Dr. James Alan Cowthran, a native of Houston, Texas, who has a devoted passion for serving his community and changing lives through medicine. Dr. Cowthran was the first and only African American in his class to matriculate into the surgical subspeciality residency training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas. More recently, Dr. Cowthran has focused his clinical interest in treating migraines and chronic headaches as they pertain to the nose and sinuses. Under the mentorship and guidance of Dr. Kevin Smith, he has received exclusive training to become the nation’s first Migraine Specialist at the Smith Sinus Migraine Institute in Houston, Texas.