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Dr. Eric Johnson Named to American Diabetes Assn. Primary Care Advisory Group Chair
Posted 1/22/18 (Mon)
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) has named Eric L. Johnson, MD, associate professor in the Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS), its Primary Care Advisory Group chair for a three-year term starting January 2018. In this role, Johnson will lead the association’s efforts to develop effective strategies to engage primary care providers; Dr. Johnson recently completed a three-year term as the group’s vice-chair. Dr. Johnson and his colleagues recently developed the association’s abridged version of the Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes. This important document packages the ADA’s annual guidelines into a manageable article for busy primary care providers. Furthermore, he has been involved in the publication of several articles in professional journals that feature key guidelines from the Standards, and has been appointed to the editorial board of the ADA journal Clinical Diabetes. Dr. Johnson is the director of the SMHS Interprofessional Education Program and medical director of the School’s Physician Assistant Studies Program. He is also assistant medical director for the Altru Health System Diabetes Center, president of the American Diabetes Association North Dakota Affiliate, and president of Tobacco Free North Dakota.
