Career Details

Current Post
Reader in Surgery, University of Southampton,
Honorary consultant surgeon, Southampton University Hospitals Trust

Previous posts
Senior Registrar, Westminster and St Stephen’s Hospitals
Registrar Bristol Hospitals
MRC Travelling Fellow, INSERM U31 Marseille

Hospitals
Southampton General Hospital
BUPA Hospital Southampton
Wessex Nuffield Hospital

Education and Qualifications
1973 BA Medical Sciences and Anglo-Saxon University of Cambridge
1976 MB BChir University of Cambridge
1986 M Chir Control of pancreatic secretion University of Cambridge
1980 FRCS Surgery Royal College of Surgeons of England

Colin Johnson is a Reader in Surgery in the University of Southampton. Since 1988 he has been Honorary Consultant Surgeon in Southampton University Hospitals Trust, providing specialist gastrointestinal surgical services. He now focuses his activity entirely in pancreatic, biliary and general abdominal surgery including hernia surgery.

Mr Johnson has had a longstanding special interest in pancreatic surgery, having trained with pancreatic specialists in Bristol and Marseille. He has provided pancreatic surgery services in Southampton since 1988, and offers a full range of surgical services for pancreatic cancer, chronic pancreatitis and acute pancreatitis.

Since he performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Southampton in 1990, Mr Johnson has carried out over 1000 of these procedures. He has conducted and supervised a number of research projects concerned with gallstones, biliary symptoms, and gallbladder disease. He presented the findings of this research at the annual Arris and Gale lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2001.

Mr Johnson also offers surgery for hernias of the abdominal wall including groin hernias and incisional hernias. He has published several research papers on these topics.

Mr Johnson is leading the development of the pancreatic cancer surgery centre in Southampton. This service has now expanded to fill current capacity. We are currently planning a further expansion of our service which should see centralisation of all of this type of surgery from our network before 2007.

Current research interests include evaluation of quality of life in patients with pancreatic and other upper GI cancers, palliative treatment for pain using standard medications, percutaneous injection or keyhole surgery, and the identification and early treatment of patients with severe acute pancreatitis.

External professional activities
ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE.

Mr Johnson has been a member of the Wessex Regional Training Committee in General Surgery since 1992. he has served as Deputy Chairman and Director of Training Programme and as Chairman of this Committee. In 2004 he took part in the Cancer Services Peer Review, as Chair of the review of services in Thames Valley Cancer Network

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES

Mr Johnson has served on several International Committees, including Co-Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Institut de Recherche sur les Cancers de L’Appareil Digestif (IRCAD) Strasbourg, France; International Association of Pancreatology; European Digestive Surgery; European Quality of Life in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma (EQoLiPA) Study Group (Convenor and Chairman); the European Pancreatic Club and Scientific Committees of the International HPB Association

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
In the UK, Mr Johnson has been a member or officer of the committees of the following organisations: Pancreatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (Secretary and President ); Pancreatic Section of the British Society for Gastroenterology (Secretary and Chair); Surgical Research Society; British Society of Gastroenterology; Society of Authors Medical Writers Group (Chair).

Currently he is a member of the NCRI Palliative Care Clinical Studies Development Group and a member of Pain subgroup

Selected recent publications
Double blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study of a platelet activation factor antagonist, lexipafant, in the treatment and prevention of organ failure in predicted severe acute pancreatitis.
Johnson CD, Kingsnorth AN, Imrie CW, McMahon MJ, Neoptolemos JP, McKay C, Toh SK, Skaife PJ, Leeder PC, Wilson P, Larvin M, Curtis LD.
Gut 2001; 48: 62-69

Combination of APACHE-II score and an obesity score (APACHE-O) for the prediction of severe acute pancreatitis
Johnson CD, Toh SKC, Campbell MJ. Pancreatology 2004; 4: 1-6

Urinary trypsinogen activation peptide within 24 h of onset of symptoms as a marker of predicted severe pancreatitis using a new definition of severity
Johnson CD, Lempinen M, Imrie CW, Puolakkainnen P, Carter R, McKay C
British Journal of Surgery 2004; 91: 1027-33
Persistent organ failure during the first week as a marker of fatal outcome in
acute pancreatitis
Johnson CD and Abu-Hilal M for the British Acute Pancreatitis Study Group Gut 2004; 53: 1540-4
Guidelines for the Management of acute pancreatitis (First major revision)
Johnson CD et al Gut 2004 in press

Deficiencies of Micronutrients, Altered Bowel Function, and Quality of Life during Late Follow-Up after Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Malignancy.
Armstrong T, Walters E, Varshney S, Johnson CD.
Pancreatology. 2002; 2:528-34

Randomized, dose-finding Phase III study of lithium gamolenate in patients with advanced pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Johnson CD, Puntis M, Davidson N, Todd S, Bryce R.
Brit J Surg 2001 88: 662-668

Guidelines for the Management of pancreatic and periampullary malignancy
Alderson D, Johnson CD, Neoptolemos JP et al
Gut 2004 in press

Member of Burley Players, roles include Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Merlin in a pantomime version of King Arthur.

At Brockenhurst CC, Mr Johnson was Captain of the Second XI 2002-2004, and was given the award Clubman of the Year in 2003.