James A. Johnson,
President & CEO

Mr. Johnson founded Occu-Med in 1979 with an initial focus on research and consulting. As interest in the Company’s proprietary research grew, Mr. Johnson expanded operations to include occupational medicine clinic management (including Occu-Med’s own clinics), workers’ compensation cost containment, vocational rehabilitation counseling (with a department of 9 counselors), franchise operations, and an international network of medical providers committed to providing timely, professional and cost-effective medical examinations for our clients. Under Mr. Johnson’s guidance, Occu-Med has been the vanguard of medical standards / guidelines research and risk management programs designed around such research.

Mr. Johnson is responsible for the development of QA², the Company’s program to manage a client’s entire medical evaluation activity, including Occu-Med’s state of the art quality assurance program, EXAMQA^®. He has also guided the Company’s national and, more recently, international expansion for nearly 30 years.

Prior to founding Occu-Med, Mr. Johnson was a private consultant directing several major civil rights consulting projects. Mr. Johnson was a Legal Analyst and an Affirmative Action Advisor with the County Supervisors’ Association of California and a Legislative Analyst with the State of Hawaii’s Commission on the Handicapped.

Mr. Johnson is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law.