James Norman, M.D., F.A.C.S., is recognized as one of world's foremost experts on parathyroid disease and one of the best and most experienced parathyroid surgeons in the world. Dr Norman has treated more patients with parathyroid disease than any other doctor on the planet. He is a board certified surgeon and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; he is also a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology. He is recognized as the inventor of minimally invasive parathyroid surgery in the mid 1990s, and is credited with dramatically changing the way parathyroid surgery is performed. Dr Norman currently limits his surgical practice to parathyroid surgery at the Norman Endocrine Surgery Clinic. Parathyroid surgery is all we do! We don't do breast biopsies, gallbladders, and hernias--just parathyroids. This experience gives Dr Norman and his team unparalleled results. In fact, Dr Norman has the highest cure rate ever reported for this disease, currently 99.7% of all patients are cured--most via an operation that takes less than 16 minutes.

Dr Norman is recognized as the most experienced parathyroid surgeon in the world, and for the past decade has limited his surgical practice to parathyroid operations (95%) and thyroid operations (5%). For the past 3 years he does parathyroid surgery exclusively -- He does not perform any other type of general or ENT surgery. Dr Norman performs more parathyroid operations than any other surgeon (or institution!) in the world, now averaging nearly 1000 parathyroid operations annually (18-36 per week). There are only about 6,000 parathyroid operations done per year in the US... therefore, Dr Norman performs almost 12% of all parathyroid operations that occur in the US each year.

Dr Norman has held several important academic positions, including Professor of Surgery (with tenure) and Professor of Internal Medicine (with tenure) at the University of South Florida. He also held the position of Director of Endocrine Surgery at USF and the Director of Surgical Core Laboratory for Surgical Research. Dr Norman recently left USF to open the Norman Endocrine Surgery Clinic. He is a member of more than 20 prestigious medical societies, including the American Association for Endocrine Surgeons, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology, the American Association for Clinical Endocrinology, the Society of University Surgeons, the Southeastern Surgical Congress, the American College of Surgeons, the Association for Academic Surgeons, the Society for Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, AOA medical honor society, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and many more. He was the president of his medical school class, been voted 'Faculty of the Year' and 'Teacher of the Year' several times while at USF, and served many leadership rolls within the societies he belongs. He has been recognized as one of America's Top Surgeons by the Consumer Research Council of America. He scored in the 99+ percentile on his surgery boards, and has served as an examiner for the American Board of Surgery. Dr Norman has published more than 250 medical journal articles as well as 12 books and/or book chapters. Most of Dr. Norman's publications revolve around his extensive work with endocrine disorders including parathyroid glands, parathyroid surgery and pancreas disorders. He is married to a family practice physician and has two young children.

Dr. Norman is a frequent speaker on the topic of parathyroid surgery, giving talks around the US on a frequent basis. He has been an invited speaker on the topic of minimal parathyroid surgery at the American College of Surgeons Annual Meeting 4 of the past 6 years. Dr Norman has published several of the largest parathyroid articles of all time, and serves as a reviewer for several medical journals. Dr Norman holds 9 US and foreign patents (with another 6 patents pending), including two patents for the techniques and tools used in radioguided parathyroidectomy and Sestamibi scanning for parathyroid disease which recognize his contributions to minimal parathyroid surgery. Dr Norman was a central member of the prestigious Moffitt Cancer Center team that helped develop sentinel lymph node mapping for breast cancer and melanoma (which is now the preferred way to perform breast cancer and melanoma surgery just as it is for parathyroid surgery). Dr Norman has received more than $4.2 million in federal and industry grants to support his research, including grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veteran's Affairs.