Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group, INC.

Curriculum Vitae

Eric L. Johnson, M.D.

Dr. Johnson earned his B.A. from the University of Arizona, his M.D. from Johns Hopkins, and completed his cardiology training at U.C. San Francisco. He was the first cardiologist to perform peripheral interventional procedures in the East Bay and is an expert in the use of catheter techniques to relieve obstructions in peripheral arteries and veins. Dr. Johnson directs investigational programs in carotid stent implantation and is the Chief of Endovascular Services at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.

Office Address:
Cardiovascular Consultants Medical Group, Inc.

365 Hawthorne Avenue, Suite 201
Oakland, California 94609
Office Telephone: 510-452-1345
Fax: 510-452-1102

20126 Stanton Avenue, Suite 100
Castro Valley, California 94546
Office Telephone: 510-537-3556
Fax: 510-537-3610

Undergraduate Education:

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry, 1978
Outstanding Undergraduate Chemistry Major, 1978
Phi Beta Kappa, 1977
Phi Kappa Phi, 1977
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, May, 1978

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland 21205
M.D. degree awarded May, 1982

Internship and Residency:

Department of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland 21205
Director: Victor A. McKusick, M.D.
July 1, 1982 - June 30, 1985

Fellowships:

Cardiovascular Division
University of California, San Francisco
School of Medicine
San Francisco, California 94143
Director: William W. Parmley, M.D.
July 1, 1985 - June 30, 1987

Cardiovascular Research Institute
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California 94143
Director: Richard Havel, M.D.
July 1, 1987 - August 30, 1988

Interventional Cardiology
Sequoia Hospital
Redwood City, California 94062
Director: John B. Simpson, M.D.
January 1, 1988 - August 30, 1988

Awards:

American Heart Association
Redwood Empire Chapter, California Affiliate
Advanced Research Fellowship Award
Title: "Coronary Flow Velocity in Stenoses of Varying Geometry"
Period of Award: July 1, 1987 - August 30, 1988

Syntex Cardiology Fellow
American Heart Association 60th Scientific Sessions
Anaheim, California
November 15 - 19, 1987

Licensure:

Maryland: June 15, 1982 #D28729 (Inactive)
California: April 15, 1985 #C041804 (Active)

Certifications:

American Board of Internal Medicine
Specialty of Internal Medicine
Diplomate, September 11, 1985

American Board of Internal Medicine
Subspecialty of Cardiovascular Disease
Diplomate, November 10, 1987

American Board of Internal Medicine
Subspecialty of Interventional Cardiology
Diplomate, November 8, 2000

Memberships:

American College of Cardiology
Fellow, November 1990

Johns Hopkins Medical and Surgical Society
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Member, May, 1982

Alameda/Contra Costa Medical Association
Oakland, California
Member, January, 1989

California Medical Association
Member, January, 1989

Hill Physicians Medical Group
San Ramon, California
Shareholder, August, 1988

Medical Staff Appointments:

Alta Bates Medical Center
Berkeley, California

Eden Hospital Medical Center
Castro Valley, California

John Muir Medical Center
Walnut Creek, California

San Leandro Hospital
San Leandro, California

San Ramon Regional Medical Center
San Ramon, California

Summit Medical Center
Oakland, California

ValleyCare Medical Center
Pleasanton, California

Research Experience:

Division of Nephrology, Georgetown University School of Medicine. Project involving pharmacologic inhibition of platelet aggregation with aspirin and sulfinpyrazone in normal volunteers under direction of Dr. James Winchester. Summer, 1977.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona College of Medicine. Project investigating DNA replication mechanisms in bacteriophage under direction of Dr. Christopher K. Mathews. Fall and Winter, 1977-78.
Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Project examining the effects of catecholamines and calcium channel blockers in the ischemic isolated perfused rabbit heart utilizing P31 NMR under direction of Dr. Alan Guerci. 1983-84.
Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Project examining effects of sodium bicarbonate on ability to defibrillate the intact dog after prolonged CPR and epinephrine, also under direction of Dr. Alan Guerci. Spring, 1985.
Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco. Projects involving the validation and use of an intracoronary Doppler catheter in humans to measure coronary blood flow velocity under direction of Dr. Paul Yock. 1986-88.
Interventional Cardiology, Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, California. Project involving the validation and use of peripheral and coronary atherectomy catheters under direction of Dr. John Simpson. 1987-88.
Peripheral Vascular Intervention, Summit Medical Center, Oakland, California Co-investigator with Dr. Rodney Rodriques, radiation oncologist, for PARIS trial of peripheral vascular brachytherapy in the SFA and Popliteal artery. Ongoing.
Interventional Cardiology, Summit Medical Center, Oakland, California. Principal Investigator for SUPPRESS trial of coronary brachytherapy in small coronary vessels. Ongoing.

Additional Clinical Experience:

1. Peripheral vascular intervention:

1987-88, Sequoia Hospital, Redwood City, California. Performance of over 50 cases of iliac, femoral, distal and renal artery balloon angioplasties and atherectomies under direction of John Simpson, M.D. and William Hayden, M.D.

1999-2000: Eden Medical Center, Castro Valley, California. Co-investigator with Todd Lempert, interventional neuroradiologist, in trial of carotid stent implantation in high-risk surgical patients Trial currently on hold awaiting distal protection device.

2. Clinical electrophysiology:

1982-83: Rotations on clinical EP service as intern and resident in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital with participation in the evaluation and implantation of the first implantable defibrillator devices under direction of Lawrence S. C. Griffith, M.D.

1986: Two-month rotation of the clinical EP service at UCSF as second year clinical fellow in the Cardiovascular Division under direction of Melvin Scheinmann, M.D.

1988: Two-month rotation on the clinical EP service at Sequoia Hospital with performance of over 40 comprehensive EP studies, under direction of Roger Winkle, M.D.

1988-present: Staff electrophysiologist with the East Bay Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology Center performing and assisting with a comprehensive array of procedures including VT and SVT studies, ablations, and tiered-therapy device evaluations under direction of Drs. Paul Ludmer and Michael Lee.

Publications:

Alan D. Guerci, M. D., Nisha Chandra, M.D., Eric Johnson, M.D., Barry Rayburn, B.S., Edward Wurmb, B.S., Joshua Tsitlik, Ph.D., Henry R. Halperin, M.D., Cynthia Siu, Ph.D., and Myron L. Weisfeldt, M.D. Failure of sodium bicarbonate to improve resuscitation from ventricular fibrillation in dogs. Circulation 74(Suppl TV), IV-75, 1986.
Eric L. Johnson, M.D., and Thomas A. Ports, M.D. Unstable angina pectoris: an interventional approach to management. J Intensive Care Med 3: 202-214, 1988.
Eric L. Johnson, M.D., Paul G. Yock, M.D., Victor K. Hargrave, B.S., James P. Srebro, M.D., Sergio M. Manubens, M.D., Walter Seitz, Ph.D., and Thomas A. Ports, M.D. Prediction of the cross-sectional area of a coronary stenosis by the continuity equation using a Doppler catheter. J Am Coll Cardiol 1l(Suppl A): 151A, 1988.
Paul G. Yock, M.D., Victor K. Hargrave, B.S., Eric L. Johnson, M.D., Gabe Aldea, M.D., Hidezo Mori, M.D., James P. Srebro, M. D., and Thomas A. Ports, M.D. Measurement of absolute coronary blood flow using a Doppler catheter: validation in an animal model. J Am Coll Cardiol 11(Suppl A): 45A, 1988.
Sergio N. Manubens, M.D., Thomas A. Ports, M.D., James P. Srebro, M.D., Eric L. Johnson, M.D., and Paul G. Yock, M.D. Balloon aortic valvuloplasty: therapy of choice for the very old symptomatic patient with aortic stenosis. J Am Coll Cardiol 11(Suppl A): 161A, 1988.
Thomas A. Ports, M.D., James P. Srebro, M.D., Sergio M. Manubens, M.D., Neal White, M.D., Eric Johnson, M.D., Paul Yock, M.D., and Eric Lo, M.D. Simultaneous percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty and coronary angioplasty in an elderly patient. Amer Heart J 115: 672-75, 1988.
Paul G. Yock, M.D., Eric L. Johnson, M.D., and David T. Linker, M.D. Catheter-based ultrasound: development and clinical potential. Amer J Card Imaging 2: 185-93, 1988.
Eric L. Johnson, M.D., Paul G. Yock, M.D., Victor K. Hargrave, B.S., James P. Srebro, M. D., Sergio N. Manubens, M.D., Walter Seitz, Ph.D., and Thomas A. Ports, M.D. .Assessment of the severity of a coronary stenosis using a Doppler catheter: validation of a method based on the continuity equation. Circulation 80: 625-35, 1989.
Neal White, M.D., Scott Denardo, M.D., Eric Johnson, M.D., Paul Yock, M.D., Victor Hargrave, B.S., Peter Hui, M.D., James Srebro, M.D., Matthew Selmon, M.D., Gregory Robertson, M.D., and Bruce McAuley, M.D., Tom Hinohara, M.D., and Johns Simpson, M.D. Greater improvement in coronary flow velocity with atherectomy compared to angioplasty. J Am Coll Cardiol 13(Suppl A): 108A, 1989.