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Samuel Johnston, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine

Current Positions

  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine

Education

  • MD, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
  • Resident, Internal Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
  • Fellow, General Cardiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois
  • Fellow, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois

Selected Publications

  • Sanagala, T., Johnston, S. L., Groot, G. D., Santucci, P., Rhine, D. K. & Varma, N. (2011). Left atrial mechanical responses to right ventricular pacing in heart failure patients: implications for atrial fibrillation. Journal of cardiovascular electrophysiology 22 (8) 866-74. DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2011.02061.x. PMID: 21489025.
  • Johnston, S. L., Halabi, S., Cohoon, K., Alex, C., Hutchens, K. & Leya, F. (2007). Stroke and myocardial infarction as late complications of lung transplantation. The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation 26 (10) 1065-8. DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.07.031. PMID: 17919629.
  • Wang, R. F., Johnston, S. L., Zeng, G., Topalian, S. L., Schwartzentruber, D. J. & Rosenberg, S. A. (1998). A breast and melanoma-shared tumor antigen: T cell responses to antigenic peptides translated from different open reading frames. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 161 (7) 3598-606. PMID: 9759882.
  • Wang, R. F., Wang, X., Johnston, S. L., Zeng, G., Robbins, P. F. & Rosenberg, S. A. (1998). Development of a retrovirus-based complementary DNA expression system for the cloning of tumor antigens. Cancer research 58 (16) 3519-25. PMID: 9721852.
  • Wang, R. F., Johnston, S. L., Southwood, S., Sette, A. & Rosenberg, S. A. (1998). Recognition of an antigenic peptide derived from tyrosinase-related protein-2 by CTL in the context of HLA-A31 and -A33. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 160 (2) 890-7. PMID: 9551926.
  • Johnston, S. L., Ashwath, M., London, B., Torgerson, J., Aleksandra, T. & Olshansky, B. The mysterious case of an athletic woman with recurrent syncope and a “normal” heart. The Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management 10 3744-3749.
  • Johnston, S. L. & Dieter, R. S. Upper Extremities and Aortic Arch. In Textbook of Interventional Cardiology. Saunders-Elsevier.
  • Sanagala, T., Johnston, S. L., Rhine, D., Groot, G. & Varma, N. RV pacing in patients with LV dysfunction and narrow QRS duration has variable biventricular electromechanical effects. Heart Rhythm.
  • Varma, N., Jia, P., Johnston, S. L., Rhine, D., Groot, G. & Sanagala, T. Does RV pacing always simulate LBBB in patients with left ventricular dysfunction?. Heart Rhythm.
  • Johnston, S. L., Demos, T. C., Keuer, E. J., Bakhos, M. & Dieter, R. S. Primary Vascular Tumors. In Peripheral Arterial Disease. McGraw-Hill.