Sara Johnson, MD

Sara Johnson, MD leads efforts to advance trauma-informed care in reproductive health and translate the science of resilience and adversity into clinical practice and policy. Dr. Johnson serves as an adviser to UCAAN on training and strategy for reproductive health.

A practicing obstetrician gynecologist at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland, she led the organization’s California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative (CALQIC) project, which implemented prenatal ACE screening, and with an ACEs Aware grant developed a supplemental training entitled, ACE Screening and Trauma-Informed Care in Reproductive Health.

She is the lead author of recent recommendations from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, “Addressing Adverse Childhood and Adult Experiences During Prenatal Care,” published in the June 2023 edition of Obstetrics and Gynecology.