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Dr. Linda Johnston

Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Endocrinology

Linda Johnston graduated with MA MB BChir from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University in 1992, having undertaken clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Medical College, University of London. She undertook her clinical training in paediatrics subspecialising in endocrinology. In 2002 she was awarded a PhD in Medicine for the “Investigation of the Genetic Influences on the Small for Gestational Age (SGA) Phenotype”. This research was undertaken at Barts and the London School of Medicine with Professor Martin Savage and Professor Adrian Clark. She is now Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist at Barts and the London Queen Mary School of Medicine. Dr Johnston is Medical Coordinator for the international growth genomics programme NESTEGG which is funded by a programme grant from Pfizer (previously Pharmacia).
Research interests

* Dr Johnston has a broad interest in the genetic influences on fetal and postnatal growth, including pharmacogenomics.
o NESTEGG (networked European Studies of Genes in Growth) – families of children with idiopathic short stature and those with born SGA, with or without catch-up, have been recruited to perform both family and case-control studies.
o Pharmacogenomic – with NESTEGG the influence of GHRd3 is being studied in SGA short children.
* Dr Johnston has established a multidisciplinary growth clinic to support the needs of children with short stature born small for gestational age.
* Dr Johnston runs a clinic dedicated to the screening and management of children at risk of familial endocrine neoplasia syndromes
http://www.whri.qmul.ac.uk/staff/Linda.html