James Whitman Mims MD

James Whitman Mims attended Emory University for college and UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Otolaryngology in 2000. He is board certified in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (2001). He chaired the AAO-HNS Committee on Allergy, Immunology, and Asthma for several years. He served as President of the AAOA (2016-17) and was on the Board of Directors for several years. He previously served as the AAOA Coordinator for Education, Course Director of the Basic and MOC courses, and Course Faculty. He is on the Editorial Board of the International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology and is the Associate Editor for Allergy and International submissions for Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He served as an author for the AAO-HNS Guidelines for Allergic Rhinitis, Assistant Chair for the Opioids Prescribing AAO HNS CPG, and an author on IFAR’s International Consensus Statement for Allergic Rhinitis. He had won the national teaching award, “The Golden Apple”, from the AAOA and the Wake Forest School of Medicine Otolaryngology Teaching Award three times.