LECOM Alumnus Leads as Army Flight Surgeon

Wednesday, 17 July 2024

The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) is proud to announce that Erik Johnson, D.O., M.P.H., is the 2024-2025 President of the Society of the United States Army Flight Surgeons.

[Link]Dr. Johnson is an Army Aerospace and Occupational Medicine Specialist currently serving as Chief - Aviation Medicine Branch, at the Department of Aviation Medicine at Fort Novosel, Alabama.

In this capacity, he is the primary instructor for the United States Army Flight Surgeon Course.

For seven years, Dr. Johnson has served in operational medicine, both as a Battalion and a Brigade Flight Surgeon, with combat deployments in each role. Both positions were undertaken with the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Freedom's Sentinel.

A graduate of the Aerospace Medicine Residency Program in 2018 and of the Occupational Medicine Program in 2019 - both undertaken at the Department of Aviation Medicine at Fort Novosel - Dr. Johnson previously completed a General Surgery Internship in 2012 at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington.

In 2011, the accomplished Flight Surgeon received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM). He also received his M.P.H. from the University of West Florida, in 2018.

Indeed, those who commit themselves truly to the calling of medicine often have explained their daily devotion - one insatiably and relentlessly pursued - as causative to the sense of unconquerable determination. That same passionof thepossible is found in those, such as Erik Johnson, D.O., M.P.H., who commit themselves to great attainment; who find purpose in service, and who keep faith with the depth of that purpose.

LECOM extends sincere congratulations to Dr. Johnson on his recent success.