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G. Timothy Johnson Shares Emmy Award

NEW YORK, NY (October 16, 2003) - Ordained Covenant pastor and nationally known medical expert Dr. G. Timothy Johnson was part of a news team that earned an Emmy award at the 24th Annual News and Documentary Awards ceremony on September 3.

Johnson, who is medical editor for ABC News, is a member of Community Covenant Church in West Peabody, Massachusetts. He was among seven people who helped put together a 2002 ABC News Good Morning America feature story on a miracle anti-stuttering device. The group was presented the award by the National Television Academy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast.

In August 2002, Johnson and company documented stuttering research at East Carolina University and the story was shown in a television piece entitled "Miracle Anti-Stuttering Device." The seven-minute report highlighted the emotional experience of Wesley Cook as he tried the SpeechEasy fluency device for the first time at the East Carolina University clinic. Three East Carolina researchers developed the device following a decade of research, according to the school.

Johnson is a graduate of North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, but decided to enter the medical field following seminary. Along with his work at ABC News, he is medical editor for a local television station and holds joint positions at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He was also the founding editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter and co-editor of the Harvard Medical School Health Letter Book.

As medical editor for ABC News, he provides on-air analysis for a variety of national programs. He has already earned two Emmys from the Boston/New England Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and a piece on the world's first reported live liver-kidney transplant by Dr. Johnson won the National Health Information Award from the Health Information Resource Center in 2000.

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