Dr. Nia Banks, MD

About Dr. Banks

Nia Banks, MD, PhD, is a plastic surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. She earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, summa cum laude, from North Carolina A&T State University in 1995, then an MD and a PhD in immunology from Johns Hopkins in 2002 and 2003. She completed her plastic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2008, becoming the first African American woman to complete that training program, and a craniofacial fellowship in 2008 at Hospital Necker-Enfants Malades in Paris under Dr. Eric Arnaud.

Dr. Banks is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2012. She is co-owner of Art of Balance Wellness Spa in Baltimore. She has served as Vice Chair of Surgery and Chief of Plastic Surgery at Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Maryland.

She was named to Maryland Daily Record's Top 40 Under 40 Professionals and Very Important Professionals lists in 2014. Dr. Banks was named a Spring 2026 commencement keynote speaker for North Carolina A&T State University.