Peter Banks

Dr. Banks is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for Pancreatic Disease at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Center provides a multi-disciplinary approach for patients with pancreatic disease, conducts clinical research to find more effective ways to diagnose and treat pancreatic disease, and provides a program to educate the next generation of pancreatic specialists.

Dr. Banks’s research interests in the pancreatic field include earlier recognition of severe acute pancreatitis, newer therapies for acute pancreatitis, newer therapy of pain in chronic pancreatitis, and recognition and treatment of cystic neoplasms of the pancreas.

Dr. Banks is Director of the Clinical Academic Training Program in Gastroenterology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He is a Past-President of both the American Pancreatic Association and the International Association of Pancreatology.

Education

American Board of Internal Medicine Board Certification, Gastroenterology, 1970

American Board of Internal Medicine Board Certification, Internal Medicine, 1968

Mount Sinai Hospital Fellowship, Gastroenterology, 1967

Mount Sinai School of Medicine Fellowship, Gastroenterology, 1967

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Fellowship, Infectious Disease, 1965

National Institutes of Health Clinical Center Fellowship, Allergy, 1965

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Residency, Internal Medicine, 1963

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Residency, Internal Medicine, 1962

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons Medical School, 1961