James J. Abrahams

James J. Abrahams, professor emeritus of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Imaging and of Surgery, was formerly the director of the Neuroradiology Fellowship, chief of ENT Radiology, and Medical School director of medical studies, Radiology.

Dr. Abrahams has dedicated his life to teaching radiology, not only at Yale but also nationally and internationally, in the classroom and in professional settings. He has won the Teacher of the Year Award (twice) and the Excellence in Education Award  from the Yale Radiology Department and received the Society of Distinguished Teachers Award from the Yale University School of Medicine. He was the director of medical studies at the Yale School of Medicine for many years and instrumental in integrating radiology into the medical school curriculum. He is the director of the Yale Physicians Associate Program Radiology Course. He has been a visiting professor nationally and internationally, in locations including Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada, and Turkey and was part of the relief mission in Sir Lanka after the tsunami. He has contributed to the medical literature with numerous articles and chapters and is best known for his work on imaging of the jaw and dental implants. He is credited for introducing this area of medicine into the field of radiology. Dr. Abrahams graduated from medical school at the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Mexico. After graduation he completed a year and a half of surgical residency in Buffalo, New York, and then worked as an emergency room physician in Buffalo for a year prior to starting his diagnostic radiology residency at the Albany Medical Center of Union University. He then completed a one-year fellowship in neuroradiology, also at Albany Medical Center, and then a second year of neuroradiology fellowship at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he has remained ever since.