Dr. Jason C. Pooler, MD

About Dr. Pooler

Dr. Pooler founded Integrative Psychiatry of Chattanooga and serves as its medical director. He earned a BS in psychology, biology and zoology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1995 and his MD from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Memphis in 2000. He finished general surgery training in Chattanooga in 2006 and an anesthesiology residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in 2009.

In 2021 he finished a fellowship at the Integrative Psychiatry Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and he is fellowship trained in integrative psychiatry. He works with patients to find what puts pressure on their mental health, which may include blood work, genetic testing, gut function assessment and hormone panels. Dr. Pooler addresses depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, chronic pain, migraines and concussion injuries, among other conditions.

The practice uses ketamine infusions with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, also called KAP, for symptoms such as depression, anxiety and PTSD. He is present to provide the critical care needed for the safe use of ketamine.