We take health care reporting quite seriously. There is no perfect way to determine the city’s best physicians but we use a service that we feel is as good as possible. Here are some questions and answers about the methodology. Before you make any decision about physicians based on this list, please be aware of the following.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT METHODOLOGY
How were the Top Doctors selected? We used the services of Best Doctors Inc. The Boston-based company is the preeminent organization at gathering professional peer ratings. Through the years the company has built a database of professionals who are highly regarded by their peers. Those professionals are in turn interviewed for their recommendations.
What question is asked of the doctors who are interviewed? Best Doctors contacts each doctor on the previous list and asks the same question: “If you or a loved one needed a doctor in your specialty, and you couldn’t treat them yourself, to whom would you refer them?”
Do doctors get a chance to respond to other names recommended? Every doctor has the opportunity both to comment (confidentially) on the other doctors included in his or her specialty and to make additional nominations. As new names are added to the pool, each undergoes the same peer-evaluation process. The company claims to have developed special software to correct for some methodological biases: For example, to detect and correct for suspect voting patterns and to weigh votes according to the ratings of the doctors who are doing the recommending.
What happens to the data? There is a continual refinement of both the voting pool and the nominee pool. Each time a poll is conducted the list is sifted, refined and improved for better representation and more solid consensuses.
How does this differ from local surveys? One major difference: doctors are evaluated by their peers nationwide, not just by doctors in their community. In many areas doctors may be better known and evaluated by those within their specialty groups – regardless of where they live – than by local doctors who may not be as knowledgeable in specific specialty areas.
Do doctors have to pay to be on the list? No! We would never use the list if that were the case. Here is the company’s own statement on that issue: “Best Doctors never takes compensation of any kind from doctors or hospitals in return for listing doctors in its database, nor does Best Doctors pay doctors to participate in its survey process.”
What are some of the rules that the company uses?
• Doctors are allowed to vote on others in their hospital and medical practices. The feeling is that those doctors know their peers best – that’s where the survey gets some of its most outspoken evaluations, good and bad.
• Doctors are never “automatically” re-included. In each biennial poll, current Best Doctors are re-evaluated along with the new nominees.
• All of the voting is strictly confidential.
• Doctors are not notified of their inclusion on the list until after the survey process is completed. Doctors are not required to pay a fee or make a purchase to be included.
How many doctors were surveyed? As part of its nationwide survey, the company interviewed over 30,000 doctors. Surveying was conducted from Jan. 2005 through Sept. This is the most recent, credible survey of doctors.
How about doctors who are no longer practicing locally because of Hurricane Katrina? Best Doctors has issued this statement: “Doctors displaced and/or relocated due to Hurricane Katrina have been updated to the best of our ability. Unless significant changes occur in a doctor’s practice, doctors who relocate retain their Best Doctors status when they change geographical locations. Any doctors we have been unable to locate remain in our database for further research but were removed from the list submitted due to their inaccessibility to your readers. All doctors we were able to locate were sent voting invitations for the Best Doctors 2007-2008 review.”
Are the surveys administered randomly? No. To get opinions with weight and professional credibility, Best Doctors tries to consult the very best. Researchers contact all current physicians on the list – including many department heads at major teaching hospitals – and ask them to rate specialists outside their own facilities. According the Best Doctors, the medical community has been extremely supportive over the past 15 years it has administered the survey, providing a 40 percent response rate.
Whereas the bias? There is no perfect, bias free way to conduct a ranking of any sort. Though Best Doctors has through the years refined its techniques to eliminate biases, any nomination process that relies of peer evaluations will naturally favor more senior doctors who have had time to develop a reputation. Those who are new in their profession or those who have not had much peer interaction will naturally get less recognition. The broadness and the depth of the voting pool help eliminate biases and cronyism that might be reflected in smaller surveys.
How credible is Best Doctors Inc.? We know of no better company for providing this type of information. Best Doctors’ roots begin with the Woodward/White Company of Aiken, S.C. That company was founded by a person who was diagnosed with a terminal illness who discovered the frustrations of facing serious illness but not having any source as a reference for medical help. Woodward/White was once the subject of a favorable report on 60 Minutes. Though Best Doctors is now located in Boston, the research unit is still located in Aiken.
How were the medical categories used in this selection determined? Best Doctors selected them.
How were the five doctors who were profiled in this section selected? They were selected by the editorial staff of New Orleans Magazine. We tried to choose people that represented a variety of specialties.
Is this the definitive list? Of course not, we have any doubt that there are many worthy doctors who were not included in the list. We are confident, however, that all who are listed are truly Top Doctors.
TOP DOCTORS
ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS
Dr. William F. von Almen, II, M.D. – Obstetrics/Gynecology
It’s not surprising that Dr. William F. von Almen, II, M.D., would be chosen as a top doctor – from a young age, he was driven by knowledge and success. In his sophomore year of high school, von Almen noticed that few students in his biology class could ever answer the teacher’s questions. One of the few to speak up, he became passionate about the biological sciences and determined to become a doctor. “I kept going and it worked,” he says with confidence. He received his Bachelor of Arts in biology from the University of New Orleans in 1976, and continued on to Louisiana State University (LSU) for medical school, graduating in ‘80. Although he intended to specialize in pathology – “The TV show Quincy was very popular at the time,” he says – when he began making rounds as a medical student, he noticed how diverse the field of obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) could be. “You see a lot of pathology [in obstetrics and gynecology], you get to deliver babies and do surgery and medicine. I still enjoy delivering babies, even at 3 a.m.,” he says, smiling. Von Almen completed his OB/GYN internship at Wake Forest University’s Bowman-Gray School of Medicine and continued in his residency at the LSU-Charity Hospital, where he was the OB/GYN Chief Resident of Service in ‘84. He is also a clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at LSU.
Now well into his career, von Almen is an experienced surgeon. “Things are changing so rapidly,” he says. “I can remember the ultrasound machines we used to use were as big as a house – then they were only used in research facilities but now every OB/GYN has one.” Von Almen also notes that current genetics research will drastically change his field in the upcoming years. “Seeing what the medical students know and are required to know is amazing, there are things we didn’t even know existed back when I was in school.”
Von Almen has had to be flexible in his career. After working in hospitals, he’s now in private practice. His group, Crescent City Physicians, now operates in the Touro Infirmary. “I still have a lot of say in my practice but there’s somebody behind the scenes running the business,” he explains.
Von Almen certainly knows how to run a practice that’s much more than a business. “For me, it’s very important to interact with the patient on more than a clinical level. I try – as much as possible – to sit down the patient in my office after an exam to talk in a less threatening setting. I feel that it has served me well; you get a different relationship with the patient by doing that. I can find out things they may have been uncomfortable or embarrassed talking about in an exam room.”
These interpersonal skills extend from the exam room to his active and large family. Von Almen praises his wife Madeline, who has “done most of the child-rearing that I’ve missed out on.” The two have five children and their second daughter is currently studying to be a physician’s assistant – in fact, she will be joining her father for a rotation at the end of the year.
With new lives beginning at home and the office, this doctor’s life is not slowing down anytime soon. “I want to work until my kids are out in the world and successful. After that, I’ll just chase them around and see what they do! Spending time with my family is my main goal.”
FIXING A PROBLEM
David Beck, M.D. – Colon and Rectal Surgery
When Illinois native David Beck, M.D., attended the U.S. Air Force Academy (USAF) in Colorado Springs, he knew he wanted to pursue a major in the biological sciences. Fortunately for his future patients, the only biology major available was pre-med. He completed USAF as a Distinguished Graduate and continued his education at the University of Miami School of Medicine, where he chose colon and rectal surgery as his specialty. “I’m very goal-oriented and I like to find a problem and fix it. I’m also good with my hands,” says Beck of the qualities that make him a successful surgeon in his field. Beck completed his residency in general surgery at Wilford Hall of the USAF Medical Center (WHMC), located at the Lackland Airforce Base in Texas, and his fellowship in colorectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. In 1994, Beck took over for Dr. John Ray, who had just retired from the Ochsner Clinic, now Ochsner Health Systems. Pleased to be at one of the Gulf Coast’s largest clinics, Beck currently presides as chairman of his department. He has received numerous military and medical awards, in addition to prestigious faculty appointments and involvement in medical societies, committees and journals. The author of seven textbooks, Beck has published 90 book chapters and monographs, 140 articles and seven video and audio procedural guides.
“Colorectal surgery is a small specialty,” says Beck, who adds that there are only about 1,500 specialists in the U.S. and only about 70 new colorectal surgeons a year. “Being small, it’s a relatively friendly group and there are opportunities to do some new things in this specialty. Plus, it’s a specialty where you can really help a lot of people.” Beck finds the research aspect enjoyable but notes that his job can be challenging. “Ochsner is a referral center, one of the largest in the Gulf South, so we get a lot of complex cases,” he says. However, he has never regretted entering such a challenging field. “All of the colorectal surgeons I’ve met are nice people and relatively happy,” says Beck, because “no one is trying to steal what you do, like cardiothoracics.”
Hurricane Katrina has altered his practice slightly. “We’ve gotten busier since the storm. We didn’t lose any of our staff but the other colorectal practice in town lost two people, so we’ve picked up some of the slack.” He adds that “the storm has brought a different demographic, patients we’ve never seen before who’ve never had access to this kind of care. They’re very appreciative, though.” Beck remains determined – and prepared for any challenge. “I always try to do what is right for the patients.”
Beck and his wife Sharon, a registered nurse, have twin daughters and a son in their early twenties. Mrs. Beck was already a pediatric ICU nurse when they met and Beck says her independence has made it easier for them to coordinate schedules and travel. Beck and his partners are researching new medications and ways to prevent hernias and regenerate sphincter cells, among other projects. As if surgeries and research aren’t keeping this determined doctor busy enough, Beck also plans to help his department expand in the near future. Always working with his hands, the skilled surgeon enjoys gardening, fishing and woodworking in his rare free time.
BELIEVING IN HERSELF
Patricia Cook, M.D. – Neurology
I hope one day you’ll be one of us,” said a Dominican High School nun to a young Patricia Cook. “Oh no, I’m going to be a doctor,” the freshman replied with confidence. Though she’d never voiced her ambition until that moment, she’d been inspired by a well known female physician who cared for her sister. “She sat with my sister all night long. I was really impressed by that but I never realized how much that affected me until I said I wanted to be a doctor,” says Cook.
Cook mailed her application to Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine in New Orleans without doubting herself for a second. “Not until I put that envelope in the mail had it ever occurred to me that somebody could say ‘no,’” she recalls. They didn’t say “no,” and Cook became one of six women to graduate from LSU School of Medicine in 1960, after which she completed her internship at Southern Baptist Hospital. She originally wanted to pursue internal medicine and even did two residencies in the field, one at Southern Baptist Hospital and one at Tulane Medical School. However, a rotation scheduling conflict at Tulane caused her to consider a different specialty. “Looking back, when I was in my personal library, I realized it was full of neurology books so I must have subconsciously known that it was meant to be,” says Cook. She completed two neurology residencies, at Charity Hospital and at LSU.
Medicine has evolved since Cook’s first days as a neurologist – she emphasizes that these changes can be good and bad. “Patients need to be listened to and nowadays the challenge is that you’re not reimbursed for your time. I still go along as if it were 20 or 30 years ago when it mattered to spend time with the patient,” she says. “The patient will help you make the diagnosis if you really listen to them.” Cook’s husband Ernest is a retired dentist, so with both incomes and no children, money was never an issue. Cook never lets the insurance companies bring her down because she always puts her patients’ needs first. “I enjoy the investigative part of spending time with my patients, I’m like a sleuth! It’s very rewarding,” she says sincerely.
One major positive change to her field is the evolution of numerous medications. “We didn’t have much in the way of medications when I first started,” she says. However, drugs for Parkinson’s, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease are now “just exploding … if one doesn’t work, you finally have another one to try.”
Hurricane Katrina made drastic changes to Cook’s professional and personal life. Her husband has been living with Parkinson’s disease and two accidents have left him unable to walk. Cook hired home care workers for her husband and even brought them to Maurice, during the evacuation, however, they left three weeks after the storm and she had to bring him to a nursing home where her sister works. In order to spend time with her husband, she now works a few days a week in Lafayette in addition to seeing patients in her Metairie office. She has no plans to retire and continues to enjoy helping her patients.
An astonishingly active woman, Cook is president of the Figure Skating Club of New Orleans – she even skates herself – and manages to paint, ski and care for her prize-winning Yellow Lab, Dude. She believes balance is a necessity. Cook says, “I’ve always felt you had to have other things in your life besides work.”
TRUMETING SUCCESS
Rene Albert Louapre, III, M.D. – Internal Medicine
When Rene Albert Louapre, III, M.D., had a severe case of chicken pox as a child, his doctor visited him each afternoon until he recovered. “When I was a little older and deciding whether I wanted to practice law or medicine, that image stayed in my mind. That is what I’ve become,” he says. Louapre attended Loyola University in New Orleans for his undergraduate degree in biology. He then continued to medical school at Louisiana State University (LSU), graduating in 1973. Louapre completed his residency at Charity Hospital in ‘76.
In addition to his family doctor, Louapre had numerous role models to help him solidify his work ethic, bedside manner and people skills. His father was a noted musician who led the Rene Louapre Orchestra. “My father was very well liked in the city, he played at all of the Mardi Gras balls and debutante parties,” says Louapre. The busy doctor inherited the musical gene from his father and played the trumpet through medical school, although he rarely has time these days. “I think my father would be proud of what I’ve become,” he says. Another significant mentor was Dr. Harry Baskin, the former head of infectious disease at LSU. “He was a wonderful clinician. Those were the days before MRIs and CT scans; he would look at the patient and really take time to put the pieces together. I think about him each time I see a complex patient,” says Louapre.
Louapre believes that “putting the pieces together” is what makes his practice so rewarding and he never considered another specialty besides internal medicine. “With internal medicine, you have to look at the whole patient and I enjoy that interaction,” he says. “It’s not just understanding one part of the body, it’s understanding if the patient’s ailments come from stress or even a certain social interaction.” Compassionate interaction with his patients is what makes Louapre truly stand out. Doctors aren’t always able to spend as much time as they should with each patient, but Louapre makes that a priority. “You usually have about seven minutes to examine a patient, but there are ways to make it seem like fifteen minutes,” he explains. “Eye contact and verbal cues are very important. I’m a good listener and I smile at my patients when I listen to them. I’m a caring guy and that’s what patients like.”
Not only does Louapre strive to be a kind physician, he has the business intelligence that can make a significant difference in whether a medical practice is successful or not. After medical school he joined a practice with two other physicians, however Louapre was quickly determined to start his own. “After two years, I rented the place upstairs [from his current office] and eventually hired a partner. Now we’ve expanded into this huge space but it was a major challenge,” he explains. He has carried his interest in the business side of medicine into promoting managed care and electronic medical records. Louapre is active in the managed care group People’s Health Network, acting as a physician advisor, board member and chairman of both the finance committee and credentials committee. He also works closely with Nextgen, an organization that promotes the use of electronic medical records – a technology that Louapre finds extremely helpful in his office.
His practice has grown since Hurricane Katrina, largely due to the fact that they were one of the first groups to reopen (Drs. Louapre, Kokemor and Sarrat, LLC opened in mid–Oct. 2005). Louapre makes rounds at Touro Infirmary and Ochsner Baptist Hospital in addition to seeing his office patients. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling, sailing, cooking and enjoying fine New Orleans restaurants. His three grown children are successful in their chosen fields – none of which includes medicine! “They saw with me that the lifestyle was too stressful – too many long hours!”
An inspiration to those in any field, Louapre says, “The success I’ve had is directly related to the fact that I love what I do.”
MEETING OF THE MINDS
Marilyn M. Skinner, M.D. – Psychiatry
Marilyn M. Skinner, M.D. always knew she wanted to practice psychiatry. A native Texan, she graduated from Southwest Texas State University in 1969 and completed two years of medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston before transferring to the Tulane University School of Medicine, where she completed her degree in ‘74. When she found herself on psychiatry rotation at Tulane, however, the work wasn’t exactly what she had in mind. Her patients had serious mental illnesses and needed medication, not therapy. “I thought psychiatry was about having this person lying on the couch, talking about their hopes and dreams. I wanted to help people put their lives back together. So in my residency, I was just flabbergasted,” says Skinner. The altruistic young resident became depressed and asked her professors for a reference for a psychiatrist of her own. As it turns out, her professors recommended a psychoanalyst. “This is what I want to do!” she exclaimed to her doctor upon realizing that she was lying on a couch, on the opposite side of her dream profession. After her residency at Tulane, she enrolled in the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute and is now one of the most successful psychoanalysts in the city.
“The human mind is the neatest thing in the world,” says Skinner. She is inspired by the opportunity to listen to peoples dreams, fantasies, relationships and fears in order to them find their own path. “My relationships with my patients can be very intense,” she says. Skinner believes one of the biggest challenges of this field is transference and counter-transference between doctor and patient. “The feelings your patient has about you and the feelings you have about your patient can be difficult to overcome,” Skinner explains. “It’s not always ‘I love you,’ from the patient sometimes it’s ‘I hate your guts.”
She remains professional yet compassionate toward her patients and feels that they have the answer to their problems. “Yes, I can prescribe medicine but he or she needs to recognize that my job is to help them uncover their own answers,” she says. Some patients complain that she doesn’t talk enough or provide concrete answers; she explains, “I’m not a tour guide; I don’t know what you ought to do. I might have an opinion but frankly I’d be offended if someone told me how to run my life.”
Skinner’s practice has changed drastically since Hurricane Katrina. Many of her patients have left the city or state – Skinner was able to have phone sessions with many patients while living in Birmingham – and she has new clients that need a different level of care than her typical patients. “I’m dealing with more medication than ever before,” she says. Many new patients are paying through insurance, which is a major contrast to her usual private-pay patients. She emphasizes that all of her patients are experiencing a high level of stress and anxiety due to post–Katrina issues such as crime, rebuilding and lack of adequate government support. Skinner believes, “things are getting better but not at the rate they should be.”
A natural teacher, Skinner is not only an associate professor at LSU and Tulane medical schools, she’s the chair of the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Education Committee. She has served as president of both the New Orleans Area Psychiatric Association (1980-‘81) and the American Medical Women’s Association (‘79-‘80) in addition to holding numerous other professional leadership roles.
Her husband passed away from cancer a year before the hurricane, however Skinner is happy to have her son Robert and two cats to which she is “fanatically and neurotically devoted.” In addition to reading, golf lessons and the occasional bridge game, Skinner has re-entered the dating world. “It’s scary out there,” she laughs. “I try not to analyze them!”
ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Carolyn Beach Daul
Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Associates
3939 Houma Boulevard, Suite 20
Metairie
885-2121
W. Edward Davis III
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Allergy and Immunology
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-6742
Jane M. S. El-Dahr
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Section of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 101
Metairie
988-8000
Manuel Lopez
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Allergy and Immunology
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-6742
Cleveland Marvin Moore
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Allergy and Immunology
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9589
B. Steele Rolston
Asthma, Allergy and Immunology
71107 Highway 21, Suite Three
Covington
(985) 893-5780
Ricardo U. Sorensen
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Allergy and Immunology
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9589
Ann Elizabeth Vockroth
Crescent City Allergy
Meadowcrest Center, Suite 204
2600 Belle Chase Highway
Gretna
392-7999
Laurianne G. Wild
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Department of Allergy and Immunology
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 404
Metairie
780-4488
Merlin Robert Wilson, Jr.
2633 Napoleon Avenue,
Suite 530
New Orleans
899-1120
ANESTHESIOLOGY
Thomas Anzalone
St. Tammany Parish Hospital
Anesthesia and Pain Management
1201 South Tyler Street
Covington
(985) 898-4412
Jorge J. Bravo
Thibodaux Regional
Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
602 North Acadia Road
Thibodaux
(985) 493-4750
Joseph T. Crapanzano, Jr.
Parish Pain Specialists
4500 Clearview Parkway,
Suite 101
Metairie
779-5558
John L. DiLeo II
Fairway Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
67252 Industry Lane
Covington
(985) 801-6245
Donald Robert Ganier, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
Melvin C. Gitlin
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Department of Anesthesiology
1415 Tulane Avenue, Suite 3212
New Orleans
988-5068
Stanley Martin Hall
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Anesthesiology
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9456
Donald Eric Harmon
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
John Frederick Heaton
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Anesthesiology
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
899-9511
Vilasini Satish Karnik
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
Robert Joseph Marino
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
Austin Guy Phillips, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
Francis Anthony Rosinia
Parish Anesthesia Associates
3510 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 404
Metairie
779-5515
Alan C. Santos
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
Peter Stedman
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
Mack Anthony Thomas
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Anesthesiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor
New Orleans
842-3755
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Freddy Michel Abi-Samra
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Arrhythmia Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Third Floor
New Orleans
842-4145
Patrick C. Breaux
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Third Floor
New Orleans
842-4135
Mark M. Cassidy
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Cardiology Clinic
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 209
Metairie
780-6460
Tyrone Jean Collins
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Interventional Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Third Floor
New Orleans
842-3786
Patrice Delafontaine
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Section of Cardiology
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-2025
Fortune Anthony Dugan
East Jefferson General Hospital
Cardiology Consultants of Louisiana
4200 Houma Boulevard, Second Floor
Metairie
454-4102
Chester Joseph Falterman
Heart Clinic of Louisiana
1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N613
Marrero
349-6800
Thomas Davis Giles
Tulane University School
of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Disease
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
220-6275
Yvonne E. Gilliland
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Third Floor
New Orleans
842-3696
David Lucas Glancy
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Section of Cardiology
2020 Gravier Street, Seventh Floor, Suite D
New Orleans
450-5530
James Stephen Jenkins
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Interventional Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Third Floor
New Orleans
842-3727
Carl Joseph Lavie, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Third Floor
New Orleans
842-4135
Thierry H. Le Jemtel
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Cardiac Advanced Transplants Department
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-2002
Leslie Wayne Levenson
Heart Clinic of Louisiana
1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N613
Marrero
349-6800
James Jude McKinnie
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Section of Cardiology
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5049
Richard Virgil Milani
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Third Floor
New Orleans
842-5874
Stephen Robert Ramee
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Interventional Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Third Floor
New Orleans
842-3727
David Warren Snyder
East Jefferson General Hospital
Cardiology Consultants of Louisiana
4200 Houma Boulevard, Second Floor
Metairie
454-4102
Gregory D. Tilton
Cardiovascular Specialists
4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 500
Metairie
455-0842
Hector Osvaldo Ventura
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Third Floor
New Orleans
842-3925
Christopher James White
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Cardiology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Third Floor
New Orleans
842-3717
COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY
David E. Beck
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4060
Jeffrey Farrow Griffin
Colon Rectal Associates
4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 540
Metairie
456-5108
Terrell Cohlman Hicks
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4060
Frank George Opelka
LSU Healthcare Network
1340 Poydras Street, Suite 1640
New Orleans
655-4599
Alan Edward Timmcke
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4060
DERMATOLOGY
William Patrick Coleman III
4425 Conlin Street
Metairie
455-3180
Wesley King Galen
3525 Prytania Street, Suite 425
New Orleans
891-4300
Brian David Lee
Academic Dermatology Associates
3100 Houma Boulevard
Metairie
885-1670
Elizabeth Innes McBurney
Skin Care Specialists
1051 Gause Boulevard, Suite 460
Slidell
(985)649-5880
Lee T. Nesbitt, Jr.
Academic Dermatology Associates
3100 Houma Boulevard
Metairie, LA 70006
Phone: 504-885-1670
Marilyn Claire Ray
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Dermatology
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-3940
EMERGENCY MEDICINE
Stephen Martial Waldo
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Emergency Medicine
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-9724
ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM
Samuel Andrews
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Ninth Floor
New Orleans
842-4023
Lawrence Blonde
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Ninth Floor
New Orleans
842-4023
Alan Lee Burshell
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Ninth Floor
New Orleans
842-4023
Patrick Edward Mottram
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Slidell
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism
2750 East Gause Boulevard
Slidell
(985)639-3777
Joseph Murray
4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 360
Metairie
885-1409
FAMILY MEDICINE
Leandro Area
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Metairie
2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Seventh Floor
Metairie
836-9822
Walt Birdsall
Lady of the Sea Medical Clinic – Cut Off
Department of Family Medicine
102 West 112th Street
Cut Off
(985) 632-6233
Michael Ashley Dunn
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Tangipahoa
Department of Family Medicine
41676 Veterans Avenue
Hammond
(985) 543-3600
Patricia Estrada
4701 Westbank Expressway, Suite Seven
Marrero
341-0906
Paul Guilbault
North Oaks Family Medicine
1902 South Morrison Boulevard
Hammond
(985) 230-5800
Ted Joseph Hudspeth
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Tangipahoa
Department of Family Medicine
41676 Veterans Avenue
Hammond
(985) 543-3600
Daniel Keith Jens
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Mandeville
Department of Family Medicine
2810 East Causeway Approach
Mandeville
(985) 875-2340
Dennis LaRavia
LSU Family Medicine
420 Avenue F
Bogalusa
(985) 732-0058
Paul Joseph Marquis
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Lapalco
Department of Family Practice
4225 Lapalco Boulevard
Marrero
371-9355
E. Edward Martin, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Covington
Department of Family Medicine
1000 Ochsner Boulevard
Covington
(985) 875-2828
Herbert L. Muncie, Jr.
LSU Healthcare Network
Memorial Multispecialty Clinic
Department of Family Medicine
2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 890
New Orleans
412-1366
Richard Harold Streiffer
Tulane Family Health Center at Uptown Square
200 Broadway Street, Suite 230
New Orleans
864-6000
James Taylor Tebbe, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center
Lake Vista
Department of Family Medicine
6521 Spanish Fort Boulevard
New Orleans
283-7966
Pamela Wiseman
Tulane Family Health Center at Uptown Square
200 Broadway Street, Suite 210
New Orleans
864-6000
GASTROENTEROLOGY
Luis A. Balart
LSU Healthcare Network
Memorial Multispecialty Clinic
Department of Gastroenterology
2820 Napoleon Avenue,
Suite 700
New Orleans
899-8411
Robert Stephen Bulat
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Medicine Clinic
of Lakeside
Department of Endoscopy
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 401
Metairie
780-4485
Steven Anthony Guarisco
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Health Center Covington
Division of Gastroenterology
1000 Ochsner Boulevard
Covington
(985) 875-2828
Benjamin Alfred Guider, Jr.
Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates
2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 705
New Orleans
896-8670
Robert Alexander Hammer
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System
Department of Gastroenterology
1601 Perdido Street,
Room 9G137
New Orleans
568-0811
Lionel Hawkins Head
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor
New Orleans
842-4015
Chesley Hines, Jr.
Center for Digestive Diseases
2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 920
New Orleans
897-4260
Elizabeth Ann McDonald
4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 570
Metairie
456-5070
William Morrison Meyers, Jr.
Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates
4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 520
Metairie
456-8020
Charles J. Monier, Jr.
602 North Acadia Road, Suite 101
Thibodaux
(985) 446-1958
Nicholas John Persich
Metairie Gastroenterology
4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 120
Metairie
456-6701
Steve Fagan Price, Jr.
Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates
2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 705
New Orleans
896-8670
George Richard Puente
Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates
4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 520
Metairie
456-8020
Fredric Gary Regenstein
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Division of Transplantation
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5344
David Ralph Silvers
Metairie Gastroenterology
4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 120
Metairie
456-6701
James William Smith
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor
New Orleans
842-4015
Rian Moss Tanenbaum
Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates
1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S450
Marrero
349-6401
Steve George Venturatos
Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates
1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S450
Marrero
349-6401
George Elliot Welch
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Medicine Clinic
of Lakeside
Division of Gastroenterology
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 401
Metairie
780-4485
Donald C. Faust
2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 600
New Orleans
899-1000
HAND SURGERY
Eric R. George
Hand Surgical Associates
4228 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 600B
Metairie
454-2191
Jefferson James Kaye
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedics
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor
New Orleans
842-3970
Harold M. Stokes
Hand Surgical Associates
4228 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 600B
Metairie
454-2191
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Katherine Baumgarten
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Infectious Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Seventh Floor
New Orleans
842-4005
Rebecca Adair Clark
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
HOP Clinic (HIV Outpatient Program)
136 South Roman Street, Third Floor
New Orleans
903-7302
Jeffrey Wayne Coco
Internal Medicine Specialists
3525 Prytania Street, Suite 526
New Orleans
648-2500
Joseph Raymond Dalovisio
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Infectious Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Seventh Floor
New Orleans
842-4005
Julia B. Garcia-Diaz
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Infectious Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Seventh Floor
New Orleans
842-4005
Michael Edward Hagensee
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
HOP Clinic (HIV Outpatient Program)
136 South Roman Street, Third Floor
New Orleans
903-6959
Michael Kevin Hill
IMG Physicians
1323 South Tyler Street, Suite 109
Covington
(985) 871-0095
Mary Faith Joubert
IMG Physicians
1051 Gause Boulevard, Suite 300
Slidell
(985) 641-5523
Sandra Abadie Kemmerly
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Infectious Diseases
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Seventh Floor
New Orleans
842-4005
F. Brobson Lutz, Jr.
2622 Jena Street
New Orleans
895-0361
David H. Martin
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Section of Infectious Diseases
Clinical Sciences Research Building, Room 701
533 Bolivar Street
New Orleans
568-5031
Susan Leslie Favrot McLellan
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Medicine Clinic of Lakeside
Section of Infectious Diseases
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 401
Metairie
780-4485
Mary J. Murphy
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
HOP Clinic (HIV Outpatient Program)
136 South Roman Street, Fourth Floor
New Orleans
903-6959
David Michael Mushatt
Tulane University Primary
Care Clinic
Section of Infectious Disease
275 Lasalle Street
New Orleans
988-5800
Charles Van Sanders
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Department of Medicine
2020 Gravier Street, Seventh Floor, Suite D
New Orleans
568-5722
INTERNAL MEDICINE
(GENERAL)
Mary Moore Abell
St. Thomas Community Health Center
Department of Internal Medicine
1020 Saint Andrew Street
New Orleans
529-5558
John R. Amoss
LSU Healthcare Network
Memorial Multispecialty Clinic
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 890
New Orleans
412-1366
David M. Borne
LSU Healthcare Network
Memorial Multispecialty Clinic
Department of Internal Medicine
2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 890
New Orleans
412-1366
Steven Deitelzweig
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Hospital Medicine and Vascular Medicine
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-5766
Frannie Kronenberg
East Jefferson General Hospital
Department of Administration
4200 Houma Boulevard
Metairie
454-4008
Rene Albert Louapre III
2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 400
New Orleans
897-3305
Robert Louis Pollock
Metairie Medical Associates
4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 330
Metairie
456-5123
Charles Clarence Smith III
Internal Medicine Specialists
3525 Prytania Street, Suite 526
New Orleans
648-2500
MEDICAL GENETICS
Hans Christoph Andersson
Tulane Hospital for Children
Hayward Genetics Center
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5229
Michael Marble
Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
Division of Clinical Genetics
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9254
MEDICAL ONCOLOGY AND HEMATOLOGY
Archie Watt Brown, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Ochsner Cancer Institute
1514 Jefferson Highway, First Floor
New Orleans
842-3910
Salvador Caputto
Hematology and Oncology Specialists
3525 Prytania Street, Suite 302
New Orleans
897-8970
John Thomas Cole
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Ochsner Cancer Institute
1514 Jefferson Highway,
First Floor
New Orleans
842-3910
Carl Gustav Kardinal
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Ochsner Cancer Institute
1514 Jefferson Highway,
First Floor
New Orleans
842-3910
Cindy Anne Leissinger
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Louisiana Center for Bleeding and Clotting Disorders
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5433
Alan Marshall Miller
Tulane Cancer Center
150 South Liberty Street
New Orleans
988-6300
David Oubre
Pontchartrain Hematology Oncology
15752 Medical Arts Plaza, Suite 101
Hammond
(985) 419-0025
Todd F. Roberts
Hematology and Oncology Specialists
4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 300
Metairie
883-2960
Hana F. Safah
Tulane Cancer Center
150 South Liberty Street
New Orleans
988-6300
Scott Anthony Sonnier
Hematology and Oncology Specialists
3525 Prytania Street, Suite 302
New Orleans
897-8970
Robert Woody Veith
4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 330
Metairie
455-0600
Roy Samuel Weiner
Tulane Cancer Center
150 South Liberty Street
New Orleans
988-6300
NEPHROLOGY
Vecihi Batuman
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Section of Nephrology
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5346
L. Lee Hamm
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Department of Medicine
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-7800
Freidrichs Henry Harris, Jr.
New Orleans Nephrology Associates
4409 Utica Street, Suite 100
Metairie
457-3687
Fred Eugenio Husserl
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Nephrology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Fifth Floor
New Orleans
842-3930
N. Kevin Krane
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Section of Nephrology and Hypertension
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5800
Jill Suzanne Lindberg
New Orleans Nephrology Associates
4409 Utica Street, Suite 100
Metairie
457-3687
Eric Edward Simon
Tulane University Primary Care Clinic
Section of Nephrology
275 LaSalle Street
New Orleans
988-5800
NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY
Richard A. Coulon, Jr.
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Neurosurgery
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9568
Joseph Mortimer
Dean Nadell
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Neurosurgery
200 Henry Clay Avenue,
Suite 2010
New Orleans
896-9568
Roger Douglas Smith
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Neurosurgery
1514 Jefferson Highway, Seventh Floor
New Orleans
842-4033
Rand Marcel Voorhies
Southern Brain and Spine
3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 400
Metairie
889-7200
NEUROLOGY
Patricia Smith Cook
110 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 105
Metairie
831-6760
Robert A. Felberg
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Neurology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Seventh Floor
New Orleans
842-3980
Bruce J. Fisch
LSU Healthcare Network
Department of Neurology
2820 Napoleon Avenue,
Suite 400
New Orleans
412-1517
Roy Hugh Fleming, Jr.
Neurological Services
3939 Houma Boulevard, Suite 217
Metairie
885-7621
Amparo (Amy) Gutierrez
LSU Healthcare Network
Department of Neurology
2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 400
New Orleans
412-1517
Jeanne Ann F. King
Hammond Developmental Center
45439 Live Oak Drive
Hammond
(225) 567-7256
Austin John Sumner
LSU Healthcare Network
Department of Neurology
2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 400
New Orleans
895-5774
NEUROLOGY, CHILD
Diane K. Africk
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner for Children Health Center
Department of Neurology
1315 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-8900
Stephen Russell Deputy
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Child Neurology
Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 3312
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9319
Carmela Lydia Tardo
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Child Neurology
Ambulatory Care Center,
Suite 3312
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9458
Ann C. Henderson Tilton
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Child Neurology
Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 3312
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9283
Maria Weimer
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Child Neurology
Ambulatory Care Center,
Suite 3314
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9283
John Kelver Willis II
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner for Children
Health Center
Department of Neurology
1315 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-3900
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Richard J. Campeau, Jr.
New Orleans Regional PET Imaging Center
3434 Prytania Street, Suite 120
New Orleans
895-7146
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
William W. Bethea
Crescent City Physicians
3434 Prytania Street, Suite 300
New Orleans
897-7676
William G. Black
North Oaks Obstetrics and Gynecology
15748 Medical Arts Plaza
Hammond
(985) 542-0663
Patricia S. Braly
Hematology and Oncology Specialists
39 Starbrush Circle
Covington
(985) 892-9090
Ann Catherine Chau
LSU Healthcare Network
East Jefferson General Hospital
Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
4300 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 203
Metairie
412-1600
Ralph R. Chesson, Jr.
LSU Healthcare Network
East Jefferson General Hospital
Division of Urogynecology
4300 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 203
Metairie
412-1600
Albert L. Diket
LSU Healthcare Network
East Jefferson General Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
4300 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 203
Metairie
412-1600
William James Farrell
The Fertility Institute
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 100
Metairie
246-8971
Susan Jeanfreau
Fleur de Lis Obstetrics and Gynecology
4429 Clara Street
New Orleans
897-4287
Richard Carl Kline
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Gynecologic Oncology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Fifth Floor
New Orleans
842-4165
Robert T. Maupin, Jr.
LSU Healthcare Network
East Jefferson General Hospital
Division of Maternal and
Fetal Medicine
4300 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 203
Metairie
412-1600
Joseph Matthew Miller, Jr.
LSU Healthcare Network
East Jefferson General Hospital
Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
4300 Houma Boulevard, Suite 203
Metairie
412-1600
George Brazil Morris III
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Sixth Floor
Harahan
842-4155
Thomas Edward Nolan
LSU Healthcare Network
East Jefferson General Hospital
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
4300 Houma Boulevard, Suite 203
Metairie
412-1600
Alfred Godfrey Robichaux III
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Maternal
Fetal Medicine
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4151
Phillip Hibbitts Rye
The Fertility Institute
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 100
Metairie
454-2165
Jerry Joseph St. Pierre
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
Sixth Floor
New Orleans
842-4155
William F. von Almen II
Crescent City Physicians
3434 Prytania Street, Suite 130
New Orleans
897-7580
OPHTHALMOLOGY
Kyle Valentino Acosta
Eyelid Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Center
200 Greenbrier Boulevard, Suite B
Covington
(985) 898-2001
Laurence W. Arend
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Ophthalmology
1514 JeFferson Highway,
10th Floor
New Orleans
842-3995
James G. Diamond
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Department of Ophthalmology
1415 Tulane Avenue,
Fourth Floor
New Orleans
988-5800
George S. Ellis, Jr.
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Ophthalmology
Ambulatory Care Center,
Suite 3104
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New OrLeans
896-9426
Horatio Sprague Eustis
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Ophthalmology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
10th Floor
New Orleans
842-3995
Rudolph Michael Franklin
1538 Front Street
Slidell
(985) 641-9900
Robert Allen Gordon
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Department of Ophthalmology
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-6872
Richard Jenness Hesse
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Ophthalmology
1514 Jefferson Highway,
10th Floor
New Orleans
842-3995
Ronald Andrew Landry
Eye Care Associates
4324 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 102
Metairie
455-9825
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
James C. Butler
Tulane Orthopaedic Clinic
1051 Gause Boulevard, Suite 230
Slidell
(985) 649-7657
Lucas Thomas Cashio
Jefferson Orthopaedic Clinic
1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N804
Marrero
349-6804
Donald C. Faust
2633 Napoleon Avenue,
Suite 600
New Orleans
899-1000
Stephen Douglas Heinrich
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9569
Mark Juneau, Jr.
Jefferson Orthopaedic Clinic
1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N804
Marrero
349-6804
Jefferson James Kaye
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedics
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor
New Orleans
842-3970
Andrew G. Stewart King
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9569
Neil James Maki
Thibodaux Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic
525 Saint Mary Street
Thibodaux
(985) 446-6284
Chad Millet
3800 Houma Blvd. #200
Metairie
455-9500
Barry L. Riemer
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 500
Kenner
465-2108
Fredric Harvey Warren
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Orthopaedics
1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor
New Orleans
842-3970
OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Ronald G. Amedee
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Otolaryngology Clinic
1415 Tulane Avenue, Third Floor
New Orleans
988-5451
James Vance Broussard
Southern ENT Associates
604 North Acadia Road,
Suite 101
Thibodaux
(985) 446-5079
Robert Brent Butcher II
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Otolaryngology
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4080
Michael Sydney Ellis
3645 Houma Boulevard
Metairie
885-4677
Paul L. Friedlander
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Otolaryngology Clinic
1415 Tulane Avenue, Third Floor
New Orleans
988-5451
Paul Thomas Gaudet
Southern ENT Associates
1105 Audubon Avenue, Suite B
Thibodaux
(985) 446-5079
H. Devon Graham III
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Facial Plastic Surgery and Reconstructive Surgery
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4080
John Lindhe Guarisco
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4080
Calvin Morris Johnson, Jr.
Hedgewood Surgical Center
2427 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans
895-7642
Herbert Wendt Marks, Jr.
Medical Plaza ENT Physicians
4228 Houma Boulevard,
Suite 110
Metairie
455-3434
Timothy Blake Molony
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Division of Otorhinolaryngology
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-4080
Otolaryngology
Michael Robichaux, Sr.
Southern ENT Associates
4425 Highway One
Raceland
(985) 537-7546
Guy Paul Zeringue, Jr.
Southern ENT Associates
1105 Audubon Avenue, Suite B
Thibodaux
(985) 446-5079
Guy Paul Zeringue III
Southern ENT Associates
1105 Audubon Avenue, Suite B
Thibodaux
(985) 446-5079
PATHOLOGY
Edwin Norquist Beckman
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner Medical Center
Department of Pathology
1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Floor
New Orleans
842-3330
Randall Douglas Craver
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Pathology
200 Henry Clay Avenue,
First Floor
New Orleans
896-9815
Philip J. Daroca, Jr.
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
588-5224
Salima Haque
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5210
John Richard Krause
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5210
Pamela Canale Martin
Touro Infirmary
Department of Dermatopathology
1401 Foucher Street,
Second Floor
New Orleans
897-8418
William Proctor Newman III
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Department of Pathology
1901 Perdido Street, Room 5103
New Orleans
568-6031
William Henry Robichaux
Thibodaux Regional
Medical Center
Department of Pathology
602 North Acadia Road
Thibodaux
(985) 493-4747
PEDIATRIC SPECIALIST
Sue Ellen Abdalian
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic
2500 Harvard Avenue
Metairie
988-5800
Thomas Alchediak
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 501
Metairie1
988-5800
Hans Christoph Andersson
Tulane Hospital for Children
Hayward Genetics Center
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5229
Robert Joseph Ascuitto
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic
Division of Pediatric Cardiology
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 101
Metairie
988-8000
Gerard Albert Ballanco
One Fairway Center
5001 Highway 190, Suite B3
Covington
(985) 809-1114
Brian Barkemeyer
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Division of Neonatology
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
899-9511
Raynorda F. Brown
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Gastroenterology and Nutrition
200 Henry Clay Avenue,
Suite 2312
New Orleans
896-9534
Brian Victor Credo
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Student Health Center
Building 92
6823 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans
865-5255
Robert J. Cunningham III
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner for Children
Health Center
Department of Pediatric Nephrology
1315 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-3900
Scott H. Davis
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Section of Pediatric Pulmonology
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 101
Metairie
988-8000
Rafael Sanchez Ducos
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner for Children
Health Center
Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
1315 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-5069
Jane M. S. El-Dahr
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Section of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 101
Metairie
988-8000
Samir S. El-Dahr
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Department of Pediatrics
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-5377
Edwin Michael Frieberg
Tulane University Hospital
and Clinic
Section of Pediatric Critical Care
1415 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans
988-2339
Abraham Gedalia
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Pediatric Rheumatology
Ambulatory Care Center,
Suite 3040
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
896-9385
William Larry Gill
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Section of Neonatology
4700 South I-10 Service Road
Metairie
988-5800
Robert Lee Hopkins
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Department of Pediatric Pulmonary and Critical Care
200 Henry Clay Avenue,
Suite 2023
New Orleans
896-9436
Michael Philip Kiernan
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic
4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 501
Metairie
988-5800
Victor William Lucas, Jr.
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner for Children
Health Center
Department of Pediatric Cardiology
1315 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-3900
Douglas S. Moodie
Ochsner Health System
Ochsner for Children
Health Center
Department of Cardiology
1315 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans
842-3900
Duna Penn
Children’s Hospital of
New Orleans
Division of Neonatology
200 Henry Clay Avenue
New Orleans
899-9511
Jane Ellen Reynolds
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
4700 South I-10 Service Road
Metairie
988-8000
Nancy Tamara Ross-Ascuitto
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Clinic
Division of Pediatri
