Education
She received a Doctor of Philosophy from State University of New York Stony Brook in 1974.
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Suzanne Johnson
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Career
Johnson earned an undergraduate psychology degree from Cornell University in 1970. Johnson was a fellow of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 2001-2002 with Hillary Rodham Clinton. A distinguished research professor at Florida State University College of Medicine, Johnson has studied psychosocial aspects of childhood diabetes for many years.
She co-founded the National Conference on Child Health Psychology with James H. Johnson (no relation).
Johnson was APA president in 2012. She has served in several other APA leadership roles, including the presidency of Divisions 54 (Society of Pediatric Psychology) and 38 (Health Psychology).
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At the University of Florida College of Medicine in the 1980s, she led a study which found more anxiety among family members of newly-diagnosed insulin-dependent diabetes patients than among the patients themselves.
