Seth Wittner has been a physician assistant for fifteen years. working mostly in cardiology and Ear, Nose and Throat. He has spent less time in the field of psychiatry.
Wittner grew up in New York and received a B.A. in mathematics from Reed College and, later, an M.A. in Scandinavian Studies from the U. of Wisconsin, Madison. After graduating from Reed College, he worked in Oslo, Norway as an accompanist at a professional dance academy.
He was a working musician for twenty years in Los Angeles and worked on movies and TV in music preparation. He started writing music at age ten and won second place in a national composition contest, which resulted in a ten-minute instrumental piece being performed in concert by the Denver Symphony Orchestra. Wittner has had other original musical works performed by other orchestras as well.
He has published two peer-reviewed articles in medical journals.