Larry Johnson Joins UAMS Department of Internal Medicine

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LITTLE ROCK – Larry G. Johnson, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as director of the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine of the College of Medicine.


 


Johnson graduated from the Medical College of Virginia at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., where he received the Henry J. Kaiser Award for Outstanding Minority Medical Students. He completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at North Carolina Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill, N.C., and received the CIBA-Geigy Osler Resident Teaching Award for medicine housestaff at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Hospitals.


 


While at UNC, Johnson also completed a fellowship in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases as well as being selected a research fellow in the same division.


 


From 1989-1996, Johnson served as assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine in the Department of Medicine at UNC, prior to being promoted to associate professor with tenure in 1996. He also held the position of co-director of the Fellowship Training Program in the same division from 1990-1997.


 


In 2000, Johnson received a joint appointment as associate professor of pharmacology in the Department of Pharmacology at UNC. He served as a member of the Medical Biochemistry study section at the National Institutes of Health from 1998–2002 and as a member of the Recombinant DNA and Gene Transfer Advisory Committee in the Office of Biotechnology Activities at the NIH from 2001–2004.


 


His additional honors and awards include the UNC Chapel Hill Junior Faculty Development Award, the Parker B. Francis Fellowship and the Jefferson Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine.


 


UAMS is the state’s only comprehensive academic health center, with five colleges, a graduate school, a medical center, five centers of excellence and a statewide network of regional centers. UAMS has about 2,230 students and 690 residents and is the state’s largest public employer with almost 9,000 employees. UAMS and its affiliates have an economic impact in Arkansas of $4.3 billion a year.


 


UAMS centers of excellence are the Arkansas Cancer Research Center, Harvey and Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy and Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute.