Michael M. Johns, MD

My goal as the director of the USC Voice Center is to improve the quality of life for individuals with voice, swallowing and airway disorders. I strive to achieve this through a true interdisciplinary approach to promoting health, preventing and curing disease, advancing biomedical research and educating those around me.

I received my undergraduate degree in economics at the University of Virginia, but my passion is for medicine. I graduated medical school from the Johns Hopkins University and then pursued training in Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Michigan. While there, I did an NIH funded research year and became interested in voice, swallowing and airway disorders. This led me to pursue specialty fellowship training at the Vanderbilt Voice Center. I then founded the Emory Voice Center with Speech Pathologist Dr. Edie Hapner, PhD in Atlanta Georgia, which was amongst the first interdisciplinary voice centers in United States. 12 years later, I was recruited to the University of Southern California to form the USC Voice Center and bring our interdisciplinary model of care to Southern California.

I embrace a caring, patient-centered approach with my patients. At the USC Voice Center, my patients can count on a coordinated, cohesive and unique experience backed by a team of voice and swallowing experts to optimize outcomes and satisfaction.

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OHNS 507, Voice and Resonance Disorders (Y1, Spring Semester)

• LA Magazine: Top Doctor – Dr. Michael Johns, 2019
   – 2019
• Pasadena Magazine: Top Doctor – Dr. Michael Johns, 2017
   – 2018

• CONSTRUCTION OF NEUROSCIENCE FACILITY
  NIH · C06RR017379 · May 1, 2002 – Apr 30, 2004 · Role: Principal Investigator
• EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
  NIH · C06RR015461 · Sep 30, 2000 – Sep 29, 2003 · Role: Principal Investigator
• LABORATORY AT YERKES REGIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER
  NIH · C06RR012465 · Sep 30, 1997 – Sep 29, 1999 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Support of Yerkes National Primate Research Center
  NIH · P51OD011132 · May 1, 1997 – Apr 30, 2021 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• EXTRAMURAL RESEARCH FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION
  NIH · C06RR011208 · May 15, 1996 – Nov 14, 1999 · Role: Principal Investigator
• SMALL INSTRUMENTATION GRANT
  NIH · S15HL047724 · Sep 1, 1991 – Aug 31, 1992 · Role: Principal Investigator
• Research Training in Otolaryngology
  NIH · T32DC000027 · Jul 10, 1989 – Jun 30, 2025 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• General Clinical Research Center
  NIH · M01RR002719 · Dec 1, 1985 – Nov 30, 2007 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT
  NIH · S07RR005378 · Apr 1, 1979 – Sep 29, 1994 · Role: Principal Investigator
• GENERAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER
  NIH · M01RR000722 · Dec 1, 1977 – Nov 30, 1997 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• Support of Yerkes National Primate Research Center
  NIH · P51RR000165 · Jun 1, 1976 – Apr 30, 2016 · Role: Principal Investigator
• General Clinical Research Center
  NIH · M01RR000052 · Oct 1, 1974 – Nov 30, 2009 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator
• GENERAL CLINICAL RESEARCH CENTER
  NIH · M01RR000035 · Oct 1, 1974 – Nov 30, 1998 · Role: Co-Principal Investigator

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