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Mr Phillip Johnston

BA (Hons), MB BChir, MA, MD, FRCS (Tr & Orth)

 

Hand and Wrist Specialist

 

Main areas of expertise and clinical interests

 

  • Hand surgery

  • Wrist surgery

  • Upper limb surgery

  • Dupuytren’s disease

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome

  • Hand and wrist arthritis

  • Compression Neuropathy

 

Professional profile

 

Mr. Johnston was educated and trained in a number of hospitals within the United Kingdom. During his Orthopaedic training, he undertook a period of lab-based research into molecular influences in Dupuytren’s Disease leading to the award of MD. He has published and presented nationally and internationally both in relation to Dupuytren’s disease and other general orthopaedic topics including hip fracture, MRSA infection control, frozen shoulder and investigations in compression neuropathy.

 

Research interests

 

  • Dupuytren’s disease: molecular influences (matrix biology)

  • Outcome measurement in upper limb surgery

 

Current NHS and /or university posts

 

  • Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Addenbrooke’s Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

  • Associate Lecturer at the University of Cambridge

 

Current membership(s) of professional, national and regional bodies

 

  • British Orthopaedic Association

  • British Trauma Society

  • British Society for Surgery of the Hand

  • British Medical Association

  • Royal College of Surgeons of England

 

Links to Mr Johnston’s publications include the following

 

       - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18762113

  • De la Caffinière thumb trapeziometacarpal joint arthroplasty: 16-26 year follow-up. (Authors: Johnston P, Getgood A, Larson D, Chojnowski AJ, Chakrabarti AJ, Chapman PG.) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22190568

  • A complete expression profile of matrix-degrading metalloproteinases in Dupuytren’s disease. (Authors:Johnston P, Chojnowski AJ, Davidson RK, Riley GP, Donell ST, Clark IM.)

       - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17336841

  • Outcome of traumatic subtrochanteric femoral fractures fixed using cephalo-medullary nails. (Authors: Johnston P, Shukla S, Ahmad MA, Wynn-Jones H, Patel AD, Walton NP.)

       - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17981282

  • Thawing the frozen shoulder. A randomised trial comparing manipulation under anaesthesia with hydrodilatation. (Authors:Johnston P, Quraishi NA, Bayer J, Crowe M, Chakrabarti AJ.) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17905957

  • MMP-14 and MMP-2 are key metalloproteases in Dupuytren’s disease fibroblast-mediated contraction. (Authors: Johnston P, Wilkinson JM, Davidson RK, Swingler TE, Jones E, Corps AN, Riley GP, Chojnowski AJ, Clark IM.) - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22342364

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