James Frix, MD

I am currently an orthopedic surgery resident at Carolinas Medical Center (Atrium Health). My background and passion is engineering, entrepreneurship, startups, and patents. After an undergraduate degree in Biological Engineering and finishing MBA school, I spent 4+ years with our startup Ichor, and then 3 years teaching Engineering Entrepreneurship at UGA. My time teaching at UGA focused on the intersection of engineering, intellectual property, and entrepreneurship. I have also spent time with UGA’s Innovation Gateway mentoring university-led startups, and the National Science Foundation’s Innovation-Corps teaching startup bootcamps. Through these experiences, I have come to love teaching as much as I love startup and I found my back to my first passion, medicine. I entered medical school with the goal of combining medicine, teaching and startups to impact patients.