Lina Johansson
Lina Johansson is a renal dietitian with over 20 years’ experience and a researcher, passionate about all things food related. She practices adapting people’s diets to aim to improve symptoms due to their kidney condition and improving life quality. Having been trained in the UK as a dietitian, she has come to realise how the medical model is centred on treating the illness and the condition very separate from the person. She is currently on a journey of understanding and expanding awareness of the meaning of “person-centred care”, how the clinical system operates and how this impacts on the people they serve. Her research is currently focused on the experiences of the “actors” within the kidney transplant setting (kidney transplant recipients , their loved ones as well as healthcare professionals) and the spaces that they experience the renal care service. The aim is for this work to kickstart a whole system approach where complex kidney self-care education is integrated to allow the kidney transplant recipient to embody this understanding, and to close the gap between those practising the medical model and those with the lived experience.