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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 2005

James Alexander Burns, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Otolaryngology - Otolaryngology

Society Memberships

  • Am Broncho-Esopha Assn
  • Am Acad of Otol-Head/Neck
  • Amer Laryn Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Clinic

Otolaryngology

Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

675 N St. Clair St.

Suite 15-200

Chicago, IL 60611

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Head and Neck Disorders/Procedures

Bronchoesophagology-Breathing/Swallowing

  • aspiration
  • caustic ingestion
  • dysphagia
  • esophagoscopy
  • tracheal stenosis
  • tracheotomy

Diagnostic imaging/procedures

  • endoscopy
  • minimally invasive surgery

Laryngology (Throat)

  • hoarseness
  • laryngeal cancer
  • laryngeal fractures
  • laryngeal papillomatosis
  • laryngeal stenosis
  • laryngeal trauma
  • laryngopharyngeal reflux
  • laryngoscopy
  • laser surgery of the larynx
  • laser surgery of the vocal cords
  • microlaryngoscopy
  • subglottic stenosis
  • sulcus vocalis
  • vocal cord cancer
  • vocal cord nodules
  • vocal cord paralysis
  • vocal cord paresis
  • vocal cord polyps
  • vocal cord web
  • voice disorders

Hospital Appointments

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts

Academic Appointments

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Associate Professor