Tony Hodges
Dr. Tony N. Hodges is currently Chief, Transplant Services; Director, Center for Infusion Medicine and Physician Executive Director of Revenue Cycle Operations at Banner University Medical Center in Phoenix.
He holds the rank of Professor of Medicine at The University of Arizona College of Medicine. He has held these leadership positions since April 2016.
Prior to this he was co-founder and Director of the Center for Thoracic Transplantation and Medical Director of Lung Transplantation at the Norton Thoracic Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix. He held that leadership position 2006 to 2012.
Prior to relocating to Phoenix, Dr. Hodges was an Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. He also served as the Medical Director of Lung Transplantation, Medical Director of Lung Volume Reduction Center, Director of Interventional Pulmonology and Director of the Advanced Lung Disease Center at USC University Hospital.
Dr. Hodges received his medical degree from Louisiana State University in New Orleans. He performed his Internal Medicine residency and served as Assistant Chief of Medicine at Wake Forest University/Baptist Medical Center. He then matriculated to the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center / National Jewish for fellowship training in Pulmonary Science and Critical Care Medicine where he also spent two years in a specialty Lung Transplant fellowship. Dr Hodges was on faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center as the Associate Medical Director of Lung Transplantation before assuming his leadership role at USC.
He is a fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians, American College of Physicians and Infectious Disease Society of America. Active in the American Thoracic Society, American Society of Microbiology, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant and American Society of Transplantation.
He has been included in the prestigious Best Doctors in America list yearly since 2001. Dr. Hodges’ research and clinical interests are primarily in the area of the immunomodulatory effects of viral infections in transplantation and their role in acute and chronic allograft dysfunction. He is internationally recognized for his expertise in issues related to pneumonia syndromes, community acquired respiratory viruses, lung transplantation, advanced lung diseases and infectious complications of transplantation, the immunocompromised host and the business development of successful transplantation programs.