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Fannie Gaston-Johansson, nursing trailblazer and the first Black woman to become a tenured Hopkins professor, dies

By The Baltimore Sun  
   January 17, 2023

Dr. Fannie Gaston-Johansson, a retired Johns Hopkins nursing professor who created a pain-measurement device and studied the aftereffects of breast cancer treatment in Black women, died of congestive heart failure Jan. 7 at her home. She was 84.

She was the first Black woman to become a Hopkins tenured professor, the school said.

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