Agenda

Reception 5:45 p.m.

Dinner 6:30 p.m.

Meeting after Dinner

Special Guest: Dr. Timothy Johnson

About Our Speaker

Dr. G. Timothy Johnson is one of the nation's leading medical communicators of health care information. As Medical Editor for ABC News, Dr. Johnson provides on-air medical analysis for “World News Tonight”, “Nightline”, and “20/20.” He has provided commentary on medical problems and answers for viewers of ABC News' “Good Morning America” since the program's debut in 1975.

Dr. Johnson's programs and feature reports have won several awards, including an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as well as two Emmy Awards Boston/New England Chapter of the same organization.

In 1999, he earned a Gabriel Award in the best news story category for the two-part piece, “Alzheimer's: A Faded Memory.” Dr. Johnson was selected as the recipient of the 1998 Bradford Washburn Award presented by the Museum of Science, Boston - an honor also bestowed upon Jacques Cousteau, Walter Cronkite, Dr. Jane Goodall and Alan Alda, among others. In 1998, he received the Lewis Thomas Award of Communications from the American College of Physicians, and in 1987 and 1989, he won the Howard W. Blakeslee Award given by the American Heart Association.

Dr. Johnson is the founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter and co-editor of the “harvard Medical School Health Letter Book.” He is also co-editor of the book “Your Good Health,” co-author of “Let's Talk,” and author of “Dr. Timothy John's On Call Guide to Men's Health” and “Finding God in the Questions: A Personal Journey.”

Originally headed for the ministry, he graduated from North Park Seminary in 1963, then decided two years later to enter medicine. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Augustana College, he graduated summa cum laude from Albany Medical College and holds a Masters degree in Public Health from Harvard University. He is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and is a former staff member of Massachusetts General Hospital, among other institutions.

Dr. Johnson is married. He is the father of two children, and is now a proud grandfather.

About The Music

Mr. Dexter Bishop, a member of the Boston Baptist Social Union's Committee on Christian Work, and a member at First Baptist church of Lynn, introduced the Karen Choir. The Karen Choir is comprised of refugees from Myanmar (a.k.a Burma) are members of the Karen Ministry at the First Baptist Church of Lynn. These people suffered great persecution at the hands of their own government for their Christian faith. They are descendents of the Christians under the ministry of Adornium Judson in the early 1800's.