Kevin Johnson, MD, MS

Dr. Johnson is an internationally recognized thought leader, developer and evaluator of clinical information technology.

He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and also served as chief resident in Pediatrics there. He also obtained a Master’s degree in medical informatics from Stanford, and came to Vanderbilt in 2002 as vice chair of Biomedical Informatics. He was appointed chair of that department in 2012 and also served as Chief Informatics Officer for VUMC. 

In those roles, Dr. Johnson envisioned a future for biomedical informatics at VUMC and through leadership he made that future a reality. He oversaw the implementation of the electronic health system eStar (Epic), the most significant clinical infrastructure change in the history of the Medical Center. 

In addition, as a member of both the LGBTQ and African American communities, he was the second African American chair of a Vanderbilt School of Medicine department.