Professor
Bernard & Gloria Pepper Katz Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
Houston, Texas
Dr. Hanna is a Professor in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also attended dental school from 2000-2004, earning a Doctor of Dental Surgery Degree. He finished a one-year oral and maxillofacial internship at the now-historic Charity Hospital, Louisiana State University Health Science Center in New Orleans, between 2004-2005. He then went on to finish the final four years of his oral and maxillofacial surgery residency at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Hanna joined The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Dentistry’s Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2011. Since then, he has served on the Facial Trauma Team at Memorial Hermann Hospital and Ben Taub General Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. In 2013, he was appointed Chief of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Service at Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, where he continues serving in this role. He is an active member of the local and national Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery community. He is the past president of the Houston Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons and past chair of the national Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cleft & Craniofacial Committee. He frequently lectures nationally, including on the topics of office-based anesthesia and dentoalveolar surgery, and runs a biennial national Office-Based Anesthesia Course. His research interests include office-based anesthesia and facial bone reconstruction.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
7:45 AM - 4:10 PM EDT
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