{"id":278314,"date":"2026-03-31T12:44:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/james-witkowski-md\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:01:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:01:54","slug":"james-witkowski-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/james-witkowski-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. James Witkowski"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\"><strong>Dr. James Witkowski is the Executive Chief of Medicine at Southcoast Health. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With over 20 years of clinical leadership experience, Dr. Witkowski began his career in the United States Navy as a Medical Officer before joining Southcoast Health where he has served as the Hospitalist Site Medical Director at Charlton Memorial Hospital since 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his clinical career, Dr. Witkowski has taken on numerous leadership roles within his work, including serving as the President of the Medical Staff at Charlton Memorial throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Site Medical Director for the Southcoast Physicians Group Hospitalist program.<\/p>\n<p>After overseeing the rapid growth of the hospitalist program, Dr. Witkowski was appointed to serve as Executive Chief of Medicine in 2026. In this position he is responsible for leading the system-wide Medicine program at all three Southcoast Health hospitals in strategic initiatives with a special focus on recruitment, talent development, productivity and clinical efficiencies across all hospital medical specialties.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Witkowski is board certified in Internal Medicine and earned his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of Virgina before going on to the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed both his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virgina.<\/p>\n<p>During his time there, he was named the 2021 Internal Medicine Intern of the Year. 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