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James Warren Van Hook, MD
Professor
Director, Division Maternal Fetal Medicine

Email: James W. Van Hook
Telephone: 558-9930
Office Location: MSB 5361

 

James Van Hook, MD, is a 1981 graduate of Louisiana Tech University with a degree in biology.  He completed his Doctor in Medicine training at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in Shreveport.  He finished his internship and residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.  He completed a fellowship in Critical Care OBGYN at Bowman Gray University School of Medicine in Winston Salem North Carolina and completed a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle Washington.  After holding faculty positions at the University of Texas Medical Branch and Texas Tech University, where he was Regional Chair of the OBGYN department at Texas Tech’s Amarillo campus, Dr. Van Hook joined the University of Cincinnati in 2008.  Dr. Van Hook is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Obstetrics and Gynecology, Critical Care OBGYN, and Maternal Fetal Medicine.  Additionally, Dr. Van Hook is Board Certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine in Addictionology.

Dr. Van Hook is the Director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.  Dr. Van Hook has published on a wide variety of topics in pregnancy.  His current areas of interest are hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, women’s health and rehabilitation, physician health, and critical care OBGYN.

Credentials

BS: Biology, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, 1981.
MD: Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1982.
Residency: Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas 1986
Fellowship: Critical Care Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, 1990
Fellowship:  Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, 1993.
Added Qualification: Addiction Medicine, The American Society of Addiction Medicine, Chevy Chase, Maryland, 2002.

Award and Honors:

Administrative Chief Resident- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch Hospital (1986)
Student Teaching Award- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Medical Branch Hospital (2003)
Best Doctors in America (2004-2008)

Oral Board Examiner -American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2008)

 

Recent Publications:

    1. Belfort MA, Anthony J, Saade GR, Allen JC Jr, Nimodipine Study Group. A comparison of magnesium sulfate and nimodipine for the prevention of pre-eclampsia.  New England J of Med 2003;348(4):304-11.
    2. Gei AF, Pacheco L, Van Hook JW, Hankins GDV.  The use of a continuous fusion of epinephrine for anaphylactic shock during labor:  Case report and literature review.  Obstet & Gynecol 2003;102(6):1332-5.
    3. Van Hook JW, Pacheco L, Gei A.  Trauma.  In:  Dildy III G, Clark SL, Hankins GDV, Phelan JP, Belfort MA, Saade G (eds):  Critical Care Obstetrics, 4th ed. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Science, 484-505;2003.
    4. Pacheco L, Van Hook JW, Gei A.  Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation.  In:  Dildy III G, Clark SL, Hankins GDV, Phelan JP, Belfort MA, Saade G (eds):  Critical Care Obstetrics, 4th ed.  Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Science, 394-407;2003.
    5. Szaniszlo P, Wang N , Sinha M, Reece LM, Smith JN, Van Hook JW, Luxon BA, Leary JF.  Getting the Right Cells to the Array Gene Expression Microarray Analysis of Cell Mixtures and Sorted Cells, Cytometry Part A:  The Journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology. 59(2):191-202, 2004 June.
    6. Pacheco LD, Gei AF, Van Hook JW, Saade GR, Hankins GDV.  Burns in Pregnancy.  Obstet & Gynecol. 106(5, Part 2), 1210-1212, 2005 November.
    7. Tiwari R, Hicks K, Naqvi M, Biskinis E, Nirgiotis J, Van Hook J, Suffield R.  Prenatal diagnosis of a neonate with fetus in fetu.  J Perinatol (2006)26:366-367.
    8. Kauffman RP, Castracane VD, Peghee D, Baker TE, Van Hook JW.  Detection of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus by Homeostatic Indices of Insulin Resistance:  a Preliminary Study.  Am J Obstet Gynecol (2006)194:1576-84
    9. Van Hook JW. Substance Abuse and Addiction.  In: Evans A (ed): Manual of Obstetrics, 7th edition, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins 2007.
    10. Vrabec JT, Isaacson B, Van Hook JW.  Bell’s Palsy and Pregnancy:  State of the Art Review. Otolaryngology (Accepted Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery 2008).
    11. Van Hook JW. Trauma in Pregnancy for Critical Care Obstetrics.  In: Belfort M, Saade G, Foley M, Phelan J, Dildy G (eds): Critical Care Obstetrics, 5th ed. Malden, Massachusetts, Blackwell Science (in press 2008).