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Joe H. Browder, MD is the senior partner at Pain Consultants of East Tennessee. He has practiced Pain Medicine since the early 1990s and founded PCET in 1998. He is triple board certified in Pain Medicine, a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology with Added Qualifications in Pain Medicine, a Diplomate and Fellow of the American Board if Pain Medicine, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is also a Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice from the World Institute of Pain.
Dr. Browder is a Roane county native. His formal education includes a Bachelor degree from the University of Notre Dame. He received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Tennessee-Memphis. His anesthesia residency was done at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital-Philadelphia. He has also earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Tennessee.
Dr. Browder is currently working with the Tennessee Medical Association and other medical and governmental agencies to assure that all pain management in Tennessee is safe and has the patients’ well being as its highest priority. He has been instrumental in the passage of the “Pill Mill Bill” to help eliminate the problems with prescription medication misuse, abuse and diversion. He is now working to assure that all providers performing spinal pain injections are properly trained and certified. He continues to work with the Tennessee Medical Association, the Tennessee Pain Society and the Governor's Task Force to insure that patients have access to appropriate pain treatment.
Personally, Dr. Browder has been married for 32 years and has 3 grown children. He is a long-term member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and is a board member of the local Boy Scouts of America.
Dr. Browder has chronic pain issues himself. In 2010, he had a lumbar spinal fusion and has had two total knee replacements. Because of his own pain, Dr. Browder has a special understanding of the challenges and life alterations that patients undergo when dealing with chronic pain. The practice at Pain Consultants reflects his empathy to the chronic pain sufferer.
Voted "Top Doc" in 2011, 2012 & 2013 for Pain Management in Cityview Magazine by local area physicians. |
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Dr. James Choo is a native of Knoxville, TN. He graduated from Emory University in 1999 with a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and he attended the University of Tennessee for medical school, finishing in 2004. After medical school Dr. Choo completed his residency in Anesthesiology at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, LA. After residency he attended the University of New Mexico and completed an ACGME accredited pain fellowship. Dr. Choo is ABMS Board Certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Dr. Choo is the Medical Director of PCET Surgery Center and is a primary investigator for PCET Research Center. He serves on the Tennessee Medical Association for Opioid Prescribing committee in order to help find legislation to curb presciption drug abuse while protecting chronic pain patients' needs. This committee is also developing opioid guidelines for all physicians and mid-level providers in the state of Tennessee. He has worked with legislators, medical providers and law enforcement on the pain legislation issues in Tennessee.
Voted "Top Doc" in 2012 & 2013 for Pain Management in Cityview Magazine by local area physicians. |
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Behavioral Medicine Institute
Ted Jones, PhD. is a Knoxville native. He attended Earlham College in Richmond IN. He had a brief stint in Boston University School of Law before deciding on a psychology career. He graduated from the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1981 with a PhD. in clinical psychology. He worked in a variety of positions at local mental health centers and later spent six years working full-time at the University of Tennessee Medical Center’s substance abuse treatment program. He entered private practice in 1996 and soon after began specializing in pain management and evaluation of addiction risk. He joined the psychology group Behavioral Medicine Institute, P.C. and has been in an on-site office at Pain Consultants of East Tennessee since 2000. He has presented professional programs locally and regionally and has collaborated with staff at Pain Consultants on several professional papers. He is considered the area’s leading psychological expert on pain-addiction issues. |
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