MD, FRCS, ABVLM, RPVI
Dr. Fonger is board-certified in general surgery and cardiovascular surgery and is a diplomate of the American Board of Venous and Lymphatic Medicine (ABVLM) and certified in ultrasound (RPVI). He has been offering comprehensive state of the art vein care in Lawrenceville since 2016 and is well known throughout the Gwinnett County, Georgia, medical community.
Gwinnett Professional Center
601a Professional Drive
Suite 170
Lawrenceville, GA 30046
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Dr. James Fonger completed both his Pre-Med and Medical School at the University of Manitoba. Following his studies, Dr. Fonger did a general surgery residency at the University of Toronto, and a Fellowship in Artificial Heart research in San Francisco. Finally, he trained at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in Cardiovascular and Thoracic surgery.
He has held positions on the cardiovascular surgical faculty at Boston University, Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, and he was Chief of Cardiac Surgery of Washington Adventist Hospital in DC. In 2008 he was recruited to Atlanta by the St. Joseph’s Health System to help open a medical device development and testing center near Georgia Tech. He helped manage that facility for 5 years and then transitioned to vein care with CVR to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of venous diseases. He has worked at the Lawrenceville location since 2016.
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