Physician Profiles

PAUL J. HUBBELL, III, M.D.
With over two decades' experience in pain care, Dr. Hubbell began his career by graduating cum laude from the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska. He then performed a residency in anesthesiology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota, followed by his providing pain management services to hospitals and clinics throughout southern Louisiana, including in private practice at Southern Pain & Anesthesia Consultants in Lafayette.

Dr. Hubbell is a diplomate of the ABA with added qualifications in Pain Management and Pain Medicine as well as the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians. He is one of only 3 physicians that is a fellow. He has written on topics related to his field and authored a chapter in an anesthesiology textbook. His duties have included serving as an investigator in clinical trials that focused on pain care technologies.

DONALD E. RICHARDSON, MD, FACS
Dr. Richardson received his M.D. from Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana in 1957. He was elected AOA. He did his Neurosurgery residency at Tulane as well, finishing in 1962. Dr. Richardson was board certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 1965 and became a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1967. He stayed at Tulane as an Instructor from 1962-1964, an Assistant Professor from 1964-1967, Associate Professor for 1967-1974. He then left Tulane to go into private practice and was Clinical Associate Professor from 1974-1980 at Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Section of Neurologic Surgery.
 
Dr. Richardson became the Director of the Hotel Dieu Hospital Pain Treatment Center in 1978 which was closed in 1993, when the state of Louisiana bought Hotel Dieu Hospital. In 1980, Dr. Richardson returned to Tulane as Professor and Chairman of the department of Neurological Surgery. He was the Program Director of the Tulane Neurosurgery Residency training program until 2010.
 
Dr. Richardson is interested in functional and stereotactic neurosurgery and pain management. He is a pioneer in the field of brain stimulation for the treatment of chronic pain.
 
Dr. Richardson belongs to several societies, among them the American College of Surgeons, American Pain Society, American Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery and the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Association for Academic Surgery, International Association for the Study of Pain, the International Neurosurgical Society, Research Society of Neurological Surgeons, Royal Society of Medicine in London, and the European Society for Functional Neurosurgery. He has currently 55 publications in the general literature.
 
Dr. Richardson has a good blend of academics, patient management, administrative duties, and research and he still has time for an active social life. His hobbies include reading, skiing, music and computers.