Specialties/Interests Clinical - Research - surgical treatment for severe obesity (gastric bypass); stomach,
small bowel and colon surgery; laparoscopic gallbladder surgery; pancreatic
surgery; abdominal wall/incisional hernia repair 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,
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 gall stone pathogenesis and
biliary tract disease. Magnuson specializes in gastrointenstinal surgery, including surgeries of the
stomach, gall bladder, pancreas and bowel, and has a special interest in
bariatric surgery. He established the Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric
Surgery in 1997 which, in 2006, was named a Center of Excellence by the
American Society for Bariatric Surgery. | 
