Dr. James Johnston (TB Services, BC Centre for Disease Control)
Dr. Jay Johnston is a Respirologist and Evaluation Lead at BCCDC TB Services. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at UBC and recipient of a 2013 Michael Smith Foundation Scholar Award. He received his bachelor’s degree from McGill and MD from Queen’s in 2003. He returned to McGill for Internal Medicine training before moving to UBC for his Respiratory Medicine Fellowship. He completed a BC Lung Association Grzybowski Fellowship in Tuberculosis Research and has a Master’s in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Johnston’s research interests include tuberculosis epidemiology, genomics and drug resistance.
This event is approved for 1.0 Mainpro-M1 credit.