• O'Brien JC. Head and Neck Section, Selected Readings in General Surgery. McClelland RN, ed. January-February, 1978.
• Byers RM, O'Brien JC, Waxler J. The therapeutic and prognostic implications of nerve invasion in cancer of the lower lip. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1978;4:215-217.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE , ed.
  • Salivary gland tumors. 1980;1:No.1.
  • Oropharyngeal tumors, 1980;1:No2.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE, ed.
  • Malignant melanoma. 1982;2:No7.
  • Salivary gland tumors. 1982;2:No9.
  • Oropharyngeal tumors. 1982;2:No10.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE, ed.
  • Malignant melanoma. 1986;3:No7.
  • Salivary gland tumors. 1986;3:No9.
  • Oropharyngeal tumors. 1986;3:No10.
• Goepfert H, Close LG, Helfrick JF, Neal GD, O’Brien JC, et al. Head and neck cancer. Head and Neck Oncology Workgroup, Legislative Task Force on Cancer in Texas. Tex Med 1987;83:4-16.
• Anderson RG, O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE, ed.
  • Skin tumors II: Melanoma. 1988;5:No8.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE, ed.
  • Head and neck I: Oropharyngeal and salivary gland tumors. 1988;5:No9.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE, ed.
  • Head and Neck I: Oropharyngeal and salivary gland tumors. 1990;5:No9.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery. Barton FE, ed.
  • Head and neck I: Oropharyngeal and salivary gland tumors. 1992;7:No9.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery.  Barton FE, ed.
  • Head and neck I: Oropharyngeal and salivary gland tumors. 1997;8:No9.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery.  Barton FE, ed.
  • Head and neck I: Oropharyngeal and salivary gland tumors. 2000;9:No9.
• O'Brien JC. Selected Readings in Plastic Surgery.  Kenkel JM, ed.
  • Head and neck: Oropharyngeal and salivary gland tumors. 2004; 10:No4.  
• Bradfield JS, Scruggs RP, Snoots WM, O'Brien JC, Lieberman ZH, Mennel RG. Soft tissue sarcomas of the extremities: improved local control and limb preservation with preoperative radiation and doxorubicin. Proceedings, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. 1997; 10:5-8.
• O'Brien JC, Sparkman RS. The origin of the word 'stent'. Ann R Coll Surg Eng (2 Suppl) 1997; 79:92-93.
• O'Brien JC, Sparkman RS. What is a stent and where can you get one?; Am J Cardiol  May 1997;79:1306.
• McCarty TM, Kuhn JA, Williams WL, Ellenhorn JDI, O'Brien JC, et al.  Surgical management of thyroid cancer invading the airway.  Ann Surg Oncol 1997;4:403-408.
• Stephens J, Kuhn JA, O'Brien JC, et al. Morbidity, mortality and survival in peripancreatic cancer patients following pancreaticoduodenectomy.   Am J Surg 1997;174:600-604.
• Gogel BM, Kuhn JA, Preskitt JT, O'Brien JC, Lieberman ZH. Sentinel node biopsy for melanoma. Am J Surg 1998;176:544-547.
• O’Brien JC. Dr. Robert Sparkman-teacher, exemplar, chief. BUMC Proceedings 1998; 11:198.
• Nemunaitis J, Bohart C, Fong T, Meyer W, Edelman G, Paulson S, Orr D, Jain V, O'Brien JC, et al. Phase I trial of retroviral vector-mediated gamma-interferon (?-IFN) gene transfer into autologous tumor cells in patients with metastatic melanoma. Cancer Gene Therapy 1998;5:292-300.
• O'Brien JC, Kwa JA, Clifford Y, Bradfield JS, Mennel RG. Skin cancer in transplant patients. BUMC Proceedings 1999;12:103-109.     
• O’Brien JC.  Appendix I. The wounds of Maj. James C. Bates. In: Lowe RE. A Texas cavalry officer’s civil war: The diary and letters of James C. Bates. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,1999:339-342.
• O’Brien JC. “More on the word ‘stent’”. Am J Cardiol 2000;85:919.
• Nemunaitis J, O’Brien JC. Biological approaches to treatment of head and neck cancer. BioDrugs 2000;13:359-372.
• O’Brien JC. Lymph node metastases to the posterior triangle apex: evaluation of clinical histopathological risk factors. Head Neck. 2001; 23:430-431.
• Nemunaitis J, O’Brien JC. Head and Neck cancer: gene therapy approaches. Part 1:adenoviral vectors. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2002; 2:177-185.
• Nemunaitis J, O’Brien JC. Head and neck cancer: gene therapy approaches. Part 2:genes delivered. Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2002; 3:311-324.
• Nemunaitis J, Cunningham C, O’Brien JC, Senzer N, McCarty T, Kuhn J.  Head and neck cancer: gene therapy approaches Part I: adenoviral vectors. BUMC Proceedings. 2002;15:129-133.
• O’Brien JC. Discussion: Recurrent neck disease in oral cancer. J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2002; 60:753-755.
• Stratmann SL, Kuhn JA, Bell MS, Preskitt JT, O’Brien JC, Stephens JS, McCarty TM. Surgical treatment of hyperparathyroidism using the quick parathyroid assay. BUMC Proceedings. 2002;15:363-365.
• Stratmann SL, Kuhn JA, Bell MS, Preskitt JT, O’Brien JC, et al. Comparison of quick parathyroid assay for uniglandular and multiglandular parathyroid disease.  Am J Surg. 2002;184:578-581.
• Fincher TR, McCarty TM, Preskitt JT, Fisher TL, Lieberman ZH, Stephens JF, O’Brien JC, Kuhn JA. Patterns of recurrence after sentinel lymph node biopsy for cutaneous melanoma. Am J Surg. 2003;186:675-681.
• Fincher TR, O’Brien JC, McCarty TM, Fisher TL, Preskitt JT, Lieberman ZH, Stephens JF, Kuhn JA.  Patterns of drainage and recurrence following sentinel lymph node biopsy for cutaneous melanoma of the head and neck. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2004;130:844-848.
• O’Brien, JC. Swimmer’s Headache, or supraorbital neuralgia. BUMC Proceedings. 2004;17:418-419.
• O’Brien JC. History of tumor site conferences at Baylor University Medical Center.
  Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2006; 19: 130-131.
• O’Brien JC. Advances in the care of Head and Neck Cancer Patients at Baylor University Medical Center. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2008 Jan;21(1):27-32.
• O’Brien JC, Shiller SM, Cusick MG, Hamman BL.  Mass in the neck after radiation exposure from Chernobyl disaster. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2009 Apr;22(2):156-61.
• Shiller SM, Konduri K, Harshman LK, Welch BJ, O’Brien JC.  Recurrent thyroid cancer with changing histologic features. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2010 July;23(3):304-310.

Book Chapters

• Chapter 5, Wright J, O’Brien JC. Assessment of the Oral Cancer Patient, Oral Cancer  Clinical and Pathological Considerations.  Wright J, Wright B. editors. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press Inc; pp 77-80. 1988.
• Chapter 6, Wright J, O'Brien JC, Lieberman ZH, Bradfield JS, and Mennel RG. Treatment of Oral Cancer, Oral Cancer  Clinical and Pathological Considerations. Wright J, Wright B, eds.   Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press Inc; pp 89-126. 1988.
• Chapter 2.6. Oxford LE, O’Brien JC.  How to Manage the XI nerve in Neck Dissections, Pearls and Pitfalls in Head and Neck Surgery. Cernea CR ed. Basel Switzerland: S Karger AG; 44-45. 2008