Educational Record
University of Nevada, Reno, B.S. (High Honors)
University of Nevada School of Medicine, M.D.
Family Medicine Residency, University of Nevada, (Chief Resident, 1981)
Professional Experience
Dr. Johnson completed all of his medical training at the University of Nevada School of Medicine. He returned to his hometown of Fernley NV after graduation, serving as one of the areas two physicians. He returned to the Medical School and Reno after three years of private practice to the position of Medical Director of the Family Medicine Center. Fifteen years later he became Chair of the department, followed in two years by his appointment as Vice Dean for the Reno campus of the Medical School. He has been active in state, local and hospital medical societies.
He continues to see a small group of patients, shares call and runs the popular, yearly rotation in Wilderness Medicine for fourth year students.
The operation of an efficient, patient centered clinic, along with the education of medical students and residents are his prime professional priorities. He is also driven by a love of Nevada and its people.
Personal
Gary Johnson was born in Berkeley, California in 1956, and moved almost immediately after to Nevada. He went to kindergarten in Tonopah, grade school in Sparks, middle school in Las Vegas, and high school in Fernley. He is married to Holly, a nurse and belly dancer, with whom he has two daughters: Mallory and Jasmine. Never without a dog in the family, his current pet "Bongo" is a miniature American Eskimo. Two rats and two hamsters also share the residence.
Dr. Johnson has a wide range of interests outside of medicine including, hiking, camping, fishing, skiing and mountain biking. He began playing drums in junior high school, and has since added percussion to bluegrass, country, big band, rock and roll, jazz and samba bands. He has been active in photography since high school, and enjoys taking both film and digital photos of animals, people and surreal desert environments. His collection of dermatology photographs grows more extensive every year.
Once a year he joins his father, now in his 70's, and a group of friends to scale one of Colorado's 14,000 foot peaks.
Dr. Johnson also coordinates the Wilderness
Medicine ElectiveWilderness
Medicine Elective for fourth year medical students.
