James A. Avery, MD, FCCP, FACP, FAAHPM

 

About the Speaker

 

Dr. Avery earned his medical degree at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Next, he went up to Chicago for an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University. Brutally cold winters and winless Northwestern football teams drove him back to sunny Tampa where he completed a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. He was in private practice in Clearwater Florida for fourteen years doing internal medicine, critical care, and pulmonary medicine when he decided to go full-time in hospice as the Senior Medical Director of The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which was the largest hospice in the United States at that time. In January of 2004, Dr. Avery fulfilled his life-long dream of working in New York City, when became the Senior Medical Director at Visiting Nurse Service of New York Hospice Care. Dr. Avery is a Fellow in the American College of Physicians, a Fellow in the American College of Chest Physicians, and a Fellow in the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. In 2007, Dr. Avery was awarded the prestigious Roger C. Bone Award for National Leadership in End-of-Life Care.

He tells me he loves teaching. He hates paperwork. He loves walking and eleven years ago walked up Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point on the African continent. He is especially glad to be speaking at Sandy Cove as he loves spending time with other believers and he is passionate about integrating faith and medicine. 

Conference Speaker, James Avery MD