Overview
Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor with tenure and a health informatician with interdisciplinary training in nursing and health informatics, and is the Faculty Coordinator of the Systems Programs at the Duke University School of Nursing. She has a secondary appointment in the Department of Community and Family Medicine in the Duke University School of Medicine and is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center, School of Biomedical Informatics. She earned her BSN from the University of Connecticut and her MS and PhD from the School of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Texas at Houston. She has over 25 years of experience in research and informatics in the area of health promotion and disease prevention.
Dr. Johnson’s current research interests in health informatics include human-computer interaction, and how the representation and visualization of information impacts health care decisions in the area of disease prevention and health promotion. As a Primary Investigator, she has received research funding from the National Cancer Institute, National Library of Medicine, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, AHRQ, and RENCI. She is also a Co-Investigator and Co-PI on various other grants in the area of Health Informatics. Dr. Johnson also mentors Master’s, DNP, and PhD students.