Paula Adina Johnson (born 1959)[1] is an American cardiologist and the current president of Wellesley College.
[8][1] Johnson worked in the hospital's cardiac transplant unit and served as director of Quality Management Services.
Young Family Professor of Medicine[10] in the field of women's health, an endowed professorship named in honor of her mother, at Harvard Medical School.
[12] In the 2020 fiscal year, Johnson was compensated $585,640 with an additional estimated bonus of $138,371 in her role as College President.
[13] During the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, Paula Johnson joined Massachusetts Governor Baker's 14-member Higher Education Working Group (HEWG) to develop a framework to safely reopen campuses.
[14] In June, she also joined a WBUR digital town hall to analyze how COVID-19 revealed and exacerbated racial inequalities with U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley and Dr. Mary Travis Bassett.