Olwyn Johnston

Clinical Associate Professor

Dr. Johnston obtained her medical degree at University College Dublin, Ireland. She was a graduate of internal medicine, nephrology and transplantation fellowship programs at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. She subsequently completed a Masters of Medicine Degree in transplant proteomics at University College Dublin, Ireland and a Masters of Health Science Degree from the University of British Columbia in conjunction with a transplant research fellowship at the Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia.

She is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Nephrology, University of British Columbia and a Transplant Nephrologist at the Vancouver General Hospital site of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Kidney Transplant Program since 2008. She is the Medical Director of Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation at Vancouver General Hospital. She is also Medical Director of Living Kidney Donation at Vancouver General Hospital.

In addition to local administrative roles, Dr. Johnston is also a member of the BC Transplant Services Committee, Transplant Provincial Steering Committee and Drug Strategy Advisory Committee. Nationally, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Society of Transplantation, and a committee member of the Kidney Transplant Advisory Committee (CBS) and Living Donor Advisory Committee (CBS). She is also a member of the national Organ Donation and Transplantation System Operators Advisory Committee.

Her main research interests include metabolic changes after kidney transplantation, kidney transplant failure, kidney re-transplantation and living kidney donation. She is also co-chair of the Transplant First Initiative in BC.

As the Program Director of UBC Transplant Nephrology Clinical Fellowship Program, she has developed and expanded one of the largest and comprehensive transplant nephrology fellowship programs in Canada. 

Research

Research articles in PubMed.