James O. Johnston, M.D.

In 1963, Dr. Johnston joined Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland, California, as Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery, a position he held for 25 years. While at Kaiser, he concurrently served as Chairman of Orthopaedics at the Highland/Alameda County Hospital from 1973-1980. In addition to his full-time work at Kaiser and Highland, Dr. Johnston held a clinical appointment at the University of California, San Francisco, that allowed him to perform perhaps his greatest service, the teaching of orthopaedic residents. In addition to UCSF residents, Dr. Johnston has also taught residents at the Naval Hospital in Oakland and St. Mary´s Medical Center in San Francisco. He was awarded the prestigious Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1995 and has received the Outstanding Teacher of the Year award on multiple occasions.

Dr. Johnston joined the full-time faculty of the University of California, San Francisco, in 1988. His research has dealt with prosthetic design for limb salvage reconstructive surgery for sarcomas of the extremities. He helped develop an entirely new system for fixing prosthetic devices to bone using a compliant, spring-loaded system that is unique.

Dr. Johnston retired from UCSF in 2002. He currently works part-time for the Orthopaedic Oncology Service at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in South San Francisco. Over the past few years, Dr. Johnston has been working on an orthopaedic oncology atlas for the Internet (see tumorlibrary.com) based on a pathology slide collection he compiled early in his career and updated over the years. In addition, he has produced an orthopaedic oncology DVD. Dr. Johnston continues to give lectures and in-training reviews in orthopaedic oncology.

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