Dr. James Freije prepared for his medical career at Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania. After graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, he went on to attend medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, New York. Graduating in 1985, Dr. Freije earned a Doctor in Medicine and completed both his internship and residency at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington in general surgery and otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. He fulfilled a fellowship with the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Advanced Training in Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery. In the same year, Dr. Freije was also named a Fellow of the American Academy of and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
For the next eight years, Dr. James Freije was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at several institutions, including Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania; the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; and at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse. He also served on staff at several hospitals in Hershey, Milwaukee and Syracuse, including an appointment as Chief of Otolaryngology at Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee. During his years as a teaching physician, Dr. James Freije was a member of the Society of University and Otolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons and was named a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1995.
In 1999, Dr. James Freije took leave from the medical profession to go back to school. He graduated in 2001 with a Master of Public Health from SUNY University at Albany in New York. He returned to the field of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in 2002 and was appointed to work at two hospitals in northern Pennsylvania: Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, part of Guthrie Health, and Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Wellsboro, part of the Laurel Health System. During his time at Guthrie, Dr. James Freije served on the Editorial Board for the Guthrie Journal and on the Guthrie Clinic Board of Directors.
At present, Dr. James Freije is an Associate of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Mount Nittany Physicians Group in State College, Pennsylvania. Call the facility at (814) 466-2300 and visit 3901 South Atherton Street in State College, Pennsylvania. Dr. Freije is a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and serves on the Mount Nittany Health System Board as an Elected Physician Member and at the Mount Nittany Medical Center as a Cancer Liaison Representative.
For the next eight years, Dr. James Freije was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at several institutions, including Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania; the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee; and at SUNY Health Science Center in Syracuse. He also served on staff at several hospitals in Hershey, Milwaukee and Syracuse, including an appointment as Chief of Otolaryngology at Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Milwaukee. During his years as a teaching physician, Dr. James Freije was a member of the Society of University and Otolaryngologists Head and Neck Surgeons and was named a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1995.
In 1999, Dr. James Freije took leave from the medical profession to go back to school. He graduated in 2001 with a Master of Public Health from SUNY University at Albany in New York. He returned to the field of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery in 2002 and was appointed to work at two hospitals in northern Pennsylvania: Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, part of Guthrie Health, and Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hospital in Wellsboro, part of the Laurel Health System. During his time at Guthrie, Dr. James Freije served on the Editorial Board for the Guthrie Journal and on the Guthrie Clinic Board of Directors.
At present, Dr. James Freije is an Associate of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Mount Nittany Physicians Group in State College, Pennsylvania. Call the facility at (814) 466-2300 and visit 3901 South Atherton Street in State College, Pennsylvania. Dr. Freije is a member of the Pennsylvania Medical Society, and serves on the Mount Nittany Health System Board as an Elected Physician Member and at the Mount Nittany Medical Center as a Cancer Liaison Representative.