Roger Johns, M.D., M.P.H.

Roger Johns, M.D., M.H.S. is Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Johns studied health economics and developed interests in health policy and international health systems as an undergraduate at Stanford University. After medical school, .Dr. Johns did an internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Anesthesiology at the University of Virginia, followed by a clinical fellowship in Cardiac Anesthesia and a two-year research fellowship in Pharmacology. In 1987 he joined the faculty at the University of Virginia as a Cardiac Anesthesiologist and Clinician-Scientist. Dr. Johns has directed two NIH funded basic science research programs throughout his career, one in vascular biology of the pulmonary circulation and the other, molecular neurobiology related to mechanisms of analgesia and anesthesia. He has served on editorial boards of both clinical and basic science journals and on NIH and other study sections. While at the University of Virginia, he completed an Executive Management program at the Darden School of Business Administration. Dr. Johns became Vice Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology of the University of Virginia in 1997 and assumed an Acting Chair position in 1998. In May of 1999 Dr. Johns accepted a position as the Mark C. Rogers Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University. While Chair at Hopkins, Dr. Johns potentiated the growth of health services research focused on safety and quality and initiated an expansion of institutional information technology systems. Dr. Johns serves on the Executive Committee of the Innovations in Health Care Program at Hopkins. He completed the M.H.S. program in Health Policy and Management at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Ph.D. degree in Health Policy and Management, specializing in Health Services Research.