Shannon John "JJ" Johnson, PharmD, a licensed pharmacist in the State of California with over fifteen years of experience as a pharmacist and director of a busy inpatient hospital pharmacy. Dr. Johnson is currently the Director of Pharmacy for Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego, a level 2 trauma center with over 300 staffed acute care beds (licensed for 800). Before becoming director he served as Clinical pharmacist and Safe Medication Practice pharmacist. In addition to his role at Sharp Healthcare, Dr. Johnson has consulted with companies, legal experts, and public agencies on a wide variety of pharmacy related issues, including legal questions in the field of pharmacy, healthcare technology and disaster preparedness.

Dr. Johnson’s passion lies in improving health information systems related to pharmacy, medication management systems and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) by designing and implementing intuitive and safe user interfaces from a human factors and safety perspective. He has advised and lead projects on a number of start-up initiatives in healthcare, disaster preparedness, and information-systems marketplaces. Dr. Johnson has extensive experience in clinical pharmacy (inpatient acute care), clinical information & technology systems, safe medication practice, quality improvement, and project management.

We provide expert witness testimony to both plaintiff and defense attorneys with regard to medical and pharmacy related cases including but not limited to, drug injury causation, pharmacy standards of practice, pharmacy malpractice, drug-related medical malpractice, medication error event reconstruction, drug product liability, malpractice and drug-related civil defense.