After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. John Mansell returned to his home state of Alabama for medical school at the University of Alabama and then onward to Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans where he completed his anesthesiology residency and focusing on Pain Medicine in his senior year. He passed his Boards in Anesthesiology in 1992 and in Pain Medicine in 1994, the first year that the American Board of Anesthesiology offered this exam.