Amy Denise Johnson

Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Quillen College of Medicine · East Tennessee State University · company speakers →

Amy Denise Johnson grew up along the banks of the New River in a small, unincorporated community known as Ripplemead, VA. Ripplemead was so close to the West Virginia boarder you could spit across the state line. Therefore, Amy spent half her formative years on her family farm in West Virginia and the other half in Southwest Virginia growing up in the home where her mother was raised. She is firmly rooted in the value of family and she strives to keep her small community values alive in her work with students and faculty. She is a first-generation college student who matriculated to the College of William in Mary. Upon earning her diploma, presented in Latin, she was proclaimed upright and well-born, neither of which seem very true. She has more than 24 years of teaching and administrative experience. She served as the founding director of East Tennessee State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence and has pioneered new roles at the university including Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs. Amy is currently serving in an inaugural role as the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the Quillen College of Medicine at ETSU where she works to help faculty grow in both their leadership and teaching skills. While she went on to earn advanced degrees from ETSU, her family helps her stay grounded in the mission of her work - lifelong learning, teaching, and helping others grow. Her family often reminds her that the values of hard work, resilience, community, and resourcefulness are skills she learned in the mountains at the elbows of her family – she considers it her duty to use those blessings to support the success of others.

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