Jeffery S. Johns, MD

Jeff Johns, M.D. is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he also serves as Medical Director of Vanderbilt Stallworth Rehabilitation Hospital and Executive Medical Director of the Physiatry, Pain and Rehabilitation Patient Care Center.  He is Board Certified in PM&R as well as Spinal Cord Injury Medicine.  He completed his residency in PM&R at Virginia Commonwealth University, where he also served as Chief Resident. 

His clinical interests in addition to spinal cord injury medicine include the rehabilitation of individuals following brain injury, stroke, neurologic disorders, amputations, multiple traumas, and burns.  He is very involved as a national leader in PM&R and currently serves as Vice Chair the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s Board of Directors.  He also served as the President of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals from 2017-2019.

Dr. Johns is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Spinal Cord Injury Medicine, the Panel Chair for the Paralyzed Veterans of America and Consortium for Spinal Cord Medicine Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction in Adults after Spinal Cord Injury.  He was also an Associate Editor for the sixth edition of Braddom’s Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, one of the primary textbooks in PM&R.