David Johnson, MD

David P Johnson, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics within the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and is a practicing Pediatric Hospitalist within the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. He serves as the Inpatient Medical Director of Quality and Safety for Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt.

His academic pursuits involve health systems research to investigate child health outcomes and resource utilization using large data sets, often working to understand variability in those outcomes based on hospital-characteristics and patient demographics. He also has a passion for rigorous Quality Improvement science, using data to understand variability in outcomes, resource utilization, or processes and subsequently drive improvement for children throughout the healthcare system. He leads and works within teams to improve adherence to evidence-based care throughout the hospital, reduce hospital-acquired conditions, and improve hospital efficiencies, striving where he can to translate this work using rigorous improvement science methodology into peer-reviewed publications to disseminate successful interventions.