Craig C. Johnson, PA-C, MPAS 

Product Manager 

Orthopaediclist.com

     Craig Johnson has been a practicing Physician Assistant with the

Wilmington Orthopaedic Group, PA for eight years. He is a member of multiple professional medical organizations and is the founder and immediate Past-President of Cape Fear Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery.

    His knowledge of orthopaedic related products is an asset as he shares responsibility for discovery, evaluation and acceptance of selected companies and products for the Company's listings.

     Mr. Johnson holds a Batchelor of Science in Health and Sports Medicine from Wake Forest University and is a graduate of the Physician Assistant School at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In 2004, he earned a Masters Degree in Physician Assistant Studies (Orthopaedics) from the University of Nebraska.

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     Johnson was born in Bayshore and raised in Oakdale, NY. He graduated from St. John the Baptist High School in West Islip, NY where he was a member of the National Honor Society and a four-year letterman with the Varsity soccer team. He received multiple awards and recognitions including Sportsman of the Year and was a Parade All-American his senior year.

      He is a graduate of Wake Forest University where he received a BS in Health and Sports Medicine. He was a four-year scholarship student-athlete for the Men's Soccer team, once again receiving multiple awards including Rookie of the Year his freshman year, Coaches Award his sophomore year, and MVP his junior and senior years. He was team captain his junior and senior years, helping them win the 1989 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament and achieve their highest-ever regular season finish of third in the country. Remarkably, they qualified for the NCAA tournament each of his four years on the team. In 1991 Johnson was a temporary member of the US Olympic team, and in 1994 he captained the Carolina Crunch, a professional soccer club based in Winston-Salem, NC.

      After graduating from Wake Forest, he was a Physical Therapy Aide and Research Assistant for the Pepper Older Americans Independence Center and Fitness and Arthritis in Seniors Trials (FAST Study) before becoming a Study Coordinator for the Prospective Aerobic Reconditioning Intervention Study and the Hoffmann LaRoche, Ltd. Ro 40-5967 Investigational Interventional Drug Study at Wake Forest University's Health and Sports Science Department. During that time he was an assistant coach for the Wake Forest University Men's Soccer team and earned his "C" coaching license with the US Soccer Federation that recognized him with the Bob McNulty award for "Most Outstanding Coach." In 2004, he went on to attain his "B" national coaching license through the United States Soccer Federation and based on his performance is eligible to get his "A" license in 2005.

In the Physician Assistant Program at Bowman-Gray School of Medicine, his peers elected him the Student Representative for the Admissions Committee.

      In 1996 he graduated from PA school, passed his national boards with honors, and joined Wilmington Orthopaedic Group where he practices today. He is a member of multiple professional medical organizations and is the founder and immediate Past-President of Coastal Cape Fear Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery. He has been a part of the Sports Medicine program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington since 1996 where he functions as the team practitioner for the men's soccer team.

      Johnson currently nourishes his love for soccer through coaching at the youth level. He is a "Classic Club Coach” within the North Carolina Youth Soccer Association and is the a Director of the Soccer Academy of Wilmington, a non-profit organization that provides coaching clinics and playing opportunities to underprivileged youths in Southeastern North Carolina.

      He and his wife Mollie are the proud parents of their one-year-old

daughter Reilly.

      Johnson brings intelligence, dedication, energy, and an in-depth knowledge of orthopaedics coupled with an uncommon experience of what it takes to succeed and win to www.orthopaediclist.com .