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James Donaldson

James S. Donaldson, MD

Specialties
  • Radiology
Languages Spoken:
  • English
  • Spanish

James Donaldson, M.D., completed medical school and radiology residency at Loma Linda University, a pediatric radiology fellowship at Children's Children's Pasadena, an interventional radiology (IR) fellowship at University of California San Diego, and has spent his entire professional career at Children's Memorial Hospital, now named the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and at Shriners Children's Chicago.

His clinical and research interests within pediatric IR include treatment and management of vascular anomalies, pediatric liver diseases and diagnosis and treatment of renovascular hypertension. He has actively promoted pediatric IR within the Society of Interventional Radiology and the Society for Pediatric Radiology. He was a founding member and first president of the Society for Pediatric Interventional Radiology and president of the Society for Pediatric Radiology.

Pediatric Care

Specialties

  • Radiology

More About Me

Board Certifications
  • American Board of Radiology, Radiology, Interventional Radiology and Diagnostic Radiology
  • American Board of Radiology, Radiology, Diagnostic Radiology - General
  • American Board of Radiology, Radiology, Pediatric Radiology
Education and Training

Medical Education
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA
6/30/1978

Internship
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA
6/30/1979

Residency
Loma Linda University
Loma Linda, CA
8/30/1983

Fellowship
Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
6/1/1985

Residency
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
Washington, DC
9/30/1991

Academic Positions and Locations

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Professor

Leadership and Memberships
  • 2015-2016: President, Society for Pediatric Radiology
  • 2009: Founding Member and President, Society of Pediatric Interventional Radiology
  • 2000-2021: Chair, Department of Medical Imaging, Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Editorial Positions
  • 1997-Present: Editorial Board and Reviewer, Pediatric Radiology
  • 2000-Present: Reviewer, Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

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