Sandra Johnson Named
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Now, 31 years later, she's the University's chief academic officer.
Johnson was named to the post of University provost last month after serving as interim provost since May 1998. Johnson supervises all academic, research and community service areas of the University. 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 SLU 2000," said University President Lawrence Biondi, SJ. "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 at 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 society's Mayday Project on Legal and Regulatory Constraints on Effective Pain Relief. 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.
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