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Calendar of Events
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
PUBLIC HEALTH GRAND ROUNDS: Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Bench to Bedside and Beyond
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SPHHS |
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Tuesday, 02/06/2007 (12:15 PM - 1:30 PM) |
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Hospital Auditorium |
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Dr. Paula Johnson |
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Public Health Grand Rounds
2006-2007
“Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Bench to Bedside and Beyond”
Dr. Paula Johnson
Executive Director,
Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology
Chief, Division of Women’s Health,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School
GWU Hospital Auditorium
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Click here to view a webcast of this event
Dr. Paula A. Johnson is a cardiologist, an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, the Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology and Chief of the Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dr. Johnson has built an innovative, interdisciplinary clinical, research, education, and policy program in women’s health.
The health care practice that Dr. Johnson created and leads integrates primary care with health care specialties in a learning laboratory, bringing together clinical care, research and operations to improve the health of women. The clinical care integrates leading-edge research about women’s health and serves as a basis for research focused on the discovery of mechanisms that will explain sex differences in morbidity and mortality and disorders specific to women. Dr. Johnson established a Women’s Health Policy and Advocacy Program to guide and advocate institutional, state, and national policy on health issues of critical importance to women.
Dr. Johnson is recognized as a national expert in the area of defining and understanding the quality of cardiology care for women and minorities, with a particular research focus on understanding disparities in health care for women and minorities. She founded the Center for Cardiovascular Disease in Women at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, which is dedicated to developing new sex- and gender-specific strategies for prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of coronary heart disease in women.
Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges. She received her MD and MPH degrees from Harvard. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she also completed a fellowship in cardiovascular disease and served as Chief Medical Resident.
Dr. Johnson is the recipient of many awards recognizing her contributions in women’s and minority health and is featured as a national leader in medicine by the National Library of Medicine. She has also received the Abigail Adams Award from the Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, which honors Massachusetts’s women leaders who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the realization of equal political, economic, and social rights for women. She has been named one of Boston’s “Top Doctors” by Boston Magazine and was featured in the Boston Globe’s “IDEAS Boston 2005” as one of twenty-four leading innovators in Massachusetts.
Dr Johnson serves on several not for profit boards including the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Greater Boston Division of the American Heart Association. She serves as an overseer at the Boston’s Museum of Science, the Women’s Union and the YMCA. She lives with her husband and two children in Brookline, MA.
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