Board of Directors

Dr. John A. Johnson, MD, MBA, FACP - Director & Vice President

John serves on the Leadership Empowerment Project Board of Directors as the Vice-President since 2015. He is a distinguished health care leader equipped with more than 25 years of experience leading strategic planning and implementation, driving effective integrated care and utilization of clinical services to optimize health outcomes while managing costs.

 

John owned and operated an Internal Medicine practice in the Atlanta area where he focused on treating patients with acute and chronic conditions for over 15 years. One of his clinical areas of interest has been treating patients with diabetes. He successfully grew his practice to more than 10,000 patients before selling it to transition his career focus to managed care.

 

John has spent the past ten years working in managed care with reputable health plans. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer for GEHA Health and is responsible for driving the national strategy and operations of the health plan’s clinical organization focusing on health outcomes, quality improvement and appropriate interventions. He oversees large-scale clinical transformation and complex care management for over two million federal employees, retired military members and their families with comprehensive medical and dental benefits. 

 

More recently, John served as Chief Medical Officer for Virginia Premier Health Plan in Richmond, Virginia, Molina Healthcare of Ohio and Cardinal Health Innovations Healthcare in Charlotte, North Carolina where he oversaw medical and behavioral health strategy, clinical policy, pharmacy, and quality improvement initiatives.

 

John served as the Senior Medical Director for WellCare of Georgia from 2014 to 2017 where he oversaw the clinical direction of medical services, quality improvement and performance outcomes for Managed Medicaid members and Medicare Advantage members. Under his leadership, WellCare successfully won its bid for the State of Georgia’s new Managed Medicaid contract.

 

Prior to WellCare, he was with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia serving as Medical Director supporting utilization review and care management for over 600,000 state employees under the State Health Benefit Plan. 

 

Originally from New Jersey, John graduated from Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School, and he completed his Internal Medicine residency at Emory University in Atlanta. He is Board certified in Internal Medicine, and he is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He earned his master’s in business administration from Emory University School of Business with a focus in Healthcare Management.

 

John and his lovely wife, Donna, have been married for 21 years and they live in the East Cobb Marietta area. John also serves as a Colonel in the United States Army Reserves Medical Corps with 26 years of service. In addition, he serves as President of the Emory University Medical Alumni Board and President of the Medical Association of Atlanta. He enjoys listening to music, exercising, and traveling. John and his wife have traveled to six of the continents which includes destinations throughout South America and Europe, St. Lucia, Canouan Island, Grenadines, Maldives, Costa Rica, Egypt, South Africa, Vietnam, China, Australia, and New Zealand.