Dr. Martin Johns of Gifford Medical Center has joined the editorial board of Today’s Hospitalist magazine, a national periodical for hospitalists.
Hospitalists are health care providers who specialize in treating hospitalized patients. Dr. Johns, who is dual board certified as an internist and as a pediatrician, joined Gifford in 2006 as its first hospitalist.
He has since been named associate medical director of the Randolph hospital’s growing hospitalist program and its Emergency Department. He’s also been featured in multiple publications on hospitalist medicine, including Today’s Hospitalist, and co-penned an article on amino-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) testing in neonatal and pediatric patients for the prestigious American Journal of Cardiology.
Being asked by Today’s Hospitalist representatives to join the editorial board of the magazine, which goes to more than 15,000 hospitals nationwide and is on the Web, is a further recognition of Dr. Johns’ expertise.
“It’s an honor because there are only 20 hospitalists in the country that are on that board, and I was asked to represent rural hospital medicine,” Dr. Johns said.
The unpaid position requires Dr. Johns to review articles, particularly ones on rural hospital medicine, for medical accuracy and overall content, and to occasionally write articles.
Dr. Johns lives in Lebanon, N.H., with his wife and two children. He is a native of Massachusetts, earned his medical doctorate at the American University of the Caribbean in St. Maarten and did his residency at large Geisinger Medical Center in Pennsylvania –a hospital President Obama recently hailed as an example the nation’s health care system should replicate.