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Jerry C. Johnson, M.D. Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine Professor CE of Medicine Senior Fellow of the Institute on Aging 
University of Pennsylvania Ralston-Penn Center Room 208 3615 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-2676 Telephone: (215) 898-1548 Facsimile: (215) 898-9114 E-mail: jcjohnso@med.upenn.edu Education
Postgraduate Training and Fellowship Appointments
Research/Clinical Interests
Jerry Johnson, MD, Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine, co-Prinicpal Investigator of EXPORT, a comprehensive center of excellence for outcomes research and training focusing on obesity in minority populations, and principal Investigator of a HRSA-funded Center of Excellence for Diversity Health Education and Research. During the past five years, Dr. Johnson has increasingly focused his efforts on defining and understanding the significance of cultural competence in the doctor-patient relationship (e.g., a study of the effect of cultural appropriateness on adherence to therapy and another of how African American elders define cultural competent care) and evaluating models of cultural competence education. In 1998, he was awarded a three-year grant form the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation to develop a model of faculty and student education in Cultural Competence. The school of Medicine's unique longitudinal two-year curriculum of educating physicians in culturally appropriate care has been presented at the American Association of Medicine annual meetings in each of the past three years and in other forums. Dr. Johnson, is a long term and highly respected member of the medical community and has engaged in considerable community outreach. |
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