16988-Wilcox, James

James G. Wilcox, MD

Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

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Family Medicine .
980 Indiana Ave Fl 1
, IN

Bio

James Wilcox, MD, FAAFP, RMSK is a Family Medicine and Sports Medicine physician. He provides adult and pediatric medical care, sports medicine, as well as preventative care services. He sees athletes, young and old, to help them get back to their sport, their job, and their life. He is trained in point of care ultrasound and has an ultrasound clinic for musculoskeletal and general ultrasound examinations. He teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Family Medicine. He was the Health Resources and Services Administration PRIME Grant Point of Care Ultrasound Thread Director from 2021-2024. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and the POCUS Coordinator at UAE Univeristy, the oldest and largest medical school in the United Arab Emirates. 

Dr. Wilcox is originally from central Indiana, and he went to college at IUPUI (now IU-Indy) and medical school at IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He then graduated from Ball Memorial Family Medicine Residency in Muncie Indiana and completed his Sports Medicine Fellowship at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. 

He has worked in the rural town of Austin Indiana providing comprehensive medical care to a medically underserved area, then transitioned to Eskenazi Hopsital in 2020 where he provided outpatient Primary Care and Sports Medicine services. In 2024 he moved to the United Arab Emirates where he first served as the Director of the ProMotion Sports Medicine Clinic at Specialized Rehabilitation Hospital in Abu Dhabi, then transitioned to Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at UAE Univeristy in Al Ain.

Key Publications

Dawkins S, Cooper S, Wilcox J, Morrow E, Mayall H, Rebman R. Using Four-Component Instructional Design to Create an Interactive Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum for Physician Associate Students. J Physician Assist Educ. 2024 Nov 1. doi: 10.1097/JPA.0000000000000635. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39503464.

Buel KL, Wilcox J, Mingo PT. Acute Abdominal Pain in Children: Evaluation and Management. Am Fam Physician. 2024 Dec;110(6):621-631. PMID: 39700366.

James Wilcox, Daniela Lobo, Sierra Anderson. Sinusitis, Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2025. ISSN 0095-4543, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2024.09.010.

Knox J, Carek SM, Cheerla R, et al. Recommended Elements of a Musculoskeletal Course for Fourth-Year Medical Students: A Modified Delphi Consensus. Fam Med. 2025;57(1):48-54. https://doi.org/10.22454/FamMed.2024.219090.

Herbert, A., Russell, F.M., Ferre, R.M. et al. Two-week intensive medical student point-of-care ultrasound training impact on long term utilization. BMC Med Educ 24, 884 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-024-05866-5

Wilcox J, Kaefer S L (July 29, 2024) Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Primary Care Office for Early Detection of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Supraglottic Larynx: A Case Report. Cureus 16(7): e65682. doi:10.7759/cureus.65682

Wilcox, J., Lawson, B., & Gauger, A. (2023). Early Point of Care Ultrasound Training in Medical Education, Making the Case with a Case Report. International Journal of Medical Students, 11(3), 229–32. https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2023.1719

Ferre, R. M., Russell, F. M., Peterson, D., Zakeri, B., Herbert, A., Nti, B., Goldman, M., Wilcox, J. G., & Wallach, P. M. (2022). Piloting a Graduate Medical Education Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum. Cureus, 14(7), e27173. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.27173

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