Dr Sandra L J Johnson
Paediatrician in Child Development and Clinical Academic, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Australia
Speaker's biography
Sandra L J Johnson is paediatrician at Child Development Paediatrics (private practice) and clinical academic in the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine UK, Fellow of Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health UK (RCPCH), Fellow of Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), Fellow of Australasian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) and Honorary Fellow of American College of Legal Medicine (CLM). She was the President of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine in 2018 and 2019.
Sandra is the main author of the textbook: "A clinical handbook on child development paediatrics published by Elsevier in 2012 and she self-published a book in 2013 for parents: "Your child's development."
Sandra represented the RACP for the Australian National Children's Digital Health Collaborative work on Health records, she is member of the RACP Digital Health Advisory Group, and she is the RACP representative to the Australian Institute of Digital Health for the Clinical Informatics Fellowship Program.
Her personal research in Al technology spans 8 years. She did a keynote address at the American College of Legal Medicine conference in February 2019 on "AI, Machine Learning and Ethics in Healthcare" and she has a published article on this topic in Journal of Legal Medicine (JLM). In 2022 her article on "Al in Healthcare: the challenge of Regulation" was published in JLM.
Sandra has focussed on Al in Healthcare with respect to ethics, regulation and governance. She is passionate about sharing what she has learned. She believes that the education of doctors and health professionals in the field of Al is essential in view of the rapid expansion of this technology and its increasing importance in Medicine.