Timothy James

Dr. Timothy James is a small animal surgeon and a diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons. He is also a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist. He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Georgia in 2003 and completed a small animal surgical residency at the Regional Institute for Veterinary Emergencies and Referrals in Chattanooga, Tennessee, from 2011 to 2014. He became board certified in small animal surgery in 2017.

His clinical experience spans referral hospitals, emergency practices and rural veterinary medicine, with work in soft tissue, orthopedic and neurologic surgery, emergency and critical care, and canine rehabilitation. He has practiced at Advanced Veterinary Care Center in Indianapolis and North Georgia Veterinary Specialists, and his experience includes locum and relief surgical services.

Dr. James has taught veterinary students, interns and practicing veterinarians. He served as an ACVS surgical residency advisor from 2020 to 2023. His continuing education teaching includes TPLO, external skeletal fixation, fracture management with pinning and plating, and oncologic surgical approaches and reconstruction.