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James Avery, M.D.

Chief Medical Officer
Golden Living

James Avery, M.D. is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for Golden Living. He is responsible for leading and directing the company-wide medical strategy, as well as implementing this strategy to provide the highest quality of care and service to Golden Living patients and residents.

Previously, Dr. Avery served as the Senior Medical Director for Visiting Nurse Service Hospice Care of New York, the largest hospice in New York City. He was also an Assistant Clinical Professor in Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Before that, he was the Senior Medical Director at The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which was the largest hospice in the United States at the time. He was in private practice in Clearwater, Florida for fourteen years in internal medicine and pulmonary medicine.

Dr. Avery is board-certified in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Pulmonary. He 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.

Dr. Avery graduated Phi Beta Kappa with high honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and earned his medical degree at the University of South Florida.