Associate Professor, Surgery
Chief, General Surgery Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Director, The Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery
Contact Information and Appointments
410-550-0409 phone tmagnus@jhmi.edu
410-550-1822 fax
Curriculum Vitae (CV), Publications (PubMed)
Specialties/Interests
- Clinical - surgical treatment for severe obesity (gastric bypass); stomach, small bowel and colon surgery; laparoscopic gallbladder surgery; pancreatic surgery; abdominal wall/incisional hernia repair
- Research - weight loss surgery outcomes, gallstone and gallbladder disease, metabolic disease related to obesity
Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery
Biography
Thomas H. Magnuson, M.D., FACS, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery, is an associate professor of surgery at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and chief of general surgery at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
After earning his medical degree at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Magnuson completed surgical training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, including specialty training in gastrointestinal surgery. He also completed a research fellowship investigating issues related to gallstone pathogenesis and biliary tract disease.
Dr. Magnuson specializes in gastrointenstinal surgery, including surgeries of the stomach, gallbladder, pancreas and bowel. He also has a special interest in bariatric surgery and established the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery in 1997. In 2006, the bariatric program was recognized as a Center of Excellence by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.
