Mr Paul Johnson

Mr Paul Johnson is Professor of Paediatric Surgery and Fellow of St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford. He qualified in medicine from the University of Leicester. His postgraduate training included General Surgery in Leicester and Derby, followed by higher surgical training in Paediatric Surgery in Oxford, Melbourne, and London. Mr Johnson was a Research Fellow in the Department of Surgery at the University of Leicester.

Mr Johnson was appointed Director of the Islet Transplant Programme in Oxford. He is Chairman of the Research division of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons Research and Clinical Effectiveness Committee, and Founder of the UK Academic Paediatric Surgeons Group. His research interests include ways of optimising the current methods used for islet isolation as well as the use of adult stem cells as an alternative source of islet tissue.