Top Doctors

People are never more vulnerable than when visiting doctors. Whether it’s for a routine checkup, treatment for a life-threatening illness or an auspicious occasion like the birth of a child, the patient will always feel at least some anxiety and uncertainty. There are often questions, concerns or even fears. A great doctor provides excellent medical care and advice, but also treats the patient as a human being. It’s a mixture of scientific skills and social skills. Fortunately, Acadiana has many doctors who fit that profile.

The physicians profiled in our Top Doctors issue of Acadiana Profile this year work in a variety of medical fields — radiation oncology, OB/GYN and cardiology. But they share a common denominator of providing excellent medical care that treats the whole person. Drs. John Winterton, Ann Lafranca and Jason Shumadine have helped countless patients over their considerable careers. But with each profile, we hoped to highlight one or two cases that stood out to them as both particularly challenging and uniquely rewarding. 

Toughest Cases

Dr. John Winterton | Dr. Ann LaFranca | Dr. Jason Shumadine

Categories

Allergy & Immunology | Cardiac Electrophyisology | Cardiovascular Disease | Clinical Genetics | Colon & Rectal Surgery | Dermatology | Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism | Family Medicine | Gastroenterology | Gynecologic Oncology | Hand Surgery | Internal Medicine | Interventional Cardiology | Maternal & Fetal Medicine | Medical Oncology | Nephrology | Neurological Surgery | Neurology | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Ophthamology | Orthopaedic Surgery | Otolaryngology | Pain Medicine | Pediatric Allergy & Immunology | Pediatric Cardiology | Pediatrics | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation | Plastic Surgery | Psychiatry | Pulmonary Disease | Radiation Oncology | Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility | Rheumatology | Sleep Medicine | Surgery | Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery | Urogynecology | Urology | Vascular Surgery

ABOUT THE LIST

Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. is a healthcare research and information company founded in 1991 by a former medical college board chairman and president to help guide consumers to America’s top doctors and top hospitals. Castle Connolly’s established nomination survey, research, screening and selection process, under the direction of an MD, involves many hundreds of thousands of physicians as well as academic medical centers, specialty hospitals and regional and community hospitals all across the nation. Castle Connolly’s physician-led team of researchers follows a rigorous screening process to select top doctors on both the national and regional levels.

Its online nominations process – located at www.castleconnolly.com/nominations – is open to all licensed physicians in America who are able to nominate physicians in any medical specialty and in any part of the country, as well as indicate whether the nominated physicians are, in their opinion, among the best in their region in their medical specialty or among the best in the nation in their medical specialty. Careful screening of doctors’ educational and professional experience is essential before final selection is made among those physicians most highly regarded by their peers.  The result – we identify the top doctors in America and provide you, the consumer, with detailed information about their education, training and special expertise in our paperback guides, national and regional magazine “Top Doctors” features and online directories.

Doctors do not and cannot pay to be selected and profiled as Castle Connolly Top Doctors

Physicians selected for inclusion in this magazine’s “Top Doctors” feature may also appear as online at www.castleconnolly.com, or in in conjunction with other Castle Connolly Top Doctors databases online and/or in print

ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

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CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY

CLINICAL GENETICS

COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY

DERMATOLOGY

ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM

FAMILY MEDICINE

GASTROENTEROLOGY

GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY

HAND SURGERY

INTERNAL MEDICINE

INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE

MEDICAL ONCOLOGY

NEPHROLOGY

NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY

NEUROLOGY

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

OPHTHAMOLOGY

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY

OTOLARYNGOLOGY

PAIN MEDICINE

PEDIATRIC ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY

PEDIATRICS

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

PLASTIC SURGERY

PSYCHIATRY

PULMONARY DISEASE

RADIATION ONCOLOGY

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY/INFERTILITY

RHEUMATOLOGY

SLEEP MEDICINE

SURGERY

THORACIC AND CARDIAC SURGERY

UROGYNECOLOGY/FEMALE PELVIC MED & RECONSTRUCT SURGERY

UROLOGY

VASCULAR SURGERY