James D. Sidman, M.D.

Dr. Sidman started Pediatric ENT Associates in 2001 after practicing in the Twin Cities for 8 years. His areas of special interest in pediatric otolaryngology are cleft lip and palate, airway reconstruction, and the treatment of facial paralysis.

Dr. Sidman graduated from Vassar College. He spent two years in the Peace Corps in Micronesia and then went to Dartmouth Medical School. He served in the National Health Service Corps as a general practitioner in rural Maine for two years. He then completed his Otolaryngology training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After residency, he was on the full time faculty at the University of Connecticut and was the acting Chief of Otolaryngology there for one year.

He has served on numerous committees for the American Academy of Otolaryngology, the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Society, American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, and has been an oral board examiner for the American Board of Otolaryngology. In addition, he has been a visiting professor at numerous medical schools.

He has published numerous articles in addition to local and national presentations, and is the director of the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship at Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Children's Hospital. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in Otolaryngology and in Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.