Sandra H. Johnson Named Provost of Saint Louis University

As provost, Johnson is the chief academic officer of the University, supervising all academic, research and community service areas. Her responsibilities include leadership of activities in recruitment and retention of students, financial aid, faculty governance, promotion and tenure matters and research administration.

"Sandy has brought new leadership, vision and skills to the position, successfully implementing the reorganization of the administrative structure and the academic initiatives of Project SLU2000," said University President Lawrence Biondi, S.J. "She has been an outstanding addition to the University's senior management team."

Biondi offered the position to Johnson after consulting with the executive committee of the Faculty Senate, the Student Government Association, the Council of Academic Deans, the Staff Advisory Committee and the President's Coordinating Council. Each group supported Johnson's appointment as provost.

Johnson has been a faculty member of the School of Law since 1978 and holds joint appointments at the School of Medicine as professor of law in internal medicine and at the School of Public Health as professor of health care administration. She has served as interim dean of the law school, director of the Center for Health Law Studies and as associate dean for academic affairs for the School of Law.

"I have had the privilege of a wonderful academic career at Saint Louis University over the past 21 years, and I am glad to be of service to the University in the role of provost," Johnson said. "The position also provides me with the delightful opportunity to see the breadth of Saint Louis University and become much more familiar, and impressed, with the great work that is done by our faculty in teaching and research. And, of course, I enjoy working with the full range of Saint Louis University students -- graduate, undergraduate and professional."

Johnson received the Distinguished Health Law Teacher Award from the Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics in 1991. She is law articles editor for the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics and a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Journal of Clinical Ethics and the Gerontologist.

A past president of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Johnson serves as director of the Mayday Project on Legal and Regulatory Constraints on Effective Pain Relief at the Society. Johnson is a fellow of the Hastings Center and has chaired the Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care of the Association of American Law Schools. She has presented endowed lectures at several universities in the United States and Canada.

In addition, Johnson has served as a consultant or project member for projects at the Institute of Medicine, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Federation of State Medical Boards, the New York State Public Health Council, the National Center for State Courts and the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly.

Johnson is a co-author of Health Law -- Cases Materials and Problems; Treatise on Health Law; Health Law Hornbook; and Property Law -- Cases, Materials and Problems. Johnson has published articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine and several law reviews, addressing legal and ethical issues in bioethics, long-term care and quality-control regulation.

Founded in 1818, Saint Louis University is the oldest institution of higher learning west of the Mississippi River and the second oldest Jesuit university in the country. Saint Louis University is one of only three Catholic universities in the United States to receive the Carnegie Foundation's Research II classification and has been heralded as a character-building college by The Templeton Guide: Colleges That Encourage Character Development.

Saint Louis University has schools and colleges of arts and sciences, law, business, medicine, nursing, allied health professions, public health, social service, engineering and aviation, graduate studies, professional studies, public service, and philosophy and letters. The University offers master's degrees in more than 40 fields, with doctoral study available in 31 areas.

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