About James Donahue

Meet Dr. James Donahue, an associate professor of surgery and the section chief of thoracic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Donahue is a skilled thoracic surgical oncologist, who joined UAB from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he had an active clinical practice focused on thoracic surgical oncology and served as chief of thoracic surgery at the Baltimore VA Medical Center.

He is passionate about resident education and previously served as the associate program director for the University of Maryland cardiothoracic surgical residency program. He is a former Navy reservist, and was deployed with a forward surgical team in Afghanistan in 2013.

In addition to his clinical pursuits, Dr. Donahue also runs a basic science research laboratory, which is focused on studying post-transcriptional gene regulation in esophageal cancer cells, as a way of identifying new therapeutic targets for management of this disease.

Dr. Donahue is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is also a fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Association of Cancer Research and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Dr. Donahue obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. He completed his internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. He completed his residency programs in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA and Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN respectively.

To contact Dr. Donahue, you can reach him at his campus address: Ziegler Research Building, Room 739. For patient appointments and questions, call 205-934-5937 or for academic office call 205-996-7588. You can also email him at jdonahue@uabmc.edu.