J. David Johnson, PhD

J. David Johnson (Ph.D, Michigan State University, 1978) was Dean of the College of Communications and Information Studies at the University of Kentucky for over a decade.  He has also held academic positions at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Arizona State University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, and Michigan State University and was a media research analyst for the U. S. Information Agency. He has published five books: Cancer-related information seeking, Information seeking:  An organizational dilemma,  Organizational communication structure, Managing Knowledge Networks, and Innovation and knowledge management:  The Cancer Information Service Research Consortium (this work focuses on a case study of an early effort to develop systematic approaches to innovation in clinical and translational science). He has been recognized as among the one-hundred most prolific publishers of refereed journal articles in the history of the communication discipline. He has received grants from the National Cancer Institute, Michigan Department of Public Health, Michigan Department of Transportation, and National Association of Broadcasters. He has worked extensively in an advisory capacity for various state and federal agencies in the field of health, most recently he was selected to serve on the Communication Expert Panel for the Centers for Disease Control Office of Smoking and Health, Health Communications Branch.