Ellis Johns, MD

About

Associate Clinical Professor, Shenandoah Valley Family Practice Residency

Ellis Johns, MD, graduated from Duke University’s school of medicine and is a board-certified family practitioner who does everything from obstetrics to end-of-life care. Additionally, Dr. Johns works as a health IT software engineer and data scientist for health systems such as Duke and Valley Health. He has built applications for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, CCRi and North Carolina Medicaid Services (aka. CCNC). He has greater than 20 years of python and .Net application development experience.

While his doctorate is in medicine, he also has degrees in chemical engineering (UMCP) and computer/information science (UNC). Dr. Johns trained as an IRTA fellow in the NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Duke Medicine’s Informatics Division (NLM), and Epic’s Physician Builder Analytics Program.

Dr. Johns is board-certified in Family Medicine and Medical Informatics. His special interests are sports medicine, home-automation/IOT, analytics/data-science, cycling, 3D printing, and Sawyering. He is the proud father of 4 energy-filled children.