Dr. Tumí Johnson, M.D.
Dr. Oluwatumininu (Tumí) Johnson is an Integrative Holistic medical doctor, dancer, and poet.
As a physician, Dr. Johnson is board certified in Internal Medicine and is also a diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine.
She graduated from Vanderbilt University Medical School, receiving the honor of her school’s Kaufman Prize in Medicine for “humaneness and unselfish service in medicine.” She completed her medical residency at NYU with a focus in Internal Medicine/Primary Care, receiving special training in psychosocial health care at that time.
She has worked in many clinical settings. She was made Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU in 2011. A graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, she also has expertise in nutrition with past experience running a weight management clinic in New York and serving in West Africa with Doctors without Borders to oversee nutrition clinics. She has also done medical volunteer work in the Amazon, Haiti, and Kenya, among other places.
Dr. Johnson creates and performs Healing Poemdances, dances that are crafted from her poetry as well as her experience as a physician, then performed by her, to ignite and propel the healing experience of the viewer.
She is a former Presidential Scholar in the Arts who continued her dance training during her 10 year stay in New York City, dancing as a member of the NYC-based contemporary dance company before moving to Paris in 2011, where she began creating her first Healing Poemdance.
She has since performed these dances all over the world, including in several performance spaces in NYC. These include Judson, Dixon Place, WAXWorks, Triskelion Arts, and as part of the Performance Mix Festival. She has also performed the Poemdances in Los Angeles at REDCAT as well as outside the United States in France, Haiti, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Tanzania, and Thailand, among other places.
She has also created award winning films of her Healing Poemdances which have been screened at multiple art/film festivals.
Her Healing Poemdances have now been included in exhibitions in galleries/art spaces in Italy and in NYC.
Dr. Johnson has also been a consistent yoga practitioner for over 20 years and completed yoga teacher training with YogaWorks in 2012.
