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North Star Guardians|Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face Episode
Ms. Jamie Mason, co-host of North Star Guardians, interviews Dr. Christopher Johnson, MD, about his book, Your Critically Ill Child: Life and Death Choices Parents Must Face published by New Horizon Press. Dr. Johnson is a native of Winona, Minnesota. He received his undergraduate education in history and religion at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he was elected to phi beta kappa and graduated magna cum laude in 1974. He earned his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1978 from Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minnesota. He subsequently trained in general pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Childrenâs Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and in pediatric critical care medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in both general pediatrics and in pediatric critical care medicine, and am a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.Dr. Johnson has had a long-standing interest in how medical practice evolved in America and how it reached its present state of affairs. Reflecting that interest, he earned a Master of Arts degree in History of Medicine from the University of Minnesota for his work on that subject, and is a member of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Dr. Johnson has practiced pediatric critical care medicine for over twenty years. He was for many years Director of the Pediatric Critical Care Service at the Mayo Clinic and Professor of Pediatrics at Mayo Medical School, as well as Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Mayo Eugenio Litta Childrenâs Hospital. While on the faculty at Mayo, he was the author of over fifty scientific papers and book chapters in medical texts, and was the recipient of major grant awards from the National Institutes of Health, the American Heart Association, and the March of Dimes Foundation. He now devotes his time to practicing pediatric critical care as President of Pediatric Intensive Care Associates, P.C., and to writing about medicine for general readers. Visit Dr. Johnson's website and blog.Visit Jamie Mason's website and blog.
[ Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:01:00 GMT ]
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