APPOINTMENT. Fannie Gaston Johansson, a former Professor at the Institute of Health and Care Sciences, has been appointed Living Legend in Nursing by the American Academy of Nursing. Fannie Gaston Johansson has also been Dean of the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Gothenburg.
Every year, the American Academy of Nursing honors a small group of fellows by appointing them to Living Legends, and one of this year’s fellows is thus Fannie Gaston Johansson.
Justification: Fannie Jean Gaston-Johansson, PhD, RN, FAAN, is best known for her landmark global and historic research on the long term impact of the pain experience, coping, and quality of life in minority and health disparity populations locally, nationally and globally. She developed several international and interdisciplinary educational and research programs, including research in women with breast cancer and The Minority Global Health Disparities Research Training Program (MHIRT), which were among her most significant and far-reaching programs.
Fannie Gaston-Johansson was born in North Carolina, and trained as a nurse in the United States. She came to Gothenburg as an exchange student in 1966, and came to stay here for many years. She worked as a nurse at the hospital, and presented her dissertation at the Faculty of Medicine in the mid-1980s. She returned to the US where she was recruited to John Hopkins University. When the Sahlgrenska Academy was established, she was asked to become Dean of the newly founded Faculty of Nursing. Fannie Gaston-Johansson returned to Johns Hopkins in 2004.
