JamesWFreemanMDFAAFP

Emergency Medicine, Urgent Care, Rural Health

Past Chair, Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine/ Ship Doctor, Celebrity Constellation

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ABFM certified third generation family physician since who still makes house calls. A 1991 Jefferson Medical College graduate, having trained at UPMC Harrisburg Hospital and elected Chief Resident 1993-1994. Elected Chair of Family Medicine Department, Chambersburg Hospital 1994. Emergency medicine career with 48,000+ hours in the ER over 30 years with no NPDB entries. Appointed Chair Emergency Medicine Department, Futon County Medical Center 2014-2015. Appointed member Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine 2005-2013 and elected Chair 2012. Hospitalist for 14 years. School and sports medicine physician for 21 years. Served as hospice medical director. Worked in local urgent cares. Research at U. Penn in the Dept of Hyperbaric Medicine with supervision of HBO wound care treatment at Fulton County Medical Center. Interest in tropical medicine with an ER stint in Saint Thomas, USVI and ship doctor aboard the Celebrity Constellation cruising the Caribbean.

Maritime medicine, Tropical medicine, Urgent care medicine, Rural family medicine, Hospitalist medicine, Hospice and palliative medicine, Emergency medicine, Hyperbaric oxygen therapy, Wound management, Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine Chair

Tri-State Community Heath CenterFamily Medicine Physician · July 2022 - Current
WVU Medicine Uniontown Hospital (Uniontown, PA)Emergency Medicine Physician · August 2019 - Current
UPMC Hanover (Hanover, PA)Emergency Medicine Physician · September 2015 - Current
WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital (Chambersburg, PA)Emergency Medicine Physician · June 2006 - Current
Penn Highlands Huntingdon (Huntingdon, PA) ·
Royal Caribbean Group Celebrity ConstellationEmergency Medicine Physician · December 2021 - February 2022
Geisinger Convenient Care PlusUrgent Care Physician · June 2021 - November 2022
Whit Family Clinic-Fitz-GeraldFamily Medicine Physician · April 2021 - June 2021
WellSpan Urgent CareUrgent Care Physician · January 2020 - December 2020
Bradford Regional Medical Center (Bradford, PA)Emergency Medicine Physician · October 2019 - Current
Penn Highlands Huntingdon (FKA JC Blair Medical Associates)Emergency Medicine Physician · August 2018 - December 2020
Schneider Regional Medical Center (St. Thomas, VI)Emergency Medicine Physician · June 2015 - September 2015
Pennsylvania State Board of MedicineChair/Board Member · February 2005 - December 2013
Cumberland Valley Medical Services/Valley Medical GroupFamily Medicine Physician · July 1994 - December 1998
Fulton County Medical Center (Mc Connellsburg, PA)Emergency Medicine Physician · March 1994 - March 2015

research assistantBench work under Stephen R Thom, MD, PhD of the Hyperbaric Division of the U Penn Dept of Emergency Medicine, investigating the potential protective effect from carbon monoxide poisoning using IV peroxidase and superoxide dismutase in a rat model.1988 - 1988
research assistantAssisted Daniel Klem, PhD of Muhlenberg College investigating fatal avian collisions with man-made objects.1985 - 1986