Donald R. Johnson II, M.D.

Dr. Don Johnson guest lectures around the country and is
considered a foremost expert in the field of spine surgery
and spine health.

Appointments:

• Chairman Board of Trustees

  Medical University of S.C.
  Elected August 2002

• Board of Trustees

  Medical University of S. C. Elected July 1, 1994 ( four year term)
  Reelected 1998, 2002

• Clinical Instructor

  Department of Orthopedic Surgery
  Resident Training in Spine Surgery
  Medical University of S.C.
  1998 - Present

• Clinical Instructor

  Department of Orthopedic
  Surgery Resident Training in Spine Surgery
  University of South Carolina At Columbia
  1999 - 2002

• President Elect

  South Carolina Orthopedic Association
  2002 - 2003

• President

  South Carolina Orthopedic
  Political Action Committee
  1998 - Present

• President

  South Carolina Spine Society
  1996 - 1998

• South Carolina State Councilor

  Southern Medical Association
  1995 - 2002

• Editorial Board

  Spine Section Journal of Southern Orthopedic Association
  2001 - Present

• Editorial Board

  Journal of Surgical Orthopaedic Advances
  2006

• Former Medical Director

  Department of Rehabilitative Services, Bon-Secours-St. Francis Xavier Hospital,
  January 1991 - January 1996

• President

  South Carolina Orthopedic Association
  2004

• Clinical Instructor to Clinical Associate Professor Orthopaedic Surgery

  Effective July 1, 2004

Board Certification:

• Certified by American Board of Orthopedic Surgery,
  July 9, 1993
• Certified by American Board of Spine Surgery,
  2004

Education:

Undergraduate:

• College of Charleston, Charleston, SC - B.S. Chemistry
  May 1980

  Honors: Music Scholarship, Phi Kappa Phi, (National Academic Honor Society, President Senior Year), Sigma Alpha Phi ( College of Charleston Scholastic Honor Society), Omicron Delta Kappa ( National Leadership Honor Society)

Medical School

• Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC, M.D. received May 1984

  Honors: Health Sciences Foundation Scholarship 1982- 1983, Rich Scholarship 1983-1984.

Research:

• 1981 - Research Assistant in Immunology and Microbiology to Dr. Edwin Ades ( Current Director of Human Immunology at Eli Lily Inc.)
• 1982 - Research Assistant to Dr. Forde McIver in Pathology
• Current - Immunology of Degenerative Disc Disease of the Spine with Janardin Pandey, Ph D., Professor, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Medical University of South Carolina

Internship:

• Spartanburg General Hospital,
  Spartanburg, SC, Categorical Surgical
  July 1984 - June 1985
• Program Director - John Bottsford, M.D.

Residency:

Orthopedic Surgery - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
July 1985 - June 1989 Chief Resident,
July 1988 - June 1989
Program Director: John B. McGinty, M.D.

Academic Awards:

William K. Nelson Academic Excellence Award
Outstanding Resident of the Year
Department of Orthopedic Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Received in 1987 & 1988

Fellowships:

• Adult Spine Surgery
  South Texas Spinal Clinic, San Antonio, TX
  July 1989 - December 1989
  Director: Gilbert R. Meadows, M.D.
• Adult Spine Surgery
  St. Marys Spine Center, San Francisco, CA
  January 1990 - June 1990
  Director: James Zuckerman, M.D.
• Spine Surgery
  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  July 1990 - December 1990
  Director: John Leung, M.D.

Academic Appointments:

• Associated Clinical Instructor In Spine Surgery
  University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, UK
  July 1990 - October 1990
• Clinical Instructor, Department of Orthopedic
  Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina,
  Charleston, SC
  1992 - 1998

FDA Studies:

• Principal Investigator, Advance Spinal Instrumentation
  Pedicle Fixation
  1993 - 1994
• Principal Investigator, Gliatech-Ad
  Con L Study
  2/96 - 11/97
• Principal Investigator, St Francis Medical Technologies
  Extension Stop Device
  6/99 - Ongoing

Course Faculty Appointments:

• Current Concepts of the Spine in the 1990's
  American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery
  Charleston, SC 1990
• American Back Society, Fall Symposium, San
  Francis, CA 1990 & 1991
• Neurosurgery Society of Spain
  Techniques of Vertebral Fusion Course
  Valencia, Spain, 1992
• Southern Medical Association - Anesthesia Section,
  San Antonio, TX 1992
• Chairman Orthopaedic Section - Southern Medical
  Association, Annual Meeting
  11/15/1995 - 11/19/1995, Kansas City, Missouri
  11/24/1996, Baltimore, Maryland
• Chairman Spine Section Board, Review Course, Southern
  Orthopaedic Association Semi Annual Meeting
  11/5/1997 - 11/9/1997, Charlotte, North Carolina
  11/18/1998 - 11/22/1998, New Orleans, Louisiana
  11/10/1999 - 11/14/1999, Dallas, Texas
  11/1/2000 - 11/5/2000, Orlando, Florida
  11/8/2001 - 11/12/2001, Nashville, Tennessee
  
• Southern Medical Association - Orthopedic
  Section, New Orleans, LA 1993

Organizational Appointments:

• Southern Medical Association
  Birmingham, AL, Associate Councilor
  November 1993 - 1995
• Commercial Casualty Insurance Company
  Charlotte, NC, Board of Directors
  January 1993 - 2002
• National Association of Spine Centers
  Board of Directors
  January 1993-2000
• South Carolina Orthopedic Society
  Treasurer - 2000-2001
  Secretary - 2001-2002
• Charleston County Medical Society
  Medical-Legal Liaison Committee
  1992 - 2002

Presentations:

• North Carolina - South Carolina Combined
  Orthopaedic Meeting 1984, Charlotte, NC " Rush
  Rod Fixation of Distal Radius Fractures"
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Society 1985
  Charleston, SC " Bilateral Posterior Shoulder Dislocations"
• North Carolina - South Carolina Combined Orthopaedic Meeting 1986, Asheville, NC " Use of Allograft in Pediatric Spinal Fusions"
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Society 1987 Columbia, SC " Arthroscopy of Total Knee Replacement"
• American Orthopaedic Association of Residents Meeting, 1987, Vail CO " Use of Allograft in Pediatric Spinal Fusions"
• American Orthopaedic Association Residents Meeting 1988, Boston, MA, " Arthroscopy of Total Knee Replacement"
• Current Concepts of the Spine in the 1990's, Charleston, SC, 1990, " Posterior Surgical Approaches to the Cervical Spine", "Functional Assessment of the Lumbar Spine"
• American Back Society Fall Symposium, Surgical Approach Case Conference, San Francisco, CA 1990
• Bon Secours - St. Frances Xavier Hospital, Charleston, SC, 1991, "Spinal Medicine in the 1990's", " Invasive Procedures of the Spine", and "Introduction to Conservative Care
• South Carolina Chapter of American Physical Therapy and Bon Secours - St. Francis Xavier Hospital Meeting, Hilton Head, SC "Building the Backbone of Spine Care" - Course Moderator 1991
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Association, Kiawah Island, SC, 1991, "Spinal Surgery, The Hong Kong Perspective"
• South Carolina Society of Radiologic Technologists, Myrtle Beach, S.C., 1991 "Diagnostic Blocks and Discography"
• Carolina Occupational Medicine Society, Duke University, Durham, N.C. , 1991, " Total Care of the Lumbar Spine"
• American Back Society, Fall Symposium, San Francisco, CA 1991, " Primary Use of Posterior Lumbar Interbody Fusions and the Varaible Plating System"
• American Back Society, Fall Symposium, Surgical Approach Case Conference, 1991
• Neurosurgery Society of Spain, Madrid, Spain, 1992, "Fusion Techniques in Lumbar and Cervial Spine Surgery"
• Neurosurgery Society of Spain, Valencia, Spain, 1992, Techniques of Vertebral Fusion Course, "Use of Pedicle Fixation"
• North Carolina - South Carolina Orthopaedic Meeting, Charleston, S.C. 1992, "Monostotic Paget's Disease of the Spain"
• Southern Medical Association, San Antonio, TX, 1992, Multi-disciplinary Section on Back Pain, "Conservative Care of Low back Pain"
• Southern Medical Association, New Orleans, LA, 1993, Multi-disciplinary Section on Back Pain, "Anatomy of Low Back Problems"
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Meeting, Charlston, S.C. 1993, " Cervical Spine Surgery"
• Southern Medical Association, Orlando, Florida, 1994, Section of Orthopaedic Surgery "Techniques of Lumbar Spinal Fusion"
• Southern South Carolina Orthopaedic Association, 1995, Hilton Head Island, "Microlumbar Discectomy"
• Southern Medical Association Orthopaedic Section, 1995, Kansas City, Missouri, " Anterior Cervical Fusion"
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Association, 1996, Kiawah Island, "Back Surgery and How To Avoid It"
• Southern Medical Association Orthopaedic Section 1996, Baltimore, Maryland, "Multilevel Cervical Fusion for Cervical Myelopathy"
• 1997 Charleston Place, Charleston, South Carolina "Physical Therapy for Low Back Pain"
• Southern Orthopaedic Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1998, Board Review Course, "Spine Section Fusion Techniques for Cervical and Lumbar Spine"
• Southern Orthopaedic Association, 1999 Kiawah Island, "Cervical Fusion using Allograft and Anterior Plating"
• Southern Orthopaedic Association 1999, Dallas Texas, "Cervical Myelopathy"
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Association, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina, 2000, "Lumbar Interbody Fusion"
• Southern Orthopaedic Association, Orlando, Florida 2000 "Cervical Radiculopathy and Use of Cervical Epidural Steroids"
• South Carolina Orthopaedic Association, 2001, Kiawah Island Resort, " South Carolina Political Action Committee"
• Southern Orthopaedic Association, Nashville Tennessee, 2001, "Lumbar and Cervical Epidural Injections"
• Kiawah Island Resort, 2002 "Moderator Section on "Trauma and Spinal Surgery"
• NASS Annual Meeting Abstracts, 2002, "Treatment Of Lumbar Spinal Stenosis With An Interspinous Spacer"
• Journal of Neurosurgery - Spine, March 2006, "The Quality of Life of Lumbar Stenosis Patients Treated with The X STOP Interspinous Implant"

Visiting Professorships:

• Department of Neurosurgery - University of Madrid Madrid, Spain 1992
• Department of Neurosurgery - University Hospital of Valencia, Valencia, Spain 1992
• Department of Neurosurgery - University of Lyon, Lyon, France 1995
• Department of Neurosurgery - University of Paris, Paris, France 1995
• London Spine Clinic, London England July 1998 - August 2002

International Visitors:

• Ahmad Shaaban, M.D. - Director of Spine Surgery
  Kuwait City, Kuwait 1992
• Neurosurgery - Orthopaedic Physicians Spain,
  May and November 1992
• John Sutcliffe, M.D. - Neurosurgeon
  London, England - April 1992
• John Sutcliffe, M.D. - Neurosurgeon
  London, England - July 1996
• John Sutcliffe, M.D. - Neurosurgeon
  London, England - December 2002

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