Timothy Johnson Biography
Timothy Johnson is an academic, preacher, physician, television journalist, and writer from the United States. He has worked as the ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent for many years.
Timothy Johnson Age
Tim was born on July 9, 1936, in the United States of America. He is 86 years old as of July 2022.
Timothy Johnson Education
Johnson earned his bachelor’s degree from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He graduated from North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, Illinois, in 1963. He entered medical school, graduating summa cum laude from Albany Medical College in Albany, New York, and then earning a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Timothy Johnson Books- Author
Johnson published a book Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey (2004) describing his journey of how he became a Christian, and answering a series of questions, such as “Why Bother With Religion and the Bible?” and “What Did Jesus Teach?”
Timothy Johnson Career
He has been a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty and the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, and a biomedical research center in Boston, Massachusetts, for many years. Johnson began his television career at WRGB-TV in Schenectady, NY in the 1970s while working at Albany Medical Center. In 1972, he relocated to Boston and became a charter staffer at newly-signed-on WCVB-Channel 5’s Sunday Open House, where he conducted live, weekly interviews with other medical professionals regarding current medical topics. He also hosted “House Call,” a half-hour weekly series in which he answered viewers’ health-related queries and interviewed doctors and nurses on a variety of health topics. The show was well-liked and earned WCVB-TV an Emmy.
From 1982 to 1984, he hosted HealthBeat, a national health TV magazine program. On November 3, 1975, he joined ABC News as a medical reporter and eventually became the “Medical Editor” of Good Morning America (GMA), ABC News’ morning news-and-talk program. He has reported for ABC News for nearly three decades, including World News Tonight, a daily evening news show; Nightline, a late-night hard and soft news program; and 20/20, a prime-time television newsmagazine program. Dr. Jennifer Ashton is now the Chief Medical Editor for ABC News, although Johnson remains a correspondent. Typically, but not always, Ashton writes on improvements in nutrition and children, whereas Johnson concentrates on senior health issues. Johnson continues as a Pastor in the Evangelical Covenant Church.
Timothy Johnson’s Net Worth
Johnson has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.