Michael D. Seidman, MD, FACS attained both his B.S. in Human Nutrition and M.D. from the School of Public Health and the Medical School at the University of Michigan. After a five-year residency in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) he completed a fellowship in Otologic/Neurotologic and Skull Base Surgery. At HFHS, he led skull base surgery, wellness and integrative medicine and secured millions of dollars in philanthropy to build the first Center for Integrative Medicine, the first organic hydroponic green house to grow herbs and greenery for patients and employees and he was one of the lead architects for the new 370-million-dollar hospital based upon the concepts of wellness.

Seidman was recruited in 2016 to be the Director of Otologic/Neurotologic Surgery and the Medical Director of Wellness for AdventHealth and Professor of Oto-HNS for University of Central Florida and Univ of South Fla. He served as Director of Research for 28 years for HFHS and is the Chief Scientific Officer for a health and wellness company. Seidman is a past President of the Michigan Otolaryngology Society, was elected as the Chair-Board of Governors for the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) in 2010-12 and elected in 2013 to the Board of Directors.

He works on matters of Governmental and regulatory concerns, including several presentations to Congress and the FDA. He was appointed to the medical board for the State of Michigan by the Governor and has the privilege of serving in numerous leadership roles locally, nationally and internationally, and serves as an editor, associate editor, and on the review board of eight national or international journals including the American Journal of Chinese Medicine. Seidman is an active scientist and has extramural funding from the National Institute of Health and other major institutions to study Maintenance of Certification and Licensure, hearing loss, NIHL and alternative therapies. He is an expert on the molecular basis of ageing, noise induced hearing loss, otologic/neurotologic-skull base surgery, all aspects of ear, nose, throat, head and neck surgery, tinnitus, herbal therapies, nutrition/antioxidants and their relationship to health, sports and aging and complementary/integrative medicine. He has mentored more than 250 high school, medical students, residents, post-docs and junior colleagues over the past 30 years.

Seidman has developed two new surgical procedures; one to reconstruct the ear bones and the other, a brain surgery for tinnitus. He was one of several selected to work on Clinical trials with the Envoy Corporation (Fully Implantable hearing devices), Auris Medical, and Microtransponder. Seidman lectures internationally on such topics; has more than 130 publications; 25 book chapters, a book published by Time Warner “Save Your Hearing Now” and another book “Complementary and Integrative Therapies for ENT Disorders”. He has received numerous awards including being voted by his peers as a Top doctors and Best Doctors (top 3 and 4% of America’s physicians) since 1998 and was honored by the AAO-HNS with the Clinical Practitioner Excellence Award (one Otolaryngologist selected annually).

He has been awarded seven patents in the nutritional/aging and surgical fields. Additionally, he has several more patents pending on, aging, mitochondrial function endurance enhancement, and surgical tools and techniques. He consults for WebMD, BASF, Major League Baseball, Football, NHL, the Mexican Olympic team and other major corporations. Seidman has been interviewed on Good Morning America, CNN and other national news venues and has been quoted internationally in such magazines as “O”, “Shape”, Women’s World, Prevention, Men’s Health, The Wall Street Journal, New York and the London Times. Since 1981 he has studied conventional and complementary/integrative methodology to promote health and wellness.