John is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, the UCLA School of Medicine, and the Family & Community Medicine residency program at the UC Davis Medical Center. He maintained a clinical practice in Davis, CA and served as the Chief of Health Promotion and the Chief of Physician Health & Wellness for Kaiser Permanente in the Sacramento/Roseville area. He was the Chairperson of the Regional Physician Health & Wellness Leaders Group for The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), the nation's largest multi-specialty group practice comprised of 10,000 physicians serving over 4 million patients in Northern California. He retired from TPMG in 2020. In addition to his work as a wellness consultant for health care professionals, he is the Chief Wellness Officer and Professor of Family Medicine at California Northstate University and chairs the Joy of Medicine Advisory Board for the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society.
