James Grubbs, MD

Dr. James Grubbs is a graduate of Clemson University and a South Carolina native. He completed medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina and then internal medicine and pediatrics residency as well as adult and pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He works mainly as an outpatient primary care provider in the Division of General Internal Medicine but does some time on the adult infectious diseases consult service here at MCG as well as doing some inpatient pediatric infectious diseases consults and outpatient pediatric infectious diseases clinic. He also works with the medical school in their Patient-Centered Learning courses. Prior to joining the faculty here at MCG in 2023 he worked at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine and the University of Kentucky School of Medicine as a clinician educator. He enjoys working with residents and medical students to share the wonder of medicine and privilege of caring for patients.

He participated in clinical research about the best treatment approach for infections in persons who inject drugs in Kentucky and remains interested in quality improvement work about how we use diagnostic testing for infectious diseases.

Outside of medicine he enjoys spending time with his wife and their four children hiking, playing ultimate frisbee, and doing other outdoor activities.