Justin Johnson, MD, DFAPA
Dr. Justin Johnson is a psychiatrist and Director of Veteran and First Responder Services at HopeWay, a licensed, non-profit mental health treatment facility in Charlotte, NC. He is a nationally-recognized expert in military and Veteran mental health. In addition to HopeWay, Dr. Johnson currently serves in the Army Reserve, where he is the Command Psychiatrist for US Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations Command (Airborne). He completed medical school at Johns Hopkins and psychiatry residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital combined program at Harvard Medical School. He served as Chief Resident in psychiatry at Harvard before completing a fellowship in Psychosomatic Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. He previously worked at the Durham VA Medical Center, caring for combat Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan, and he maintains his faculty appointment there as an Assistant Consulting Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University. He is a regularly invited speaker and publisher on the topic of military/Veteran mental health, including authoring the chapter on “Military Psychiatry” for the 2024 MGH Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry textbook, Harvard’s primary psychiatry textbook. In his Army role, he has deployed in support of several operations, has completed numerous schools, and won several awards. For his work in all of these fields, he has been recognized as a “40 Under 40” Winner in the Charlotte region and a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Johnson has trained extensively in psychotherapy, including for PTSD, and uses a holistic approach to get Veterans and service-members well.
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