Cynda Johnson, M.D., MBA

Cynda Ann Johnson, MD, MBA joined the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University on November 1, 2003, serving as dean of the medical school until November 2006.  Currently, she is Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Clinical and Translational Research in the Division of Research and Graduate Studies, which serves the entire University.  Previously she was professor and head of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Iowa.  She received her BA in German (honors) and biology at Stanford University (’73) and MD at UCLA (’77).  She returned to her home in Kansas for residency training at the University of Kansas (KU), thereafter completing a teaching fellowship at the University of North Carolina.  She served as residency director for five years and while serving as interim chair from 1998-1999.  She matriculated at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and received her MBA. 

She serves AAMC on the Women in Medicine (WIM) Committee, planning women’s focused programs for its annual meeting.  During her term as dean, she organized an intensive study of issues of part-time faculty and salary equity and led the revitalization of the faculty women’s group, the “Brody Women”.  She was instrumental in diversity hires, including the appointment of three women chairs over a three-year period.  Previously only one woman had served as chair in the history of the school.  She is a past president of the American Board of Family Practice and currently Chair of the American Board of Medical Specialties. At University of Iowa she was chairman of the board of Community Medical Services and director of the UI Family Care Center. 

Dr. Johnson has a long-standing interest in women’s issues from an academic, organizational, practice and personal perspective. Her area of practice within family medicine is women’s health including outpatient gynecology.  Scholarly work includes the study of careers of women physicians.  She has authored two editions of Women’s Healthcare Handbook, a practical text for primary care providers of women’s health services.