Benjamin Roche Johnston, MD, PhD
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
- Foxborough, MA
Ben Johnston, MD, Phd grew up in Hingham, MA, completed his PhD at UT Arlington & UT Southwestern Medical Center, and MD at Brown University. He completed his neurosurgical residency training at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital – Boston Children's Hospital – Harvard Medical School program.
Dr. Johnston completed an enfolded focused clinical rotation in peripheral nerve and reconstructive neurosurgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an enfolded fellowship in complex spine surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
He maintains an active basic science research laboratory and is focused on nociception, gene therapies to limit chronic pain development, and cancers involving the peripheral nervous system. His work was awarded the 2024 Kline Peripheral Nerve Top Abstract Award and the Kuntz Scholar Award at the AANS/CNS Spine Summit. His research has received several grants including the NREF & Medtronic Research Fellowship Grant, philanthropic funding from The David Borsook Project and The Cathedral Fund at Boston Children’s Hospital. He was most recently awarded the Paul Calabresi Career Award for Clinical Oncology Training Grant (National Cancer Institute - K12CA090354).
Education & Training
- Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Neurosurgery, 2025
- Medical Education: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, 2018
Languages Spoken
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid RI
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Tufts Health Plan
- Medicaid VT
- MassHealth
- WellSense
- Coventry
- Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Medicaid CT
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Health
- Medicare
- Maine Community Health Options
- Beech Street
- United Health Care
- Senior Whole Health
- Multiplan
- Medicaid NH
- Wellpoint
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Tricare