Past Chair – GHF Board of Directors
Member – GHF Executive Committee
Member – GHF Governance & Nominating Committee

Jim Donovan attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, completed his residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and has been a Board Certified Family Physician for 35 years. His practice in Georgetown, Texas spanned nearly a quarter of a century and included ambulatory and hospital adult Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Surgery. While on active hospital staff he held multiple leadership positions including chairmanships of committees and clinical departments as well as President of the Medical staff and membership on the Board of Trustees. Subsequently, he and his wife Carol moved to the Big Island of Hawaii as the initial faculty member and site director of the University of Hawaii’s first neighbor island Rural Track Family Medicine residency program.

He has served for the last 10 years as Chief Medical Officer at St. David’s Georgetown Hospital and continues as Chair of the Capital Area Primary Care Governing Board. During his tenure as CMO, St David’s Georgetown was selected as a Top 100 Hospital by Truven, and received Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award and Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence in multiple years. In addition, the hospital received Leapfrog’s highest hospital safety award of “A” as well as being named an AARP “Hospital Safety Superstar”, one of only 66 nationwide.

He recently retired as Vice Dean and Regional Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Round Rock. In that capacity, he provided leadership for Medical Education functions of the College of Medicine at the Round Rock Campus, served as chief liaison for the COM with local and regional health system partners, physician groups and State agencies and provided oversight of new graduate medical education activities.

He and Carol have raised 2 children and are doting grandparents to two grandchildren with another on the way. They remain active in civic and community groups and serve on a number of health related boards, committees and national organizations.