David has more than 27 years of experience providing professional anesthesia services across all patient populations. He earned a BS in Nursing from Texas Christian University in 1993 and an MS in Health Sciences from Texas Wesleyan in 1998. He also completed a year long Nonsurgical pain fellowship from TCU in 2018 and was board certified in 2019. He has used his extensive clinical experience to provide acute pain control education to other anesthesia providers across the country through Maverick Medical Education, a company he and a coworker formed more than 15 years ago. His time in both the clinical and educational arenas treating acute pain spurred him to undergo a rigorous year-long Nonsurgical Pain Management Fellowship through Texas Christian University in 2017-2018. He was among the first 50 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists in the United States to earn board certification through the NBCRNA in Nonsurgical Pain Management — a subspecialty credential now held by just 244 CRNAs nationwide. Reducing the pain in our communities, and its countless untoward effects, has become a passion for him. David has a simple philosophy he wants you to leave him feeling better than when you met him.

Dr. Aaron Buzzard is an emergency physician at the St. Joseph Emergency Department in Bryan, TX, and has practiced emergency medicine for over 20 years. He is double board-certified as an emergency physician and EMS medical director and is a licensed paramedic in the state of Texas. He serves as a Clinical Associate Professor at the Texas A&M College of Medicine and is a member of Texas Task Force – 1.

He is also a decorated veteran who served in the U.S. Army and was deployed to Iraq four times, where he served as an emergency physician and flight surgeon.

In the Brazos Valley, he serves as medical director for the St. Joseph EMS ground and air medical systems, the City of Bryan Fire Department, the Waller County EMS and ESD systems, and numerous local first responder organizations. He also serves as medical director for the EMT and paramedic programs at Blinn College.

For people living with pain, opioid medications can provide a way to get much-needed relief. Still, the risks of prescription pain medicines are serious and challenging. Abuse, misuse, addiction, overdose and diversion of pain medicines impact millions of people and their loved ones each year. To improve patient safety, everyone involved in the treatment of pain needs to understand how to responsibly prescribe, appropriately dispense, safely store, use and dispose of these powerful pain relievers. We at Republic Pain Specialists strive to educate our patients on the dangers of opioids and provide every possible option to relieve their pain without the use of opioids.