Director of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Timothy Johnson was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, grew up in Tennessee and has spent the last 25 years in southern Wisconsin near Madison. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and then went on to obtain his doctor of veterinary medicine degree from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1993. He completed a small animal internship at Metropolitan Veterinary Hospital in Akron, Ohio. After completing his internship, he spent three years in private clinical practice in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. From 1997 to 2000 he worked in the veterinary industry providing technical services and clinical support for critical care patient monitoring devices and point of care blood analyzers with Heska Corporation in Waukesha, Wisconsin/Fort Collins, Colorado and Scil Animal Care Company in Grayslake, Illinois.

Dr. Johnson returned to private clinical practice in 2000 as a staff emergency clinician for Wisconsin Veterinary Referral Center (WVRC) in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He remained at WVRC until 2019 as a senior clinician, director of the blood donor program, and mentor to many internship classes. From 2019 through 2020 he has been at Madison Veterinary Specialists in Madison, Wisconsin as the Director of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Johnson is excited to be in San Antonio closer to his family in Texas, and to get out of the frozen tundra! He has 19-year-old twins who are in college in Wisconsin. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing, biking, and spending time with his fiancé, Jodi.