Mark D. Johnson, MD, PhD

Mark Johnson, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Medical Education:

• Harvard Medical School, 1995

Internship:

• General Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, 1996

Residency:

• Neurosurgery, University of Washington School of Medicine, 2003

Fellowship:

• Neurosurgery, Oregon Health & Sciences University,

Clinical Interests:

Brain tumors, neurosurgical oncology, neurosurgical pain management.

Mark D. Johnson was born in 1964 in Memphis, Tennessee. At the age of 14, he received a scholarship to attend Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, where he graduated with honors in 1982. He subsequently graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in chemistry from Amherst College in 1986. Dr. Johnson then matriculated at Harvard Medical School, where he earned a medical degree and a Ph.D. in neurobiology in 1995. He completed an internship in general surgery and a residency in neurosurgery at the University of Washington in Seattle in 2003. While at the University of Washington, Dr. Johnson also performed postdoctoral research on mechanisms of neuronal cell death occurring after injury. He received an NIH postdoctoral National Research Service Award and, after his appointment as Acting Instructor at the University of Washington in 2003, he was also awarded an NIH K08 Research Award to support his work.

Upon completion of his residency, Dr. Johnson returned to Boston to join the Department of Neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Johnson’s clinical interests include neuro-oncology and the neurosurgical management of pain. He maintains an independent laboratory that is focused on the cellular and molecular biology of brain tumors. He currently resides in the Boston area with his wife and children.