Peter A. Banks, MD, is director of the Center for Pancreatic Disease and the clinical research track at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also serves as a professor of medicine at Boston-based Harvard Medical School. He is a past president of the American Pancreatic Association and International Association of Pancreatology as well as past chair of the Pancreatic Disorders Section of the American Gastroenterological Association. He also serves as vice chairman of the Digestive Disease National Coalition.
Dr. Banks' research interests include the identification of risk factors and new markers of severity in acute pancreatitis, newer treatment for fulminant pancreatitis and newer modalities to treat pain in chronic pancreatitis. Over the course of his career he has won numerous awards, including the Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Gastroenterology Award by the AGA in 2006. He has had his work published in a number of publications, including Pancreas and Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology.
Dr. Banks earned his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York. He completed his internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He has completed two fellowships — one in gastroenterology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and a second in infectious disease at the National Institutes of Health.
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