Philip Johnston

Dr Philip Johnston is a consultant in diabetes, endocrinology and medicine in the Belfast Trust and works out of both the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospital and is also an honorary lecturer at Queens University Belfast. Prior to starting in Belfast, he undertook a clinical research fellowship in the department for Endocrinology & Diabetes at the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA looking at clinical outcomes for total pancreatectomy and autologous islet cell transplant (TP+AIT) in patients with chronic pancreatitis. Together with nursing, dietetic and hepatobiliary colleagues he established the first dedicated pancreatic (Type 3c)

diabetes clinic in Belfast (which was the first of its kind in both the UK and Ireland) in 2018 to manage patients with this form of diabetes. Philip is active in teaching and has published widely in the area of pancreatic (type 3c) diabetes and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency-PEI). He is the co-lead of the Northern Ireland Clinical Research Network (NICRN ) Diabetes and a Multi- Centre Trial Investigator in the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.