James Aachen-Winans, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Bellevue, WA

Hair Restoration Surgeon

CURRENT SCOPE OF PRACTICE

Practice currently limited to Hair Restoration / Hair Transplantation (since 2005)

PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS

Specialties
Hair Transplantation / Facial Plastic Surgery / Liposuction and Autologous Fat Grafting / Otolaryngology and Allergy

Board Certification:  American Board of Otolaryngology
(Certified April 4, 1985 – no expiration)

Licenses:
Active / current state licenses:
California (G45107), Colorado (DR.0063904), Illinois (036.117051), Michigan (4301086687), North Carolina (2007-01286), and Washington (MD 00045778)

Previously licensed, now inactive or not renewed: Arizona, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas. 

MEDICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Fellowship: Hair Restoration / Hair Transplantation
Hair Restoration Clinic
Beverly Hills, CA
July – October, 2005

Residency: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and Facial Plastic Surgery
White Memorial Medical Center
Loma Linda University
July 1981 thru June 1984

Internship: Categorical * Surgery
White Memorial Medical Center
July 1980 thru June 1981

Medical School: University of Southern California School of Medicine
Class of 1980

PRACTICE HISTORY

Single Specialty Group Practice: Hair Transplantation / Hair Restoration
Hair Restoration Clinic
Seattle, Washington
(August 2005 to September 2018. Since then retired from full time practice but continuing as part-time / traveling / coverage surgeon for hair restoration clinics in various states)

Private Practice: Facial Plastic Surgery / Liposuction and Autologous Fat Grafting: “The Specialty Plastic Surgery Center of Nashville” (my office in Nashville, TN) and Otolaryngology and Allergy “American Ear Nose and Throat and Allergy & Sinus Center” (my office in Sparta, TN) (Two separate offices, both from October 2003 to July 2005) 

Single Specialty Group Practice: Otolaryngology / Allergy / Facial Plastic Surgery
Nashville ENT Clinic
Nashville, Tennessee
(November 2002 to September 2003)

Private Practice: Otolaryngology / Allergy / Facial Plastic Surgery / Liposuction
Las Vegas, Nevada
(January 2000 to July 2002)

Locum Tenens:  Otolaryngology / Facial Plastic Surgery
(For Stephen P. Grifka, M.D.)
Los Angeles, California
(June 1999 thru December 1999)

Private Practice:  Otolaryngology / Facial Plastic Surgery / Allergy
Paris, Tennessee
(November 1994 to May 1999)

Private Practice:  Otolaryngology / Facial Plastic Surgery
Orange County and Bakersfield, CA
(April 1991 to Oct 1994)

Staff Otolaryngologist (HMO) - Otolaryngology / Facial Plastic Surgery
CIGNA Healthplan of California
Orange County, CA
(July 1984 to April 1991)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: 

Fellow, American Academy of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (Retired status)

Fellow, American College of Surgeons (Retired status)

Member, American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Retired status)

Member, American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy (Retired)

Member, California Academy of Cosmetic Surgery (Retired)