University and Detroit Medical Center. He is the new Director of the Fetal Care Center at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. He will ensure its growth and ability to provide the highest level of care for those pregnancies affected with fetal abnormalities. He is also the Division Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Wayne Health and the Detroit Medical Center, and will lead the high-risk obstetrical ultrasound unit at DMC. Dr. Johnson holds an academic appointment as Associate Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wayne State University School of Medicine. Dr. Johnson did his medical school and residency at Boston Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and graduated residency in 1998. He went to The Ohio State University School of Medicine and Public Health for his fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine from 1998 to 2001.

Dr. Johnson has held various faculty and leadership roles throughout his career in the Northeast and Midwestern areas of the United States. He has been Director of Labor and Delivery at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital and was on faculty at Harvard Medical School. He was on faculty with Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, and at SUNY Buffalo where he was also Division Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Director of the Perinatal Center of Western New York. He was the Clinical Program Director for the Perinatology Research Branch of the NIH in Detroit, Michigan from 2020 to 2022, and was involved in research related to the COVID pandemic and pregnancy. Most recently he was Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine with a three-hospital system in Columbus Ohio affiliated with The Ohio State University School of Medicine and OB/Gyn residency.

He has published in the area of infectious diseases of pregnancy, and hypertension and pre-eclampsia. His articles on single cell mapping of the myometrium, as well as publications on obesity in pregnancy have generated multiple citations. He has interest in HIV in pregnancy, having established an HIV prenatal clinic during his fellowship at Ohio State, which is still in use today. He was chosen by the Departments of Health in Massachusetts and in New York to care for pregnant patients with anthrax and Ebola during those respective outbreaks. Dr. Johnson was a representative on the board of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services from 2006 to 2012, examining causes and prevention of premature birth for the state. His research interests include clinical studies of hypertension, the placenta, and obesity in pregnancy. Dr. Johnson has a strong interest in teaching, and has proudly received seven faculty awards for medical student, resident and fellow education during his career.

Education

• Medical: Boston University School of Medicine, 1993
• Residency: Boston Medical Center / Boston University School of Medicine, 1998
• Fellowship: The Ohio State University School of Medicine ad Public Health, 2001

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