John B. Hanks, M.D.
Professor of Surgery
Chief, Division of General Surgery
President, Clinical Staff
UVA Health System
photograph of Dr. John B. Hanks

Clinical Interests
General Surgery, Endocrine, Thyroid, Parathyroid, Breast Disease

 

Research Interests
  • Pancreatic physiology and transplantation
  • Endocrine surgery
  • Peripheral effects of insulin on carbohydrate metabolism

 

Undergraduate and Medical Education
Princeton University, A.B. Biology, 1969
University of Rochester, M.D., 1973

 

Postgraduate Medical Education
Duke University, Surgical Residency, 1973-1975, 1977-1982
U.S. Public Health Service, Bethesda, MD, 1975-1977

 

Licensure
Virginia

 

Board Certification
American Board of Surgery, 1984
Recertification 1992, 2001

 

Recent Publications
Boyd L.A., Earnhardt R.C., Dunn J.T., Frierson H.F., Hanks J.B.: Preoperative evaluation and predictive value of fine needle aspiration and frozen section of thyroid nodules. Journal of American College of Surgeons. 187:494-502, 1998.
 
 Clocquet A.R., Egan J.H., Stoffers D.A., Muller P.C., Wideman L., Chin G.A., Clarke W.L., Hanks J.B., Habener J.F., Elahi D.: Impaired Insulin Secretion and Increased Insulin Sensitivity in Familial Maturity-Onset Diabetes of the Young 4 (Insulin Promoter Factor Gene). Diabetes. 49: 1856-1864, 2000.
 
 Markey D., McGowan J., Hanks J.B.: The Effect of Clinical Pathway Implementation on Total Hospital Costs for Thyroidectomy and Parathyroidectomy. American Surgeon, 66: 533-539, 2000.
 
Brill, K.T.; Weltman, A.L.; Gentili, A.; Patrie, J.T.; Fryburg, D.A.; Hanks, J. B.; Urban, R. J.; Veldhuis, J. D.: Single and Combined Effects of Growth Hormone and Testosterone Administration on Measures of Body Composition, Physical Performance, Mood, Sexual Function, Bone Turnover, and Muscle Gene Expression in Healthy Older Men. The Journal of Clinical Endocronology and Metabolism. 87 (12): 5649-5657, 2002

Earnhardt, R. C.; Veldhuis, J. D.; Cornett, G.; Hanks, J. B. Pathophysiology of hyperinsulinemia following pancreas transplantation: altered pulsatile versus Basal insulin secretion and the role of specific tansplant anatomy in dogs. Annals of Surgery. 236 (4): 480-90. 2002.

Hanks J.B.: "The Thyroid" in Sabiston's Texbook of Surgery, 17th Edition, Townsend, Editor. 947-984, 2004

Hanks, J.B. "Adrenal Surgery" in Endocrinology, 5th Edition, DeGroot, L. J., Jameson JL (eds) P2535, 2006

Hanks, J. B., Salomone, L.J.: "The Thyroid" in Sabiston's Textbook of Surgery, 18th Edition, Townsend, ed., in press 2007.

Rogol, A, D'Amour P, Levine M.A., Burns D.E. and Hanks, J.B.: Persistent Hypercalcemia after Parthyroidectomy in an Adolescent and Effect of Treatment with Cinacalcet HCL. Clinical Chemistry, in press 2006.

Turrentine F.E., Henderson, W.G., Schiffner M.S., Inabnet, W.B., Mahmoud El-Tamer, Khuri Sl, Northup, C.J., Simpson, V.B., Hanks, J.B.: Adrenalectomy in Veterans Affairs and Private Sector Hospitals: Results of the Patient Safety in Surgery Study. J Am Coll. Surgeons, in press 2007 

 

 
Address
Department of Surgery
PO Box 800709
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908-0709

 

Email
jbh@virginia.edu

 

Telephone
(434) 924-0376

 

Fax
(434) 924-1024