Dr. James Woodall Jr. was born in Metairie, Louisiana. He attended the University of West Georgia on a baseball scholarship, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and ranked #1 in his major, Biology, in 2002. In 2006 Dr. Woodall received his Doctor of Medicine from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia.

Dr. Woodall’s professional training in Orthopaedic Surgery includes the completion of an Orthopaedic Surgery residency at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. He also successfully completed a PhD at the University of Mississippi where his research focused on taking the healing factors from a patient’s own blood and using them to accelerate healing of musculoskeletal injuries. He has authored over 20 research and review articles and has presented this research as an invited guest lecturer and Orthopaedic Grand Rounds visiting speaker at the national level.