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Anthony Johnson, DO, is a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine specialist with expertise in fetal surgery for complicated monochorionic multifetal pregnancies, twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, selective fetal growth restriction, and fetoscopic endotracheal occlusion for congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Johnson is renowned in fetal surgery and maternal-fetal medicine. He is involved in a Renal Anhydramnios Fetal Therapy study on treatment for mothers and their babies affected by early pregnancy renal anhydramnios. He is also a professor with the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at McGovern Medical School UTHealth Houston and the co-director of the UTHealth Houston Fetal Center.
Before joining UTHealth Houston, Johnson was a professor at Baylor College of Medicine at Houston in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, and the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics.
Johnson received his medical degree from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in Lewisburg, West Virginia. Subsequently, he completed his fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia and a fellowship in medical genetics at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He later served as the director of the Fetal Intervention Program in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at North Carolina Women’s Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, before moving to Houston in 2006.
Johnson is an examiner on the Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialty Committee of the American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Medical Advisory Board of the Fetal Health Foundation. He has served as director of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s Special Interest Group in Maternal-Fetal Surgery and Special Interest Group in Genetics. He was also a reviewer of the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, which sponsored the Management of Myelomeningocele Study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2011. Additionally, Johnson was the 2023 recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Fetal Therapy Network.
Education
1980 Medical School West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
1985 Residency Botsford General Hospital
1987 Fellowship Pennsylvania Hospital
1989 Fellowship Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Board Certifications
American Osteopathic Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Obstetrics and Gynecology Maternal and Fetal Medicine Medical Genetics and Genomics
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