S. Claiborne Clay Johnston MD, PhD

Dr. S. Claiborne Johnston is Associate Vice Chancellor of Research, director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Professor of Neurology and Epidemiology, and director of the Stroke Service at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his undergraduate education at Amherst College and completed medical school at Harvard University. He received a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed his residency in Neurology at UCSF, where he later trained in Vascular Neurology.

Dr. Johnston has authored more than 200 publications in scientific journals and has won several national awards for his research and teaching. He has led several large cohort studies of cerebrovascular disease and three multicenter randomized trials. Dr. Johnston studies stroke treatment and prevention using the tools of computer science and epidemiology.

Dr. Johnston is the Executive Vice Editor of the Annals of Neurology and has served on the editorial boards of several other journals. He has been honored with the American Academy of Neurology's Pessin Prize for Stroke Leadership and the American Stroke Association's Siekert New Investigator Award. He was a member of the California Health Disease and Stroke Prevention Advisory Council, which advises the Department of Health Services, and was co-director of Prevention Education Programs for the National Stroke Association.