Background
Dr. Andrews was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised and educated in southern California. He graduated from UCLA in 1976 and from University of Louisville Medical School in 1980. He completed a surgical internship at Indiana University in 1981.
After an additional year of surgical training at UCLA in 1982, he completed a residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at UCLA in 1986. He continued his training at the University of Zurich in Switzerland with an Otology and Skullbase Surgery fellowship which he completed in 1988. He has been board certified in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery since 1986 and additionally board sub-certified in Neurotology since 2004 (a year after this subcertification was made available).
In 1986 Dr. Andrews joined the faculty in the division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Andrews tenure was noteworthy for his scientific research in the field of Meniere’s disease and inner ear fluid physiology for which he was honored with multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is well known for his work with hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, disorders of the facial nerve, Meniere’s disease, tumors and infections of the ear and skull base, and congenital ear malformations.
Dr. Andrews is on the clinical faculty at UCLA where he continues to instruct the residents in temporal bone surgery through the West Los Angeles and Sepulveda VA. He is on staff at UCLA, St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica and Northridge Hospital in the San Fernando Valley.
For over 40 years, Dr James C Andrews has been a leading ear specialist and ear doctor for Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.
