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. For over three decades, he was a primary care physician with The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG), the nation's largest physician-led multispecialty group practice comprised of ten thousand physicians caring for 4.5 million patients. He also served as the Chief of Health Promotion and Information Technology Innovation and the Chief of Physician Health & Wellness for Kaiser Permanente in the Sacramento/Roseville area, chaired TPMG's Regional Physician Health & Wellness Leaders Group, and achieved the rank of Clinical Professor at the UC Davis School of Medicine. In 2020, he retired from TPMG and joined the faculty at California Northstate University where he is the Chief Wellness Officer and Professor of Family Medicine.
