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Liza-Marie Johnson, MD

Associate Member, St. Jude Faculty

Director, The Bioethics Program

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Liza-Marie Johnson, MD

The Bioethics Program

MS 260, Room C6081C

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 595-4333(phone)

(901) 595-8548(fax)

Affiliations

Department of Oncology

Education

BA – Vassar College
MPH – Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
MD – Tulane University School of Medicine
MSB – Union Graduate College (now Clarkson University)
Internship/Residency – Floating Hospital for Children/Tufts Medical Center
Fellowship (Pediatric Hematology/Oncology) – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Honors & Awards

  • 2024 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Presidential Citation (for work on HEC-C exam content revisions)
  • 2023 American Medical Association (AMA), Inspiration Award
  • 2018 American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), Presidential Citation (for work on Clinical Ethics Consultation Affairs Committee (CECA)
  • 2018 Clinical Care Improvement Award, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
  • 2015 National Institutes of Health, OBSSR/NHLBI Summer Institute Award Recipient
  • 2014 National Institutes of Health, Loan Repayment Program Award Recipient
  • 2012 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Research Scholar

Research Interests

  • Communication and decision making in pediatric oncology
  • Ethical issues in genomic sequencing in pediatrics
  • Clinical ethics consultation in pediatrics
  • Research ethics
  • Quality improvement in ambulatory/urgent care pediatric oncology

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