Department of Medicine
University of Pittsburgh
Bruce Johnson, MD
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Assistant Professor of Medicine Phone: 412-647-5473 |
Bio
Bruce Johnson received his medical degree from the Ohio State University in 1986 and completed his internal medicine residency and a clinical fellowship year in critical care medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) in 1990. He next did one year of critical care medicine research with Max Harry Weil in Chicago and then returned to Pittsburgh as the inaugural UPMC fellow in pulmonary transplantation in 1991 with Drs. Paradis, Dauber and Duncan. He subsequently completed a pulmonary research fellowship at UPMC and joined the faculty as an assistant professor of medicine in 1995.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Johnson’s practice focuses on the pre and post-transplant care of lung transplant recipients. He has been actively and continuously managing these patients since 1991 and is the senior clinician in lung transplantation at UPMC. As such, he is one of the most experienced transplant clinicians in the world. Other clinical interests include interventional bronchoscopy and he is the director of bronchoscopy services at UPMC. Dr. Johnson trained Dr. Maria Crespo, the current director of interventional bronchoscopy at UPMC.
Academic and Research Interests
The University of Pittsburgh has remained at the forefront of lung transplant clinical research since the field began. Dr. Johnson has been contributing to this literature since 1993 and he has participated in many of the seminal manuscripts including the landmark trial of inhaled cyclosporine (Iacono et al, N Engl J Med 2006) which proved the efficacy of this therapy for prevention of lung transplant rejection. He is currently leading a multicenter phase III trial to confirm the findings of this trial and he actively participates in many other NIH and industry sponsored clinical trials.
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Key Publications
Iacono AT, Johnson BA, Grgurich WF, Youssef JG, Corcoran TE, Seiler DA, Dauber JH, Smaldone GC, Zeevi A, Yousem SA, Fung JJ, Burckart GJ, McCurry KR, Griffith BP. A randomized trial of inhaled cyclosporine in lung-transplant recipients. N Engl J Med. 2006 Jan 12;354(2):141-50
Johnson BA, Iacono AT, Zeevi A, McCurry KR, Duncan SR. Statin use is associated with improved function and survival of lung allografts. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2003 May 1;167(9):1271-8. Epub 2003 Feb 13
Johnson BA, Duncan SR, Ohori NP, Paradis IL, Yousem SA, Grgurich WF, Dauber JH, Griffith BP. Recurrence of sarcoidosis in pulmonary allograft recipients. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1993 Nov;148(5):1373-7
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News
Dr. Johnson was interviewed for a New York Times report on the transmission of West Nile Virus following organ transplantation.