LAKEPORT, Calif. – The Sutter West Bay Hospitals and Sutter West Bay Medical Foundation have named a new chairman of the board and new members.

Sutter Health West Bay Region includes California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, Novato Community Hospital, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation and Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport.

Frederick L. Johnson, M.D. joins as a new board member from the Lake County area. Dr. Johnson is the Director of Anesthesia Services and Chief of Staff at Sutter Lakeside Hospital. He also serves as president of Lake County Anesthesia PC.

Upon completion of his bachelor’s degree in nursing from Columbia Union College in Takoma Park, MD., Johnson worked for six years in multiple hospital settings prior to matriculating into the State University of New York Health Sciences Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. where he earned his medical degree. His medical internship and first year of anesthesia residency were performed at the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y.

When his wife, Dr. Helen V. Johnson, also an anesthesiologist, was recruited to a faculty position at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, he transferred to Vanderbilt where he completed the final two years of residency training.

His interest in pediatric anesthesiology prompted him to accept a pediatric anesthesia fellowship at the University of Michigan’s Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1996, he and his wife were recruited to Sutter Lakeside Hospital. His family resides in Kelseyville.

Dr. Diane Pege, Director of Medical Affairs at Sutter Lakeside Hospital states, “Dr. Johnson will be a valuable addition to the West Bay Region Board. He has a thorough understanding of the challenges that we face as a small community hospital and he’ll be able to represent us well at a regional level. I’m beyond pleased by his appointment.”

Anthony G. Wagner of San Francisco was named chairman of the board. Also joining the board as new members are Susan H. Day, M.D., Emil Roy Eisenhardt, and Katherine Hsiao, M.D.

To learn more about Sutter Lakeside, please visit www.sutterlakeside.org/ .