Dr Sandra Johnson (Community Child Health Specialist)
- Name
- Dr Sandra Lucille Juanita Johnson
- Qualifications
- MBChB Capetown University 1979
- FRACP 1990
- Occupation
- Community Child Health Specialist
- Paediatrician
- Gender
- Female
- Languages Spoken
- Afrikaans
- Medical Specialties
- Community Child Health
- Paediatrics
Dr Sandra L J Johnson is a developmental paediatrician trained in the field of child development and she has been in private practice for about 26 years. Sandra is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Medical School in the Children’s Hospital at Westmead clinical school. Sandra completed her medical training at the University of Cape Town and Red Cross Children’s Hospital. After internship at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town she spent 12 months in adult medicine and she worked as a GP locum for 12 months. She commenced her paediatric training in Sydney and completed her child development specialty training in London. She is Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Australia) and Fellow of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (UK). In addition to child development she trained and worked in the specialties of child neurology, neonatology, brain injury, cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities. She spent 12 months as a paediatric registrar in child psychiatry and attained a certificate in “Emotional and Behaviour problems in Children” at the NSW Institute of Psychiatry. Dr Johnson trained in learning disorders, attention deficit disorders and school related difficulties while working at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. She did a training course for doctors on Learning Disorders at the Boston Children’s Hospital. She returned to Australia and worked as staff specialist in developmental disabilities at the Royal Alexandria Hospital and the Children’s Hospital Westmead. She subsequently opened her private practice. Sandra has studied Law in relation to Medicine. She is currently the President of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine, having attained her Membership in 1997 and Fellowship in 2008 with this College. She does medico-legal assessments for defence and plaintiff legal teams in matters relating to brain injury and developmental problems in infants and children. Sandra Johnson is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles. She is the main author of a book, written with several contributing authors, called “A clinical handbook on child development paediatrics”. She is the author and publisher of a book for parents and carers called “Your child’s development”.
- Hospital Affiliations
- Westmead Hospital
Practice Locations
Sydney
- Child Development Paediatrics
- Address
- Specialist Medical Centre
14 Fisher Avenue
Pennant Hills NSW 2120
- Phone
- 02 9980 9462
- Fax
- 02 9980 9183
