James McKnight Timmons, M.D.

Otolaryngology

James McKnight Timmons, M.D., was appointed to the Providence medical staff in 1955 and specialized in Otolaryngology. For Dr. Timmons, practicing medicine was a family affair, as he worked with his father, H.L. Timmons, a medical missionary in Korea, his brother, John, and John’s wife, Frances. Dr. Timmons had an extraordinary skill for restoring hearing through microscopic surgeries, notably stapes surgery and tympanoplasties, to repair damage due to abnormalities of the small ear bones. Dr. Timmons' accolades and honors are innumerable, yet he never lost sight of the hand that guided him.