Training and Qualifications

Judson Somerville, M.D. Board Certified Pain Management Specialist Board Certified Anesthesiologist

Judson Somerville, M.D. is a graduate of The University of Texas Health Science Center with a medical degree. He received residency training there and at The University of Massachusetts, in surgery and anesthesiology. Dr. Somerville also served as chief resident of anesthesiology at The University of Massachusetts. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Pain Medicine and a fellow of the American Board of Anesthesiologists with subspecialty qualifications in pain management.

Dr. Somerville serves as the medical director of The Pain Management Clinic of Laredo, the first physician-led clinic in Laredo directed toward healing chronic pain.  He has trained with Dr. Gabor Racz, a world authority on invasive pain management at Texas Tech Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, to learn the latest techniques in treating chronic pain. Dr. Somerville also visited the Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York City to learn recent innovations in cancer pain treatments. During his residency at The University of Massachusetts, the largest pain management clinic on the East Coast, he completed extensive training in acute and chronic pain management.

Dr. Somerville has served as an anesthesiologist at Mercy Regional Medical Center and at Columbia Doctor's Hospital in Laredo, and is president of The Pain Management Clinic of Laredo. He stays involved in Continuing Quality improvement at both Doctors Hospital of Laredo and Mercy Regional Hospital through his contributions to improved patient care.

Dr. Somerville visits pain management clinics and seminars nationwide to learn more and assure he provides to his patients the most effective and efficient pain management in the south Texas region and Mexico. He also received The American Medical Association Physician Recognition Award with Commendation for Self Directed Learning in 1998.