Professional achievements include:

          - Member ETVMA
          - Member AAEP








Dr. E. M. Williams was born and raised on a dairy farm near Shreveport, Lousiana. He attended and graduated from Texas A&M University in 1970 with a DVM degree. He was in practice in Shreveport, Lousiana, from 1970 until January 1st, 2009. He has been married to his wife Joan for 38 years. They have three children, a son and daughter, who reside in Dallas and another daughter that lives in Tyler.  Dr. Williams and his wife moved to Tyler in January of 2009 to be closer to their children.  Dr. Williams enjoys small animal medicine and surgery and has a special interest in surgery, especially orthopedics. In his spare time, Dr. Williams enjoys remodeling old houses, reading, taking mission trips to Mexico and spending time with his children.

     Professional achievements include:

     - Past president, NW La. VMA
     - Past executive board member, LVMA
     - Member AVMA
     - Member LVMA
     - Member NW La. VMA
     - Member TVMA
     - Member ETVMA

Dr. James O'Bryan was born and raised in Richardson, Texas.  Upon graduation from high school, he fulfilled his calling to God and country and served as a hospital corpsman in the United States Navy for five years.  Starting at the bottom and quickly working his way up the military hierarchy, starting with advancement in boot camp, he excelled at basic medical training and was shipped to Washington D.C. where he learning advanced surgical techniques.  With the increase in responsibility, and personal maturity, came the opportunity to serve his country on a global scale in many other areas of military life.

Honorably discharged from active duty, it was back home to Texas where he completed his bachelors in Animal Science from Texas A&M University-Commerce (East Texas State) in 2004, and went on to receive his doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Texas A&M University in 2008.  It’s no surprise that Dr. O’Bryan took a special interest in equine medicine and surgery during veterinary school in addition to the didactic and clinical skills of small animal medicine.  The parallels of a veterinarian and a medical doctor are many, and after thirteen years of working in human surgery he wanted to explore all aspects of his new career, not just surgery.  A brief visit to the beautiful horse country of Kentucky to continue specialized training in equine surgery helped him realize that there are many facets of veterinary medicine to be explored, and he moved to the foothills of Denver, Colorado, and spent a year working for a large animal and equine practice where he gained valuable, practical experience and specialized in equine dental and surgical techniques.  And because the mountains of Colorado are filled will ruminant species such as elk, goats, camelids; llamas and alpacas, as well as some cattle, and because there were no other veterinarians around that serviced these types of animals, he brings those skills to our area as well.  He enjoys all aspects of veterinary medicine including small animal medicine and surgery, but his real talents shine with equine dentistry, tooth extraction, oral and sinus surgery, lameness, reproductive medicine and more recently large animal exotic medicine, such as elephants and camels.  Difficult, chronic, unusual, or any other challenging cases are always welcome.  

While living in the beautiful mountainside of Colorado, he was blessed with meeting a wonderful and very talented woman, she is an Iowa native with a singing voice of an angel, an avid runner, track coach, and very talented high school chemistry teacher. They have recently moved to the Tyler area where Dr. O’Bryan practices at Gresham Veterinary Hospital and his fiancée Jill will be teaching at Robert E. Lee High School. 

In their spare time they enjoy the outdoors be it at the lake, running, working in the garden, or traveling the countryside with their dog “J.D.”  Recently, Dr. O’Bryan has taken an interest in metalworking, creating rustic decorative memorabilia out of horseshoes and other older metals from around the barn.  Dr. O’Bryan plans on making the Tyler area his permanent home and looks forward to becoming an active member of the community. 



     Professional achievements include:

         - Member AVMA