[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 81 (Tuesday, June 2, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1267]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING EVERETT JOHNSON, M.D.

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                         HON. GEORGE RADANOVICH

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, June 2, 2009

  Mr. RADANOVICH. Madam Speaker, I rise today to commend and 
congratulate Dr. Everett Johnson upon being honored with the 2009 John 
Darroch Memorial Award/Outstanding Physician Award, for his service to 
the Turlock community for over 50 years. Dr. Johnson will be honored at 
the Stanislaus Medical Society, Annual Membership meeting, on Thursday, 
May 28, 2009, at the Del Rio Country Club in Modesto, California.
  Everett Johnson was born and raised in Turlock. He graduated from 
Turlock High School, and began his medical career as a medical 
corpsman. He attended medical school from 1944 to 1949 while serving in 
the United States Naval Reserve. Dr. Johnson continued to serve our 
nation by completing an internship and two years of service in the 
United States Air Force. Dr. Johnson earned his Bachelor of Arts degree 
from the University of California, Berkley. He earned a second Bachelor 
of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he 
also attended medical school and earned his M.D. In 1949, he interned 
at the University of Oregon's Hospitals and Clinics in and around the 
Portland, Oregon area. Dr. Johnson returned to Wisconsin to complete 
his residency program where he focused on Internal Medicine.
  In 1954, with military service and medical school under his belt, Dr. 
Johnson returned to Turlock and opened a private practice of internal 
medicine. After six years, Dr. Johnson entered into a partnership. The 
partnership lasted until 1970, when he decided to turn to education and 
become an Associate Professor at Stanford University. Dr. Johnson 
returned to private practice in 1973 and maintained his practice 
through 2006. While maintaining his own practice, he also worked for 
Stanislaus County Hospital, Emanuel Medical Center and Memorial 
Hospital of Stanislaus County.
  Throughout his career, Dr. Johnson has been involved with both the 
medical community and the greater community. He is an Honorary Member 
of the Medical Fraternity, Alpha Omega Alpha; he is a past president of 
the Stanislaus County Medical Society and he served as the Hospital 
Examiner for the California Medical Association and the Joint 
Commission for Hospital Accreditation in the United States from 1965 
until 2000. Dr. Johnson also served as the Chairman of the Medical 
Advisory Committee for the Medic Alert Foundation, where he also served 
on the Board of Directors for twenty-five years and as a consultant for 
eleven years. He is involved with the American Medical Association, 
American College of Professors and is a past member of the California 
Society of Internal Medicine and the American Society of Internal 
Medicine. Outside of medicine, Dr. Johnson is a past president of the 
Rotary Club in Turlock, a member of the Church Council for Nazareth 
Lutheran Church. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Turlock 
High School for thirteen years and was a Board Member for the Turlock 
High School Auditorium Restoration Committee, and the Commonwealth Club 
of San Francisco.
  Madam Speaker, I rise today to congratulate Dr. Everett Johnson upon 
being named the 2009 John Darroch Memorial Award/Outstanding Physician 
Award. I invite my colleagues to join me in wishing Dr. Johnson many 
years of continued success.

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