Leadership

James Avery, M.D., CMD, FACP, FCCP, FAAHPM

Senior Vice President, 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 Suncoast Hospice, 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 Certified Medical Director (CMD) from AMDA. 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. In 2007, Dr. Avery was awarded the prestigious Roger C. Bone Award for National Leadership in End-of-Life Care. In 2008, Dr. Avery was given the Lillian B. Wald Award for his hospice and palliative care work in New York City. In 2010, Dr. Avery was named “One of the 50 Most Powerful Physician Executives” by Modern Physician and Modern Healthcare magazines.