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Dr. Hawes is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Hawes grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. He attended Indiana University for his undergraduate education receiving an A.B. in Chemistry in 1976, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He attended Indiana University School of Medicine, graduating in 1980. He then completed a three-year residency in Internal Medicine and a two-year fellowship in Gastroenterology at Indiana University Hospitals under the guidance of Glen Lehman.
Dr. Hawes then spent a year in London, England doing an Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship concentrating on ERCP and endoscopic laser therapy under the direction of Peter B. Cotton and Steve Bown. He returned to Indiana University and served on the faculty in the Department of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology from 1986-1994. During this time, he was promoted from Assistant to Associate and ultimately to Full Professor in July of 1994.
In July of 1994, Dr. Hawes joined with Peter Cotton and moved to Charleston, South Carolina to help establish a Digestive Disease Center. The center is designed to facilitate the integration of GI medicine, surgery, and radiology into an integrated unit to promote patient care, research, and technology development to treat patients with digestive diseases.
Dr. Hawes is the 2005-2006 President of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
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