Brian Tsang, M.D
Dr. Tsang received his B.S. degree in Biochemistry with highest honors at UCLA. Completing medical school and internship in Internal Medicine at UCLA, Dr. Tsang received further training in the Anesthesiology Residency Programs at Yale University and the University of Southern California. After being fully trained and board certified as an anesthesiologist, he then went on the Stanford University's Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program to become an Interventional Pain Specialist.
Dr. Tsang has extensive clinical teaching and patient care experience. He has been an Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis (UC Davis), and an Associate Professor at University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). Dr. Tsang was the Pain Clinic Director at UMMC, teaching a multitude of medical students and physicians the state-of-the-art practice of pain management. He single-handedly established the only Pain Fellowship Program in Mississippi to train numerous physicians to become pain specialists.
Later Dr. Tsang become Pain Research director in UMMC. Published numbers paper and gained confirmation of reward of NIH grants. He has extensively studied the mechanisms of narcotics and the associated tolerance and addiction. He has performed research in these areas in clinical patients, laboratory rats, and in frozen thin slices of spinal cords.
Dr. Tsang has delivered over a hundred lectures and research presentations about pain and narcotics, both nationally and internationally. He has published over fifty research abstracts and papers in peer-reviewed academic journals in the field of narcotic tolerance and addiction.
Linda C. Bell, N.P.
Ms. Linda C. Bell graduated with a BSN from the University of Louisiana. She furthered her education with an MSN and then a PhD in Business Management. Ms Bell founded an investment firm, working as an investment banker for 16 years before returning to Nursing. She attained her Adult Oncology Nurse Practitioner Certification in 2005 from Duke University. Ms. Bell has worked with PainStop Spine Clinic since August 2013, and is a long time resident of South Mississippi.
Gina Gauthreaux, LCSW
Gina Gauthreaux started her journey with a bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of New Orleans, and continued her education at Tulane University earning a Masters in Social Work. She is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) in the state of Mississippi. For the past 39 years, Gina has worked with children, adolescents, adults and geriatric clients in outpatient, inpatient, partial hospitalization, therapeutic residential, home health, hospice and medical settings. She interacts with patients using a systems theory approach emphasizing how multiple life factors influence thought and actions, and identifying and building upon each person's strengths.
Veronica L. Walker, AGNP-C
Veronica Walker graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Social Work then furthering her education in nursing with a BSN from William Carey College. After 16 years of working in Medsurge, Telemetry, ICU, travel nursing, and home health care, she again furthered her education and attained her MSN from Spring Arbor University in Michigan by completing the Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner program in June of 2019. Ms. Walker has been involved in many local outreach ministry organizations as well as traveling to Guatemala to serve at a children’s orphanage with the CASA organization.
Ms. Walker has joined PainStop Spine Clinic where she believes that delivering quality care to all patients is most important. Working with patients to develop a plan of care that will deliver safe and effective treatment in order to improve quality of life is essential.