Jim is an associate
professor at Oregon Health Sciences University, School of Dentistry,
where he is Chairman of the Department of Pathology. He also serves
on the faculty of the School of Medicine in the Department of
Pathology. He is director of the OHSU Oral Pathology Biopsy Service
and has an active practice seeing clinical oral pathology patients.
Jim attended Georgetown
University School of Dentistry under the Navy dental scholarship
program and graduated in 1976. Following a general practice residency
at the Naval Medical Center at San Diego, he served as a general
dentist on an aircraft carrier and then at a dental clinic at
Yokosuka, Japan. Jim completed an oral pathology residency at
Emory in 1982 and then an additional year of anatomic pathology
training at the National Naval Medical Center.
Jim has twice been
assigned as a staff pathologist at the Armed Forces Institute
of Pathology and three times at the Naval Dental School, Bethesda,
MD. He was Chairman of the Oral Pathology Department at the Naval
Dental School and director of the oral pathology residency program.
He retired from the Navy in 1995.
Jim has been a Fellow
of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology since
1982 and a Diplomate of the Board since 1985. His interests are
in surgical oral pathology and he has published a number of papers
and book chapters on this and other subjects in a variety of medical
and dental publications.
Jim lives in Lake Oswego,
Oregon with his wife Nancy, their four children, and a Newfoundland
dog. His hobbies include competitive rowing, amateur radio, trying
to resurrect a '70 Landcruiser, and brewing beer.
