Shannon John Johnson - PharmDmand - Psychology and mental health expert witness

Based inSan Diego, California

Main fieldPsychology and mental health

Areas of expertise54 listed

About Shannon John Johnson - PharmDmand

Dr. Shannon J. Johnson has more than nineteen years of pharmacy experience specializing in clinical pharmacy, pharmacology, information systems, safe medication practice, and quality improvement. Highlights of his experience include serving as the Director of Inpatient Pharmacy at Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego (350 beds, 70+ employees). He has completed over 110 legal related cases dealing with pharmacy with a case mix of 50/50 plaintiff/defense.

Services

Dr. Johnson is an expert in pharmacy, pharmacology, toxicology and medication misadventures. He is responsible for the safe, appropriate and effective use of drugs in patient care. His expertise includes the areas of:

Addiction and Drug Abuse
Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)
Causation Analysis
Clinical Pharmacy Services
Doctors Malpractice
Drug Administration Errors
Drug Interactions
Drug Safety
Drug Toxicity
Geriatric Drug Therapy
Improper Drug Selection
Long-Term Care (Geriatrics)
Malpractice Insurance
Malpractice Medical
Medical Malpractice
Medical Malpractice Expert
Medical Review/Records
Medication Errors
Medication Non-Compliance
Overdosage
Pharmaceutical Care
Pharmacology
Pharmacy
Pharmacy Operations
Pharmacy Standard of Care
Quality Assurance
Sub-Therapeutic Drug Dosing
Toxicology

Litigation Support Services

Dr. Johnson provides expert witness testimony to both plaintiff and defense attorneys.

- Drug injury causation - Pharmacy standards of practice - Pharmacy malpractice - Drug-related medical malpractice - Medication error event reconstruction - Drug product liability (e.g. warnings, design/formulation) - Criminal defense (e.g. drugs of abuse, child medical neglect) - Drug-related civil defense (e.g. probate, child custody, DMV, ergonomic job-site analysis)

Areas of Expertise

Addictions
Adverse Drug Reactions
Alcohol
Alcohol Abuse
Alternative Medicine
Anaphylactic Shock
Anesthesiology
Biomedical
Causation Analysis
Chemical
Chemistry
Diabetes
Drug Abuse
Drug Product Liability
Drugs
Drugs and Narcotics
Due Diligence
Forensic Toxicology

Geriatrics
Gerontology
Hazardous Materials
Healthcare
Hospital Administration
Hospital Medicine
Hospital Records
Hospitals
Infectious Diseases
Laboratory Testing
Latex Allergies
Long Term Care
Malignant Hyperthermia (MH)
Malpractice
Medical
Medical Malpractice
Medical Records
Medical Review

Medical-Legal Issues
Medication Errors
Mental Health
Overdosage
Pain Management
Pharmaceutical Care
Pharmacology
Pharmacy
Pharmacy Malpractice
Products Liability
Professional Malpractice
Quality Assurance
Standard of Care
Testicular Cancer
Thyroid Disease
Toxicology
Warnings
Wrongful Death

Profile

Dr. Shannon John Johnson is a pharmacist with PharmDmand, a private pharmacy-consulting firm and also has over nine years experience as a Pharmacy Director at large hospital (350+ bed) in San Diego, California. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry / Cell Biology (Pre-Pharm) from the University of California, San Diego. He received a Pharm.D. (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of the Pacific, School of Pharmacy.

He was a Safe Medication Practice pharmacist, Information Systems Consultant (Cardinal Health/Pyxis) and consulted on numerous projects for Health and Human Services Agency. Some of Dr. Johnson's accomplishments include being the Project Lead for the San Diego Pharmacist Emergency Response Team (RxERT) Health and Human Resources (HRSA) Grant Working Group, where he was responsible for a $25,000 grant dealing with the deployment of pharmaceutical surge capacity caches in regional health care facilities. He also successfully organized, promoted, and hosted over 50 continuing education programs with marketing to approximately 1100 San Diego Pharmacists. The end result were quality continuing education programs while benefiting the San Diego County Pharmacists Association (SDCPhA) and the San Diego Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (SDSHP).

Dr. Johnson also organized and facilitated 3 large scale training programs (>250 participants combined), including a Smallpox Vaccine certification module. He also provided pharmacy consult services a direct patient contact and care for pain management and pharmacokinetics. Furthermore, Dr. Johnson also operationalized pharmacy application software and new systems/programs that impact many disciplines including but not limited to pharmacy. He also assisted with the development of new programs one of which includes the pharmacy application of Sharp’s Electronic Medical Record (EMR). He also served as the team pharmacist for the local Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT CA-4) and assisted the San Diego County Emergency Services to prepare Pharmacists for a terrorist event involving chemical or biological weapons.

In addition to his Professional Experience, some of Dr. Johnson's Professional Affiliations include the American Pharmaceutical Association, HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (2002 to Present), San Diego County Pharmacy Emergency Response Team (RxERT), San Diego Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (SDSHP), San Diego County Pharmacist Association (SDCPhA), Toastmasters International Club Fed, San Diego, California, National Community Pharmacists Association, California Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (1996 to Present), Rho Chi Honor Society; Beta Omega Chapter (Life member), and the California Pharmacists Association (1995 to Present).

Dr. Johnson has also been involved in the community by volunteering his time for the San Diego County, Clinical Disaster Service Worker (DSW), San Diego Pharmacy Emergency Response Team (RxERT), All Experts Volunteer where he routinely answers pharmacy related questions over the internet to the general public.