Obituaries : B. Lamar Johnson Jr.; Medical Professor
B. Lamar Johnson Jr., professor of medicine at UCLA and a specialist in infectious diseases, including AIDS, has died of cancer. He was 65.
Johnson died Thursday at his Brentwood home.
A UCLA Medical School instructor since 1962, Johnson was a member of the first graduating class of the UCLA Medical School in 1955.
Johnson was among a small cadre of academic physicians who pioneered the establishment of infectious disease as a distinct subspecialty of internal medicine. Along with the late William L. Hewitt, Johnson developed UCLA’s training programs in the field and for three decades trained future doctors in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases.
A memorial service is scheduled for 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Neuropsychiatric Institute on the UCLA campus.
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