John Hanna, M.D.

Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
HIV
SARS-CoV-2

Biography

John Hanna, M.D., is an Assistant Instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine and a Clinical Informatics Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in clinical informatics, infectious diseases, and HIV.

Dr. Hanna earned his medical degree at Assiut University in Egypt. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Rochester General Hospital and gained advanced training in infectious diseases through a fellowship at UT Southwestern.

Board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases, Dr. Hanna joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2023.

He is a member of the American Medical Informatics Association, the HIV Medicine Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Texas Infectious Diseases Society.

Dr. Hanna is involved in several research studies, including risk factors of COVID-19 and outcomes among people with HIV; health care-associated infections during the COVID-19 pandemic; use of social media in health care for health promotion and tackling disinformation; predictors of murine typhus in North Texas; and evaluating clinical decision support solutions. He has published articles in peer-reviewed journals related to his areas of interest.

Personal Note

When he’s not working, Dr. Hanna plays the piano and enjoys recreational volleyball and racket sports.

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American Medical Informatics Association
HIV Medicine Association
Infectious Diseases Society of America
Texas Infectious Diseases Society

Honors & Awards

Top 3 Poster Presentation 2022, Texas Infectious Diseases Society Annual Meeting
Recipient, Trainee Travel Award, 2018, 2022, Infectious Diseases Society of America IDWeek
Best Clinical Vignette 2021, 6th Annual Donald W. Seldin Research Symposium
Recipient, Lawrence E. Young Award 2019, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Rochester General Hospital

Books & Publications

Publications
- 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, Applied clinical informatics 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 infectious diseases 2022 Aug 9 8 ofac414
- The Politicization of Ivermectin Tweets During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
  Diaz MI, Hanna JJ, Hughes AE, Lehmann CU, Medford RJ, Open forum infectious diseases 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, Switzerland) 2022 Jun 10 7
- 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
- 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, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 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, Perspectives in health information management 2021 18 3 1d
- Social media: A new tool for outbreak surveillance.
  Wilson AE, Lehmann CU, Saleh SN, Hanna J, Medford RJ, Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE 2021 1 1 e50
- 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, Annals of emergency medicine 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, Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2019 Sep 40 9 1066-1069
- A Rapidly Fatal Infection With Haemophilus influenzae Serotype E Harboring bla_ROB-1: The Dilemma of Safe De-escalation in the Setting of Potential Extended-Spectrum ?-Lactamase Production.
  Hanna J, Ogunsesan Y, Snesrud E, Maybank R, Ong A, Kwak Y, Jones A, McGann P, Lesho E, Open forum infectious diseases 2018 Dec 5 12 ofy302

Research

Risk factors of COVID-19 and outcomes among people with HIV
Health care-associated infections during the COVID-19 pandemic
Use of social media in health care for health promotion and tackling disinformation
Predictors of murine typhus in North Texas
Evaluating clinical decision support solutions
Antimicrobial resistance
Automating interpretation, real-time reporting, and auditing of BioFire blood culture identification panels
Use of real-world data to generate clinical insights
Financing clinical informatics fellowships

Clinical Focus

HIV
SARS-CoV-2
Clinical Informatics

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