Ron Johnson

Ron Johnson is the vice president, Innovation and Research and Digital Health (Acting). Ron has approximately 30 years of progressive career experience in health care from front-line delivery to executive management.

Ron has had executive accountability for a number of health-care and corporate portfolios since becoming a member of the executive team. Ron was previously vice president, innovation, and rural health at the Eastern Regional Health Authority. Prior to becoming a member of the executive team at Eastern Health, Ron held the position of chief technology officer where he had senior accountability for information management and technology, privacy, performance, biomedical engineering, and health information management. Previously, he was the organization’s director of materials and biomedical equipment support with responsibility for supply chain management and biomedical engineering.

Ron holds a Diploma of Technology from College of the North Atlantic and a Bachelor of Technology and a Master of Employment Relations from Memorial University. He has also completed diplomas in Health Service Management and Modern Management from the Canadian Healthcare Association. Ron is certified in Change Management and has the professional designations of Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) and Certified Health Executive (CHE).

Ron is a sessional instructor at the Marine Institute of Memorial University teaching courses in the Bachelor of Technology and the Master of Technology