Dr Ray Johnston
Head Aviation Health Unit
UK Civil Aviation Authority
Dr Johnston trained in Glasgow and graduated in 1973. He underwent specialist training in internal medicine and diabetes in which he is accredited. He was a physician in the University Department of Medicine in Glasgow where his research included an interest in abnormalities of blood clotting and spent a year’s fellowship in MacMaster University in Canada in the specialist Thrombosis Investigation Unit. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Glasgow. In 1990 he joined the medical division of the Civil Aviation Authority and completed the Diploma in Aviation Medicine and formal training in Occupational and Aviation Medicine and obtained the MFOM in 1995. In 1999 he was awarded the Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine and an MBA degree from the University of Surrey. He took up the post of Head of the Aviation Health Unit in April 2006.
