Dr. Johnson is a psychiatrist who studied at Cornell University and the University of Arizona, having completed his medical degree in 1990, and his residency in psychiatry and then a subspecialty fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry in 1995. He is board certified in psychiatry and forensic psychiatry.

Dr. Johnson keeps a near full-time psychiatric private practice in his hometown of Tucson where he sees both children and adults. Additionally, he also works in a number of other settings simultaneously. Initially, he was a psychiatrist for the Arizona Department of Corrections, treating inmates in the highest security units, including Condemned Row, and helped design the sex offender treatment program used for DOC. In 1999, he became Chief of Psychiatry at the Arizona Community Protection and Treatment Center at the Arizona State Hospital and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Johnson has been actively involved with the American Psychiatric Association, having served as the national Chair of the Assembly Committee of Area Members-in-Training Representatives, the Arizona Deputy Representative to the APA Assembly, the Public Affairs Representative for the Western United States and Canada, a member of the Task Force on the Psychiatric Aspects of Violence, and a member on the national APA Steering Committee on Practice Guidelines. He is a past President of the Arizona Psychiatric Society.

Dr. Johnson has served in many other professional organizations, including twice on the Executive Board of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abusers (ATSA), an Associate Editor for the ATSA Journal (Sexual Abuse), and as a conference chair for a past ATSA Annual Conference.

Dr. Johnson has published and presented on psychiatric and forensic topics including violence, sexual offense, sexual abuse, clinician safety, forensic assessments, and testifying in court. He consults with a number of treatment programs nationally.

Education and Training

• The University of Arizona
• Cornell University

Board Certifications

• The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
• Subspecialty Recertification in Forensic Psychiatry

Professional Memberships

• American Psychiatric Association
• Arizona Psychiatric Society
• American Medical Association
• American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
• The Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse
• The Arizona Chapter for the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse
• Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network

Honors and Awards

• Life Fellow status in the American Psychiatric Association
• Fellow status in the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse
• Arizona Department of Health Services Employee of the Year
• Semi-Annual Team Award: Arizona Community Protection and Treatment Center, Arizona State
  Hospital, Phoenix, AZ, Medical Team
• William Sorum Award for Outstanding Service in the American Psychiatric Association
• The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, Conference Scholarship
• Roy N. Killingsworth Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in the Psychiatry
  Clerkship
• Alix K. Remillard Medical School Scholarship
• M.A. and Greta Schuele Medical School Scholarship
• Mortar Board (Publicity Chair, Historian, Women’s Day Committee Chair), The University of
  Arizona
• Honor Student of the Year, The University of Arizona
• Department of Agriculture Outstanding Honors Student, The University of Arizona
• Who’s Who of University Students
• Golden Key Honor Society
• Alpha Zeta Honors and Service Fraternity
• Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
• RAK Scholarship, The University of Arizona