Heather Johnson

Dr. Heather Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at Queen's University, appointed in January 2021. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from McGill University and completed medical training, residency, and subspecialty training in Internal Medicine at Queen's University. She also completed an Addictions fellowship at the University of Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Her clinical roles include attending on inpatient Clinical Teaching Units, the General Internal Medicine consult team, and ambulatory clinics at Kingston Health Sciences Centre. She is a core member of the Substance use Treatment And Rehabilitation Team (START), providing inpatient addiction medicine consultations.

Her academic focus centers on improving care for inpatients with substance use disorders and enhancing access to addiction services. Her research spans healthcare economics, cardiovascular disease, and clinical outcomes, with contributions to studies on opioid use, genomic diagnostics, and healthcare utilization patterns.