Bryan Lopes, CRNA
Bryan was born and raised in Chicago, IL. In 1982, he moved to the south to pursue his college education and fell in love with the people and places in Tennessee, more specifically in Chattanooga. He completed his Associate Nursing degree at Southern Adventist University (SAU) in 1984 and worked on his Bachelor’s degree part-time over the next several years. During this time, he worked as a mental health nurse at Valley Psychiatric Hospital with the local adolescent population. In 1991, he completed his Bachelor’s degree at SAU while working as an assistant head-nurse manager of the Coronary Care Unit at Erlanger Hospital.
Bryan knew he wanted to pursue a career as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthesiologist since his high school years. In the fall of 1992, he was accepted into the Erlanger School of Nurse Anesthesia. He attended in spring of 1993 and graduated his anesthesia school/residency in March of 1995.
Bryan spent the last 30 years of his clinical practice in cardiovascular anesthesia. He has collaborated with most of the best cardio-thoracic surgeons in town! He has experience with all other surgical specialties and surgeons in the operating theater as well. Bryan enjoys taking care of each of his patients and feels privileged to help them through some of their most difficult and stressful moments in life.
Through the years, he has enjoyed mountain biking, reading books, watching movies with his family, playing golf with buddies, snow skiing in Colorado, beach trips to Santa Rosa Beach, and a good fire in the fire pit. Most of all, Bryan loves keeping up with his three grown children and their lives. He also has the privilege of living his life with the best partner he could ask for, his wife Christina.
Bryan knows that he can help many folks in Chattanooga and the surrounding area through the best-practice treatment protocols we offer at Scenic City Neurotherapy. Thus, Bryan’s decision to shift from patient care that involves putting brains to sleep for surgery, to waking up brains for a better, more healthy life.
