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Dr. Jason Brazee, a physician and chief administrative medical officer for Wellmont Physician Services in Kingsport, Tennessee and most recently Tidelands Health in Murrells Inlet, SC passed away Wednesday July 27, 2016 from complications incident to pancreatic cancer. He was 65 years old. Dr. Brazee worked in Kingsport, TN for 32 years In private medical practice and held administrative positions for Wellmont Physician Services and Indian Path Hospital. He served northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia medical communities working as a physician in private practice, Emergency Room services, Hospitalist services, Urgent Care services, administrator of physician groups, and volunteer services through Indigent Care clinics. Dr. Brazee was an Associate Clinical Professor with ETSU Quillen College of Medicine and with LMU DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine. He had recently joined Tidelands Health in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina as an Associate Vice President to facilitate the creation of their Urgent Care System. Jason Brazee was born, raised and educated in the state of Michigan. He was a Michigan State University alumnus and earned an MD from the MSU College of Human Medicine. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency with East Tennessee State University, being the first-ever Internal Medicine resident physician admitted to the freshly minted program. He enjoyed a very blessed life hunting and fishing in the wilds of Alaska and the great outdoors across the North and South American Continents. He was a Pope and Young record holder. Jason was multi-talented and multi-skilled as a woodworker, mechanic, handyman, farmer, landscaper, veterinarian, barn builder, hunter, and a genuinely great friend. Dr. Brazee firmly believed that the world deserved a better standard of care, and the positive impact he had on the well-being of thousands of patients is a testament to his success. Jason was a natural philanthropist and humanitarian who went out of his way to give the best care and services to those who needed him. His work did not keep him from raising a beautiful family and loving his wife while teaching them the values of work, nature, creation, and bettering the human condition. Jason leaves behind a posterity of children who are engrained with his determination and passion to create a better world. Dr. Brazee is survived by his wife of 33 years Debbie Brazee, and the couple's four children -Dr Jacob Brazee and fiancé Dr Jessica Morjain, ; daughter Sarah Brazee , daughter Leah Brazee-Ludow and husband Jordan, daughter Cailey Brazee. Two children from a prior marriage, Joshua Brazee and wife Jennifer, Lindsey Sheffield and husband John, grand daughters Mia, Savannah, Sophie and Stella. Also surviving are his mother of 93 years Elvina Brazee, sisters Dr. Louise Brazee of Kingsport, Virginia Vernier and husband Devon, Mary Gustin and husband Ron, Sybil Gamble and husband Jack, several beloved nieces and nephews, and his faithful dog Lewis. A memorial service will be held in Kingsport, Tennessee on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016 at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints at 100 Cannongate Road, Kingsport at 7:30 pm with family receiving friends from 5-7pm in the chapel prior to service. A private interment will be held for the Brazee family. Memorials to honor Dr. Brazee may be made to the Tidelands Community Hospice Foundation, 2591 Fraser Street, Georgetown, SC who provided exceptional care, or to the Brazee Family Endowed Scholarship Fund # AR0010 at College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, established by Jason Brazee to support medical students in financial need. Google: Brazee Family Endowed Scholarship Fund Goldfinch Funeral Home, Beach Chapel is serving the Brazee family.

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Dr. Jason Brazee

December 27, 1950 - July 27, 2016