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Overview

Jonas T. Johnson is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Medicine, with notable focus on subfields such as Oncology, Otorhinolaryngology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Surgery, and Speech and Hearing.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Head and Neck Cancer Studies
  • Cancer survivorship and care
  • Dysphagia Assessment and Management
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Frailty in Older Adults
  • Hip and Femur Fractures

Johnson has published extensively in journals such as:

  • The Laryngoscope
  • Head & Neck
  • Otolaryngology
  • Journal of Clinical Oncology
  • Oral Oncology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Johnson include:

  • Marci L. Nilsen
  • Dan P. Zandberg
  • Robert L. Ferris
  • Robert T. Sataloff
  • Edward Fisher

Selected recent publications demonstrate a focus on clinical applications and multidisciplinary approaches, including:

  • Clinical Utility of the Risk Analysis Index as a Prospective Frailty Screening Tool within a Multi-practice, Multi-hospital Integrated Healthcare System (2020) in Annals of Surgery
  • Transition to a virtual multidisciplinary tumor board during the COVID-19 pandemic: University of Pittsburgh experience (2020) in Head & Neck
  • Potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on financial toxicity in cancer survivors (2020) in Head & Neck
  • Validation of the Risk Analysis Index for Evaluating Frailty in Ambulatory Patients (2020) in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • Association of Routine Preoperative Frailty Assessment With 1-Year Postoperative Mortality (2023) in JAMA Surgery

Best Publications

  • Impact of Mutational Testing on the Diagnosis and Management of Patients with Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules: A Prospective Analysis of 1056 FNA Samples

    Yuri E. Nikiforov;N. Paul Ohori;Steven P. Hodak;Sally E. Carty

  • Oral pilocarpine for post-irradiation xerostomia in patients with head and neck cancer.

    J T Johnson;G A Ferretti;W J Nethery;I H Valdez

  • Frequent mutation of the PI3K pathway in head and neck cancer defines predictive biomarkers

    Vivian W.Y. Lui;Matthew L. Hedberg;Hua Li;Bhavana S. Vangara

  • Outcomes after nasal septoplasty: Results from the Nasal Obstruction Septoplasty Effectiveness (NOSE) study ☆

    Michael G Stewart;Timothy L Smith;Edward M Weaver;David L Witsell

  • A Unique Subset of CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ T Cells Secreting Interleukin-10 and Transforming Growth Factor-β1 Mediates Suppression in the Tumor Microenvironment

    Laura Strauss;Christoph Bergmann;Miroslaw Szczepanski;William Gooding

  • The Extracapsular Spread of Tumors in Cervical Node Metastasis

    Johnson Jt;Barnes El;Myers En;Schramm Vl

  • Perineural Invasion in Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

    Johannes J. Fagan;Bobby Collins;Leon Barnes;Frank D'Amico

  • Spontaneous apoptosis of circulating T lymphocytes in patients with head and neck cancer and its clinical importance.

    Thomas K. Hoffmann;Grzegorz Dworacki;Takashi Tsukihiro;Norbert Meidenbauer

  • Management of tumors arising in the parapharyngeal space.

    Ricardo L. Carrau;Eugene N. Myers;Jonas T. Johnson

  • Immune Monitoring of the Circulation and the Tumor Microenvironment in Patients with Regionally Advanced Melanoma Receiving Neoadjuvant Ipilimumab

    Ahmad A. Tarhini;Howard D Edington;Lisa H. Butterfield;Yan Lin

  • Head and neck malignancy: is PET/CT more accurate than PET or CT alone?

    Barton F. Branstetter;Todd M. Blodgett;Lee A. Zimmer;Carl H. Snyderman

  • First-in-Human Trial of a STAT3 Decoy Oligonucleotide in Head and Neck Tumors: Implications for Cancer Therapy

    Malabika Sen;Sufi M. Thomas;Seungwon Kim;Joanne I. Yeh

  • The frequency and suppressor function of CD4+CD25highFoxp3+ T cells in the circulation of patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

    Laura Strauss;Christoph Bergmann;William Gooding;Jonas T. Johnson

  • Biology, Cytogenetics, and Sensitivity to Immunological Effector Cells of New Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma Lines

    D S Heo;C Snyderman;S M Gollin;S Pan

  • Development of distant metastasis after treatment of advanced-stage head and neck cancer

    Aijaz Alvi;Jonas T. Johnson

  • Management of inverted papilloma

    Eugene N. Myers;James L. Fernau;Jonas T. Johnson;Jean Claude Tabet

  • Functional results of primary closure vs flaps in oropharyngeal reconstruction: a prospective study of speech and swallowing.

    Fred M. S. McConnel;Barbara Roa Pauloski;Jerilyn A. Logemann;Alfred W. Rademaker

  • Cervical lymph node metastasis after local excision of early squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity

    Michael J. Cunningham;Jonas T. Johnson;Eugene N. Myers;Victor L. Schramm

  • Cervical Lymph Node Metastases: Incidence and Implications of Extracapsular Carcinoma

    Johnson Jt;Myers En;Bedetti Cd;Barnes El

  • Prognostic factors in mobile tongue and floor of mouth carcinoma.

    Bert Brown;Leon Barnes;Juan Mazariegos;Floyd Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene N. Myers
Eugene N. Myers University of Pittsburgh
Robert L. Ferris
Robert L. Ferris University of Pittsburgh
Theresa L. Whiteside
Theresa L. Whiteside University of Pittsburgh
Jennifer R. Grandis
Jennifer R. Grandis University of California, San Francisco
William E. Gooding
William E. Gooding University of Pittsburgh
Richard J.H. Smith
Richard J.H. Smith University of Iowa
Carl H. Snyderman
Carl H. Snyderman University of Pittsburgh
Randal S. Weber
Randal S. Weber The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Raja R. Seethala
Raja R. Seethala University of Pittsburgh
Ronald B. Herberman
Ronald B. Herberman University of Pittsburgh

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