Patrik Johansson, MD, MPH

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Professor in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine

Patrik Johansson, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in the Department of Medical Education and Clinical Sciences. An internal medicine primary care physician by training, his work focuses on promoting the health of rural communities through research, teaching, and service.  A past clinician in health professions shortage areas, he employs community-based participatory research methods to address chronic disease disparities in partnership with rural health clinics, critical access hospitals, American Indian-serving health care systems, rural public health departments, and other healthcare organizations. He also develops and implements public health curricula for practitioners and health-professions students while actively engaging them in research, not only to facilitate their learning about research methods but also to promote them to practice in health-professions shortage areas. Dr. Johansson received his M.D. from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine and his M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He has received a number of awards for his service, research, and teaching, including the Harvard Medical School Dean’s Community Service Award, the University of Nebraska Campus Compact “Outstanding Community and Campus Collaboration Award for excellence in community-based teaching and scholarship,“ and the Excellence in leadership award from the Nebraska Rural Health Association for his service as the association’s secretary from 2013 to 2017.

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