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G. Timothy Johnson Shares Emmy Award
NEW YORK, NY (October 16, 2003) - Ordained Covenant pastor and nationally
known medical expert Dr. G. Timothy Johnson was part of a news team that
earned an Emmy award at the 24th Annual News and Documentary Awards
ceremony on September 3.
Johnson, who is medical editor for ABC News, is a member of Community
Covenant Church in West Peabody, Massachusetts. He was among seven
people who helped put together a 2002 ABC News Good Morning America
feature story on a miracle anti-stuttering device. The group was
presented the award by the National Television Academy for Outstanding
Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.
In August 2002, Johnson and company documented stuttering research at
East Carolina University and the story was shown in a television piece
entitled "Miracle Anti-Stuttering Device." The seven-minute report
highlighted the emotional experience of Wesley Cook as he tried the
SpeechEasy fluency device for the first time at the East Carolina
University clinic. Three East Carolina researchers developed the device
following a decade of research, according to the school.
Johnson is a graduate of North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, but
decided to enter the medical field following seminary. Along with his
work at ABC News, he is medical editor for a local television station
and holds joint positions at Harvard University and Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston. He was also the founding editor of the
Harvard Medical School Health Letter and co-editor of the Harvard
Medical School Health Letter Book.
As medical editor for ABC News, he provides on-air analysis for a
variety of national programs. He has already earned two Emmys from the
Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences and a piece on the world's first reported live liver-kidney
transplant by Dr. Johnson won the National Health Information Award from
the Health Information Resource Center in 2000.
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