Meet Your Physician
Founder & Chief Executive Officer · Pelvic Health Institute of Illinois
M.D. · U.R.P.S. · Board Certified, OB/GYN & URPS
In Her Own Words
I built this practice on a frustration: patients with pelvic floor disorders were waiting six, seven, eleven years before getting in front of someone who actually specialized in their condition. By then, they had usually been told their symptoms were a normal part of aging, childbirth, or stress.
They weren't. They almost never are. Every patient who walks into one of our offices has, on average, waited far longer than they should have. The least I can do is make the visit worth the wait.
— Lisa L. Johnson, M.D., U.R.P.S.
Dr. Lisa L. Johnson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Pelvic Health Institute of Illinois. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and fellowship-trained in Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery — a recognized medical subspecialty requiring an additional three years of training beyond OB/GYN residency, dedicated entirely to pelvic floor anatomy, urinary and bowel function, and the surgical and non-surgical care of these conditions.
What that means in practice: every condition treated at the Institute — urinary incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, fecal incontinence, hemorrhoids, anal fissures, chronic pelvic pain — falls within the area she has spent her career on. Not adjacent to it. Not part of it. The whole thing.
Dr. Johnson founded PHII to address what she had identified — across years of practice and consultation — as the structural problem with pelvic floor care: it had been delivered in fragments. Patients were sent between OB/GYN, urology, colorectal, and pelvic floor PT, often hearing different versions of "live with it" at each stop. The Institute was built to consolidate that care under one physician relationship, in offices designed for unhurried, comprehensive first visits and in-office diagnostics, with a single coordinated treatment plan as the outcome.
Dr. Johnson personally evaluates, plans, and performs every procedure at the Institute. There is no rotating panel. There is no “the other doctor will see you for the follow-up.” The same physician who heard your story at the first visit is the one who is in the room for the procedure and at the post-operative checks. Continuity, in her view, is what makes precision possible.
Procedures & Treatments Performed
Four principles run through every visit, every diagnosis, every plan:
Most new patients are seen within five business days of requesting a consultation. The first visit is unhurried. There is no rush, no script, and no judgment — just a careful, specialized evaluation of what is actually happening.
