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Beverly Johnson, Ph.D.Speciality: Women's Sexual Health Midlife and Beyond
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Biography: Beverly K. Johnson, Ph.D.,
R.N., is an Associate Professor
in the School of Nursing at
Pacific Lutheran University in
Tacoma, Washington. She
received her Bachelor’s
Degree in Nursing from the
University of Minnesota in
1967 and her MasterÂ’s Degree
in Family/Community Health
Nursing from Emory University
in 1977. In 1986 Beverly
completed her Ph.D. in
Nursing at the University of
Texas in Austin. In 1995 she
completed a Postdoctoral
Fellowship in WomenÂ’s Health
under the mentoring of Dr.
Nancy Fugate Woods,
presently the Dean of the
School of Nursing at the
University of Washignton. She
has worked as a staff nurse in
hospitals and in both public
health and home health
agencies in Minnesota, New
Hampshire, Vermont,
Colorado, Massachusetts, and
Texas. She has been a mid
level manager in a home
health agency and has held
teaching positions in schools of
nursing in Georgia,
Massachusetts, Vermont, and
Washington. Her areas of
expertise include family
health, community health,
women’s health,
gerontological nursing,
sexuality and aging, and
research. Dr Johnson has been an Associate
Professor of Nursing at Seattle University since 2001.
Beverly has worked with older
adults in both hospital and
home health settings. Since
her masters thesis in 1977
with a focus on sexuality in
inner city women in Atlanta,
she has pursued her interest in
human sexuality. For her
doctoral dissertation she
surveyed 164 men and women
age 55 and older in central
Texas on the topic of
sexuality; in 1988-1989 she
surveyed more than 1400 men
and women age 50 and older
(from across the US) on this
topic. Dr. Johnson has
presented the findings of her
research at professional
meetings nationally and
internationally. She has also
presented workshops on the
topic of sexuality and aging to
groups of professionals,
students, and the general
public. Dr. Johnson has
published articles on sexuality
and aging in both professional
publications and for the lay
reader.
Currently , in addition to
continually analyzing her
database on sexuality and
aging, Dr. Johnson is looking
at midlife and older women’s
perceptions of their risks for
HIV infection and the effect
of their perceptions of risk on
their behaviors.
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