Paula Adina Johnson was born on 1959 and is an American cardiologist and the current president of Wellesley College.
10 Facts About Paula Johnson
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Paula Johnson is the first Black woman to serve in this role.
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Paula Johnson then attended Radcliffe College, where she majored in biology and graduated in 1980.
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Paula Johnson worked in the hospital's cardiac transplant unit and served as director of Quality Management Services.
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Paula Johnson has focused much of her work on educating and empowering African-American women, who are 50 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than white women.
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Paula Johnson is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has been featured as a national leader in medicine by the National Library of Medicine.
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Paula Johnson began working at Wellesley College on July 1,2016.
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Paula Johnson is the third highest paid employee of Wellesley College.
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In 2021, Paula Johnson was nominated to the Governance and Nominating Committee, through the board of directors at Abiomed.
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Paula Johnson is married to Robert Sands, a rheumatologist at Atrius Health of Harvard University, and has a son and a daughter.