Julie Johnson, MD

Julie Johnson, MD, is Medical Director of Rehabilitation Programs at Children’s Specialty Hospital at LifeScape and LifeScape Rehabilitation Center. Dr. Johnson brought PM&R services to LifeScape in October 1998. As Medical Director of Rehabilitation Services until 2017, she oversaw the start of the Children’s Specialty Hospital at LifeScape and the LifeScape Rehabilitation Center. She continues to provide rehabilitation services in Sioux Falls and outreach services in Aberdeen, SD. Dr. Johnson has served on the LifeScape board of directors and is a clinical professor for the University of South Dakota School of Medicine in the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Johnson earned her medical degree from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit. Her residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. She also completed a two-year Bush Medical Fellowship in pediatric rehabilitation and physician leadership. Dr. Johnson was previously the Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Sioux Falls. Prior to that, she practiced in Michigan and Colorado.