James Gordon Herman is an American oncologist.
Herman studied chemistry at Hope College and earned a medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Duke University in 1992, and a fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins in 1996.[1] Herman then became associate professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center,[2] and later the UPMC Endowed Chair for Lung Cancer Research at the University of Pittsburgh.[3]