Jim Hundley was born and raised in Wallace, NC. In high school, he was a member of the Beta Club (academics), Monogram Club (sports), was co-editor of the yearbook, and became an Eagle Scout. He graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in English and followed with an MD degree from the UNC School of Medicine. He interned at the Shands Teaching Hospital and then returned to UNC Hospitals for a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery that included a year in basic research on calcium metabolism and calcitonin. During his residency, he published on progressive diaphyseal dysplasia (Englemann's Disease) in the prestigious Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery .

  He served in the US Air Force where he was Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Carswell AFB Regional Hospital , joined the Wilmington Orthopaedic Group in 1975, and was president and managing physician of a thriving orthopaedic practice of eight orthopaedic surgeons and five physician assistants for over ten years. Since coming to Wilmington he has published a number of clinical medical papers and over thirty magazine articles pertaining to medicine. He is currently studying the role of avulsion of the gluteus medius and minimus tendons in chronic, lateral hip pain, a recently recognized and still insufficiently understood condition.

  He has received a number of awards including being regularly listed in the Best Doctors in America , Southeast Region during every cycle from 1996 through 2006 and received the 2006 Honored Surgeon Award from the North Carolina Orthopaedic Association. In January 2007, by order of Governor Easley of NC, he was inducted into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine and in June 2007 was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Wilmington Star News.  He is an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington .

  Peers have elected him to the offices of Chief of Staff of the New Hanover Regional Hospital , President of the New Hanover-Pender Medical Society, President of the North Carolina Orthopaedic Association, President of the UNC Orthopaedic Alumni Association, and President of the UNC Medical Alumni Association. He led the medical staff component of a highly successful conversion to computerized medical records and reports in the 700 bed New Hanover Medical Network, an effort nationally recognized by the McKesson Company with a VIP Award.

  Certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hundley is currently a member of the American Orthopaedic Association, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the North Carolina Orthopaedic Association, the Southern Orthopaedic Association, the North Carolina Medical Society, the New Hanover-Pender County Medical Society, and the American Board of Orthopaedic Physician Assistants. He is on the staff of two hospitals in the New Hanover Health Network.

  He has been associated with success and service beyond his regular medical career:

1. He was chairman of the board that converted a library from city to county control, initiated a countywide library system, and remodeled a 75,000 square foot department store into a public library facility.
2. He staffed the Rotary Orthopaedic Clinic for indigent children for over thirty years and was its medical director for over fifteen years.
3. He was the team physician for all sports for UNC Wilmington for over twenty years and was twice honored for it.
4. He was president of the Rotary Club of Wilmington and has been named Rotarian of the Year.
5. He was elected chairman of the board of trustees of an independent school with a declining enrollment. During his tenure steps were taken to reverse that trend. Subsequently the school has doubled in size and enjoys a long waiting list.
6. He formed and chaired a committee to fund, facilitate, and publish the book WILMINGTON YESTERYEAR by historian Dr. Robert Fales.
7. He initiated and continues to lead the county medical society committee for a premedical scholar fund (currently holding over $100,000) at UNC Wilmington.
8. He chaired a task force that successfully funded a distinguished professorship in orthopaedics at the UNC School of Medicine.
9. In 1990 he joined the board of directors of a mutual savings and loan association that soon converted to a publicly owned bank that has grown in assets from $288 million to over $900 million
10. He established, found grant funds for, and continues to chair the committee that sponsors the Cape Fear Visiting Orthopaedic Professorship where outside orthopaedic experts present lectures twice a year.

Faced with an overwhelming number of choices to solve medical problems and the difficulty that the orthopaedist, the operating room staff, and the office staff have with knowing more than a few of the multitude of available products and services, he conceived orthopaediclist.com.

Hundley has a documented record of success in and out of his profession. He is committed to www.orthopaediclist.com and has pledged his full and energetic attention plus his experience in orthopaedic surgery, business, and leadership roles and a knack for picking successful projects to make this a successful and useful venture. He lives by two tenets: 1. If something is useful, people will use it. 2. Only successful projects are enjoyable, so commit only to those likely to succeed. He believes that www.orthopaediclist.com is successful because it is useful and user friendly.