Liane B. Johnson

Education

• HBSc Genetics, University of Western Ontario
• MDCM, McGill University
• Anesthesia residency, Dalhousie University
• Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery residency, Dalhousie University
• Pediatric Otolaryngology fellowship, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Diplomate of the American Board of Otolaryngology – 2002, recert.
• Québec  Otorhinolaryngology certificate - la Fédération des Médecins Spécialistes du Québec (FMSQ) 2001
• Licentiate of Medical Council of Canada - LMCC (Part I & II) - 1996

Research interests

Dr. Johnson’s research interests include clinical case studies involving airway pathology in pediatric patients, and simulation-based learning studies for airway and laryngology procedures.

Selected publications

• A Hart R, Henry E, Johnson LB, Leblanc R, Massoud E, Morris DP, Taylor SM, Trites J. 2013.  Passing the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Board Exam: A comprehensive question and answer based review.  Gaspereau Press. 3^rd Ed.
• Four Chapters in Management of the Difficult and Failed Airway, 2012.  McGraw-Hill.  Second Edition. Chapter 13: Surgical Airway;  Chapter 33: Elective Percutaneous Dilational Tracheostomy in a Patient on Mechanical Ventilation; Chapter 43: Airway Management of Supraglottitis; Chapter 44: Management of 12-year-old Child with a Foreign Body in the Bronchus
• Johnson LB, Rutter MJ, Cotton RT.  Management of Symptomatic Tracheal Pouches.  Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 2007; 71(4):527-3.
• Johnson LB, Rutter MJ, Shott SR, Cotton RT.  Acquired Subglottic Cysts in Preterm Infants.  J Otolaryngol 2005; 34(2):75-8.
• Johnson LB, Elluru RG, Myer CM.  Complications of Adenotonsillectomy. Supplement to The Laryngoscope 2002; 112(8):35-36.

Selected awards and honours

• European Society of Paediatric Otolaryngology Scholarship (2002); presented at the ESPO meeting September 11^th, Oxford, UK
• Ross Stewart Smith Fellowship (2001), Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
• Otolaryngology Resident Research Day (2000), first place, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
• Dr. B.L. Jewett Memorial Prize for Head and Neck Surgery Research (1999), first place, Otolaryngology Resident Research Day, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
• Florence Bucke Scholarship (1990), first class standing in an independent research project in biological sciences. University of Western Ontario, London, ON

Memberships

• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• American College of Surgeons
• Canadian Society of Otolaryngology
• American Board of Otolaryngology
• American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
• SENTAC (Society of Ear Nose and Throat Advances in Children)

Employment

• IWK Health Centre, since October 2003

Teaching

Affiliated with Dalhousie Medical School residency program. Faculty at the Difficult Airway Course for Anesthesiology, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Difficult Airway Course for Residents, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital; Difficult Airway Boot Camp, University of Western Ontario (for junior residents).