Specialties
Education
- MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- MPH, University of Texas at Houston, Houston, TX
- Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
- Fellowship, Research, Houston Center for Quality of Care & Utilization, Houston, TX
- Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Endocrine Surgery
- Implementation Science Certificate Program, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Clinical Specialties
Dr. Balentine is a board-certified endocrine surgeon specializing in hernia repairs, dialysis outcomes, and endocrine surgery for veterans.
Research Interests
Dr. Balentine’s research is focused on inguinal hernia surgery in older adults and acute care for the elderly and veterans.
Dr. Balentine and Dr. Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Associate Professor of Surgery and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas Southwestern, were recently awarded at four-year, $1.6 million R01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Read more here.
Dr. Balentine and Alan McMillan, PhD, professor in the Department of Radiology, were awarded a two-year, $69,000 grant from the Palliative and Supportive Care Disease-oriented Team at the UW Carbone Cancer Center. Read more here.
Recent Publications
Learning How Preoperative Communication Relates to Postoperative Experiences for Older Veterans Having Inguinal Hernia Surgery.
Thornton MA, Marten EL, Lunardi N, Mai D, Macdonald C, Baker JG, Hitzeman A, Skinner CS, Brown CJ, Berger M, Lee SC, Cullum CM, Makris KI, Pham TH, Naik A, Tang V, Balentine CJ
J Am Geriatr Soc 2025 Nov 26;
[PubMed ID: 41294300]Identifying Barriers and Motivators to Increase Surgical Clinical Trial Participation for Older Veterans.
Cher BAY, Lunardi N, Thornton M, Hitzeman A, Baker J, Macdonald C, Skinner CS, Brown CJ, Mai D, Marten EL, Makris K, Heredia MLM, Berger M, Cullum CM, Lee SC, Pham TH, Balentine CJ
J Am Geriatr Soc 2025 Nov 26;
[PubMed ID: 41294297]Barriers to workup and referral of primary hyperparathyroidism: A qualitative study of providers' perspectives.
Cooper E, Gutierrez-Meza D, Alagoz E, O'Connor J, Sanghvi A, Balentine C, Sippel R, Chiu A
Surgery 2025 Oct 08; 109711
[PubMed ID: 41062397]Who Gets Referred? Disparities in Access to Specialist Care for Hyperparathyroidism.
O'Connor JP, Sippel R, Balentine C, Stalter L, Kind A, Chiu A
J Surg Res 2025 Aug; 312: 236-243
[PubMed ID: 40602008]Equivalent Pain and Opioid Use Between Transabdominal and Retroperitoneal Adrenalectomy.
Haskins L, Tobin N, Reineman E, Sippel R, Schneider D, Long K, Elfenbein D, Balentine C, Chiu A
J Surg Res 2024 Dec; 304: 173-180
[PubMed ID: 39549505]