G. Timothy Johnson is an American academic, pastor, physician, television journalist and writer who, as "Doctor Tim Johnson", is best known to television viewers as the longtime chief medical correspondent for American Broadcasting Company News on the American Broadcasting Company television network.
Education
Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. In 1963, he graduated from North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois and became an ordained minister with the Evangelical Covenant Church.
After two years in the ministry, he entered medical school and graduated summa cum laude from Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, and subsequently received a master"s degree in public health from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Career
Early television career Johnson started his television career in the 1970s at WRGB-television in Schenectady, New York while at Albany Medical Center. He then moved to Boston and WCVB-Channel 5"s Sunday Open House with a live, weekly segment interviewing other medical professionals about current medical issues. American Broadcasting Company News In 1975, he joined American Broadcasting Company News as the medical reporter and later became the "Medical Editor" of Good Morning America (Global Media Arts), American Broadcasting Company News"s morning-news-and-talk program upon its première on November 3, 1975.
In over three decades at American Broadcasting Company News, he has reported for their various programs including World News Tonight, a daily evening-news program
Nightline, a late-night hard and soft news program 20/20, a prime-time television-newsmagazine program
Currently, Doctor Richard East. Besser is the chief medical editor for American Broadcasting Company News. However, Johnson still serves as a correspondent.
Typically, but not exclusively, Besser reports on developments in nutrition and pediatrics, while Johnson focuses on health issues for senior adults.
Retirement from WCVB Johnson retired from WCVB at the end of 2012. He continues as a pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Membership
Foreign many years he has been a member of the faculty of the Harvard Medical School at Harvard University and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School and a biomedical research facility in Boston, Massachusetts.
