James Cappola

Dr. James Cappola joined the Campbell family as Associate Professor and Chair of Internal Medicine for the Campbell University School of Medicine in 2018. 

Dr. Cappola began his career with the Wake Med internal medicine faculty in 1997 and practiced primary care and hospital medicine at the Wake Med Raleigh Campus through 2004. He then joined the Wake Med Cary Hospital Medicine Department and practiced from 2004 through 2018. 

Dr. Cappola has helped train medical professionals at all levels through his 21 years of practice. He taught medical students and residents rotating at Wake Med Raleigh from the UNC School of Medicine. While at Wake Med Cary, he helped establish and lead a physician assistant rotation in hospital medicine serving students from Campbell, Wake Forest, Duke and East Carolina Universities. He also created an Acute Care Essentials conference series for the nursing staff at Wake Med Cary from 2010 through 2016.

Dr. Cappola served as clerkship director in hospital medicine at Wake Med Cary Hospital for Campbell’s inaugural medical school class in 2015 and continued as clerkship director through 2018.

His clinical and teaching interests include patient-centered interviewing, evidence-based medicine and diagnostic reasoning. 

He and his wife, Linda, have five children.