James A. Oaks M.D., is a traditionally trained medical doctor. Dr. Oaks has bachelor degrees in Math and Biochemistry. He was a high school math teacher, a mechanical engineer, served in the US Navy and owned his own business. When he realized his calling to go in to medicine he was working as a high school math teacher. He had to quit a full time job, his family’s only source of income, to go back to college. He graduated from Quillen College of Medicine in 2012 and successfully completed his Intern year in Internal Medicine with East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, TN. Dr. Oaks then went on to complete his training as a Nuclear Medicine Resident at Vanderbilt University.