
Dr. Mary T. Hawn is the Stanford Medicine Professor of Surgery and Chair of the Department of Surgery at Stanford University. Dr. Hawn, a native of Michigan, received her education and surgical training at the University of Michigan. Her clinical area of specialty is minimally invasive foregut surgery. Dr. Hawn is a funded health services researcher and her projects focus on quality measurement and policy in surgical populations. She is a Director for the American Board of Surgery and serves on the editorial board of Annals of Surgery, Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and the American Journal of Surgery. Dr. Hawn has several additional leadership roles in American Surgery including Chair of the American College of Surgeons Scientific Forum Committee and as a Trustee and Treasurer for the Surgical Society of the Alimentary Tract. She is the co-Editor of a new surgical textbook Operative Techniques in Surgery.
Selected publications from PubMed
Enhancing Reality in the Multidisciplinary World.
Nobuhara CK, Forrester JD, Hawn MT
JAMA Surg. 2026 Jul 1;161(7):751-752 doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2026.1493.
Tips for Success: Developing a Video-Based Multidisciplinary Review Rounds of Critical Events in the Operating Room.
Forrester JD, Gostic WJ, Peterson A, Gomez B, Watt D, Singer S, Wald SH, Bateman BT, Hawn MT
J Patient Saf. 2026 May 1;22(3):e70-e72 doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000001466.
Roadmap for Research and Scholarship in General Surgery Residency Training: Report of the Research Subcommittee of Blue Ribbon Committee II on Surgical Education and Training.
Hawn MT, Matthews JB, Bumgardner GL, Economou J, Itani K, Kelz R, Tracy T, Zeiger MA
Ann Surg. 2025 Jan 1;281(1):29-33 doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000006453.
Mapping the Discharge Process After Surgery.
Graham LA, Illarmo S, Gray CP, Harris AHS, Wagner TH, Hawn MT, Iannuzzi JC, Wren SM
JAMA Surg. 2024 Apr 1;159(4):438-444 doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2023.7539.
Mixed Esophageal Disease (MED): A New Concept.
Triadafilopoulos G, Mashimo H, Tatum R, O'Clarke J, Hawn M
Dig Dis Sci. 2023 Sep;68(9):3542-3554 doi: 10.1007/s10620-023-08008-x.
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