John Hanna, M.D.

John Hanna, M.D., is an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine.

Dr. Hanna completed his medical education at the Assiut University Faculty of Medicine in Egypt. He then completed internal medicine residency training at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, New York. He obtained a fellowship in infectious diseases at UT Southwestern Medical Center and is currently pursuing a fellowship in clinical informatics. 

Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Hanna joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023. His research interests include infectious diseases, rare diseases, and COVID-19 treatments.

Dr. Hanna is a member of several professional societies, including the Texas Infectious Diseases Society, the Infectious Diseases Fellows Network, the American Medical Informatics Association, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Personal Note

Dr. Hanna is fluent in Arabic. Outside of medicine, he enjoys chess and table tennis.

Medical School

Assiut University Faculty of Medicine (2015)

Residency

Rochester General Hospital (2020), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2022), Infectious Diseases

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2023), Clinical Informatics

Featured Publications

The Politicization of Ivermectin Tweets During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Diaz MI, Hanna JJ, Hughes AE, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Open Forum Infect Dis 2022 Jul 9 7 ofac263

Simulating Facebook Advertisements to Establish Cost per New HIV Diagnosis Using Routine and Targeted Models in a Local Population.

Hanna JJ, Nijhawan AE, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Healthcare (Basel) 2022 Jun 10 7

Temporal, Spatial, and Epidemiologic Relationships of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Gene Cycle Thresholds: A Pragmatic Ambi-directional Observation.

Lesho E, Reno L, Newhart D, Clifford R, Vasylyeva O, Hanna J, Yu S, Bress J, Walsh E, Clin Infect Dis 2021 Nov 73 9 e3133-e3135

THE VALUE OF A REGIONAL 'LIVING' COVID-19 REGISTRY AND THE CHALLENGES OF KEEPING IT ALIVE.

Hanna J, Chen T, Portales-Castillo C, Said M, Bulnes R, Newhart D, Sienk L, Schantz K, Rozzi K, Alag K, Bress J, Lesho DO E, Perspect Health Inf Manag 2021 18 3 1d

Syncope, Near Syncope, or Nonmechanical Falls as a Presenting Feature of COVID-19.

Chen T, Hanna J, Walsh EE, Falsey AR, Laguio-Vila M, Lesho E, Ann Emerg Med 2020 Jul 76 1 115-117

Mitigating and preventing hepatitis B virus exposures during hemodialysis across a large regional health system.

Lesho EP, Hix J, Bronstein M, Shastry S, Hanna J, Scroggins G, Grieff M, Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2019 Sep 40 9 1066-1069

Paging the Clinical Informatics Community: Respond STAT to Dobbs v Jackson's Women's Health Organization.

Arvisais-Anhalt S, Ravi A, Weia B, Aarts J, Ahmad HB, Araj E, Bauml JA, Benham-Hutchins M, Boyd AD, Brecht-Doscher A, Butler-Henderson K, Butte A, Cardillo AB, Chilukuri N, Cho MK, Cohen JK, Craven CK, Crusco SJ, Dadabhoy F, Dash D, DeBolt C, Elkin PL, Fayanju OA, Fochtmann L, Graham JV, Hanna J, Hersh W, Hoffard MR, Hron J, Huang SS, Jackson BR, Kaplan B, Kelly W, Ko K, Koppel R, Kurapati N, Labbad G, Lee J, Lehmann CU, Leitner S, Liao ZC, Medford RJ, Melnick ER, Muniyappa AN, Murray S, Neinstein A, Nichols-Johnson V, Novak L, Ogan WS, Ozeran L, Pageler N, Pandita D, Perumbeti A, Petersen C, Pierce L, Puttagunta R, Ramaswamy P, Rogers KM, Rosenbloom T, Ryan A, Saleh S, Sarabu C, Schreiber R, Shaw KA, Sim I, Sirintrapun SJ, Solomonides A, Spector JD, Starren JB, Stoffel M, Subbian V, Swanson K, Tomes A, Trang K, Unertl KM, Weon JL, Whooley M, Wiley K, Williamson DF, Winkelstein P, Wong J, Xie J, Yarahuan JKW, Yung N, Zera C, Ratanawongsa N, Sadasivaiah S, Appl Clin Inform 2022 Dec

Blastomycosis Presenting With Acute Airway Obstruction From a Retropharyngeal Abscess and Complicated by Severe Hypokalemia During Posaconazole Therapy: A Case Report and Review of Literature.

Hanna JJ, Guastadisegni JM, Kouma MA, Knez EB, Arasaratnam RJ, Storey DF, Open Forum Infect Dis 2022 Aug 9 8 ofac414

Pasteurella multocida Bacteremia Secondary to Peritoneal Dialysis Associated Peritonitis: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Giacona JM, Weiner M, Hanna J, Jodlowski T, Bedimo R, Cureus 2022 Apr 14 4 e24188

Social media: A new tool for outbreak surveillance.

Wilson AE, Lehmann CU, Saleh SN, Hanna J, Medford RJ, Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol 2021 1 1 e50