About Us
A graduate of Vanderbilt University Medical School, Robert T. Cochran, Jr. M.D., completed his residency in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Texas and Duke University. He founded his private medical practice in 1963, and over the course of many years has treated thousands of patients with chronic pain. This experience, in conjunction with that gained as co-director of the Pain Center at Centennial Hospital (Nashville) in the 1990s, led Dr. Cochran to make groundbreaking links between pain and various psychiatric disorders. His first book, Understanding Chronic Pain (Hillsboro Press, 2004), explored these relationships.
Curing Chronic Pain offers the thesis that chronic pain is actually a form of mental illness, one that with the imaginative use of pharmacy can in many cases actually be cured.
Dr. Cochran continues his active medical practice in Nashville, where he resides with his wife, Donna. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
