Louisiana Pain Care

All the ArkLaMiss Surgery Center physicians are board-certified physicians who are fellowship trained in pain management. Working together with you and your physicians, the medical doctors at ArkLaMiss Surgery Center help relieve your pain, control your medication intake, and get you back to doing the things you want to do. We don’t just treat your symptoms – we get to the source of your pain.

		John Letbetter, M.D. Dr. Ledbetter received his medical degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas. He did a residency in anesthesiology at the University of Texas Health Center in San Antonio, as well as fellowships in pediatric anesthesia and pain management at UTHSC-SA. Dr. Ledbetter was the founding member of the St. Francis Pain Management Center (now Louisiana Pain Care). He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology in Anesthesiology and in Pain Management, and a Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine. He currently holds memberships in the American Pain Society, Southern Pain Society, Louisiana Pain Society (where he is a past member of the Board of Directors), American Academy of Pain Medicine, Ouachita Parish Medical Society, Louisiana State Medical Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Louisiana Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Regional Anesthesia, International Spinal Intervention Society, Society of Pain Practice Management, and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
		Vincent Forte, M.D. Dr. Forte received his medical degree from Louisiana State University at New Orleans. He did a residency in anesthesiology at University of Alabama Hospitals in Birmingham and a fellowship in pain management at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. Dr. Forte has received board certification from the American Board of Anesthesiology as well as the American Board of Pain Medicine. Dr. Forte currently holds membership in the American Society of Anesthesiologists, American Society of Pain Medicine, Louisiana State Society of Anesthesiologists, Ouachita Parish Medical Society (where he is a past President), American Society of Interventional Pain Specialist, Louisiana Society of Interventional Pain Specialists, Interventional Spinal Injection Society.