Speaker Introduction

Dr. Jim Johnson is currently a member of the Core Teaching Faculty of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.  He has contributed to design and delivery of the basic science medical curriculum as well as curriculum administration and assessment. Dr. Johnson has been the recipient of a total of six Medical Student Teaching Awards. Currently he serves as Co-Director of the curriculum on Human Structure and Development, as Director of ARCTC ( Anatomical Resource Clinical Training Center ), as Director of the Wake Forest University Anatomical Bequeathal Program and as Director of the curriculum Nervous System Block. Dr. Johnson received his baccalaureate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Zoology, his Ph.D. from Wake Forest University in Anatomy and Neuroscience and completed postdoctoral training at the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich , Germany .  He has previously served on the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and joined the faculty of Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1990 where he now serves as an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy.  His primary research interests are in the fields of contextual learning environments for medical student and residency education, activity dependent changes in neurotrophic signaling within the nervous system and in the diagnosis and evaluation of cerebral disorders.