CSB Faculty

Linda Y. Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 1978

(210) 567-3836
JOHNSONLY@UTHSCSA.EDU

Dr. Johnson is the course director of Medical Gross Anatomy and Embryology, a 185 contact hour dissection course which over 200 medical and graduate students take yearly. She additionally supervises senior medical student electives in Advanced Anatomy of the Back, Head and Neck, Advanced Anatomy of the Thorax, Abdomen and Pelvis and Advanced Anatomy of the Extremities. Dr. Johnson lectures and supervises laboratories in Medical Neuroscience. She is the course director of the UTHSCSA Basic Science Review Course preparing sophomore medical students for the licensure exam. She is also active in health science center and community educational programs reaching out to elementary, middle school, high school and college students. In 1995 Dr. Johnson received the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor as one of the state's top educators. She currently chairs the Gross Anatomy Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners.

My main interests lie in the field of medical education: curriculum development and integration with clinical science, the integration of educational software into course curricula, examination development and curriculum evaluation. I am actively involved in the development of the new integrated medical school curriculum (initiated in 1998) which emphasizes clinical application and experience throughout the years of basic science education. I have served on the National Board of Medical Examiners (responsible for the production of the United States Medical Licensure Exam) since 1993, and play an active role in faculty educational development at UTHSCSA.

PUBLICATIONS:
Johnson, L.Y. (2001) Women in Medicine: Observing Two Decades of Change. San Antonio Medicine, September.

Vaughan, M. K., L. Y. Johnson, B. A. Richardson, E. G. Brieno, and R. J. Reiter (1984) Acute injections of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) stimulate prolactin release in unanesthesized male Syrian hamsters. Neuroendocr. Letters 6:49-52.

Blask, D. E., M. K. Vaughan, T. H. Champney, L. Y. Johnson, G. M. Vaughan, R. A. Becker and R. J. Reiter (1984) Opioid and dopamine involvement in prolactin release induced by arginine vasotocin and vasopressin in the male rat. Neuroendocrinology 38: 56-61.

Johnson, L. Y., M. K. Vaughan, B. A. Richardson, L. J. Peterborg, and R. J. Reiter (1982) Variation in pineal melatonin content during the estrous cycle of the rat. Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. Med.169: 416-419.

Johnson, L. Y. (1982) The pineal gland as a modulator of the adrenal and thyroid axes, In: The Pineal Gland: Vol. III, Extra-reproductive Effects, R. J. Reiter, ed., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, pp. 107-152.