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Dr Sandra Johnson

Clinical Senior Lecturer
Paediatrics & Child Health, Children's Hospital, Westmead

C29 - Children's Hospital Westmead
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

T: +61 2 9980 9462
F: +61 2 9980 9183
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Biographical details

Senior clinical lecturer at Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Children's Hospital Westmead and Sydney Medical School.Developmental Paediatrician at Child Development Paediatrics - private practice part-time, 14 Fisher Avenue, Pennant HIlls, NSW.Medico-legal assessments of brain injury, cerebral palsy and learning disorders in children.Enrolled as PhD research student: University of Sydney.

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Research interests

Paediatric private practice in Child Development including learning disorders, attention disorders, autism, school difficulties, communication and language disorders.Medico-legal assessments of children with brain injury following motor vehicle/ other accidents and cerebral palsy.Teaching and publications in the fields of child development and legal medicine.Review publication: Obstetric malpractice litigation and cerebral palsy.Work done on the child development module of Masters Course for University of Sydney.Book published by Elsevier/ Churchill Livingstone 2012: A Clinical Handbook on Child Development Paediatrics.Chapter written for Handbook on Legal Medicine: submitted and in process of being published.Current research on impact of rare diseases on children and families: through ARC linkage project.

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Teaching areas

Teaching clinical skills: undergraduate medical students.Teaching developmental and behavioural paediatrics:paediatric registrars.Teaching Legal Medicine: to paediatric registrars and other doctors.Teaching learning disorders and school related difficulties to special educators

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Keywords

Disabilities; Child health; Education; ADHD/Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; Brain injuries

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Publications

2012 | 2011

2012

   
  • Johnson, S. (2012), A Clinical Handbook on Child Development Paediatrics. Australia: Elsevier Health.

2011

   
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  • Johnson, S., Blair, E., Stanley, F. (2011), Obstetric malpractice litigation and cerebral palsy in term infants. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. 18(3), 97-100. [Abstract]