James graduated from University College Dublin in 2013, and following rotations around Ireland, completed his Emergency Medicine training in 2022. He has successfully completed a Masters in Sports and Exercise Medicine at the prestigious University of Bath. His interest in Sports Medicine has led him to providing medical pitch side support to UCD GAA, Leinster Rugby and Shamrock Rovers FC.

After completing his training in Ireland, James spent a year on a trauma research fellowship at North Bristol NHS Trust, acting as an Associate Principal Investigator for the COMITED trial, and working as a consultant and trauma team leader in the trauma centre at North Bristol. He is an advocate of medical education, and is currently an ATLS, APLS and ETC instructor, and provides support to the airway and ultrasound programmes in UHG ED.

James has a track-record in setting up and design of multicentre research projects as a trainee, having co-founded the Irish Trainee Emergency Research Network in 2018. This voluntary network, led by Irish EM trainees, has successfully delivered three large collaborative observational studies in the past 5 years with these projects receiving funding from the Irish Association of Emergency Medicine and the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Personally, he was awarded the 2017 IAEM Research Bursary for his work on cycling injuries using TARN data and has been involved in three subsequent studies who won this annual bursary.

James is from Wexford and spent most of his life hurling with Buffers Alley up until the move to Galway. He has seen Bruce Springsteen 14 times, and in his spare time grows strawberries (Wexford) and is actively looking for 10 acres to hobby farm in East Galway!