Bruce Johnson, Ph.D.
Research Director, Well Living Lab & Professor of Medicine, Consultant, Mayo Clinic
Bruce Johnson, Ph.D., is a Professor of Medicine and Physiology and a Consultant in the Department of Cardiovascular Diseases. He has joint appointments in Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine as well as in the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. He is the Director of the Mayo Clinical Research Unit’s Energy Balance Core Laboratory and directs his own research laboratory in human integrative and environmental physiology. The majority of his research has focused on factors limiting human performance in various clinical syndromes, in athletes and under extreme environmental conditions. He has led field studies in Antarctica, funded through the National Science Foundation, on Mt Aconcagua in Argentina and Mt Everest and studied unique populations such as breath hold divers in Croatia and F22 pilots from the US Air Force. His clinical research focuses on novel methods for detection and tracking chronic disease as well as environmental factors that may be involved in disease risk. His laboratory also works closely with consumer and medical device companies that track health status through wearable or passive sensing as well as with early phase supplement and pharmaceutical company products. NIH, DOD, NSF, State of Minnesota and Industry have funded his work.