Dr. Timothy S. Smyth is triple boarded in Addiction Medicine, Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology. He practiced interventional and medical management of chronic pain for 23 years. For the past five years, he has focused exclusively on helping those with addiction to opioids with an emphasis on medically assisted treatment. Smyth is the Medical Director at Overmountain Recovery (OMR), one of the few not-for-profit methadone clinics in the country. OMR is a joint project between East Tennessee State University and Ballad Healthcare (formerly Mountain States Health Alliance). Smyth is also the Medical Director and a founding partner of Catalyst Health Solutions (CHS). CHS is an addiction clinic focusing on the outpatient treatment of addiction using MAT in the form of Buprenorphine. CHS includes among its staff two board-certified addiction psychiatrists and four masters-level addiction counsellors. CHS is one of the first clinics in the area to be licensed by the State of Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.