Dr.Priscilla Johnson is a basic medical scientist who obtained her training as a medical physiologist at the Madras Medical College, Chennai. Being a Professor of Physiology, in addition to the academic teaching, she is involved in administration of medical college related activities as an Associate Dean. She works in the field of Environmental Health. As a medical physiologist, she used to ponder on the structural and functional peculiarities of every organ in our body, the amazing way the lungs tackle the different environmental pollutants while breathing. This directed her focus towards air pollution related respiratory health outcomes and she ended up pursuing doctorate in this field. She has been a part of the research team which is involved in air pollution related research, heat stress and sleep related research serving as a co-investigator in few national and international extra-mural research projects and her areas of expertise include respiratory physiology, environmental epidemiology, thermal physiology and scientific writing. Besides, she has a passion towards the research among women & children and she looks forward for improvement in their health with involvement of the community and social empowerment of the downtrodden.
Co investigator & Research Supervisor of GATE funded project (PI: Dr.Deena Chelladurai)-Effects of Isotonic Exercise on Dopamine and serotonin Levels- A randomised controlled trial
Co investigator & Research Supervisor of GATE funded project (PI: Dr.Nirangjhana) -Effect of Isotonic exercise on pro-inflammatory markers, hematological parameters and physical performance in sleep deprived male wistar rats
Co investigator & Research Supervisor of Mr.Tungesh Vijay (PI) – Summer Chancellor Fellowship of Rs.10,000 titled “Screentime and its association with sleep disturbances among engineering students in Chennai”
Co investigator & Research Supervisor of Mr.Ashwin kumar (PI) – Summer Chancellor Fellowship of Rs.10,000 titled “Effect of volatile organic compounds on neurocognitive functions among painters”
Ms.Veronica – ICMR _ STS Fellowship of Rs.25,000 titled “A comparison of the implication of bilingualism and multilingualism on working memory”
Co-investigator & Research Supervisor for GATE project on (PI: Dr.Meenakshi.B.S ) Assessment of non motor and motor functions in Parkinsonism
Teaching Excellence Team Award was given in September 2023 by SRIHER in recognition of excellence in teaching, innovation in teaching/learning and mentoring Phase I MBBS students as the Phase Director along with my team Dr.Kalpana Ramachandran, Professor & HoD ,Anatomy, Dr.M.Ganesh, Professor & HoD , Biochemistry, Dr.Sheela Ravinder, Associate Professor of Physiology, Dr.Anupriya, Associate Professor of Anatomy and Dr.Manikandan Associate Professor of Biochemistry.
Awarded Book Authorship Award for being the editor of SAE of Ross and Wilson Textbook of Applied Anatomy and Physiology for nursing by SRIHER in September 2023.
Awarded Distinguished Activity Award for the best outreach activity in 2020 & 2021 by World Sleep Society
Awarded the “Research Ambassador” award in appreciation of the continued research contributions of international standards in the inaugural function of the Indo-US Fulbright program on Research Capacity building by Dr Caven McLoughlin – Phase II on 27th February,2017
‘Lung India Award’ awarded by the Indian Chest Society in the NAPCON Conference, 2011 for the outstanding original article
New Young Investigator Awardee for the year 2006 installed by the GATE project, Sri Ramachandra University
Best Paper Award in the 10th NAPCON Conference, Lucknow, November 2008
Best Paper Award in the 11th NAPCON Conference, Kozhikode, November 2009
• Life member of Indian Association of BioMedical Scientists
• Life member of Indian Medical Association
• Life member of Physiological Society of India
• Life Member of Association of Physiologists of TamilNadu
• Life Member of ASSOPICON