{"id":3903,"date":"2021-06-18T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T19:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2021-09-17T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:41:15","slug":"karen-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/karen-johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"Karen Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3892 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2021\/06\/Karen-Johnston_resized-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/strong>Karen C. Johnston, MD, MSc is the Harrison Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Associate Vice President for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Virginia (UVA).\u00a0 She is the immediate past chair of the UVA Department of Neurology, a position that she held from 2007 \u2013 2018.\u00a0 She is currently the Director of the integrated Translational Health Research Institute of Virginia (iTHRIV), the cross state collaborative NIH-NCATS funded Clinical &amp; Translational Science (CTSA) program.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Johnston\u2019s personal research has focused on treatment and outcomes in acute ischemic stroke and she is the principal investigator on the recently completed, NIH-funded, multi-center Phase III Stroke Hyperglycemia Insulin Network Effort (SHINE) Trial.\u00a0 She currently serves on the NIH-NINDS Advisory Council and Chairs the NINDS Health Disparities Steering Committee.\u00a0\u00a0She is an FDA panel member for Neuro devices.\u00a0 She has participated in and\/or led numerous clinical research education programs and career development programs locally and nationally over the past 15 years. \u00a0She is passionate about training and supporting the career development for the next generation of researchers.\u00a0 She is also committed to diversity and inclusion across all programs with a special emphasis on training and leadership programs.<\/p>\n<p>She attended medical school at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and completed neurology residency at the University of Rochester Strong Memorial Hospital.\u00a0 She did her vascular neurology fellowship at the University of Virginia and obtained a Master\u2019s degree in outcomes research and clinical investigation there as well.\u00a0 She is board certified in General Neurology and Vascular Neurology and was the founding director of the UVA Comprehensive Stroke Center.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Johnston has 2 children, Jeremy and Tyler who are both full time students in college.\u00a0 She enjoys numerous athletic endeavors with her children and they are all committed UVA sports fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen C. Johnston, MD, MSc is the Harrison Distinguished Professor of Neurology and Associate Vice President for Clinical and Translational Research at the University of Virginia (UVA).\u00a0 She is the immediate past chair of the UVA Department of Neurology, a position that she held from 2007 \u2013 2018.\u00a0 She is currently the Director of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/event.roseliassociates.com\/headway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}