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Our annual Health Issue includes a compelling snapshot of women’s health in Louisiana, lifechanging stories about overcoming addiction, abuse and grief and a super-sized listing of the best doctors to treat anything that ails you. Start the year off armed with information and inspiration for for a healthy 2017.
10 biz bits Growing strong Recovery, expansion tell the story of Louisiana business 12 health Diabetes Awareness Know the signs and reduce risk factors 14 reel news It’s a Wrap A year-end review of Hollywood South in 2016, from major movie releases to the latest productions slated for 2017 and beyond 16 made in louisiana In Stitches New Orleans designer Sigourney Morrison’s has her colorful brand of cool all sewn up
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28 home Labor of Love Designer Myron Griffing Updates Lisa and Gary Love’s Shreveport Home With a Fresh, Transitional Mix 32 Artist Xavier Gonzalez Restoring a Golden Age in Aviation in New Orleans 36 traveler Renaissance Ramble Businessman Mike Jenkins’ tour of Alexandria 88 around Louisiana Highlights and Events
20 great louisiana chef Louisiana Proud Lyle Broussard finds inspiration in the state’s culinary traditions at L’Auberge in Lake Charles 22 roadside dining The Time is Right Dine on the Lake at Boyce’s popular Tunk’s Cypress Inn 24 Kitchen gourmet Oyster Fest This versatile shellfish claims center stage in these 3 simple recipes
100 Lifetimes Statewide calendar 102 quirky places Sugar Buzz A Shreveport liquor store serves drive-through daiquiris with character 104 a louisiana Life Oh, Shucks! Oyster shucker Becky Wasden cuts her own path in New Orleans
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t precisely noon on Christmas Day 2004, snow began to fall on New Orleans as it did throughout most of southeast Louisiana. For locals who waited all their lives for a white Christmas it was a joyous moment. Christmas dinners were interrupted as folks scampered outside to toss snowballs at each other. While the cornbread dressing cooled, the ice flinging intensified. It was a Christmas to remember although no one suspected the way it would be remembered. Some people were only halfjoking, others were outright serious but eight months later and beyond — as people dug through the moldy remains of hurricanes Katrina and Rita — local lore would blame the Christmas snowfall as an omen of what would happen. A joyous weather event signaled a tragedy to come. Science could not back up the theory, nevertheless if it snows again on Christmas Day some natives with memory might get a little more anxious during hurricane season. North Louisiana is more susceptible to polar blasts than the state’s southern part, though geography has usually protected it from tropical phenomena. While Shreveport is 383 miles closer to
the North Pole than Grand Isle, there was one white Christmas that came from a different direction — Texas. That would be Christmas 1989 when frigid eastbound weather hit on Dec. 23. By Christmas day as the house pipes began to crack, the most anticipated arrival was not in a sled but in a plumber’s truck. A truer image of Louisiana at Christmas is not white, but brown, as the foliage in the landscape that will be so lush in spring takes on a more sober tone. There is beauty in that too, as there is in the fresh cut sugar cane fields, the billows of smoke and tangy fragrances from boucheries, the Christmas Eve bonfires on the levees, and the bright
lights reflecting off the Cane River in Natchitoches. Our Christmas dinner is pretty much like what the rest of the continent has, although having a bountiful hot gumbo and oyster dressing as part of the menu makes it all the better. Keep the snow for another day. We have our own style of celebrating to do.
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Growing strong Recovery, expansion tell the story of Louisiana business By Kathy Finn
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tate economic development officials have scrambled lately to continue new business recruitment and assist in recovery efforts for existing businesses harmed by the August floods in south Louisiana. By some estimates, 12,000 businesses may have been damaged. Retail, construction, health care, manufacturing and food businesses were among the casualties. The Louisiana Economic Development Department organized an information-gathering effort to target state resources to the needs of businesses as they move through stages of recovery. Business and economic development groups from across south Louisiana joined to launch the Louisiana Small Business Rebirth Fund, which aims to provide grants of $1,000 to $10,000 to small businesses hurt by the flood. Meanwhile, here are highlights of business activity that has continued uninterrupted around the state. u
BATON ROUGE
NEW ORLEANS
Production, investment and employment will remain steady through spring in the capital city area, according to information from the Greater Baton Rouge Industrial Alliance Inc. In a membership survey the alliance conducted, a quarter of the members expected they would boost spending on plant improvements and the like. Plant managers at 36 sites participated in the survey. The alliance includes about 60 petrochemical, energy, paper, pharmaceutical, pipeline, storage terminal and other industrial businesses located in eight parishes. The survey occurred shortly before the August floods, but because most of the member businesses did not suffer serious damage, alliance officials believe the businesses’ hiring and investment plans remain largely unaffected.
More downtown living options are on tap in New Orleans’ increasingly popular central business district as the Domain Cos. launched construction of an $80 million, 15-story condominium building. The 89-unit structure will be the fourth building in Domain’s mixed-use development called South Market District, which already houses some 330 upscale apartment rentals. The new units will be the first offered for sale in the complex and are slated for completion in the spring of 2018. Plans for the building include an art gallery in the lobbyand30,000squarefeet of outdoor space with a pool deck and gardens. South Market District also houses an Arhausfurniturestoreand other retailers, as well as a parking garage.
Growth in the industrial forecast
Urban living options expand
MANDEVILLE
Power jobs on North Shore An expansion by electrical transmission and distribution firm Ampirical Solutions LLC is bringing 50 new jobs to Mandeville, says company President Matthew Saacks. Founded in 2006, the firm currently employs 80 people and is a leader in designing electrical
infrastructure for utilities and governments. It specializes in the design of substations, relay switchyards, protective controls, and transmission and distribution lines. “Ampirical offers prime careers for engineering and other professionals such as project
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managers, designers and drafters,” Saackssays. The company says demand for its services has climbed among municipalities, industrial plants, electrical co-ops and independent power producers.
Another niche industrial business is generating new jobs in the Shreveport area, as Ternium USA Inc. looks to boost production from its coil coating operation. The company, which in 2007 acquired the local Steelscape plant from its previous owner, is looking to hire operators and supervisors to support an additional shift at its facility in the Port of Shreveport-Bossier. Ternium makes and processes a range of steel products for customers in construction, kitchen appliances, packaging, energy and automotive businesses.
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Entrepreneur flexes her muscle A utility contractor founded in central Louisiana eight years ago recently announced a $2 million expansion that will double the company’s size. Iviana Stewart, who in 2008 founded SolScapes to contract with utilities to expedite the rebuilding of substations and clearing of vegetation near power lines, plans to hire about 40 more workers to provide “right-of-way vegetation managementservices,”Stewartsaid. The company currently employs 35 people. Louisiana’s Enterprise Zone incentive, which provides a tax credit of up to $3,500 for each new job created, was a key part of the expansion decision, Stewart says.
LAKE CHARLES
Recruiters get cracking Doors remain wide open for job applicants in southwest Louisiana as companies such as Indorama Ventures Olefins LLC step up recruiting. Indorama recently held a job fair targeting positions including process operators; lab, electrical and instrument technicians; and mechanical maintenance personnel. The company, which is one of the world’s largest petrochemicals producers, owns and operates a 250-acreethylenecrackerfacilitynear Lake Charles, where it is making a $175 million capital investment generating more than 125 new jobs.
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health
At a glance Diabetes happens when a person’s body doesn’t make enough insulin or the insulin doesn’t work properly, causing glucose to stay in the blood without reaching cells. Symptoms include the following: • frequent urination • feeling very hungry, thirsty or tired • dry, itchy skin • numbness in feet (or a feeling of pins and needles) • blurred vision These symptoms are not always present, so a blood test must be performed for diagnosis. There are two types of diabetes. Type 1 is when a body does not make insulin or enough insulin. Type 1 diabetics have to take insulin, usually in the form of an injection.
diabetes awareness Know the signs and reduce risk factors BY FRITZ ESKER
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ovember is Diabetes Awareness Month. According to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control (cdc.gov), 29.1 million Americans (9.3 percent) have diabetes. More than 8 million of these are undiagnosed, meaning 27.8 percent of diabetes sufferers are unaware they have the disease. Diabetes also tops out as one of the most pressing health issues facing Louisianians.
“If you lose just 10-15 pounds, it can have a significant impact in reducing your risk for type 2 diabetes.”
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A Costly Proposition Diabetes, like all chronic illnesses, is also expensive. Lesley Davis, a Type 1 diabetic since age 2, says she paid a total of $5,233.84 out of pocket last year despite having insurance. “If you get paid twice a month, that’s about an extra $218 per paycheck that it costs me just to be alive, which is beyond frustrating,” Davis says. How does it cost so much? A lot goes into managing diabetes. Test strips range from $25 to $150 every three months. Insulin pumps last approximately four years on average, but a new one can cost up to $3000 — even with insurance. Reservoirs and infusion sets can cost about $500 every three months.
Type 2 diabetes more often develops in middle-aged and older people. It begins with insulin resistance, when fat, muscle and liver cells fail to use insulin properly. Risk factors include being overweight, having high cholesterol levels, smoking and eating an unhealthy diet. Mitigating these factors will reduce your risk. Thankfully, many hospitals are becoming more proactive about recognizing when a person is pre-diabetic (on the verge of developing Type 2) and stopping it before it develops into diabetes. “If you lose just 10-15 pounds, it can have a significant impact in reducing your risk for Type 2 diabetes,” says Sarah Kirkpatrick, RN diabetic nurse educator for Lafayette General Health. One other tip Kirkpatrick recommends for diabetics is to check your feet daily. Because numbness is common, a diabetic can easily step on a sharp object without realizing it, causing serious injury.
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reel news
Economic Impact Study “There is a tremendous economic impact to the state as a result of the filming activity,” says Christopher Stelly, Executive Director of Louisiana Entertainment. “Our most recent economic impact study (released in 2015) reported over $1 billion in sales with Louisiana businesses (a great deal of them are small businesses), and over $727 million in household earnings based on the spending certified in 2014. Subsequently, over 12,000 jobs were supported and nearly $33 million in local taxes were generated. We are currently working on a new study that will cover the spending certified in 2015 and 2016. This is due to be released in 2017 as required by state law. Movies such as ‘Ready Player One’ are certainly great additions to our everexpanding canon of motion pictures that have filmed in our state.”
A year-end review of Hollywood South in 2016, from major movie releases to the latest productions slated for 2017 and beyond By Lisa LeBlanc-Berry
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s we head into Oscar season, New Orleans can boast a couple of recent star-studded red carpet events of its own. The
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awards ceremony is scheduled to take place Feb. 16, 2017 in Hollywood, California and big-budget movie releases, as well as current productions
photo courtesy the new orleans film festival
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underway show that Hollywood South is indeed still open for business. After the September world premiere of “Deepwater Horizon” received a standing ovation at the Toronto Film Festival, speculations began to mount that the $156 million Louisiana-shot feature film released by Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment would become Oscar bait in several categories, especially visual effects. Six days later, when “Deepwater Horizon” had its United States premiere at the glitzy, invitation only New Orleans’ Orpheum Theatre event, with the international press corps in attendance, actors walking the red carpet included Oscarnominated Mark Wahlberg, Golden Globe nominees Kurt Russell, Gina Rodriguez and Kate Hudson (stealing the spotlight in a strapless red jumpsuit). Her older brother, Oliver Hudson, was starring in “Scream Queens” when it was concurrently being filmed in New Orleans last year. Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, director Peter Berg, Saints players and local actors also attended the premiere. “I always love coming down to New Orleans,” says di Bonaventura.“What’s not to love?” says Wahlberg. Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated Woody Harrelson, who starred in the first season of “True Detective” filmed
near Erath and New Orleans, hit the red carpet at the Orpheum with director Rob Reiner for the screening of “LBJ” at the New Orleans Film Festival in October. The Warner Brothers political drama stars a crusty Harrelson as President Lyndon B. Johnson during his rise to power. In yet another Louisiana-shot feature film that holds the promise of becoming a box office moneymaker, Harrelson stars in the upcoming drama “Shock and Awe” with Tommy Lee Jones. Slated for release in 2017, Shock and Awe’s 75-day local shoot wraps mid-November in New Orleans. Beyond such blockbusters as “Deepwater Horizon,” Hollywood South had several major fall releases filmed in the Bayou State: Screen Gems’ psychological thriller “When the Bough Breaks” starring Regina Hall and Morris Chestnut, shot in Slidell and New Orleans; Paramount’s “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” starring Tom Cruise, filmed in the New Orleans area in 2015 and 2016; and MGM/ Sony’s Baton Rouge-shot remake of “The Magnificent Seven,” starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethen Hawke. In an unprecedented marketing move, Sony and MGM teamed up in an online video shoot-to-kill tournament to promote the remake, held live on Twitch with interactions with the film’s stars. Director Steven Spielberg headed to Louisiana in October to shoot a segment of one of the most anticipated movies produced in 2016. It’s the sci-fi virtual reality film “Ready Player One” (based on Ernest Cline’s novel), also being filmed in the UK and Alabama. The eight-day shoot was budgeted at approximately $13.6 million in local spending, with around half of that going toward temporary in-state jobs. The release is scheduled for 2018. Among the more promising 2016 productions slated for release in 2017 that have been filmed locally: “Wolverine 3” starring Hugh Jackman; Universal’s “Beguiled” starring Kirsten Dunst, Nicole Kidman and Elle Fanning; the indie geek-crime comedy “Supercon” starring Mike Epps; the indie feature film “Created Equal” starring Lou Diamond
Phillips; and the epic remake of “Benji,” which has earmarked $3 million for 500 temporary in-state jobs. It is filming in New Orleans through November. Several TV series are on the schedule, including the new Warner Brothers’ “Claws,” and “NCIS New Orleans Season 3” that is filming until April, 2017. FX’s “American Crime Story: The People vs O.J. Simpson” will break new ground by featuring Hurricane Katrina for its second season. Starring John Travolta and Sarah Paulson, filming begins in New Orleans in January, 2017. Gov. John Bel Edwards stated earlier this year he is planning a comprehensive review of the state’s motion picture production tax credit program, with recommendations for reform and best practices to be addressed in the upcoming 2017 fiscal session. “Since the dawn of Louisiana’s modern-era film program in 2002, we have played host to more than $6 billion in film and TV production,” he says. “We’ve developed an infrastructure that supports thousands of jobs, boosts small businesses and communities statewide, and provides a powerful impact that we seek to retain. Louisiana’s film industry has my full support. We remain open for business with one of the most attractive incentive programs in the world. We will honor our commitments.” u
Wolverine’s SinkHole Dilemma During the filming of Hugh Jackman’s “Wolverine 3” (which is set 50 years in the future), the Twentieth Century Fox production encountered a location challenge in front of Harrah’s Casino when a sink hole appeared in May. According to a local designer (speaking off the record) the resulting Sinkhole de Mayo festival near the site (where hundreds of locals costumed in sombreros and orange hazard cones) caused crews to build an elaborate replica of Harrah’s beside the Superdome. The superhero box-office-hit sequel is slated for a March, 2017 release.
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louisiana made
In Stitches New Orleans designer Sigourney Morrison has her colorful brand of cool all sewn up BY JEFFREY ROEDEL photos by romero & Romero
“I can sew for six or eight hours a day and feel happy at the end of it,” says LSU alum Sigorney Morrison.
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n Frankfurt, Germany, there’s a young woman. She could be known for many things, but there in the birthplace of Goethe, Louisiana ex-pat Kristen Aul is known for one thing. People recognize her as the girl who always wears the jean jacket emblazoned with a custom chain-stitched Popeyes logo.Meticulously crafted by Louisiana designer Sigourney Morrison, from whom Aul purchased the item, this same jacket caused a joyful stir inside the Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen on St. Charles Avenue. Aul had returned to help her family with flood recovery in Baton Rouge and had stopped into the restaurant wearing the jacket. “It’s the piece I’m most proud of because it’s the one that has given the customer the most joy,” Morrison says. “That’s why I do what I do. And I hope Popeyes reads this — maybe I can get some chicken out of this deal, ha.” Born in New Roads, Morrison grew up in rural Fayette, Alabama, an hour from the closest movie theater and mall — but she never missed a Mardi Gras. Her father, a New Orleans native, always rode in krewes with his side of the family. And though she felt detached from larger creative movements out in the country, Morrison’s youth provided her with a foundation for her future craft. “Football was king,” she recalls of her small conservative town. “But I definitely found a way to express myself in a unique fashion. I got the art and culture from New Orleans, and I got my respect and love
“It was the first time I was doing something that didn’t feel like work or a chore. I can sew for six or eight hours a day and feel happy at the end of it.”
for nature and the outdoors from home.” Now 30, the LSU alum grew up cross-stitching with her grandmother and learning to sew as a practical craft that could also be a creative outlet. She still has more than a dozen dolls stitched for her by the family matriarch. After switching her major to fashion design at LSU, Morrison developed her sewing skills and began making hats. “I think when I actually started making things that I love and hearing some positive feedback from people, I actually thought this would be viable as a business,” Morrison says. “It was the first time I was doing something that didn’t feel like work or a chore. I can sew for six or eight hours a day and feel happy at the end of it.” After graduation, she relocated to New Orleans, and when her run with Goorin Bros. Hat Shop ended, she bought a circa-1941 chain stitch machine and launched her
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Q&A What do you do for fun when you’re not working? I’m in a shuffleboard league. We play once a week. I also am in the Organ Grinders. It’s a local dance troupe. That occupies my time. It’s great to get out there and dance and let loose and be around other inspiring women. How do you stay inspired to keep progressing? I’m always inspired by New Orleans. It’s my home, and I have deep roots here. My inspiration can come from so many different places. I really like vintage signs and the art of sign painting. There’s a great one on St. Charles on the side of a building. It’s for a moving company and has a momma cat carrying her kitten in her mouth. It’s one of my favorites. Are there any unexpected influences in your work? Well, I get requests sometimes for some weird stuff. And I have always honored those requests. No curse word or risqué image is off limits. But I will never do anything that is racist or sexist. And that’s pretty much my only rule.
own design business called Dressed New Orleans. The name is a playful reference to the Big Easy’s love of loaded poor boys and the rich history the sandwich has with the people of the city. “They’re so unique, not unlike the people here,” Morrison says.
A blend of folk and pop art, graphic design and fashion, Morrison’s work is often color-rich or playful and can be found on eye-catching patches, stitched lettering slogans or accessories like a “double sided necktie thingy” she recently posted to Instagram.
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She calls her art “thread painting,” and it fulfills her knowing that she’s adding bold beauty to the world in her own distinct way. “I get lost sometimes,” she says. “I definitely have some carpal tunnel damage creeping up on me.” u
If you could design clothing for anyone who would it be? That’s easy. Dolly Parton. She seems to like butterflies, doesn’t she? I would make her the most glorious butterfly jacket the world has ever seen. Dripping with rhinestones and fringe. OK, now I hope Popeyes and Dolly both read this. Me too! I would die so happy. And full of chicken. Connect with Morrison at @dressedneworleans on Instagram.
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great louisiana chef
Louisiana Proud Lyle Broussard finds inspiration in the state’s culinary traditions at L’Auberge in Lake Charles By Marie Simoneaux photos by romero & romero
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hef Lyle Broussard has been in the kitchen his entire life. “It’s the only thing I’ve ever done,” says Broussard. Growing up, Broussard’s family owned a restaurant in Lake Charles. As a kid, he would work there washing dishes, never thinking he’d be the head chef at the Jack Daniel’s Bar & Grill at L’Auberge Casino Resort, and most certainly not named a Chef to Watch by multiple publications. “I’d [see] all of these chefs, and at the time I never thought I’d ever be a chef,’ says Broussard. “Until I started cooking and I was like ‘wow I’m alright at this’.” Broussard’s inspiration and motivation is the state he calls home — but it is also the source of his main challenges. “One of our biggest challenges is just getting people to try things,” says Broussard. “Sometimes I cook a dish and people won’t even try it because of an ingredient and I’m just like ‘Come on man, just try it, it won’t kill you, you might even like it.’ “Lake Charles is known for casinos and wildlife, but if I could change one thing it would be to make people see that we have some great food here and really make it a food destination.” u
Jack Daniel’s Bar & Grill L’Auberge Casino 777 Ave. L’Auberge Lake Charles llakecharles.com/dining/jackdaniels-bar-and-grill/
“I’d [see] all of these chefs and at the time I never thought I’d ever be a chef. Until I started cooking and I was like ‘wow I’m alright at this’,” says Broussard.
Lyle Broussard’s Pecan and Cracklin’ Crusted Shrimp with Abita Tasso Gravy shrimp
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cups ground pecans cups ground pork cracklin cups flour cups buttermilk 12 large, head on shrimp, peeled and deveined
gravy
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cups tasso, diced small ounces Abita beer ounces whole butter cups onion, diced small teaspoons garlic, minced tablespoons parsley, chopped
1. SHRIMP Combine
together ground cracklings and ground pecans. Coat the shrimp in flour, dip in buttermilk and then in the pecan and cracklin mixture.
2. Heat oil to 350 F and deep fry the shrimp for three to four minutes. Set aside. 3. gravy Saute
onions and tasso together in ½ pound of butter in a cast iron skillet until caramelized and deeply browned.
Add Abita beer and let simmer until it reduced by half. Turn off flame and stir in the remaining whole butter. 4. Chef Broussard recommends serving over grits or mashed potatoes. makes 3 servings (Broussard made this dish on the popular Food Network show “Flip My Food” with Chef Jeff Henderson.)
“Someone bought me a bag of cracklins one day and I just had the idea of frying with it instead of breadcrumbs. It was fall time so I added the pecans.”
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roadside dining
The Time is Right Dine on the Lake at Boyce’s popular Tunk’s Cypress Inn By Jyl Benson photo by romero & Romero
Tunk’s quail are served three to an order, marinated and then grilled.
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f you roll into Boyce in Rapides Parish on a weekend and wonder where everyone is there’s a good chance many of them are at Tunk’s Cypress Inn. Many Louisianaians have fond memories of a waterside place like Tunk’s. Conversely, if
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you’re a visitor trying to make sense of Louisiana’s culture, Tunk’s offers the definitive bayou state experience that makes the pride, food, music, and ecology immediately comprehensible to you. It’s a roll-up-your sleeves kind of place, not one for romance rather, for tall tales and unpretentious good times. Tunk’s is housed in a weathered, sprawling wooden complex within a thicket of colorful and wild flowering foliage on the shores of Kincaide Lake just outside of Alexandria on the edge of Kisatchie National Forest. Despite the natural majesty of its setting, in 1977, when E.A. “Tunk” Andries, Jr., broke ground on his vision for “a place where any man can feel comfortable and welcome with his family; to relax and enjoy a good meal at a reasonable price; not too fancy, but with none of the good things left out” people treated him like a crazy person. He was building a gigantic restaurant in the middle of nowhere. To put things in perspective, a 2014 statistical analysis put the population of Boyce at 986. Nearly 40 years later, Tunk’s is a regional landmark and beacon operated by Jimbo and Sandy Thiels. There’s an oyster bar downstairs, live music nightly upstairs, TVs everywhere to keep track of whatever game is being played, plenty of indoor and outdoor seating on both levels and a heck of a view. Expect a packed house during cool months. The atmosphere at Tunk’s celebrates Louisiana as a sportsman’s paradise with an array of sport trophies — namely taxidermied game fish and alligators — adorning
Good Bets For Tunk’s Tunk’s regularly posts coupons and specials with big savings and very specific, limited time deals on its website. It’s worth it to check the website if you are planning a visit. If Mardi Gras in New Orleans is not your thing consider Tunk’s. The restaurant hosts an annual Mardi Gras Boat Parade and celebration beginning at 5 p.m. on Mardi Gras Day (parade starts at 7 p.m.)
the walls. These immortalized critters peer down upon a menu lavish in celebration of their fallen brethren. Tunk’s seafood platter is large enough to share and starts with a cup of dark-roux based seafood gumbo followed by a platter heaped with crisp fried catfish fillets, butterflied fried shrimp, frog legs, stuffed shrimp, plump fried oysters, fried shrimp and rice casserole. Snapper Sandy is a fillet topped with lump crabmeat, shrimp and crawfish tails in a rich cream sauce, baked en papilliot. Shrimp en brochette come six to an order. They are jumbo, bacon-wrapped, and filled with a luscious seafood stuffing and pepper jack cheese. The quail are served three to an order, marinated and then grilled. The house specialty, Alligator Parmesan, is friend and topped with Creole sauce, Parmesan and Cheddar cheeses. u
Tunk’s Cypress Inn 9507 LA HWY 28 West Boyce 318-487-4014 tunkscypressinn.com
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kitchen gourmet
Individual oyster pies are ideal to serve as a first course. Gather up the ramekins!
Oyster Fest This versatile shellfish claims center stage in these 3 simple recipes BY STANLEY DRY PHOTOS & STYLING BY EUGENIA UHL
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t is often said that when you have first-rate ingredients, the very simplest preparations are best. Nowhere is that axiom more applicable than with oysters, which are splendid eaten raw with only a squeeze of lemon. There are also many ways to cook oysters, but probably none as popular as frying. Another excellent way to enjoy oysters, and one that doesn’t require opening them with a knife, is roasting. To roast oysters, scrub the shells well and roast, with the curved shell down, either in a hot oven or on a grill, until they open. Then plop in a dollop of softened butter. If you want to gild the lily, prepare in advance a compound butter seasoned with lemon, hot sauce, shallots, chopped parsley or other herbs. The ideal way to serve and eat roasted oysters is just when they come off the grill or out of the oven. So gather your friends and family around, supply them with plenty of white wine and French bread and eat the oysters immediately. The three recipes this month are for oysters and spinach with pasta, an oyster gumbo and individual oyster pies. In different ways, each recipe shows off oysters to their good advantage. The preparations are not difficult or time consuming. Oyster recipes usually call for adding the oyster liquor during cooking. The problem today is that oysters are packed in water, not their own liquor. If you are fortunate enough to have the liquor from your oysters, by all means add it along with the stock or broth called for in the following recipes. u
Oyster Pies These individual pies are ideal to serve as a first course. You will need 4 (4-6 oz.) ramekins. Oyster sizes vary greatly, so if yours are small or extra large, you might need more or less than called for here. Crust 1¼ cups all-purpose flour ¼ teaspoon salt 8 tablespoons cold butter 3-4 tablespoons ice cold water Filling 4 tablespoons butter, plus additional for ramekins ¼ cup diced shallot ¼ cup diced leek ½ cup chicken stock or broth ¼ cup dry white wine ½ cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons saltine cracker crumbs coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper pinch cayenne 24 oysters Glaze 1 egg, beaten with 1 tablespoon water 1. Crust In a mixing bowl, whisk
flour and salt to combine. Cut butter into small pieces and add to bowl. Using a pastry cutter or two knives, cut butter into flour until it resembles coarse meal. Add water 1 tablespoon at a time, mixing it in with a fork, until dough forms. Turn dough out onto a floured surface and shape into a ball. Divide dough into 4 pieces and wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, or overnight.
2. Filling Preheat oven to 400 F. Cook shallots and leeks in butter on low heat until very soft, about 10 minutes. Add chicken stock and wine. Increase heat and cook until thick and syrupy. Add cream and simmer until thickened. Add cracker crumbs. Season to taste with salt, pepper and cayenne. 3. Butter ramekins and divide oysters
among them. Spoon sauce over oysters. Leave a space at the top of each ramekin for expansion.
4. Roll out each piece of dough
to fit ramekins. Place dough on ramekins, press edges to seal and cut off excess. Brush crusts with egg wash and cut vents in crust. Place ramekins on a heavy duty baking sheet and bake until crusts are browned, about 20-25 minutes.
Makes 4 servings.
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recipes Oyster Gumbo Use a heavily smoked pork and venison sausage, if available. If not, use a smoked pork sausage. ½ pound smoked sausage 8 cups chicken stock or broth ¼ cup dark roux 2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 1 stalk celery, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 bay leaf
Linguine with Oysters & Spinach Use the best quality pasta you can find for this recipe. The extra money you’ll spend is more than worth it. 6 tablespoons butter 1 leek, white and yellow parts only, chopped 4 scallions, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced ½ cup chicken stock or broth ¼ cup dry white wine
½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves
4 cups packed baby spinach, stemmed
coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
24 oysters
cayenne
coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
hot sauce
cayenne
1 quart oysters, drained
½ pound linguine
2 tablespoons chopped parsley 2 tablespoons chopped green onion tops filé 1. Place sausage and chicken stock in a pot, bring to a boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove sausage from pot and set aside to cool. Add roux to stock and whisk to combine. 2. Meanwhile, in a large, heavy
pot, cook onion, celery and garlic until softened, about 5 minutes. Add stock and simmer. When sausage is cool enough to handle, remove casing and discard. Slice sausage and add to pot. Add bay leaf and thyme. Simmer for one hour.
3. Season to taste with salt, black pepper, cayenne and hot sauce. Add oysters and cook only until they begin to curl and are heated through. Serve gumbo with cooked rice, garnish with parsley, green onion tops and filé.
1. In a large, nonreactive skillet, melt butter and cook leeks, scallions and garlic until softened, about 5 minutes. Add chicken stock or broth and wine, increase heat and boil to reduce. Meanwhile, cook linguine according to package directions. 2. When liquid in skillet has reduced by about half, add spinach and toss, while cooking, until wilted. About a minute before linguine is ready, add oysters to skillet and cook briefly, just until they start to curl. 3. Season to taste with salt, black pepper and cayenne. Drain linguine, add to the skillet and toss. Divide linguine, oysters and sauce among 4 shallow bowls. Makes 4 servings.
Makes 4 servings.
Cooking Tip Smoked sausage is frequently an ingredient in gumbo. Many, if not most, brands are made with an artificial casing that is not pleasant to eat. But removing the casing before cooking also removes most of the smoke flavor. One solution is to cook the sausage in the stock or broth you are going to use in the gumbo, then remove the casing before slicing the sausage. That way the smoke flavor is retained in the broth and the gumbo.
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Labor of Love Designer Myron Griffing Updates Lisa and Gary Love’s Shreveport Home With a Fresh, Transitional Mix By Lee Cutrone Photos by Craig Macaluso
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hreveport attorneys Lisa and Gary Love had a kitchen update in mind when they called designer Myron Griffing for a consultation. Instead, Griffing, owner of Space Interiors and a monthly design columnist for Shreveport’s City Life Magazine, suggested the couple’s time and dollars would be better invested in a refresh of their downstairs living areas. The kitchen could be renewed with a few cosmetic improvements such as paint, he reasoned, but the foyer and entertaining areas, last decorated in the early 90s, were in need of a reboot. The Loves, parents of three grown children and now empty nesters, agreed and are happy they did. Today, their home’s once busy, antique-filled interior marries
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their love of traditional with current trends and with Lisa’s desire for a toned down reinterpretation. Griffing advised the clients to search magazines and websites like Houzz for “inspiration pictures” that conveyed the look they wanted. What emerged from the photos they selected was a home with a more transitional design scheme, Griffing’s speciality. At his urging, the Loves sold a variety of their furnishings at a high-end consignment shop, repurposed a piece by moving it to the foyer, held on to select family antiques and filled in with new pieces where needed. “Space Interiors is all about the mix,” says Griffing. “High with low, modern with traditional. We want our rooms to look collected over time and not just purchased.”
Left The reproduction Duncan Phyfe table was inherited from Lisa’s grandmother. Right Linen slipcovered chairs are combined with captain’s chairs upholstered with a cotton medallion print. A gilded steel Greek key pendant fixture hangs overhead. Underfoot, Griffing added a Moorish window pane rug. Sherwin Williams’ Imagination on walls. Painting by Shreveport artist Casey Dávid.
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The walls and moldings, previously painted in brights and whites respectively, are now seamlessly bathed in soft neutrals providing a quieter foundation. The living room’s huge patterned rug was likewise swapped out for a more muted effect — this time achieved with three separate rugs that delineate different areas of the room. For the furnishings, Griffing stayed with shapes that were in sync with the house’s classic Georgian bones, but added a twist by using more modern fabrics and opting
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for restraint where an abundance of layers once prevailed. Lastly, he added statement lighting and contemporary art from a variety of Shreveport galleries. “We gave them a more subtle, modern version of what they were accustomed to,” he says. “Everybody is unique, so their rooms should look unique and individual.” By shopping off the retail floor rather than relying on custom orders, Griffing was able to complete the Love’s remodel in just two and a half months.
“I want [clients] to be able to touch it and feel it and experience it right off the bat because it’s going in their home,” says the designer. The Loves, who enjoyed the easy collaboration with Griffing, say the refurbishment has changed the way they live at home. “We never used the living room because it felt so formal,” says Lisa. “Now it feels so much more inviting, we enjoy the whole house.” u
Above left The blue heron above the fireplace and the owners’ cat inspired the living room’s soft palette. Paint colors of royal and white were replaced with Sherwin Williams’ Worldly Gray, Egret White and Rain (ceiling). “We wanted a very understated Louisiana vibe without the fleur-de-lys and LSU colors,” says Griffing. Above right Instead of gutting the kitchen, Griffing worked to enhance what was already there. He updated the island with a terra cotta color pulled from the existing backsplash and painted the custom cabinetry. Right Lisa and Gary Love seated beneath a live oak in the garden of their Pierremont area home.
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Elise Grenier
Xavier Gonzalez Restoring a Golden Age in Aviation in New Orleans By John R. Kemp
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or over a year, Elise Grenier and her assistants have patiently restored seven large, historic murals lining the grand atrium of the 1930s-era New Orleans Lakefront Airport. It is one of Louisiana’s finest examples of Art Deco architecture, built during the age of Amelia Earhart and the early years of commercial air travel. Constructed by the Orleans Levee Board between 1928 and 1933 at a cost of about $3.6 million, the airport — one of Governor Huey Long’s pet projects — sits on a spit of land jutting out into Lake Pontchartrain. The board’s architects, Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth, hired the
Mexican-born New Orleans sculptor Enrique Alférez to create bas-relief friezes for the building’s interior and exterior and Newcomb College art instructor Xavier Gonzalez to paint murals depicting the wonders of international air travel for the terminal’s walls. Initially, the airport bore the name Shushan Airport for levee board chairman and Long crony Abe Shushan. The board renamed it New Orleans Airport after Shushan and other Long allies fell from power during the state’s political scandals of the late 1930s. Until now, the airport’s elegant Art Deco façade stood hidden behind drab concrete panels added in 1964 to
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modernize the building. Interior ceilings were lowered and walls covered with wooden panels. Those panels protected the murals. Unfortunately, sections of Alférez’s exterior deco designs were destroyed to make way for the concrete outer walls. Then came Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, and an opportunity arose to restore the terminal and murals. According to Wilma Heaton, director of governmental affairs for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East and a prime mover in the airport’s restoration, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his unpopular recovery czar Ed “Cranes-inthe-Sky” Blakely wanted to level the building. “The storm surge damaged the first floor and the roof leaked into the second floor,” Heaton says. “The building was a wreck, but I knew it could be restored to 1934 instead of 1964. I informed Dr. Blakely that the mayor would not be demolishing the terminal because he did not have jurisdiction. I told him the airport was owned by the Orleans Levee District, a political subdivision of the state. “He pulled out his flip phone and called the mayor to relay my declaration. The mayor said I didn’t know what I was talking about. Well, Blakely is back in Australia, Nagin is in federal prison, and I am chairman of the New Orleans Lakefront Airport Committee. As you can see the airport was not demolished.” Between 2006 and 2013, the levee district, working with Richard C. Lambert Consultants of Mandeville — the lead architect was Alton Ochsner Davis — and a group of contractors, restored the terminal with $20 million in hurricane restoration grants from the Federal Emergency Management Administration.
The stunning restoration is nearly complete. Grenier and her assistants, Meghan Murphy and Kaitlyn Richard, are restoring seven of Gonzalez’s murals, which were painted on canvas and glued to the walls in 1933. They bear the titles “Paris and the Lindbergh Landing,” “Mayan Ruins,” “Egypt,” “New York Metropolis,” “Admiral Richard Byrd’s Flight Over the South Pole,” and “Mount Everest.” He originally painted eight murals, but one titled “Bali” has been missing since the 1964 remodel. Another one, “Rio di Janiero,” went to the Louisiana State Museum but was recently returned to the airport. Grenier, with old photographs in hand, plans to recreate the “Bali” mural to fill the vacant wall. Airport
“Gonzalez was not into politics like Picasso or Alférez. He did art for art’s sake. He wanted to capture the beauty and safety of flying, which was still very new to most people.”
officials hope the original will turn up one day. Looking up at Alférez’s friezes, Grenier says Alférez was, in a friendly way, critical of Gonzalez’s murals. “He said the murals were like travel postcards, tame,” she says with a smile. “Gonzalez was not into politics like Picasso or Alférez. He did art for art’s sake. He wanted to capture the beauty and safety of flying, which was still very new to most people.” After the airport project, Gonzalez worked for the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration, or WPA,
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painting murals in Alabama, Texas and Louisiana, including post offices in Covington and Hammond. He later moved to Washington, D.C., and eventually to New York. In 1936 Alférez, also working for the WPA, built the monumental but controversial fountain “Four Winds” that stands crumbling just beyond the airport’s front entrance. Restoring murals like these requires special training, Grenier says. With a master’s degree in art history from LSU and diplomas in art restoration from universities in Italy,
she has restored artworks in major historic buildings across Italy and Louisiana. Grenier also owns an art conservation company in Baton Rouge and Florence, Italy. The Gonzalez murals are her latest challenge. “These paintings are in such good condition despite time, cover and Katrina,” she says. “They didn’t require any retouching at all.” During the 1964 remodeling project, someone applied rice paper to the surface of each mural to protect them. She and her assistants are meticulously removing that paper.
“It’s like surgery,” Genier says. “You don’t know what’s ahead. The most important phase is testing to determine materials, what they can withstand during restoration and what the issues are. When the treatment is correct and successful, it is a wonderful feeling.” During these restorations, Grenier has become an unintended guide for people visiting the airport. “I have met everyone from World War II pilots to men who met their wives at dances in the airport’s famous Walnut Room,” she says. “I love talking
to them. One person told me to be careful of the friezes because his grandfather had worked on them.” Meanwhile, Wilma Heaton hopes to create a small museum in the airport to capture these stories and to celebrate its contribution to a golden age in American aviation history. “I’m just so glad to see this airport come back to life again,” Grenier says, tracing her finger across a section of mural yet to be cleaned. “I’m really attached to this airport. It’s like my baby.” u
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traveler
Renaissance Ramble Businessman Mike Jenkins’ tour of Alexandria
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size of the Riverfront District and extent of its restoration projects — all completed in record time by civic-minded entrepreneurs inspired by history-loving banker and investments counsellor Mike Jenkins. Luxurious accommodations, fine dining and multiple
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forms of art, music and theater, with a levee-top walking trail for lagniappe await. Street events are frequent, ranging from a bandstand or two to a giant event like the Alexandria Winter Fete (Dec. 1 through 3). Jenkins himself has restored enough vintage structures to
pass for a one-man Main Street Program, including his staggeringly expensive revival of Hotel Bentley; his purchase of the dazzling Diamond Grill, which was on the brink of closing after the death of its owner; and his careful renovation of the 1820 Loyd Hall Plantation,
photos by Jeff Stephens
he old Riverfront District of Alexandria is born again with its charming cityscape almost good as new. Of course Art Deco, Nouveau and Neoclassical storefronts are sprinkled across most Louisiana towns, but you must see with your own eyes to grasp the
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Diamond Grill
Hotel Bentley
20 miles south of Alexandria near Cheneyville (a full facelift plus an heating and cooling system once considered impossible there). Jenkins differs with observers who see his projects as pure philanthropy, asserting that he’s a businessman first and always (though he does admit to “a leaning toward investments involving properties of historic importance”). That “leaning” has proved to be of incalculable value to the community.
The district stretches from the Jackson Street Bridge to Winn Street, and it’s best toured on foot. From the welcome center at 707 Second Street (318-442-9546, alexandriapinevillela.com) cross Jackson and begin crossing and recrossing Second and Third streets to zigzag your way downriver. The first stop, at the very foot of the bridge, is the venerable, circa-1908 Hotel Bentley, cherished by all of Louisiana and more than once believed to have been lost (318442-2226, historicbentley.com). Lumber mogul Joe Bentley’s instruction to architect George Mann was brief: “Make it the finest in the South.” He did, and now a century later, everything is as fine as ever. Chandeliers glitter below the coffered ceiling of the Grand Ballroom, the Bentley
Room’s 2,400-square-foot kitchen is ready for action, and despite major delays, like the flooding and replacement of the newly rebuilt elevator system, Jenkins has stuck to his plan of reopening the hotel in phases. The Mirror Room (many mirrors removed to reveal more marble) opened in May 2015, three levels of guest rooms opened this May, and the Bentley Room will begin serving its “casual Southern comfort foods” this November or December. The Diamond Grill at 924 Third St. (318-448-8989, thediamondgrill.com) occupies the 1931 Schnack’s Jewelry store, where Jenkins’ friend Robert Tudor introduced five-star dining to the district in 2006, and his magical sauces and intriguing recipes are now preserved and expanded at the hands of Jenkins’ team
of chefs. Lighting, woodwork and glasswork remain from the days of Carl Schnack, pilasters that once demarked sales areas retain their unique ornamentation, and rest assured that every edible item on your table, right down to the salad dressings and ice creams, is created in-house. Opposite the Grill and beyond the city hall/ convention hall complex, the Alexandria Museum of Art now occupies the handsome 1898 Rapides Bank Building at 933 Second St. (318-4433458, themuseum.org), which offers exciting exhibits from around the globe but is particularly proud of its permanent collections of Louisiana fine and folk arts. A few steps away, the Riverview Amphitheater (with its schedule of almost constant events) is set into the levee above the 1000 block of Second Street.
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Loyd Hall
Cross Second to tiny Alexander Fulton Park (honoring the earliest settler here) for a view of the city’s first skyscraper, the 1915, six-story Commercial Building at 201 Johnston. Jenkins calls it the prettiest building in town; he bought it in 2000 and his offices have been there ever since. Cross Third to the block-long former Kress dime store (1939), now the Rapides
Foundation Building, with its two entrances: 1102 Third for the Hearn Stage and its cozy blackbox Kress Theater, and 1101 Fourth for performances by the Alexandria Symphony, Red River Chorale and City Park Players, or to visit the Arts Council of Central Louisiana. The 2004 state-of-the-art Collins-Saunders Performing Arts Center at 1202 Third (318-767-2600, coughlin-
saunderspac.org) operated by the Arts Council, attracts top national entertainment, serves as home stage of the Langiappe Theatre Co. and Rapides Symphony (Dec. 4) and presents such local specials as the Cenla Christmas Spectacular (Dec. 10). For a complete calendar of arts and entertainment in AlexandriaPineville, visit louisiana-arts.org and click “Calendar/News.”
At 1330 Second, the always lively River Oaks Square Arts complex (318-4732670, riveroaksartscenter.com) provides studio, exhibit and sales spaces for local artists. Despite the progress, Jenkins is not content. “No one lives in the district now, zero,” he says, stating his theory that residents would attract new services, which would attract more residents. There will soon be condominiums in the old “Tower Section” of the Bentley, as well as in his newly acquired 1927 Masonic Building. “We’ve reached a stage where the district could be taken to the next level,” he says, “and my long-term hope is to see someone with more energy and more wherewithal come along and take it there.” u
DETOURS Anything for the Cause
Plantation Pleasures
All for One
An historic marker surrounded by marble stairs at Hotel Bentley’s entrance reminds us that during the Louisiana Maneuvers which preceded WWII, soon-to-be generals Ike Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and George Patton were willing to give up the pleasure of tent camping to “bivouac” at the Bentley. They were even willing to sacrifice the delights of K-rations to endure the fare of the Bentley Room! Collections of Maneuvers-related weapons, uniforms and memorabilia are on display at the Fort Polk Museum near Leesville (on base at 7881 Mississippi Ave., Bldg. 927), the Louisiana Maneuvers Museum at Fort Beauregard in Alexandria (623 G St.), and in the Bentley’s marble-columned lobby.
Beulah Davis of Loyd Hall, star of four decades of articles, interviews and travelogues, is famous for her stories of the plantation — stories of the home’s history, its families, its interesting visitors — some flesh and blood, others a bit more, shall we say, ethereal. Meet her in the kitchen early for more conversation time.
The Riverfront District provides the setting for an interesting nighttime tour. Begin with a good Irish whiskey at Finnegan’s Wake Irish Pub (813 Third St.), then experience that “true lounge feel” and taste of infused spirits from the craft side of cocktails in the Bentley’s Mirror Room. Next comes the Embers Bar (313 DeSoto) where they’ll recommend a rare beer or mix you a very special Bloody Mary, and then off to the Diamond Grill’s Mezzanine Bar to enjoy the view from the top while sipping one of their voted-best martinis or something from their enviable wine list. Finish the night at Studio 1016 (1016 Third), a dance club with a state-of-the-art sound and light system.
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If you plan to visit Alexandria’s 1796 Kent House at 3601 Bayou Rapides Road, remember that this year’s Sugar Day is Nov. 12, a rare chance to see the 1840s iron-kettle granulation process in action. Remember too that you can enjoy lunch hot off the open-hearth fire on any Wednesday, October through April.
(Edtior’s Note: Flip to The Good Life retirement guide’s “Well Traveled” section to read more about Alexandria and Hotel Bentley on page 78.)
Above: The casket of Mercedes Stevenson, Queen Mercy of the Original Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians and the oldest living Baby Doll, iscarriedoutoftheAusterlitzStreet BaptistChurchtowardsherawaiting glass hearse. Right: Baby Doll Resa "CinnamonBlack"Baziledanceswith a picture of Mrs. Stevenson.
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The Queen Passed On, But the Queen Lives On New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indian queen’s legacy continues with her children and grandchildren written and photographed By David Joshua Jennings
It was an unlikely setting for a procession of prancing Baby Dolls and colorful Mardi Gras Indians: a hot, languid August afternoon in New Orleans’ Irish Channel. The residents along Austerlitz Street were lured out of weekend lethargy that Saturday by the procession’s booming brass band as it marched towards Tchoupitoulas Street and drawn by the music to their front doors. They were greeted by a wild sight, a celebration of life after death. From the placards that bore her image hoisted above the dancing
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crowd, many in the neighborhood undoubtedly knew the final second line of the late Mercedes Stevenson, “Big Queen Mercy” of the Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians, and the oldest living Baby Doll, was passing by. The Queen herself was riding in a Golden Casket, ensconced in a glass hearse drawn by two stately horses. Like her life, Queen Mercy’s funeral was a conduit of celebratory energy and local tradition. Born on Oct. 22, 1925, Stevenson grew up in New Orleans’ 13th Ward. After raising eight children,
she spent much of her adult life prodigiously active in her local community — she was the eldest Indian Queen of the Original Wild Tchoupitoulas Indians; the founder of the Uptown Baby Dolls; a member of the Emerald Social Aid and Pleasure Club; the Ladies of Wales Social and Pleasure Club; and the Sophisticated Ladies Social and Pleasure Club; and an honorable member of the Queens of the Nation and the Mardi Indian Hall of fame. Before she assumed her role as Queen of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, Mercedes
Above: Friends and family wait for MercedesStevenson’s casket to be carried downoutofAusterlitz Baptist Church. Above right: Joseph Stevenson,Mercedes Stevenson’sgrandson, dancing alongside family and friends during the second line. Right: Da Truth Brass band, leading the procession.
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was brought into this purview of local tradition by her mother. She had her first experiences masking as a Baby Doll, parading alongside other Baby Dolls in their signature satin skirts, bonnets and bloomers during Mardi Gras — helping, in her way, to carry forward an iconic carnival tradition that originated in black Storyville in the early 20th century. This penchant for masking and dancing led Mercedes into the Wild Tchoupitoulas in 1974, when her friend, George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry founded the tribe. Her daughter, Mary Kay Stevenson was age 9 at the time. “When she put on her suit she looked to me just like a princess,” says Mary Kay. “Her hair was like two long black pretty flags and she had a smile that was glowing. She looked like she ruled the world. I thought she was a princess. I didn’t know then — I only found out later — that she was really a queen.” Every year, those who mask as Indians — often appearing only on Mardi Gras, St. Joseph’s Day and Super Sunday (the third Sunday of March) — spend countless evenings during the months leading up to Mardi Gras hand-sewing their dazzling and elaborate suits, incorporating bright, colorful feathers, beads, glittering sequins and rhinestones. It is a painstaking creative process (some suits tower over eight feet and can weigh as much as 150 pounds) that is a hallmark of the Mardi Gras Indians, whose traditions have their roots in Native American culture, believed to have been passed on to escaped slaves who found safe haven among southern tribes in the Antebellum period.
Aboveleft:FloydTrack,SecondChief of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, in full dress in honor of Queen Mercy. Left: DarrylPress,MercedesStevenson’s son and Grand Marshal of her funeral second line, leading mourners down Tchoupitoulas Street. Right: Baby Doll Resa "Cinnamon Black" Bazile waiting outside Austerlitz StreetBaptistChurchwithaportrait of Mrs. Stevenson.
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“Every time you see an Indian suit, you know it’s made with love, because there’s blood in those suits, real blood.” says Mary Kay, who has inherited many of her mother’s traditions and, like her, sews all of her own suits. “When we’re sewing and stitching, we stick ourselves with needles and the blood comes out. Nine out of 10 of the beads might have blood on them. You give your own blood to your suit, each is a creation of yourself.” Mercedes sewed every suit she wore, Mary Kay says. She also helped others sew theirs, including her children and grandchildren, all of whom she made sure had the opportunity to mask as an Indian, whether they wanted to or not. Mary Kay was one of those children who never wanted to mask. She was frightened by the Indian practices that her mother brought her to as a child. “Everyone would be hollering and ripping and running around,” Mary Kay says. “Back then they didn’t have wooden floors, it would just be sand and dust on the floor, and all the Indians would be in there hollering, and I would just hide in the doorway, cause I was afraid.” After Big Chief Jolly died, the Wild Tchoupitoulas slowly began to disband, and Mercedes masked for the final time with three of her grandchildren in 1987. She diverted her energy into other community pursuits, and it wasn’t until Mary Kay’s daughter showed interest in masking as an Indian in 2007 that Mercedes took her under her wing and revived the tradition in their family. Seeing her daughter mask compelled Mary Kay to join the procession and sing the Indian songs of her childhood. On that day that she decided to come
Left: Baby Doll Vanessa of the Ernie K-Doe Baby Dolls, dancing ahead of Queen Mercy’s casket. Upper Right: Baby Doll Chocolate of the Gold Digger Baby Dolls, with Mrs. Stevenson’s grandson Wormy Madison (L) and 2nd Grand Marshall Little Wardell Lewis. Center Right: The funeral procession honors Mercedes Stevenson as it dances down Tchoupitoulas Street towards the cemetery, in New Orleans’ Irish Channel neighborhood. Lower Right: A Mardi Gras Indian, come to honor Queen Mercy.
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Above Left: Flag Queen Kelly A. Pearson of the Creole Osceolas Mardi Gras Indians. Below Left: Da Truth Brass Band, blowing the second line down Tchoupitoulas Street. Above Right: Baby Doll Handa Wanda, of the Original Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Gras Indians, dancing with feather fan down Austerlitz Street.
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back into the tradition, to carry on her mother’s legacy, and now, 10 years later, she has assumed her mother’s role as Big Queen of the Wild Tchoupitoulas, and continues to honor her mother’s style in the sewing of her suits, with her signature cape, high boots, crown and armband. The Baby Dolls, the Mardi Gras Indians, the Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs, with their signature second line parades — these converging aspects of Mercedes’ life flowed through the soul of her jazz funeral, through the souls of her granddaughters
dancing on the residential front porches, in the steps of her grandsons strutting and jumping down Tchoupitoulas, in the pure joy of the traditions she lived and passed on to her progeny, which surrounded her like a fragrance as she floated aloft in her golden casket, the white horses drawing her nearer to St. Patrick Cemetery. The legacy of her life and community involvement was on full display, so much so that one might wonder, considering her eight children, 29 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren and four
great-great grandchildren, how she had the time to dedicate so much of her life to so many clubs and traditions. “I used to ask her ‘how you do all that and still manage to raise eight kids?’,” Mary Kay says. “And you know what she said? She said ‘because I love life.’ She said happiness is the best thing you can do, and she did it well. Until the day she died, she was living her cultural events. She stayed involved in her community. And that life she lived lives on through us.”
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the stories we tell A Ruston group strives to turn the tide of addiction, abuse and grief
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By Charles Paxton and illustration by Jason Raish
ddiction, substance abuse and its associated issues permeate society, often out of sight, but damaging nevertheless. It seems everyone across all spectrums knows someone struggling with addiction or in recovery. In 2014, Louisiana reported 777 overdoses according to the Centers for Disease Control. The Louisiana Department of Health identifies natural and synthetic opioids, including prescription painkillers, as an increasing source of risk. Overdoses kill nearly 44,000 Americans yearly, according to the International Overdose Awareness Day website. Abuse of tobacco, alcohol and illicit drugs represents a $700 billion annual cost nationally due to associated crime, lost work productivity and health care according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Can we help ourselves and others heal by airing and sharing tales of suffering and recovery? That premise underpins a new community business project in Ruston called StoryTellers Life Changing. StoryTellers Life Changing, established by social worker Erika McFarland, provides a multi-platform forum for the process of healing exchange. Deeply personal revelations strike chords with others, enthusing, inspiring determination and healing wounds in speakers, volunteers and audience members. Adverse experiences drew McFarland to social work. She was exposed at 13 to drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, sexual assault and self-harming in her own home, through friends and in her community. “Being a witness to these things helped to shape the person I am today: loving, caring, compassionate, empathetic and with a heart for helping others to be emotionally healthy,� says McFarland.
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McFarland increasingly found herself taking therapeutic roles, intervening and consoling others. After she was raped at age 16, McFarland’s mother put her into therapy with Tammy Smith. “Tammy, with Jesus, worked miracles to get me back to a healthy state of mind,” says McFarland. “Helping me see past my crisis and onto the other side, where I was free, renewed and the rest of my life was waiting on me. Once I was emotionally healthy again, I realized that I wanted to do the same for others.” So how does communication help? “Communication is very important to the process of healing,” says McFarland. “Communication allows a person to release all of the thoughts and emotions that they may be thinking and feeling, so that they can be free from the pain and achieve total healing.” McFarland hopes that “by hearing someone else’s story a person can be encouraged and inspired to tackle the open wounds they may have so that they too can be healed. Revelations 12:11 says, ‘They triumphed over him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony’.” McFarland lists Smith, Dr. Steven Perry and Iyanla Vanzant as powerful influences in her career development. They are each therapists who use their gifts to help restore people emotionally, spiritually and mentally. Now McFarland works with clients including women, adolescents and children, some with behavioral issues, domestic violence survivors, some suffer from depression, anxiety and other mental health issues. A month after college graduation, McFarland says she discussed with a friend how so many people have stories to tell, but don't feel comfortable with or perhaps have the tools for using forms of expression such as music, dance or poetry. That conversation led to the idea of creating an outlet similar to TED Talks for people to share their life stories. “I’ve witnessed people share things that their own parents never knew,” says McFarland. “The courage that a person has to have in order to open up to a group of strangers and knowing that it will be posted online for thousands of people to see is remarkable. With that being said, it’s also very difficult. You begin to think about all the things that have happened in your life and that isn’t easy. Many times I have seen people begin their process of healing when asked to share their story. I love to see the transformation and the overcoming point.” McFarland shared her vision and how it would impact people with former fellow Grambling State University student, friend and fellow church member Kelsey Kyser, who is now the group’s videographer.
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Communication is very important to the process of healing. Communication allows a person to release all of the thoughts and emotions that they may be thinking and feeling, so that they can be free from the pain and achieve total healing.
“I was honored and privileged to be a part of something so powerful,” says Kyser. “The various stories I’ve heard really enlightened me to the backgrounds and obstacles a lot of people have to go through. I believe we should most definitely give others an outlet for their story to be heard as well.” The enthusiastic testimonies of the StoryTellers appear mostly unscripted, but follow a similar pattern. Each speaker acknowledges God’s instructive use of their weakness and the divine external source of their recovery, strength and resilience from a broken state contrasting with the weakness of “self.” StoryTeller Riley McEacharn wasn’t initially going to tell certain parts of her life story, but felt guided to do so the night before her talk. “StoryTellers allowed me to step outside of myself and focus on the healing of others,” McEacharn says, “Erika set that environment. I was inspired to speak at StoryTellers because of the passion Erika conveyed…I want to be a part of something bigger than myself daily.” Michael Hankins says since his talk, many people have approached him to let him know that his story influenced them. He says his story has been essential to his practical and spiritual development. “When we shed light on the dark areas of our life in order to glorify God we receive healing in those areas,” says Hankins “Through sharing my story, I have found a kind of comfort and peace in aspects of myself I thought I could never come to terms with…When we reach the edge of our character we find the limit to our own abilities. It is through this discovery that we can communicate where resilience comes in: faith. When we reach the edge of ourselves and choose to continue on we are then operating outside of what should be possible. We are allowing God to place His 'super' upon our natural. To answer the question of the communicability of resilience, I can only point to where I have failed and God has taken over. I do that through my story.” For its next phase, McFarland is developing “Erika Speaks.” A series of talks centered on her own story. “My hope is to educate the community about grief and all that comes with it,” says McFarland. “I also want to get more into the churches, bringing awareness to different issues that affect so many people of different backgrounds. It’s important to share your story. My belief is that our story isn’t for us, but for others. What is birthed out of our trials and tribulations is ours, but our story is for someone else. For example, StoryTellers is my gift from God. It’s my baby that has been birthed through all of the hurt and pain in my life, but the story of it all isn’t mine. God gave me a story to tell, so that’s what I’m going to do.”
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A look at the health of Louisiana women over the past 10 years, challenges, solutions and why it matters in the first place BY SARAH RAVITS
The State of Women's Health in the State
Again and again, Louisiana is deemed by various authorities — including its own Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control — one of the least healthy states in the country. While the state is known for its hospitality, cuisine, music, abundant natural resources and overall fascinating culture, year after year, Louisiana falters when it comes to measuring up health-wise, especially when it comes to women’s health. Health care is a multifaceted discipline of study relying on expertise from health care practitioners, public health administrators, hospital reports, nonprofits and of course, its own citizens’ reporting. There’s not one specific blame-factor, nor is there one major isolated disease or ailment; rather, there are several ailments plaguing Louisiana women. The news isn't all bad; as medical technology advances, more citizens are successfully
treated and prevention campaigns, as well as other health initiatives, bring health education to a wider audience. “Historically, southern states, including Louisiana, have had the highest rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease,” says Dr. Andrea Barrack, medical director of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. “Heart disease has remained the leading cause of death for both men and women, causing one in every four deaths in Louisiana.” Barrack also notes Louisiana has some of the highest incidence rates of cancer and related death. The Bayou State also has “higher than national average rates of high blood pressure (+6.3 percent), heart disease (+3.6 percent), diabetes (+2 percent), heart failure (+2.3 percent), chronic kidney disease and arthritis,” says Barrack. Stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic lower respiratory disease (COPD/ emphysema), kidney and liver disease and LouisianaLife.com | 55
dBased on disease prevalence, Louisiana is among the top five states in the nation for stroke, heart disease and arthritis. “Compared to men living in Louisiana, women have higher rates of hypertension, arthritis and diabetes,” says Barrack. “The leading causes of cancer death among women include lung cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer (in that order).” Prevalent conditions (different from deadly conditions) for females in Louisiana are arthritis, high blood pressure, depression, osteoporosis and hyperlipidemia (or high cholesterol). In addition to all this, Dr. Rebekah Gee, the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and an obstetrician-gynecologist, mentions that because women are often the caregivers of their families, there are many concerning issues surrounding childbirth and raising healthy babies. “We have some of the highest prematurity rates in the nation,” says Gee. “We see high numbers of babies who die before one year of life. Poor birth outcomes are a particular concern.”
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“Strong and healthy women are the backbone of our society, caregivers for both parents and their children,” says Gee. “They are part of the workforce, so when women are sick and not in good health, that has a major impact on society and Louisiana’s family. Healthy women are crucial to building healthy communities.”
Gee also says that 24 percent of women report being in fair or poor health. Additionally, “Louisiana ranks first in the nation for gonorrhea and syphilis, and we’re second for HIV and third for chlamydia.”
Most Vulnerable Populations For many women affected by the ailments Gee mentions, it’s because they lack access to care and have poor health prior to pregnancy. “Smoking and obesity during pregnancy, as well as social and even neighborhood factors” play a role,” says Gee. “Even things like stress in your own neighborhood can have an impact.” The subject of health disparities among minorities and the impoverished has been addressed by many scholars and agencies, with growing attention over the past decades. The Louisiana Department of Health addressed this topic with its 2011 report, “Louisiana Health Disparities.” “Minorities experience higher rates of infant mortality, HIV/AIDS and cardiovascular disease and substantial differences in disease incidence, severity,
progression and response to treatment. This has been the focus of research, community partnerships, initiatives and action plans,” says Dr. Barrack.
More Accessible Insurance and New Initiatives In January after taking office, Gov. John Bel Edward signed a Medicaid expansion law under the terms of the U.S. Affordable Care Act. The expansion presents options for hundreds of thousands of Louisianians living around the poverty line who previously had limited, if any, health care access. As of July 1, there has been open enrollment. “Our focus right now is making sure women sign up,” says Gee of the program. As of Oct. 3, the Louisiana Department of Health reported that more than 314,000 new members have enrolled in Medicaid, and more than 1,300 women have completed important screening and diagnostic breast imaging such as mammograms, MRI's and ultrasounds. Of those women, 24 have been able to begin treatment for breast cancer. “We are going to be continuing to improve; coverage isn’t the end-all, be-all but it’s a very important piece of it,” notes Gee. The New Orleans Advocate reported in September that the state stands to save an estimated $184 million in its budget if all eligible families enroll. That number is not yet achieved, but the savings are sure to be substantial, as the ACA enrollments are paid for by the U.S. Treasury through 2016 and still heavily subsidized thereafter. While this is undoubtedly good news for those within a certain income bracket, the cost of health insurance for the rest of Louisiana women is still a major expense. “If insurance is not affordable, it's because the underlying health care products it finances are unaffordable for the average person," says Barrack. Insurance companies' profits and margins are federally limited, and rebates must be issued if the federal limits are exceeded. “The issue of affordability is in the hands of the medical community and the federal government,” she notes. “We work to get the
best deals for our members when they access the health care system, but with specialty drug prices doubling every three years, hospital charges continuing to climb and an influx of new patients through healthcare.gov that require more care than they are paying in premiums, I don't expect the price of insurance to slow down anytime soon.” Still, she is optimistic about the future of women's health care: “Overall, women’s health care is improving,” she says. “Due to advances in the understanding and application of evidence-based medicine, better access to care, more widespread application of preventive care, and quality- and outcomesfocused health organizations and health insurers partnerships.”
Healthier Lifestyles Help Another important focus of the Louisiana Department of Health is spreading awareness for healthier lifestyles and encouraging women to look at their family histories as well as being mindful of their own health backgrounds. “People do need to eat healthier and not smoke,” says Gee. ”There’s only so much we can do in the medical system to make people healthy if they have unhealthy behaviors. Part of it has to be that people have to change their behaviors, which I’m optimistic that people can do.” “Many risk factors can be mitigated by healthy lifestyle choices," says Barrack. “This includes cessation of smoking, maintaining healthy weight and an active lifestyle, a well-balanced heart-healthy diet, avoiding excess sugary foods and sugar-sweetened beverages (juices, sodas, soft drinks, energy and sport drinks) and overconsumption of highly processed and fried foods (foods not in natural form).” “Strong and healthy women are the backbone of our society, caregivers for both parents and their children,” says Gee. “They are part of the workforce, so when women are sick and not in good health, that has a major impact on society and Louisiana’s family. Healthy women are crucial to building healthy communities.”
Preventing Certain Diseases There is significant overlap in the list of risk factors causing or contributing to the conditions women face, says Dr. Andrea Barrack. Risk factors can be mitigated by healthier life choices. “It is also import to remind women to adhere to age appropriate cancer screenings at regular recommended intervals based on personal risk,” she says. These include mammography, cervical cancer screening tests (e.g. Pap smear with or without human papilloma virus testing) and one of the colorectal cancer screenings (testing stool for blood or cancer DNA using one of the approved tests), sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy. “Women with a history of heavy and recent smoking of a certain age might want to discuss getting a test called low-dose computed tomography (also called a low-dose CT scan),” she says. Several vaccines are also recommended and can help reduce a woman’s risk of disease and illness, including the annual influenza vaccine, human papilloma virus vaccine (up to age 26) to protect against cancers caused by this virus, and pneumococcal vaccine (for those with chronic diseases and over age 65). When a woman is diagnosed with high blood pressure, diabetes, heart or kidney disease, adopting a healthy lifestyle and taking prescribed medications can help relieve high blood pressure as well as bring glucose and hemoglobin A1c readings to goal and improved lipid values. “It will also delay or prevent kidney failure, as well as reduce the risk of heart attacks and stroke,” says Barrack.
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Addiction Medicine
Milton L. Harris, Jr. Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System New Orleans VA Outpatient Clinic Department of Psychiatry 3434 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70161 Phone: 504-539-5744 Dean Anthony Hickman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of General Psychiatry 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4025 Kenneth Boyd Sumner Jefferson Psychiatric Associates 3340 Severn Ave, Ste 206 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-889-1448 Howard C. Wetsman Townsend Addiction Treatment Center 3600 Prytania St, Ste 72 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 800-760-8561
Allergy and Immunology
L. Ben Gaudin Allergy Asthma and Sinus Center 7968 Goodwood Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Phone: 225-923-3283
Thomas Anzalone St. Tammany Parish Hospital Department of Anesthesia 1202 S Tyler St Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-898-4431
James Marion Kidd III 8017 Picardy Ave Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-769-4432
Jorge J. Bravo Thibodaux Regional Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 602 N Acadia Rd Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-493-4750
Theron McCormick Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Clinic 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 408 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-6834 Prem Kumar Menon Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Center 5217 Flanders Dr Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-766-6931 Kenneth Paris Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Allergy and Immunology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9589 Joseph Norwood Redhead, Jr. The Baton Rouge Clinic - Allergy, Asthma & Immunology 7373 Perkins Rd, 3rd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
Sami L. Bahna LSU Health Shreveport Allergy and Immunology Clinic Women's and Children's Clinic Bldg, 1st Fl 1602 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-8601
Ricardo U. Sorensen Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Allergy and Immunology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9589
Benjamin Buell Close Louisiana Allergy and Asthma Specialists 201 Pecan Park Ave Alexandria, LA 71303 Phone: 318-445-6221
Willard Frederick Washburne Highland Clinic - Allergy & Immunology 1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 108 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-798-4544
Carolyn Beach Daul Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Associates Bldg 6, Ste 20 3939 Houma Blvd Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-2121 Jane M. S. El-Dahr Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W, Ste 501 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Luis R. Espinoza LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Rheumatology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1517 Bernard C. Fruge, Jr. Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Center of Southwest Louisiana 320 Settlers Trace Blvd Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-981-9495
Steven Claude Whited Highland Clinic - Allergy & Immunology 1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 106 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-798-4573 Laurianne G. Wild Tulane Medical Center Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Ave, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-8600 Michael Francis Zambie Allergy and Asthma Clinic 909 N 3rd St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-322-5555
Anesthesiology
Todd C. Ackal Lafayette General Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1214 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-7991
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David M. Broussard Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Eric H. Busch Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Joseph T. Crapanzano, Jr. East Jefferson General Hospital Pain Management Institute 4300 Houma Blvd, Ste 105 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-503-4109 Son M. Dang Baton Rouge General Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 3600 Florida Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Phone: 225-387-7000 William Dedo Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-2966 Emilie Donaldson Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Bryan M. Evans Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Jason B. Falterman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Robert Faul Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-2966 Timothy David Faul Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-2966
H. Jerrel Fontenot Zephyr Anesthesia 2816 Kingston St, Ste C Kenner, LA 70062 Phone: 504-408-0804 Kerwin J. Fontenot Lafayette General Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1214 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-7991 Donald Robert Ganier, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Richard J. Grisoli North Oaks Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 15790 Paul Vega MD Dr Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-345-2700 Stuart R. Hart Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 John Frederick Heaton Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456 Richard G. Palfrey Lafayette General Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1214 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-7991 Austin Guy Phillips, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 James Riopelle LSU Health Sciences Center Department of Anesthesiology 1542 Tulane Ave, Ste 659 New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-568-2315 Brad D. Rupe Lafayette General Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1214 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-7991 Joseph Thomas Spalitta Jr. St. Tammany Parish Hospital Department of Anesthesia 1202 S Tyler St Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-898-4421 Robin B. Stedman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 W. David Sumrall III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755
Robert R. Theard Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-2966
Kenneth C. Civello Louisiana Cardiology Associates Plaza 2, Ste 1000 7777 Hennessy Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-3900
Leslie C. Thomas Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755
Tyrone Jean Collins Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3727
Leo D. Verlander Lafayette General Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1214 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-7991
Cardiovascular Disease
Richard P. Abben Cardiovascular Institute of the South 225 Dunn St Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-876-0300 Freddy Michel Abi-Samra Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4135 Murtuza J. Ali LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Cardiology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1366 Jose Alberto Bernal-Ramirez Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4135 Stuart L. Blum Pierremont Cardiology 1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 210 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-212-3858 Roland J. Bourgeois, Jr. East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Cardiovascular Specialists 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 500 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-0842 Patrick C. Breaux Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4135 Mark M. Cassidy Tulane University Heart and Vascular Institute Clinic 4201 Woodland Dr, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70131 Phone: 504-378-5080
N. Joseph Deumite Louisiana Cardiology Associates Plaza 2, Ste 1000 7777 Hennessy Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-3900 Fortune Anthony Dugan East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Cardiology Consultants 4200 Houma Blvd, 2nd Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-454-4170 Clement C. Eiswirth Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Heart Transplant Clinic 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4721 Peter S. Fail Cardiovascular Institute of the South 225 Dunn St Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-876-0300 Carl Patrick Fastabend Imperial Health Cardiovascular Specialists 501 Dr Michael DeBakey Dr, 3rd Fl Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-312-8247 Daniel T. Fontenot Baton Rouge Cardiology Center 5231 Brittany Dr Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-769-0933 Yvonne E. Gilliland Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 2005 Veterans Memorial Blvd Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-842-4168 Richard Millard Gilmore Imperial Health Cardiovascular Specialists 501 Dr Michael DeBakey Dr, 3rd Fl Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-312-8281 Henry Gorman Hanley Freedman Memorial Cardiology 3311 Prescott Rd, Ste 112 Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-767-0960 William Haynie, Jr. Advanced Cardiovascular Specialists Medical Office Bldg, Ste 112 1453 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-222-3695
James Stephen Jenkins Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3727
Stephen Robert Ramee Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3727
Christopher James White Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3717
Carl Joseph Lavie, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4135
Andrew Peter Rees Louisiana Cardiology Associates Plaza 2, Ste 1000 7777 Hennessy Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-3900
Jean King White Memorial Medical Group Heart and Vascular Center 1717 Oak Park Blvd, 2nd Fl Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-3278
Thierry H. Le Jemtel Tulane Medical Center Cardiac Transplant and Advanced Heart Failure Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-2096 Leslie Wayne Levenson West Jefferson Heart Clinic of Louisiana 1111 Medical Center Blvd, Ste N613 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6800 Stacy Mandras Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Heart Transplant Clinic 1514 Jefferson Hwy, Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4721 James Jude McKinnie Jefferson Electrophysiology 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-503-6188 Gary D. Menszer East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Cardiology Consultants 4200 Houma Blvd, 2nd Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-454-4170 Richard Virgil Milani Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4135 Nicholas D. Pappas East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Cardiovascular Specialists 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 500 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-0842 Hamang M. Patel Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Heart Transplant Clinic 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4721 Rajan A. Patel Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4309
J. P. Reilly Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3727 Gary Edward Sander Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cardiology Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6113 Sangeeta Shah Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4135 Frank Wilson Smart LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Cardiology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1520 David Warren Snyder East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Cardiology Consultants 4200 Houma Blvd, 2nd Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-454-4170 Neeraj Tandon Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Division of Cardiology 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-990-5296 Gregory D. Tilton East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Cardiovascular Specialists 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 500 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-0842 Michael C. Turner Imperial Health Cardiovascular Specialists 600 Dr Michael DeBakey Dr Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-436-3813 Hector Osvaldo Ventura Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Heart Transplant Clinic 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4721
Alaa H. Younes Freedman Memorial Cardiology 3311 Prescott Rd, Ste 112 Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-767-0960
Colon and Rectal Surgery
Louis R. Barfield Our Lady of the Lake Colon and Rectal 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 206 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-8997 David E. Beck Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4060 Richard Byrd Our Lady of the Lake Colon and Rectal 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 206 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-8997 Kenneth John Champagne Colon and Rectal Clinic of Acadiana 1103 W University Ave Lafayette, LA 70506 Phone: 337-233-0219 Jeffrey Farrow Griffin Colon Rectal Associates 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 540 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-5108 William Reid Grimes Colon and Rectal Associates 1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 430 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-424-8373 David A. Margolin Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4060 Guy R. Orangio LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Colorectal Surgery 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1520
Michael D. Stratton Colon and Rectal Associates 1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 430 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-424-8373 Herschel D. Vargas Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4060 Charles B. Whitlow Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4060
Critical Care Medicine
Gregory Jacob Ardoin The Lung Center 201 4th St, Ste 1A Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-769-5864 John Areno Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-221-8411 Philip Boysen Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Stephen P. Brierre LSU Healthcare Network Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 8585 Picardy Ave, Ste 313 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-381-2755 Steven Allen Conrad LSU Health Shreveport Department of Emergency Medicine 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6885 Bennett Paul DeBoisblanc University Medical Center New Orleans Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700 Richard J. Grisoli North Oaks Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 15790 Paul Vega MD Dr Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-345-2700 Cullen Andrew Hebert Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864
Robert Cary Holladay LSU Health Shreveport Pulmonary Clinic Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-813-2500 Stephen Phillips Kantrow Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4055 Stuart J. Lebas Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864 Carol M. Mason LSU Healthcare Network Kenner Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 200 W Esplanade Ave, Ste 701 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-412-1705 Michael P. McCarthy The Baton Rouge Clinic Pulmonology 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Shawn Arlen Milligan Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-221-8411 Bobby D. Nossaman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Thomas Gerard Nuttli East Jefferson General Hospital Jefferson Pulmonary Associates 4200 Houma Blvd, 3rd Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-503-5205 Mohammad Zohair Pirzadah Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864 L. Keith Scott LSU Health Shreveport Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6094 Leonardo Seoane Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Section of Pulmonology, Lung Transplant and Critical Care 1514 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4400
James Garland Smith, Jr. St. Francis Medical Center Hospitalist Group 309 Jackson St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-966-4541 David E. Taylor Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4055 Ben Frank Thompson III Pulmonary Associates of Southwest Louisiana 2770 3rd Ave, Ste 110 Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-2750 Brad D. Vincent Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864 Arvind Yertha North Oaks Pulmonology North Oaks Clinic Bldg 15813 Paul Vega MD Dr Ste 201 Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-230-1580
Dermatology
Erin E. Boh Tulane Medical Center Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-1700 Harry A. Burglass, Jr. Dermatology Clinic 5326 O'Donovan Dr Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-769-7546 David John Clemons Dermatology and Skin Surgery 9007 Ellerbe Rd Shreveport, LA 71106 Phone: 318-222-3278 William Patrick Coleman III 4425 Conlin St Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-3180 Leonard E. Gately III Academic Dermatology Associates 3421 N Causeway Blvd, Ste 202 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-885-1670 Mara A. Haseltine Poole Dermatology 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 406 Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-838-8225 George Michael Kent Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Department of Dermatology 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-221-8411
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Elizabeth Innes McBurney Dermasurgery Center 1245 Camellia Blvd, Ste 300 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-839-2773 Tom Joffre Meek, Jr. Dermatology Clinic 5326 O'Donovan Dr Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-769-7546 Stella Boustany Noel 1211 Coolidge Blvd, Ste 400 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-235-9779 Jeffrey C. Poole 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Ste 406 Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-838-8225 Jack Selwyn Resneck Dermatology and Skin Surgery 9007 Ellerbe Rd Shreveport, LA 71106 Phone: 318-222-3278 Nicole E. Rogers Hair Restoration of the South 3100 Galleria Dr, Ste 201 Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-301-4247 Robert Winn Romero Dermatology and Allergy Clinic of South Louisiana 4212 W Congress St, Ste 2300 Lafayette, LA 70506 Phone: 337-981-7546 David Marshall Walsworth Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Department of Dermatology 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-221-8411
Emergency Medicine
Steven Allen Conrad LSU Health Shreveport Department of Emergency Medicine 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6885 Liza DiLeo Thomas Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine 1516 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3460 Joseph S. Guarisco Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine 1516 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3460 Patrick L. McGauly LSU Health Shreveport Department of Emergency Medicine 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-6885
Erik Sundell Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine 1516 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3460
Endocrinology and Metabolism
Samuel Andrews Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4023 Alan Lee Burshell Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4023 Vivian Andrew Fonseca Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Endocrinology 275 LaSalle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030 Jolene K. Johnson Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism 5428 O'donovan Dr, Ste B Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-300-1076 Steven Neil Levine LSU Health Shreveport Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-5960 Joseph Murray Diabetes & Metabolism Associates 3901 Houma Blvd, Ste 103 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-1300 Brandy A. Panunti Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4023 David Scarborough LSU Health Shreveport Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-5960 Joel Silverberg The Baton Rouge Clinic Endocrinology 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
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Family Medicine
Leandro Area Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Lakeview Department of Family Medicine 101 W Robert E Lee Blvd Ste 201 New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 504-846-9646 Gerald Barber Family Practice Associates 12525 Perkins Rd, Ste A Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-761-4256 Wayne Barksdale The Family Doctors 8383 Millicent Way Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-797-6661 John G. Bernard Acadiana Family Physicians 427 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-234-1111 Tara G. Berner Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Lakeview Department of Family Medicine 101 W Robert E Lee Blvd Ste 201 New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 504-846-9646
Brad Joseph Gaspard Baton Rouge Family Medical Center 8595 Picardy Ave, Ste 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-763-4900 Wayne D. Gravois Baton Rouge General Family Health Center 3401 North Blvd, Ste 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Phone: 225-387-7899 Paul Guilbault Louisiana Heart Medical Group 820 Asbury Dr Mandeville, LA 70471 Phone: 985-871-0735 Michael Bieller Harper LSU Health Shreveport Faculty Clinic 1501 Kings Hwy, 3rd Fl Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-212-9440 Sarah W. Holt Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Lakeview Department of Family Medicine 101 W Robert E Lee Blvd Ste 201 New Orleans, LA 70124 Phone: 504-846-9646 Jan Leenette Hood LSU Health Shreveport Faculty Clinic 1501 Kings Hwy, 3rd Fl Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-212-9440
Walter Birdsall Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Luling Department of Family Medicine 1057 Paul Maillard Rd Luling, LA 70070 Phone: 985-785-3740
Ted Joseph Hudspeth Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Tangipahoa Department of Family Medicine 41676 Veterans Ave Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-543-3600
Donald V. Brignac Family Practice Associates 12525 Perkins Rd, Ste A Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-761-4256
Daniel Keith Jens Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Mandeville Department of Family Medicine 2810 E Causeway Approach Mandeville, LA 70448 Phone: 985-875-2340
David R. Carver 8585 Picardy Ave, Ste 513 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-819-1188 Marion Cash The Family Doctors 8383 Millicent Way Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-797-6661 Robert M. Chasuk Baton Rouge General Hospital Family Health Center 333 Lee Dr, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-381-6620 Michael Ashley Dunn Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Tangipahoa Department of Family Medicine 41676 Veterans Ave Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-543-3600 Gregory F. Ferrara Shenandoah Medical Associates 13828 Coursey Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-751-1544
Ricky Lane Jones The Family Doctors 8383 Millicent Way Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-797-6661 Leonard B. Kancher The Center for Longevity and Wellness 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-7360 Thomas Edward Le Beau 771 E Bayou Pines Dr Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-433-1212 Alan Lynn LeBato LSU Family Practice Center 1525 Oak Park Blvd Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-6767 Francine Anne Manuel Hamilton Medical Group 4809 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste 200 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-988-8810
Richard George Marek, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Department of Family Medicine 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828 Paul Joseph Marquis Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Lapalco Department of Family Medicine 4225 Lapalco Blvd, 2nd Fl Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-371-9355 E. Edward Martin, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Department of Family Medicine 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828
Timothy Lacey Riddell Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Department of 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828 Theresa Lynn Rinderle The Family Doctors 8383 Millicent Way Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-797-6661 Russell W. Roberts LSU Health Shreveport Faculty Clinic 1501 Kings Hwy, 3rd Fl Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-212-9440 Robert Parker St. Amant Baton Rouge General Lipid Center 8585 Picardy Ave, Ste 317 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-819-1160
Louis Reynold Minsky 8585 Picardy Ave, Ste 513 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-819-1188
Linda C. Stewart Family Medical Center 604 Chevelle Ct, Ste C Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Phone: 225-926-1495
Herbert L. Muncie, Jr. LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Family Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1200
James Taylor Tebbe, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Mid-City Department of Family Medicine 411 N Carrollton Ave, Ste 4 New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-842-7400
Karen Ann Muratore Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Jefferson Place Department of Family Medicine 8150 Jefferson Hwy Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-336-3100
James Theis 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste N408 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-2908
Kevin W. Murphy The Family Doctors 8383 Millicent Way Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-797-6661 James Howard Newcomb, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Slidell Department of Family Medicine 2750 E Gause Blvd Slidell, LA 70461 Phone: 985-661-3550 Rade N. Pejic Tulane Multispecialty Clinic at University Square Department of Family and Community Medicine 200 Broadway Ave, Ste 230 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-9000 Kevin C. Plaisance Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Department of Family Medicine 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828 Arthur Webster Primeaux 771 E Bayou Pines Dr Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-433-1212
Pamela Wiseman LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Family Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1200
Gastroenterology
Stephen Garner Abshire Gastroenterology Clinic of Acadiana Burdin Riehl Bldg 1211 Coolidge St, Ste 303 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-232-6697 William A. Anderson III Gastroenterology Associates Digestive Health Center of Louisiana 9103 Jefferson Hwy Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-927-1190 Luis A. Balart Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344
Christopher N. Barrilleaux Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Kenner Gastroenterology Clinic 180 W Esplanade Ave Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-443-9500 James Carol Bienvenu Acadiana Gastroenterology Associates 439 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-269-0963 Howard I. Brenner Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 520 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-8020 Richard Kent Broussard Acadiana Gastroenterology Associates 439 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-269-0963 Robert Stephen Bulat Tulane Medical Center GI and Surgery Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5110 George E. Catinis Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 520 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-8020 Melvin Herman Gold, Jr. Tulane University Medical School Division of Gastroenterology 1430 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700 Steven Anthony Guarisco Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Division of Gastroenterology 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828 Benjamin Alfred Guider, Jr. Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 2820 Napoleon Ave, Ste 720 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-896-8670 James Patrick Herrington Acadiana Gastroenterology Associates 439 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-269-0963 James C. Hobley GastroIntestinal Specialists 3217 Mabel St Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-631-9121 Joseph Drake Hollier Alexandria Gastroenterology Associates 301 4th St Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-473-8188 Virendra Joshi Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Cancer Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl Jefferson, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-7690
Shantiprakash Kedia Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401
Rian Moss Tanenbaum Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401
James D. Lilly Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 2820 Napoleon Ave, Ste 720 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-896-8670
Steve George Venturatos Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401
Elizabeth Ann McDonald 3800 Houma Blvd, Ste 308 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-5070 William Morrison Meyers, Jr. Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 520 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-8020 Jacque F. Noel III 1211 Coolidge Blvd, Ste 400 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-235-9779 George Richard Puente Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 520 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-8020 David Reed Raines, Jr. Gastroenterology Clinic 611 Grammont St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-325-2634 Sanjeeva Reddy Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401 Fredric Gary Regenstein Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344 Gary (Taavi) Reiss Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401 Charles G. Schibler II Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401 David Ralph Silvers Metairie 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 120 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-6701 James William Smith Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Gastroenterology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4015
Geriatric Medicine
Susan Ellen Nelson Lake Senior Care 5247 Didesse Dr Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-765-3076
Hand Surgery
Rick I. Ahmad Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 1000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-924-2424 Mark A. Dodson Mid State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center 3444 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-473-9556 Donald C. Faust 2633 Napoleon Ave, Ste 600 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-899-1000 Eric R. George Hand Surgical Associates Hand Center of Louisiana 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 600B Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-454-2191 Kenneth John Laborde 1000 W Pinhook Rd, Ste 302 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-232-8230 Marion Ezra Milstead Orthopedic Specialists of Louisiana 1500 Line Ave, Ste 100 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-635-3052 Harold M. Stokes Pontchartrain Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 3939 Houma Blvd, Ste 21 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-6464
Hepatology
Luis A. Balart Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344
Natalie H. Bzowej Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Nigel Girgrah Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Shobha Joshi Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Fredric Gary Regenstein Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344
Infectious Disease
Katherine Baumgarten Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4005 Christopher M. Blais Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4005 Rebecca Adair Clark CrescentCare Health & Wellness Center 3308 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-207-2273 Joseph Raymond Dalovisio Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4005 Mary Louise Eschete Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center Specialty Care Clinic 1978 Industrial Blvd Houma, LA 70363 Phone: 985-873-1880 Julia B. Garcia-Diaz Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4005
Michael Edward Hagensee University Medical Center New Orleans Infectious Disease Services 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700
Richard Stephan Witzig East Jefferson General Hospital Hospitalist Medicine 4200 Houma Blvd, 6th Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-503-4331
Mary Faith Joubert IMG Physicians 1051 Gause Blvd, Ste 260 Slidell, LA 70458 Phone: 985-641-5523
Internal Medicine
Sandra Abadie Kemmerly Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4005 John William King LSU Health Shreveport Section of Infectious Disease 1501 Kings Hwy, 6th Fl Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-5900 Susan Leslie Favrot McLellan Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Lakeside Section of Infectious Diseases 4724 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 101 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-8050
Mary Moore Abell St. Thomas Community Health Center Department of Internal Medicine 1020 St Andrew St New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-529-5558 Alys Alper Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Department of Medicine 1601 Perdido St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-558-3637 Leo P. Blaize III Lake Internal Medicine at Hennessy 7777 Hennessy Blvd Ste 7000 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-8829
Mary J. Murphy CrescentCare Specialty Clinic NO/AIDS Task Force 2601 Tulane Ave, Ste 500 New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-821-2601
Leslie Anne Blake Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747
David Michael Mushatt Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Infectious Diseases 275 LaSalle St, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030
Pierre V. Blanchard Tri-State Medical Clinic 2551 Greenwood Rd, Ste 410 Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-621-2929
George A. Pankey Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4006 Chris H. Parsons University Medical Center New Orleans HIV Cancer Care Program 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-210-3328 John Todd LSU Health Shreveport Viral Disease Clinic 6670 Saint Vincent Ave Shreveport, LA 71106 Phone: 318-862-9977 Nicholas J. Van Sickels Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Infectious Diseases 275 LaSalle St, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030 Ronald D. Wilcox CrescentCare Health & Wellness Center 3308 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-207-2273
Karen Blessey Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Baptist Napoleon Medical Plaza Department of Internal Medicine 2820 Napoleon Ave, Ste 890 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-4250 Alan John Borne 1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 440 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-222-9205 David M. Borne LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Internal Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1366 James W. Bragg Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 S. Germain Cassiere 1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 130 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-212-2929
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Pedro Cazabon Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 Todd Cooley The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-769-4044 Terry L. Cummings Tulane Multispecialty Clinic at University Square Sections of General Academic Pediatrics and Internal Medicine 200 Broadway Ave, Ste 230 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-9000 Richard Edward Deichmann, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 Nona Epstein Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 Lara M. Falcon The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 4th Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Sara E. Fernandez Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 David W. Fontenot The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Steven J. Granier Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 Christopher Guarisco Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Jefferson Place Department of Internal Medicine 8150 Jefferson Hwy Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-336-3100 Timothy S. Harlan Tulane Medical Center Internal Medicine Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-1001
Robert C. Hernandez Internal Medicine Associates 8001 Youree Dr, Ste 400 Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-212-3456 Mark Kenneth Hodges The Baton Rouge Clinic Pulmonology 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 James M. Jackson Tri-State Medical Clinic 2551 Greenwood Rd, Ste 410 Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-621-2929 Roy Giles Kadair The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 4th Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Leonard B. Kancher The Center for Longevity and Wellness 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-7360 Michael Landry Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Department of Medicine 1601 Perdido St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-412-3700 Gloria Leary Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 Christopher J. Lege Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 460 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7999 Lawrence Levy East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Internal Medicine 3800 Houma Blvd, Ste 325 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-888-7111 Theodore Richard Lieux, Jr. The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 4th Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Betty P. Lo-Blais LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Internal Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1366 Rene Albert Louapre III 2633 Napoleon Ave, Ste 400 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-3305 Angela M. McLean LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Internal Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1366
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Susan N. McNamara Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Department of Internal Medicine 9001 Summa Ave, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5200
Fayne M. St. John Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Elmwood Department of Internal Medicine 1221 S Clearview Pkwy Harahan, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747
Joseph A. Miceli III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Elmwood Department of Internal Medicine 1221 S Clearview Pkwy Harahan, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747
James D. Stoll Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747
Daniel John Moller, Jr. Internal Medicine Associates 8001 Youree Dr, Ste 970 Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-212-3456
Joseph R. Tynes Bossier Family Medicine 2539 Viking Dr Bossier City, LA 71111 Phone: 318-747-8100
Susan Ellen Nelson Lake Senior Care 5247 Didesse Dr Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-765-3076
Edmund Bruce Vinci The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
Timothy Nicholls Tri-State Medical Clinic 2551 Greenwood Rd, Ste 410 Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-621-2929
Internal Medicine/ Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Katherine F. Pearce Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Primary Care for Women 5131 O’Donovan Dr, Ste 201 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-374-0220 Robert Louis Pollock East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Internal Medicine 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 402 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-5123 Michael L. Rolfsen The Baton Rouge Clinic Internal Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Stacy D. Siegendorf Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Elmwood Department of Internal Medicine 1221 S Clearview Pkwy Harahan, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4747 Edward David Sledge, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Division of General Pediatrics 9001 Summa Ave, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5200 Charles Clarence Smith III Internal Medicine Specialists 3525 Prytania St, Ste 526 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-648-2500 Eric W. Smith Shreveport Internal Medicine 1449 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 100 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-629-0220
Christopher M. Blais Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious Diseases 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4005 Kenneth B. Smith East Jefferson General Hospital Jefferson Pulmonary Associates 4200 Houma Blvd, 3rd Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-503-5205 Susan Leala Vogel Guardian Angel Hospice 825 Little Farms Ave Metairie, LA 70003 Phone: 504-737-2244
Internal Medicine/ Hospital Medicine
Steven Deitelzweig Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Hospital Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-5766 Marianne Maumus Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Hospital Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-7518 Geraldine E. Menard Tulane Medical Center Section of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics 1415 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-7518
Susan Leala Vogel Guardian Angel Hospice 825 Little Farms Ave Metairie, LA 70003 Phone: 504-737-2244
Medical Genetics
Robert Van Buren Emmons Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Hematology and Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3910
Hans Christoph Andersson Hayward Genetics Center Tulane Lakeside Medical Office Bldg, 4th Fl 4720 S I-10 Service Rd New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5101
Jyotsna Fuloria Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Hematology and Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3910
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Bryan Bienvenu Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 500 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-767-1311 J. Eugene (Gene) Brierre Lourdes Oncology Associates 4809 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy, Ste 110 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-235-7898 Burke J. Brooks, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Section of Hematology and Oncology 9001 Summa Ave, 3rd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5410 Archie Watt Brown, Jr. Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Hematology and Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3910 Gary V. Burton LSU Health Shreveport Feist-Weiller Cancer Center 1501 Kings Hwy, 2nd Fl Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-813-1200 Michael S. Cain Lafayette General Medical Center Cancer Center of Acadiana 1211 Coolidge Blvd, Ste 100 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-8400 Salvador Caputto Crescent City Physicians 1401 Foucher St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8970 John Thomas Cole Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Hematology and Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3910 Bridgette M. Collins-Burow Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 S Liberty St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-7444
David Sam Hanson Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 500 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-767-1311 Charles G. Hargon, Jr. Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Associates 2600 Kings Hwy, Ste 340 Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-212-8620 Marc J. Kahn Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 South Liberty St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6300 Cindy Anne Leissinger Tulane Medical Center Louisiana Center for Bleeding and Clotting Disorders 1430 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5433 Robert J. Massingill Christus Schumpert Cancer Treatment Center Division of Medical Oncology and Hematology 1453 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-681-4565 Gerald Patrick Miletello The Hematology and Oncology Clinic 8595 Picardy Ave, Ste 400 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-767-0822 Glenn Mills LSU Health Shreveport Feist-Weiller Cancer Center 1501 Kings Hwy, 2nd Fl Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-813-1200 Michael Rawls Moore Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Associates 2600 Kings Hwy, Ste 340 Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-212-8620 Hana F. Safah Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 S Liberty St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-7444 Oliver Sartor Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 S Liberty St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-7869
Kellie Schmeeckle Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 500 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-767-1311
Michael Archie Northeast Louisiana Kidney Specialists 711 Wood St, Ste A Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-323-8847
Milton Walsh Seiler, Jr. Crescent City Physicians 1401 Foucher St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8970
Vecihi Batuman Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 275 LaSalle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030
Scott Anthony Sonnier Crescent City Physicians 1401 Foucher St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8970 Derrick W. Spell Louisiana Hematology Oncology Associates 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 500 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-767-1311 Chris Theodossiou Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Hematology and Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3910 Ulla Jo Ule Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital Christus Cabrini Cancer Center 3330 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-448-6917 Robert Woody Veith 3800 Houma Blvd, Ste 200 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-0600 Anil Veluvolu Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Hematology/Oncology Associates 2600 Kings Hwy, Ste 340 Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-212-8620 Roy Samuel Weiner Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 S Liberty St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6061 Howard Gilbert Wold Hematology Oncology Life Center 605 B Medical Center Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-442-2232
Nephrology
Kenneth D. Abreo LSU Health Shreveport Section of Nephrology and Hypertension Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-7402 A. Brent Alper, Jr. Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 275 LaSalle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5800
Shaminder M. Gupta Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center Division of Nephrology 1978 Industrial Blvd Houma, LA 70363 Phone: 985-850-2328 L. Lee Hamm Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 275 LaSalle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-9831 Friedrichs Henry Harris, Jr. New Orleans Nephrology Associates 4409 Utica St, Ste 100 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-457-3687 Herschel Richard Harter University Health Conway Department of Internal Medicine 4864 Jackson St Monroe, LA 71202 Phone: 318-330-7167 Mitchell Jude Hebert Renal Associates of Baton Rouge 5131 O'Donovan Dr, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-4893 N. Kevin Krane Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 275 Laselle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030 Jill Suzanne Lindberg New Orleans Nephrology Associates 4409 Utica St, Ste 100 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-457-3687 Daniel E. Marsh Renal Associates of Baton Rouge 5131 O'Donovan Dr, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-4893 Richard M. O'Donovan Northeast Louisiana Kidney Specialists 711 Wood St, Ste A Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-323-8847 Bharat Sachdeva LSU Health Shreveport Section of Nephrology and Hypertension Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-7539
Adrian Sequeira LSU Health Shreveport Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-7402
Gregory L. Fautheree The NeuroMedical Center Clinic 10101 Park Rowe Ave Ste 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-769-2200
Eric Edward Simon Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 275 LaSalle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030
Anil Nanda University Neurosurgery 1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-795-2638
Neeraj Singh John C. McDonald Regional Transplant Center 2751 Albert Bicknell Dr, Ste 4A Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-212-4275 Catherine Staffeld-Coit Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Karina Sulaiman LSU Health Shreveport Section of Nephrology and Hypertension 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-7402 Allen W. Vander Thibodaux Regional Medical Center Department of Nephrology 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 405 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-446-0871 Juan Carlos Zeik Acadiana Renal Physicians 300 W Saint Mary Blvd Lafayette, LA 70506 Phone: 337-233-6593 Rubin Zhang Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344
Neurological Surgery
Alan J. Appley Acadiana Neurosurgery 155 Hospital Dr, Ste 100 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-235-7743 David Albert Cavanaugh Spine Institute of Louisiana 1500 Line Ave, 2nd Fl, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-629-5555 Luke A. Corsten The NeuroMedical Center Clinic 10101 Park Rowe Ave Ste 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-769-2200 Aaron Dumont Tulane Medical Center Neuroscience Center 1415 Tulane Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5561
Kelly J. Scrantz The NeuroMedical Center Clinic 10101 Park Rowe Ave Ste 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-769-2200 Roger Douglas Smith Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4033 Najeeb M. Thomas Southern Brain and Spine 4770 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste110 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-454-0141 Rand Marcel Voorhies Southern Brain and Spine 4770 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste110 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-454-0141
Neurology
Patricia Smith Cook Northlake Neurological Institute 110 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 325 Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-831-6760 James N. Domingue 1245 S College Rd, Ste 100 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-269-5840 Gerard Dynes The Baton Rouge Clinic Neurology 7373 Perkins Rd, 3rd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
Sheryl Martin-Schild Touro Infirmary Department of Neurology 1401 Foucher St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-210-4448 Archibald L. Melcher III East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Neurological Associates 3800 Houma Blvd, Ste 205 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-7337 Jeffrey Nicholl Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Downtown Department of Neurology 275 LaSalle St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-7478 Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Neurology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1517 R. Eugene Ramsay Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Neurology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-7436 Robert Newton Schwendimann LSU Health Shreveport Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-4679 Steven Jeffrey Zuckerman 8585 Picardy Ave, Ste 312 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-341-8311 Richard Zweifler Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Neurology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3980
Nuclear Medicine
John D. England LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Neurology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1517
Richard J. Campeau, Jr. LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Medical Center Kenner Neuroendocrine Clinic 200 W Esplanade Ave Ste 200 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-464-8500
Amparo (Amy) Gutierrez LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Neurology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1517
Oussama Nachar Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470
Roger Everett Kelley, Jr. Tulane Multispecialty Clinic at University Square Department of Neurology 200 Broadway Ave, Ste 230 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-9190
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Phillip A. Barksdale Louisiana Incontinence Center Woman’s Physician Office Bldg 500 Rue de la Vie, Ste 511 Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-752-3000 Perry Scott Barrilleaux Acadiana Maternal Fetal Medicine 4630 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Bldg A, Ste 204 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-989-9826 William F. Beacham North Oaks Obstetrics and Gynecology 15748 Medical Arts Plaza Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-542-0663 Destin R. Black Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Gynecologic Oncology Associates 2600 Kings Hwy, Ste 420 Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-212-8727 William G. Black North Oaks Obstetrics and Gynecology 15748 Medical Arts Plaza Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-542-0663 Robin B. Bone Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology 4500 Clearview Pkwy Ste 101 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-8563 Randall L. Brown Louisiana Women's Healthcare Associates 500 Rue de la Vie, Ste 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70815 Phone: 225-201-2010 Pui (Joan) Cheng Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 320 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7142 Ralph R. Chesson, Jr. LSU Healthcare Network Metairie Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Urogynecology 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 302 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-412-1600 Paul G. Crawford Pierremont Women's Clinic 8001 Youree Dr, Ste 300 Shreveport, LA 71115 Phone: 318-212-3800 Francis Ralph Dauterive Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology 9001 Summa Ave, 4th Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5239
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Ryan David Dickerson Louisiana Women's Healthcare Associates 500 Rue de la Vie, Ste 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70815 Phone: 225-201-2010
Stanley Ray Kordisch Lake Area ObGyn Associates 4150 Nelson Rd Bldg G, Ste 6 Lake Charles, LA 70605 Phone: 337-562-3747
Richard P. Dickey Fertility Institute of New Orleans 800 N Causeway Blvd, Ste 2C Mandeville, LA 70448 Phone: 985-892-7621
Ann M. LaFranca Woman's Physician Office 500 Rue de La Vie Bldg, Ste 210 Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-928-5951
Albert L. Diket Woman's Maternal Fetal Medicine 100 Woman's Way, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-924-8338
Sherri Anne Longo Ochsner Health System Ochsner Baptist - A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine 2700 Napoleon Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-4151
Louis Paul DuTreil Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 130 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7580 Jacob M. Estes Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Section of Gynecologic Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4165 William James Farrell The Fertility Institute of New Orleans 4770 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 201 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-454-2165 Eugene M. Fontenot 4150 Nelson Rd Bldg A, Ste 1 Lake Charles, LA 70605 Phone: 337-474-2056 Milton G. (Giles) Fort III Woman's Gynecologic Oncology Physician Office Bldg, Ste 407 500 Rue de la Vie Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-216-3006 Veronica C. Gillispie Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Baptist McFarland Medical Plaza Women's Services 4429 Clara St, Ste 500 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-9617 Truman Post Hawes, Jr. Acadiana Women's Health Group 4640 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-984-1050 Susan G. Jeanfreau Fleur De Lis Obstetrics and Gynecology 2820 Napoleon Ave, Ste 340 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-4287 Richard Carl Kline Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Section of Gynecologic Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4165
Peter Lu The Fertility Institute of New Orleans 4770 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 201 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-454-2165 Gary P. Manuel Women's Health Center 501 Medical Center Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-487-1289 Joseph Matthew Miller, Jr. Touro Infirmary Maternal Fetal Medicine Clinic 3434 Prytania St Buckman Bldg, Ste 105 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8213 George Morris IV Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Baptist McFarland Medical Plaza Women's Services 4429 Clara St, Ste 640 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-9616 George Brazil Morris III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Baptist - A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2700 Napoleon Ave New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-4155 Rebecca Perret Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 130 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7580 Florencia G. Polite LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1520 Gabriella Pridjian Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Center for Women's Health Section of Maternal and Fetal Medicine 4720 S I-10 Service Rd Ste 302 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-8070
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Alfred Godfrey Robichaux III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Baptist - A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center Division of Maternal and Fetal Medicine 2700 Napolean Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-4151
Felton L. Winfield, Jr. LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1520
Belinda Sartor The Fertility Institute of New Orleans 4770 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 201 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-454-2165
James Louis Zehnder Fertility and Women's Health Center of Louisiana 206 E Farrel Rd Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-989-8795
Ellis J. Schwartzenburg Woman's Physician Office Bldg 500 Rue de La Vie, Ste 210 Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-888-4491 Marshall Scarle St. Amant Woman's Maternal Fetal Medicine 100 Woman's Way, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-924-8338 Jerry Joseph St. Pierre Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Baptist McFarland Medical Plaza Women's Services 4429 Clara St, Ste 400 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-9885 Charles Mallon Stedman Woman's Maternal Fetal Medicine 100 Woman's Way, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-924-8338 James R. Stenhouse Louisiana Women's Healthcare Associates 500 Rue de la Vie, Ste 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70815 Phone: 225-201-2010 John M. Storment Fertility and Women's Health Center of Louisiana 206 E Farrel Rd Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-989-8795 Steven Noel Taylor Fertility Institute of New Orleans 800 N Causeway Blvd, Ste 2C Mandeville, LA 70448 Phone: 985-892-7621 Edward W. Veillon Woman's Maternal Fetal Medicine 100 Woman's Way, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-924-8338 William F. von Almen II Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 130 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7580 John W. Waterfallen OB/GYN Associates of Shreveport 7941 Youree Dr Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-797-7941 Donna S. Waters Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 320 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7142
Ophthalmology
Laurence W. Arend Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 10th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3995 Ramesh S. Ayyala Tulane Medical Center Tulane Ophthalmology Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5831 John Charles Cooksey 1310 N 19th St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-388-2020 James G. Diamond Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System New Orleans VA Outpatient Clinic Department of Ophthalmology 1515 Poydras St, Ste 650 New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-412-3700 Rudolph Michael Franklin Eye Associates of West Jefferson 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste N213 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6910 Ronald Andrew Landry Eyecare Associates 4324 Veterans Blvd, Ste 102 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-455-9825 Jayne S. Weiss LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Ophthalmology 3700 Saint Charles Ave 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1200
Orthopaedic Surgery
David W. Aiken 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 650 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-5152 Sidney L. Bailey North Louisiana Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic 1501 Louisville Ave Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-323-8451
R. Shane Barton The Orthopedic Clinic 7925 Youree Dr, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-212-3610 H. Ryan Bicknell, Jr. The Orthopedic Clinic 7925 Youree Dr, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-212-3610 Karl Bilderback The Orthopedic Clinic 7925 Youree Dr, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-212-3610 R. Douglas Bostick III Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic 920 Ave B Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6804 Joseph E. Broyles Bone and Joint Clinic of Baton Rouge 7301 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-766-0050 Michael Elden Brunet Mid State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center 3444 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-473-9556 James C. Butler Elite Orthopaedic Specialists 1150 Robert Blvd, Ste 240 Slidell, LA 70458 Phone: 985-646-3662 John B. Cazale IV Crescent City Orthopedics 3600 Houma Blvd Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-8225 George Chimento Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3970 Nathan Phillip Cohen Memorial Medical Group Orthopaedic Specialists 1717 Oak Park Blvd, 3rd Fl Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-4900 Kevin Darr Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Ave Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-892-5117 Vinod Dasa LSU Healthcare Network Kenner Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 W Esplanade Ave Ste 500 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-412-1700 Tim Devraj Louisiana Heart Hospital Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic 70411 Hwy 21 Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-400-5566
Mark A. Dodson Mid State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center 3444 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-473-9556 Michael J. Duval The CORE Institute at Louisiana Orthopaedic Specialists 108 Rue Louis XIV Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-235-8007 Luis M. Espinoza Orthopaedic Center for Sports Medicine 4921 Airline Dr Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-889-2663 Donald C. Faust 2633 Napoleon Ave, Ste 600 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-899-1000 Simon Finger Elite Orthopaedic Specialists 1150 Robert Blvd, Ste 240 Slidell, LA 70458 Phone: 985-646-3662 Brian L. Fong 2965 Gause Blvd E, Ste A Slidell, LA 70461 Phone: 985-641-7775 Thomas Bryan Ford Lake Area Orthopaedics 4150 Nelson Rd Bldg G, Ste 1 Lake Charles, LA 70605 Phone: 337-562-3721 Walter Stanley Foster Acadiana Orthopaedic Group 1448 S College Rd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-233-5300 Paul Gladden Tulane Medical Center Tulane Orthopaedic Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-2177 Craig C. Greene Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 1000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-924-2424 R. Bryan Griffith, Jr. Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 1000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-924-2424 Matthew R. Grimm Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic 920 Ave B Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6804 Michael W. Hartman LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Orthopaedics 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1200 Gary Michael Haynie Orthopedic Specialists of Louisiana 1500 Line Ave, Ste 100 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-635-3052
Michael Alan Hinton 230 W Sale Rd Lake Charles, LA 70605 Phone: 337-477-5252 Mark J. Hontas Bone and Joint Clinic at STPH 71211 Hwy 21, Ste A Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-893-9922 Deryk Jones Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Elmwood Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute 1221 S Clearview Pkwy Bldg B Harahan, LA 70121 Phone: 504-736-4800 Mark Juneau, Jr. Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic 920 Ave B Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6804 Andrew G. King Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9569 Peter C. Krause LSU Healthcare Network Kenner Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 W Esplanade Ave Ste 500 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-412-1700 James Lalonde Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 1000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-924-2424 Michael J. Leddy III Mid State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center 3444 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-473-9556 Jesse Lee Leonard III Acadiana Orthopaedic Group 1448 S College Rd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-233-5300 James Scott Lillich Orthopedic Specialists of Louisiana 1500 Line Ave, Ste 100 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-635-3052 Neil James Maki Thibodaux Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic 525 Saint Marys St Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-446-6284 Christopher Marrero LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Orthopaedics 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1200
James F. Mautner Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3970 Mark S. Meyer Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3970 Chad Millet Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Ave New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-6351 Marion Ezra Milstead Orthopedic Specialists of Louisiana 1500 Line Ave, Ste 100 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-635-3052 Scott C. Montgomery Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Elmwood Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute 1221 S Clearview Pkwy Bldg B Harahan, LA 70121 Phone: 504-736-4800 Thomas J. Montgomery 1301 Camellia Blvd, Ste 102 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-235-2264 Edward Lawrence Morgan The Orthopedic Clinic 7925 Youree Dr, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-212-3610 Pierce D. Nunley Spine Institute of Louisiana 1500 Line Ave 2nd Fl, Ste 200 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-629-5555 Michael J. O'Brien Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 Janet Yulman Way New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-8476 J. Lockwood Ochsner, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3970 William Lloyd Overdyke Cornerstone Hospital 4900 Medical Dr Bossier City, LA 71112 Phone: 318-841-5555 Matti W. Palo Louisiana Heart Hospital Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Clinic 70411 Hwy 21 Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-400-5566 H. Reiss Plauche Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Ave Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-892-5117
David Pope Bone and Joint Clinic of Baton Rouge 7301 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-766-0050 Catherine J. Riche Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 1000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-924-2424 Kevin Riche Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 1000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-924-2424 Jason L. Rolling Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Ave Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-892-5117 Felix H. Savoie III Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 McAlister Ext New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-8476 John P. Schutte Acadiana Orthopaedic Group 1448 S College Rd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-233-5300 Craig Rowan Springmeyer Highland Clinic Highland Center for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine 1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 210 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-798-4623 Misty Suri Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Elmwood Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute 1221 S Clearview Pkwy Bldg B Harahan, LA 70121 Phone: 504-736-4800 C. Terry Texada Mid State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center 3444 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-473-9556 Robert Treuting Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3970 Matthew D. Williams The CORE Institute at Louisiana Orthopaedic Specialists 108 Rue Louis XIV Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-235-8007 Robert D. Zura University Medical Center New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700
Otolaryngology C. Barrett Alldredge Lafayette Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists 225 Bendel Rd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-232-2330 Ronald G. Amedee Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080 Moises A. Arriaga Marrero CNC Hearing & Balance Center 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S630 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-934-8320 R. Graham Boyce Associated Surgical Specialists 350 Lakeview Ct, Ste C Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-845-2677 James Vance Broussard Southern ENT Associates Medical Office Bldg 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 101 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-446-5079 Jennifer Daigle Hanby Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat & Facial Plastic Surgery Center 1000 W Pinhook Rd, Ste 201 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-237-0650 Keith Francis De Sonier Ear, Nose and Throat Associates 555 Dr. Michael DeBakey Dr, Ste 103 Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-439-0555 J. Kevin Duplechain 1103 Kaliste Saloom Rd Ste 300 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-456-3282 Michael Sydney Ellis Tulane Medical Center ENT Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5451 David J. Foreman Acadiana Otolaryngology Associates 1039 Camellia Blvd Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-993-1335 Paul L. Friedlander Tulane Medical Center ENT Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5451 Paul Thomas Gaudet Southern ENT Associates Medical Office Bldg 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 101 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-446-5079
H. Devon Graham III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080 Jeffrey J. Joseph Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat & Facial Plastic Surgery Center 1000 W Pinhook Rd, Ste 201 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-237-0650 Lauren Jane Mickey ENT Specialists 102 Thomas Rd, Ste 1117 West Monroe, LA 71291 Phone: 318-322-9882 Timothy Blake Molony Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080 Brian A. Moore Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080
David Grehan Pou Ear, Nose and Throat Center 2121 Line Ave Shreveport, LA 71104 Phone: 318-226-9441 James Sherman Soileau Ear and Balance Institute 1401 Ochsner Blvd, Ste A Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-809-1111 Justin M. Tenney Southern ENT Associates Medical Office Bldg 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 101 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-446-5079 Rohan R. Walvekar Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center Head and Neck Center 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 400 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-765-1765 Roger Mark Williams Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic 501 Dr Michael DeBakey Dr Lake Charles, LA 70606 Phone: 337-477-6172 Newland Knight Worley 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 640 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-456-5120 Guy Paul Zeringue III Southern ENT Associates Medical Office Bldg 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 101 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-446-5079
Thomas Moulthrop Hedgewood Surgical Center 2427 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-895-7642
Pathology
Cherie-Ann O. Nathan LSU Health Shreveport Department of Otolaryngology 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-6262
Edwin Norquist Beckman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pathology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3330
Daniel Wehrmann Nuss Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center Head and Neck Center 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 400 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-765-1765
Carl G. Bowling Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Department of Pathology 1701 Oak Park Blvd Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-3189
Gerard Pena Slidell Ear, Nose and Throat 1850 E Gause Blvd, Ste 301 Slidell, LA 70461 Phone: 985-646-4400
James E. Brown West Jefferson Medical Center Department of Pathology 1101 Medical Center Blvd Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-347-5511
Stanley Peters Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd Ste 2121 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-767-7200
Regenia S. Burton The Pathology Laboratory 830 W Bayou Pines Dr Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-436-9557
Brian J. Petit The Baton Rouge Clinic Otolaryngology 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
Randall Douglas Craver Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Pathology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9873
Anna Maria Pou Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center Head and Neck Center 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 400 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-765-1765
M'Liss L. Crosier Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Delta Pathology 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-4383
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Guillermo Antonio Herrera LSU Health Shreveport Department of Pathology 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-4557 Pamela Canale Martin Touro Infirmary Division of Dermatopathology 1401 Foucher St, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8418 William Proctor Newman III LSU Health Sciences Center Department of Pathology 1901 Perdido St, Ste 5103 New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-568-6077 Lee Roberts Pankey Bayou Pathology 109 Circle Dr West Monroe, LA 71291 Phone: 318-699-0231 Stephanie S. Richard The Pathology Laboratory 830 W Bayou Pines Dr Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-436-9557 Elba A. Turbat-Herrera LSU Health Shreveport Department of Pathology 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-5860 John S. Van Hoose The Pathology Laboratory 830 W Bayou Pines Dr Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-436-9557
Pediatric Allergy and Immunology
Sami L. Bahna LSU Health Shreveport Allergy and Immunology Clinic Women's and Children's Clinic Bldg, 1st Fl 1602 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-8601 Jane M. S. El-Dahr Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 501 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Kenneth Paris Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Allergy and Immunology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9589 Ricardo U. Sorensen Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Allergy and Immunology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9589
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Brandon Black Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456 Jimmie E. Colon Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Daniel P. Corsino Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755 Stanley Martin Hall Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456 John Frederick Heaton Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456 George P. Koclanes Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456 Sheryl Lynn Sawatsky Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456 Louis G. Shenk III Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9456
Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Joseph Caspi Children's Hospital of New Orleans The Heart Center 200 Henry Clay Ave, Ste 3309 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-3928
Pediatric Cardiology
Michael Brumund Pediatric Cardiology Associates 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 103 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-6700
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Michael Crapanzano Pediatric Cardiology Associates 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 103 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-6700 Kelly Gajewski Children's Hospital of New Orleans The Heart Center 200 Henry Clay Ave, Ste 3309 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9751 R. Les Hixon Pediatric Cardiology Associates 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 103 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-767-6700
Pediatric Critical Care Olugbenga Akingbola Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Section of Pediatric Critical Care 4700 S I-10 Service Rd W Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-780-4401 Bonnie Desselle Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Critical Care 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-899-9511
Terry Dean King Ochsner Health Center For Children 300 Pavilion Rd West Monroe, LA 71292 Phone: 318-323-1100
Gary L. Duhon Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Critical Care 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-899-9511
Victor William Lucas, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Department of Cardiology 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900
Edwin Michael Frieberg Tulane Medical Center Section of Pediatric Critical Care 1430 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5030
Theodorus Johannes Mulder Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Department of Cardiology 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-5200 Ernest S. Siwik Children's Hospital of New Orleans The Heart Center 200 Henry Clay Ave, Ste 3309 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9751 Aluizio Roberto Stopa Children's Hospital of New Orleans The Heart Center 200 Henry Clay Ave, Ste 3309 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9751 Thomas Young Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Department of Cardiology 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-5200
Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia Jimmie E. Colon Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3755
Robert Lee Hopkins Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Pulmonology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 L. Keith Scott LSU Health Shreveport Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6094
Pediatric Dermatology
Robert McVie LSU Health Shreveport Section of Pediatric Endocrinology Women's and Children's Clinic Bldg, 1st Fl 1602 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6070 Mary A. Younger Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Endocrinology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253
Pediatric General Hepatology Ilana S. Fortgang Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S450 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6401
Pediatric HematologyOncology Renee V. Gardner Children's Hospital of New Orleans Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders 200 Henry Clay Ave, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9740 Pinki K. Prasad Children’s Hospital of New Orleans Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders 200 Henry Clay Ave, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9740
Pediatric Endocrinology
Tammuella E. Singleton Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 New Orleans, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253
Stuart A. Chalew Children's Hospital of New Orleans Diabetes Center 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888
Maria C. Velez Children's Hospital of New Orleans Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders 200 Henry Clay Ave, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9740
Jeffrey C. Poole 111 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 406 Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-838-8225
Ricardo Gomez Children's Hospital of New Orleans Diabetes Center 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888 Neslihan K. Gungor LSU Health Shreveport Section of Pediatric Endocrinology Women's and Children's Clinic Bldg, 1st Fl 1602 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6070
Lolie Chua Yu Children's Hospital of New Orleans Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders 200 Henry Clay Ave, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9740
Pediatric Infectious Disease Thomas Alchediak Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Rodolfo E. Begue Children’s Hospital of New Orleans Division of Infectious Diseases 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9820 Joseph A. Bocchini, Jr. LSU Health Shreveport Section of Pediatric Infectious Disease Women's and Children's Clinic Bldg, 1st Fl 1602 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6081 Lorna Seybolt St Thomas Community Health Center 1936 Magazine St New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-529-5558 Margarita Silio Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6253 Russell Wesley Steele Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Section of Infectious Diseases 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900 Russell Barrett Van Dyke Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 501 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Ronald D. Wilcox CrescentCare Health & Wellness Center 3308 Tulane Ave New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-207-2273
Pediatric Medical Genetics Hans Christoph Andersson Hayward Genetics Center Tulane Lakeside Medical Office Bldg, 4th Fl 4720 S I-10 Service Rd New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5101
Pediatric Nephrology
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Diego H. Aviles Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Nephrology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3040 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9238
William K. Accousti Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9569
Samir S. El-Dahr Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Nephrology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253
Pediatric Neurological Surgery Clarence S. Greene, Jr. Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurosurgery Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9568
Pediatric Obesity Mary A. Younger Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Endocrinology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253
Pediatric Ophthalmology George S. Ellis, Jr. Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Ophthalmology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3104 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888 Horatio Sprague Eustis Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 10th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3995 Robert Allen Gordon Tulane Medical Center Tulane Ophthalmology Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5831
Joseph A. Gonzales, Jr. Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9569 Stephen Douglas Heinrich Tulane Pediatric Orthopaedic Clinic 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 200 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-8010 Andrew G. King Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9569 Sean Waldron Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center For Children - Covington Division of Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery 101 E Judge Tanner Blvd Ste 302 Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-809-5800
Pediatric Otolaryngology John Lindhe Guarisco Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080 Kimsey Rodriguez Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080
Pediatric Pathology Randall Douglas Craver Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Pathology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9873
Pediatric Pulmonology Scott H. Davis Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Pulmonology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Robert Lee Hopkins Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Pulmonology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Michael Philip Kiernan Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Pulmonology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 501 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Kristin N. Van Hook Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Division of Pulmonary Medicine 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900
Pediatric Radiation Oncology Troy Gene Scroggins, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3440 Ellen (Elly) Zakris Touro Infirmary Department of Radiation Oncology 1401 Foucher St, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8387
Pediatric Radiology Chris M. (Christopher) Arcement Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Radiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9566 Jane D. Congeni Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Radiology 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9565
Arthur J. Kenney Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470
Pediatric Rheumatology Jane M. S. El-Dahr Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 501 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Abraham Gedalia Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Rheumatology Ambulatory Care Center, 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3020 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9385
Pediatric Specialist/ Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine Sue Ellen Abdalian Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Brian Victor Credo Tulane University Campus Health Services Uptown Student Health Center 6823 Saint Charles Ave Bldg 92 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-865-5255
Pediatric Specialist/ Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Milton Webster Anderson Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4025 Ted Bloch III 3525 Prytania St, Ste 211 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7939 Charles Calvin Coleman Children's Hospital of New Orleans Calhoun Behavioral Center 935 Calhoun St New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-7790
Richard F. Dalton, Jr. Capital Area Human Services 4615 Government St Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Phone: 225-922-0445
Pediatric Specialist/ Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
John deBack Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Department of Psychiatry The Family Center 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 6000 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-8648
Brian Barkemeyer Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Neonatology 200 Henry Clay Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9418
Stacy Drury Tulane Medical Center Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-4794 Mary Margaret Gleason Tulane Medical Center Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-4794 Daphne Ann Glindmeyer 229 Bellemeade Blvd, Ste 420 Gretna, LA 70056 Phone: 504-392-8348 Jessica Hof 1426 Amelia St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-810-7590 Rita Y. Horton LSU Health Shreveport Child Psychiatry Faculty Clinic 820 Jordan St, Ste 104 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-676-5002 Pamela McPherson Northwest Louisiana Human Services District 1310 N Hearne Ave Shreveport, LA 71107 Phone: 318-676-5111 Richard Howard Morse 4417 Danneel St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-2354 Paul G. Pelts 1539 Jackson Ave, Ste 300 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-581-3933 Douglas S. Pool 300 Codifer Blvd, Ste A Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-835-6320 Mark Allen Sands Mercy Family Center 110 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 425 Metairie, LA 70005 Phone: 504-838-8283 Jason Murphy Wuttke 1539 Jackson Ave, Ste 300 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-581-3933 Charles Henry Zeanah, Jr. Tulane Medical Center Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 131 S Robertson St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5405
Juan M. Bossano Children's Clinic of Southwest Louisiana 2903 1st Ave Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-478-6480 Minnie Marlene Buis Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Neonatology 200 Henry Clay Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9418 Jay Paul Goldsmith Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Section of Neonatology 4700 S I-10 Service Rd W Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-780-4583 Bedford Nieves-Cruz Terrebonne General Medical Center Division of Neonatology 8166 Main St Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-858-7300 Amarjit Singh Nijjar Christus St. Frances Cabrini Hospital Department of Neonatology 3330 Masonic Dr Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-448-6827 Staci Marie Olister Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Neonatology 200 Henry Clay Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9418 Arun Kumar Pramanik LSU Health Shreveport Section of Neonatology 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-675-7277 Dana L. Rivera Children's Hospital of New Orleans Division of Neonatology 200 Henry Clay Ave, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9418 Steven Brian Spedale Woman's Hospital Division of Neonatology 100 Woman's Way, 3rd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70817 Phone: 225-928-2555 Omotola O. Uwaifo Ochsner Health System Ochsner Baptist - A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 2700 Napoleon Ave New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-842-3658
Robert A. Dahmes 4480 General DeGaulle Dr Ste 107 New Orleans, LA 70131 Phone: 504-393-6355
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Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, Epilepsy Shannon McGuire Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3040 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888
Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, General Diane K. Africk Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Department of Neurology 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900 Stephen Russell Deputy Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3040 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888 Jessica R. Gautreaux Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3040 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888 Shannon McGuire Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3040 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888 Stephen L. Nelson Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Neurology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Ann Henderson Tilton Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3314 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9458 Maria Weimer Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3040 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-2888
Joaquin Wong Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3314 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9458
Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, Movement Disorders Ann Henderson Tilton Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3314 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9458
Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, Muscular Dystrophy Ann Henderson Tilton Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3314 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9458
Pediatric Specialist/ Neurology, Neuromuscular Disease Ann Henderson Tilton Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Neurology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 3314 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9458
Pediatric Specialist/ Pediatric Metabolic Diseases Hans Christoph Andersson Hayward Genetics Center Tulane Lakeside Medical Office Bldg, 4th Fl 4720 S I-10 Service Rd New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5101
Pediatric Surgery Vincent Robert Adolph Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Section of Pediatric Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3907 Faith Hansbrough Pediatric Surgery of Louisiana 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 212 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-769-2295
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Rodney B. Steiner Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Section of Pediatric Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3907
Pediatric Urology
Frank Raymond Cerniglia, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Hospital for Children Department of Pediatric Urology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4083 Joseph Ortenberg Children's Hospital of New Orleans Department of Urology Ambulatory Care Center 200 Henry Clay Ave New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-9233
Pediatrics/General Thomas Alchediak Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Thomas Babin Ormond Pediatric Group 141 Ormond Center Ct Destrehan, LA 70047 Phone: 985-764-7337 Susan M. Bankston The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-4888 Kimberley J. Barner Bayou Pediatric Associates 8120 Main St, Ste 300 Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-868-5440 Ronald L. Bombet The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Daniel Richard Bronfin Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Division of General Pediatrics 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900 Richard Louis Brooke Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center Pediatric Clinic 1978 Industrial Blvd Houma, LA 70363 Phone: 985-873-1730
Traci Brumund The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Danielle Calix Ochsner Health System Ochsner Children’s Health Center - Destrehan Division of General Pediatrics 1970 Ormond Blvd, Ste J Destrehan, LA 70047 Phone: 985-764-6036 Robert W. Clarke, Jr. Bayou Pediatric Associates 8120 Main St, Ste 300 Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-868-5440 Cary A. Culbertson Metairie Pediatrics 2201 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-833-7374 Terry L. Cummings Tulane Multispecialty Clinic at University Square Sections of General Academic Pediatrics and Internal Medicine 200 Broadway Ave, Ste 230 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-9000 Theresa Lynn Dise Tulane Multispecialty Clinic at University Square Section of General Academic Pediatrics 200 Broadway Ave, Ste 230 New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-9000 Hosea Joseph Doucet III Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Robert Eldred Drumm The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 David Anderson Estes, Jr. Napoleon Pediatrics 3040 33rd St Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-219-0880 Patrice B. Evers Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-5263 Dana Angelle Fakouri Associates in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 8040 Goodwood Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Phone: 225-928-0867 Bernard Ferrer Bayou Pediatric Associates 8120 Main St, Ste 300 Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-868-5440
Gregory John Gelpi Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Pediatric Medical Center 12525 Perkins Rd, Ste C Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-769-2003 Lois Herd Gesn Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center O'Neal Division of General Pediatrics 16777 Medical Center Dr Ste 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Phone: 225-754-3278 Amy Glick Ochsner Health System Ochsner Children's Health Center - Metairie Division of General Pediatrics 4901 Veterans Memorial Blvd Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-887-1133 Patricia Granier Ochsner Health System Ochsner Children's Health Center - Metairie Division of General Pediatrics 4901 Veterans Memorial Blvd Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-887-1133 Stephen Wilson Hales Hales Pediatrics 3525 Prytania St, Ste 602 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-0744 Michael G. Heller, Jr. Napoleon Pediatrics 3040 33rd St Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-219-0880 David Garrett Hill Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group Pediatrics at O’Donovan 5131 O'Donovan Dr, Ste 301 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-490-0393 Jennifer V. Hogan Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Division of General Pediatrics 9001 Summa Ave, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5200 Amanda Brown Jackson Ochsner Health System Ochsner Children's Health Center - Metairie Division of General Pediatrics 4901 Veterans Memorial Blvd Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-887-1133
Betty P. Lo-Blais LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Internal Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1366 Paul Joseph Marquis Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Lapalco Department of Family Medicine 4225 Lapalco Blvd, 2nd Fl Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-371-9355 Shelley M. Martin The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Ellen Blownstine McLean Carousel Pediatrics 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 240 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-4141 Jamar A. Melton The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Elizabeth Swanson Milvid Hales Pediatrics 3525 Prytania St, Ste 602 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-0744 Mark Vincent Morici Metairie Pediatrics 2201 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-833-7374 M. Nora Oates Hales Pediatrics 3525 Prytania St, Ste 602 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-0744 Jennifer M. Parkerson Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Division of General Pediatrics 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900 Kathryn Quarls Fairway Pediatrics 7020 Hwy 190, Ste C Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-871-7337
Michael Keith Judice 4630 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste 102 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-989-2322
Jeanne Rademacher Carousel Pediatrics 4224 Houma Blvd, Ste 240 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-885-4141
Charles Maurice Kantrow III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Division of General Pediatrics 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900
Renee F. Reymond Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center for Children Division of General Pediatrics 1315 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3900 Edward David Sledge, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Division of General Pediatrics 9001 Summa Ave, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5200
Sam Jude Solis Napoleon Pediatrics 3040 33rd St Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-219-0880 Arthur Gerard Tribou The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Carlos Alberto Trujillo Jefferson Pediatric Clinic 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste N813 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-349-6813 Mark Joseph Waggenspack The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Stephen M. Weimer Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 300 Metairie, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6253 Danny Scott Wood The Baton Rouge Clinic Pediatric Medicine 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9290 Lindsay R. York 1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste N803 Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-934-8333 Mary A. Younger Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic Section of Pediatric Endocrinology 4720 S I-10 Service Rd W Ste 401 Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-988-6253 Scott Rory Zander Lakeside Children's Clinic 4740 S I-10 Service Rd W 2nd Fl Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-883-3703
Pediatrics/Hospital Medicine Vanessa G. Carroll Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Pediatric Hospital Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3088
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation David N. Adams 1500 Line Ave 2nd Fl, Ste 204 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-629-5425
Stephen Kishner University Medical Center New Orleans Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700 Thomas Charles Laborde 2727 Kaliste Saloom Rd Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-981-4053 James M. Potts 312 Grammont St, Ste 301 Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-324-0055 Gregory W. Stewart Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 McAlister Ext New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-988-8476 Robert M. Taylor 3311 Prescott Rd, Ste 203 Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-442-6814
Plastic Surgery Elliott B. Black III 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 100 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-883-8900 R. Graham Boyce Associated Surgical Specialists 350 Lakeview Ct, Ste C Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-845-2677 Holly Dawn Casey Wall The Wall Center for Plastic Surgery 8600 Fern Ave Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-795-0801 Ralph William Colpitts Plastic Surgery Center of Southwest Louisiana 2000 S Woods Dr, Ste B Lake Charles, LA 70605 Phone: 337-497-1958 Frank J. DellaCroce Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-899-2800 J. Kevin Duplechain 1103 Kaliste Saloom Rd Ste 300 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-456-3282 H. Devon Graham III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4080 David Albert Jansen 3900 Veterans Blvd, Ste 200 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-455-1000 Jeffrey J. Joseph Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat & Facial Plastic Surgery Center 1000 W Pinhook Rd, Ste 201 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-237-0650
Louis Gerrit Bryant Mes Acadiana Aesthetic Surgeons 917 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-504-4336 Timothy Joseph Mickel 903 N 2nd St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-388-2050 Michael H. Moses 1603 2nd St New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-895-7200 Thomas Moulthrop Hedgewood Surgical Center 2427 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-895-7642 Barron Johns O'Neal 2210 Line Ave, Ste 204 Shreveport, LA 71104 Phone: 318-221-9671 Scott K. Sullivan, Jr. Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-899-2800 Chris Trahan Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-899-2800 Simeon H. Wall, Jr. The Wall Center for Plastic Surgery 8600 Fern Ave Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-795-0801 Simeon H. Wall, Sr. The Wall Center for Plastic Surgery 8600 Fern Ave Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-795-0801
Psychiatry James G. Barbee 3439 Magazine St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-8808 J. Robert Barnes 1301 Amelia St, Ste A New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-7000 John William Bick III 3705 Coliseum St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-0094 Ted Bloch III 3525 Prytania St, Ste 211 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7939 Renee Bruno 7470 Highland Rd, Ste A Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-615-8102 Jose Calderon-Abbo 3439 Magazine St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-8808 Charles Chester Center for Individual and Family Counseling 3500 N Causeway Blvd Ste 1410 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-838-9919
Stephen R. Cochran 1426 Amelia St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-6020 Charles Calvin Coleman Children's Hospital of New Orleans Calhoun Behavioral Center 935 Calhoun St New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-896-7790 Erich J. Conrad LSU Behavioral Sciences Center 3450 Chestnut St, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1580 Kathleen Crapanzano Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group The Family Center 5131 O’Donovan Dr, Ste 300 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-374-0400 Maria Cruse Thibodaux Regional Medical Center Department of Psychiatry 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 201 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-493-9304 Robert A. Dahmes 4480 General DeGaulle Dr Ste 107 New Orleans, LA 70131 Phone: 504-393-6355 George Cecil Daul, Jr. Professional Psychotherapy Network 1529 River Oaks Rd W Ste 123 New Orleans, LA 70123 Phone: 504-729-4414 Denise L. Dorsey 1519 Fern St New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-865-1723 Burl E. Forgey Psychiatry Associates of Baton Rouge 9229 Bluebonnet Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-769-7575 Edward F. Foulks Central City Behavioral Health Center 2221 Philip St New Orleans, LA 70113 Phone: 504-666-3840 David Galarneau Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of General Psychiatry 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4025 Kendall Genre 7821 Maple St New Orleans, LA 70118 Phone: 504-322-3936 Daphne Ann Glindmeyer 229 Bellemeade Blvd, Ste 420 Gretna, LA 70056 Phone: 504-392-8348 Milton L. Harris, Jr. Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System New Orleans VA Outpatient Clinic Department of Psychiatry 3434 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70161 Phone: 504-539-5744
Gerald Heintz Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Department of Psychiatry The Family Center, Ste 6000 7777 Hennessy Blvd Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-8648 Dean Anthony Hickman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of General Psychiatry 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4025 Schoener Michele LaPrairie Florida Parishes Human Services Authority 835 Pride Dr, Ste B Hammond, LA 70401 Phone: 985-543-4333 John Robert Macgregor, Jr. 1502 W Causeway Approach Ste D Mandeville, LA 70471 Phone: 985-626-3400 P. Michael Mahony Center for Individual and Family Counseling 3500 N Causeway Blvd Ste 1410 Metairie, LA 70002 Phone: 504-838-9919 Harminder Singh Mallik Tulane Medical Center Section of Forensic Psychiatry 1539 Jackson Ave, Ste 220 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-592-9500 Donna M. Mancuso 1301 Antonine St, Ste 500 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-208-1035 Pamela McPherson Northwest Louisiana Human Services District 1310 N Hearne Ave Shreveport, LA 71107 Phone: 318-676-5111 Christopher D. Meyers 3525 Prytania St, Ste 518 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-895-5533 Richard Howard Morse 4417 Danneel St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-2354 Andrew E. Morson Integrated Behavioral Health 400 Poydras St, Ste 1950 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-322-3837 Howard Joseph Osofsky LSU Behavioral Sciences Center 3450 Chestnut St, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1580 Nicholas G. Pejic Atlas Psychiatry 1301 Antonine St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-899-1682 Jose Manuel Pena Tulane Medical Center Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-4794
Arwen Podesta 4322 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-252-0026 Dean Edward Robinson Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System Mental Health Service 3500 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70119 Phone: 504-571-8283 Alvin Martin Rouchell Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of General Psychiatry 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4025 Alphonse Kenison Roy III Addiction Recovery Resources 4933 Wabash St Metairie, LA 70001 Phone: 504-780-2766 Janet Seligson-Dowie 1301 Antonine St, Ste 500 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-507-8201 Marilyn M. Skinner 1303 Antonine St New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-891-3001 John Walter Thompson, Jr. Tulane Medical Center Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-4794 Mark Harold Townsend LSU Behavioral Sciences Center 3450 Chestnut St, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1580 L. Lee Tynes, Jr. Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Department of Psychiatry The Family Center 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 6000 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-8648 Daniel Keith Winstead Tulane Medical Center Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-4794 Mark Henry Zielinski Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group The Family Center 5131 O’Donovan Dr, Ste 300 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-374-0400
Pulmonary Medicine Juzar Ali LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Pulmonary Medicine 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1517
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Gregory Jacob Ardoin The Lung Center 201 4th St, Ste 1A Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-769-5864 John Areno Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-221-8411 Stephen P. Brierre LSU Healthcare Network Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 8585 Picardy Ave, Ste 313 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-381-2755 Robert Craig Broussard Pulmonary Associates of Southwest Louisiana 2770 3rd Ave, Ste 110 Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-2750 Walter Dwayne Brown Lafayette General Medical Center Pulmonary Clinic Professional Office Bldg 155 Hospital Dr, Ste 101 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-234-3204 Bennett Paul DeBoisblanc University Medical Center New Orleans Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700 George Gary Guidry Lafayette General Medical Center Pulmonary Clinic Professional Office Bldg 155 Hospital Dr, Ste 101 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-234-3204 Thomas James Gullatt St. Francis Medical Center Hospitalist Group 309 Jackson St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-966-4541 Susan H. Gunn Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4055 Cullen Andrew Hebert Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864 William H. Hines, Sr. The Baton Rouge Clinic Pulmonology 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240 Mark Kenneth Hodges The Baton Rouge Clinic Pulmonology 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
Robert Cary Holladay LSU Health Shreveport Pulmonary Clinic Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-813-2500 Surma Jain Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4055 Stephen Phillips Kantrow Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4055 Ross C. Klingsberg Tulane Medical Center Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Ave, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-8600 Joseph Alexander Lasky Tulane Medical Center Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Ave, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-8600 Stuart J. Lebas Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864 Carol M. Mason LSU Healthcare Network Kenner Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 200 W Esplanade Ave, Ste 701 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-412-1705 William Henry Matthews St. Francis Pulmonary Clinic 411 Calypso St, Ste 210 Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-966-6500 Shawn Arlen Milligan Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 510 E Stoner Ave Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-221-8411 Thomas Gerard Nuttli East Jefferson General Hospital Jefferson Pulmonary Associates 4200 Houma Blvd, 3rd Fl Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-503-5205 Michael Wayne Owens Overton Brooks VA Medical Center Division of Pulmonary Medicine 510 E Stoner Ave, Ste 111 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: 318-990-5366
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Jaime Palomino Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System New Orleans VA Medical Center Section of Pulmonary Disease 1601 Perdido St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-412-3700 Nereida Alicia Parada Tulane Medical Center Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Ave, 7th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-8600 Mark W. Rolfe Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Services 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864 Billy Joe Rosson, Jr. Lafayette General Medical Center Pulmonary Clinic Professional Office Bldg 155 Hospital Dr, Ste 101 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-234-3204 Leonardo Seoane Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Section of Pulmonology, Lung Transplant and Critical Care 1514 Jefferson Hwy New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4400 Judd Ernest Shellito LSU Healthcare Network Kenner Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 200 W Esplanade Ave, Ste 701 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-412-1705 Charles Clarence Smith III Internal Medicine Specialists 3525 Prytania St, Ste 526 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-648-2500 James Garland Smith, Jr. St. Francis Medical Center Hospitalist Group 309 Jackson St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-966-4541 David E. Taylor Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 9th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4055 Ben Frank Thompson III Pulmonary Associates of Southwest Louisiana 2770 3rd Ave, Ste 110 Lake Charles, LA 70601 Phone: 337-494-2750 Brad D. Vincent Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Service 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 701 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-765-5864
Robert E. Walter LSU Health Shreveport Pulmonary Clinic Ambulatory Care Center, 2nd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71130 Phone: 318-813-2500
Lane Rosen Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology 2600 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-212-4639
David Allen Welsh University Medical Center New Orleans Infectious Disease Services 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700
Troy Gene Scroggins, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3440
Arvind Yertha North Oaks Pulmonology North Oaks Clinic Bldg 15813 Paul Vega MD Dr Ste 201 Hammond, LA 70403 Phone: 985-230-1580
Radiation Oncology Michael Leonard Durci Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Department of Radiation Oncology 2600 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-212-4639 Robert Lee Ebeling, Jr. Northeast Louisiana Cancer Institute 411 Calypso St, Ste 100 Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-966-1900 Andrew Ralph Harwood OncoLogics 4809 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste 100 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-769-8660 Roland Benton Hawkins Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiation Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3440 Gregory Charles Henkelmann Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center Southeast Louisiana Radiation Oncology Group 4950 Essen Ln Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-767-0847 Steven I. Hightower SMH Regional Cancer Center 1120 Robert Blvd, Ste 100 Slidell, LA 70458 Phone: 985-280-8688 Paul David Monsour East Jefferson General Hospital East Jefferson Radiation Oncology 4204 Houma Blvd, Ste 100 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-454-1727 Perri Prellop OncoLogics 4809 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Ste 100 Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-769-8660
Ellen (Elly) Zakris Touro Infirmary Department of Radiation Oncology 1401 Foucher St, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-8387
Oussama Nachar Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470 Dana Hampton Smetherman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470 Joan Wojak Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Acadiana Radiology Group 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-2180
Rheumatology Radiology Edward Bluth Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470 James Gary Caridi Tulane Medical Center Tulane Cancer Center Clinic Section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology 150 S Liberty St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-6300 Blaine H. Hoppe Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center Acadiana Radiology Group 4801 Ambassador Caffery Pkwy Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-470-2180 Dennis Kay Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470 Arthur J. Kenney Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470 Evangelos A. Liokis Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Department of Radiology 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828 Gary B. Lum Imaging Center of Louisiana 8338 Summa Ave, Ste 100 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-8988 James Milburn Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3470
Luis R. Espinoza LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Rheumatology 3700 Saint Charles Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-412-1517 Stephen Michael Lindsey Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Section of Rheumatology 9001 Summa Ave, 2nd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5200 John F. Nitsche Arthritis & Immunology Associates Hand Center of Louisiana 4228 Houma Blvd, Ste 600B Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-454-2191 Robert James Quinet Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Rheumatology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3920 Merlin Robert Wilson, Jr. The Rheumatology Group 2633 Napoleon Ave, Ste 530 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-899-1120 Jerald Marc Zakem Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Rheumatology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 5th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3920
Sleep Medicine Robert C. Hinkle The Baton Rouge Clinic Pulmonology 7373 Perkins Rd, 1st Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-246-9240
Surgery Humberto Bohorquez Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 John S. Bolton Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Surgical Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070 J. Philip Boudreaux LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Medical Center Kenner Neuroendocrine Clinic 200 W Esplanade Ave, Ste 200 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-464-8500 E. Paul Breaux III 457 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-237-5774 David Bruce Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Ian Carmody Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Bruce Palmer Cleland Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Bluebonnet Department of Surgery 9001 Summa Ave, 3rd Fl Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-761-5200 Ari J. Cohen Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925 Ralph Corsetti Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070 Brian Dockendorf Highland Clinic - General and Vascular Surgery 1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 203 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-798-4600
Joseph Benton Dupont, Jr. Baton Rouge General Surgical Associates 8595 Pacardy Ave, Ste 235 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-763-4820 Daniel Joseph Frey 501 W Saint Mary Blvd Ste 420 Lafayette, LA 70506 Phone: 337-456-5765 Philip Gachassin Acadiana Weight Loss Surgery 1000 W Pinhook Rd, Ste 310 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-233-9900 Forrest Dean Griffen LSU Health Shreveport Department of Surgery 1501 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6126 Mark G. Hausmann Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center Sugeons Group of Baton Rouge 7777 Hennessy Blvd, Ste 612 Baton Rouge, LA 70808 Phone: 225-769-5656 John Patrick Hunt III University Medical Center New Orleans Department of Surgery 2000 Canal St New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-702-5700
Daryl S. Marx 2301 Justice St Monroe, LA 71201 Phone: 318-398-9709 Thomas Moulthrop Hedgewood Surgical Center 2427 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-895-7642 William Lewis Norwood Norwood Surgical Specialists 2751 Albert Bicknell Dr, Ste 3A Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-636-9905 Daniel Wehrmann Nuss Mary Bird Perkins - Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center Head and Neck Center 4950 Essen Ln, Ste 400 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-765-1765 Anil Paramesh Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344 Kathryn Richardson LSU Health Shreveport Surgery Clinic Ambulatory Care Center, 3rd Fl 1606 Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71103 Phone: 318-675-6156
J. Philip Boudreaux LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Medical Center Kenner Neuroendocrine Clinic 200 W Esplanade Ave, Ste 200 Kenner, LA 70065 Phone: 504-464-8500 Ralph Corsetti Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070 Joseph Benton Dupont, Jr. Baton Rouge General Surgical Associates 8595 Pacardy Ave, Ste 235 Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Phone: 225-763-4820 George Michael Fuhrman Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070 Henry J. Kaufman IV 457 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-237-5774 Alan Jerry Stolier Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-899-2800
Lester Wayne Johnson University Health Conway Department of Surgery 4864 Jackson St Monroe, LA 71202 Phone: 318-330-7167
William S. Richardson Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070
Mary T. Killackey Tulane Medical Center Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5344
Douglas P. Slakey Tulane Medical Center GI and Surgery Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 6th Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5110
Robert C. DeWitt Louisiana Cardiovascular and Thoracic Institute 3311 Prescott Rd, Ste 202 Alexandria, LA 71301 Phone: 318-442-0106
Edward Ballou Staudinger 2820 Napoleon Ave, Ste 640 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-1327
Charles J. DiCorte Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health Center Covington Department of Cardiovascular Surgery 1000 Ochsner Blvd Covington, LA 70433 Phone: 985-875-2828
Charles Daniel Knight, Jr. Highland Clinic - General and Vascular Surgery 1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 203 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-798-4691 Kenneth John Laborde 1000 W Pinhook Rd, Ste 302 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-232-8230 Fred J. Liner North Oaks Medical Center Department of Surgery 120 N Cate St Hammond, LA 70401 Phone: 985-542-1364 Russell T. Lolley Glenwood Surgery Associates 102 Thomas Rd, Ste 203 West Monroe, LA 71291 Phone: 318-329-8445 George E. Loss, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 1st Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-3925
Alan Jerry Stolier Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 Saint Charles Ave New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone: 504-899-2800 Michael C. Townsend Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070
Surgical Oncology John S. Bolton Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Surgical Oncology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070
Thoracic Surgery
Victor E. Tedesco IV Lafayette General Medical Center Heart & Vascular Center of Acadiana 155 Hospital Dr, Ste 201 Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-289-7999
Paul Truett Ray, Jr. Thibodaux Urological Specialists 504 N Acadia Rd Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-447-5667
Urology
Robert S. Taylor Louisiana Urology 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd, Ste 3000 Baton Rouge, LA 70810 Phone: 225-766-8100
Robert M. Alexander Houma Surgi-Center & Urology Clinic 1020 School St Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-868-7091
Raju Thomas Tulane Medical Center Tulane Urology and Fertility Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-5271
Stephen F. Bardot Ochsner Health System The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center Department of Urology 1514 Jefferson Hwy, 2nd Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4083 Edward F. Breaux Southern Urology 1016 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-233-6665 Scott E. Delacroix, Jr. LSU Healthcare Network Metairie Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Urologic Oncology 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 302 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-412-1600 Chris Fontenot Southern Urology Bldg 7 200 Beaullieu Dr Lafayette, LA 70508 Phone: 337-232-4555 Harold Anthony Fuselier, Jr. LSU Healthcare Network Metairie Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Urology 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 302 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-412-1600 Wayne John G. Hellstrom Tulane Medical Center Tulane Urology and Fertility Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave, 3rd Fl New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-988-2536
Edgar L. Feinberg II Cardiovascular Clinic of Houma 855 Belanger St, Ste 101 Houma, LA 70360 Phone: 985-850-6222
Stephen M. Lacour LSU Healthcare Network Metairie Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Urology 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 302 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-412-1600
Tommy L. Fudge Heart and Vascular Center 604 N Acadia Rd, Ste 409 Thibodaux, LA 70301 Phone: 985-449-4670
Scott M. Neusetzer Southern Urology 1016 Coolidge Blvd Lafayette, LA 70503 Phone: 337-223-6665
P. Eugene Parrino Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Division of Thoracic Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070
Lester J. Prats, Jr. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Department of Urology 1514 Jefferson Hwy Atrium Tower, 4th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4083
Richard M. Vanlangendonck Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania St, Ste 450 New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: 504-897-7196 Jack Christian Winters LSU Healthcare Network Metairie Multi-Specialty Clinic Department of Urology 3601 Houma Blvd, Ste 302 Metairie, LA 70006 Phone: 504-412-1600
Vascular Surgery Robert Craig Batson LSU Healthcare Network Westbank Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Vascular Surgery 4500 10th St Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-412-1960 Larry Harold Hollier LSU Health Sciences Center Section of Vascular Surgery 433 Bolivar St, Ste 815 New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: 504-568-4800 Charles Daniel Knight, Jr. Highland Clinic - General and Vascular Surgery 1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop, Ste 203 Shreveport, LA 71105 Phone: 318-798-4691 Malachi G. Sheahan LSU Healthcare Network Westbank Multi-Specialty Clinic Section of Vascular Surgery 4500 10th St Marrero, LA 70072 Phone: 504-412-1960 W. Charles Sternbergh III Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Section of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery 1514 Jefferson Hwy Clinic Tower, 8th Fl New Orleans, LA 70121 Phone: 504-842-4070
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gooDlife Retirement in Louisiana
Retirement Communities, Weekend Getaways + Healthy Lifestyle
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LIVING
Living Well Resort style living for fun-and luxury-minded retirees By Fritz Esker
St. James Place Evangeline Apartments
Baby boomers all over the United States
are downsizing in record numbers as they near retirement. While some simply move to condominiums or live-work spaces in their city’s downtown areas, many opt for resort-style living in communities with amenities ranging from on-site spas and happy hours to gourmet dining and saltwater pools. Throughout Louisiana, senior living options include luxurious, high-end independent living for people who want to downsize their living space, but not their lifestyle. Lambeth House 150 Broadway St., New Orleans lambethhouse.com Nestled along the Mississippi River in Uptown New Orleans, Lambeth House’s 118 independent living residences offer views of the river and a beautiful setting just a short walk from Audubon Park. 76 | Louisiana Life november/december 2016
But the location isn’t all Lambeth House has going for it. Active seniors can take advantage of the 21,000-squarefoot wellness center, featuring an indoor aquatic center, group exercise classes and personalized fitness evaluations and plans. There are also yoga and balance classes. In a food-obsessed city like New Orleans, it’s only appropriate that residents have top notch food options. Lambeth House offers both restaurant and casual dining. The restaurant menu includes filet mignon, trout meuniere and redfish almondine, among other quality dishes. Cocktail enthusiasts will appreciate the happy hour. Lambeth House also offers community outings to local dining hotspots like Salon, Luke and Galatoire’s. Other field trip options are also available, including afternoons at the movies, the Aquarium of the Americas and concerts. Residents are in a safe, active seniors community while still being a part of the city they love.
The Oaks of Louisiana 600 East Flournoy Lucas Rd., Shreveport oaksofla.com Shreveport-Bossier City’s active retirees need look no further than The Oaks Of Louisiana in Shreveport. It’s impossible to be bored at this facility’s wooded campus, which has outdoor walking trails and lakes with catch-and-release fishing. For the athletically inclined, there is beanbag baseball, croquet and golf. There are assisted living options at The Oaks, but independent-minded seniors should try the Tower at the Oaks, which features an on-site concierge, a theater featuring current and classic movies, an art studio and a pub. Just like any good resort, there are multiple dining options available, all prepared by the in-house chefs. When residents feel like being pampered, they can go to the Spa & Wellness Center. There is a heated indoor saltwater pool, exercise studio, exercise
experts who specialize in older adults, a massage suite and a salon offering hair styling, manicures, and pedicures. For those wondering why the pool is saltwater, it’s because it eliminates irritation to the eyes and skin that occurs in traditional pools. The pool also has adjustable jets for an in-pool water massage. Whealdon Estates 8680 Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge holidaytouch.com/our-communities/ whealdon-estates Baton Rouge’s Whealdon Estates takes pride in keeping its residents a part of the Greater Baton Rouge community. The home’s Seniors Serving Society program allows residents to participate in a variety of charitable endeavors, including teaching children to read, fundraising to help animals in need and supporting veterans and troops overseas. Residents are also encouraged to showcase their creative sides in a number of ways. “Bedtime Stories: Original Tales Shared from One Generation to the Next,” is a series of children’s stories written and illustrated by residents. Social events are a staple of the Whealdon lifestyle, too, as the community offers weekly gatherings for Wii Sports, trivia contests and happy hours. Classes are available on a wide range of topics, including yoga, flower arranging and Toastmasters. Fewer things bring people more joy than four-legged friends and Whealdon encourages residents to bring their canine and feline friends. Whealdon also hosts pet health tips to enable its residents to better care for their best friends. Regular excursions are also a part of life at Whealdon, as residents are treated to trips to locations ranging from the Nottoway Plantation Home, the Greater Baton Rouge Zoo and the Mississippi beaches. St. James Place 333 Lee Dr., stjamesplace.org Located on 52 acres of Baton Rouge land formerly known as the Duplantier Plantation, St. James Place opened in 1983. It was the brainchild of parishioners of St. James Episcopal Church who sought to create a retirement community for active seniors in the Gulf South.
Helping Hands When the time comes for a more hands-on care, several communities throughout Louisiana offer robust amenities, activities and assistance. The Claiborne at Thibodaux (theclaiborne.com/ communities/thibodaux)
Located on the banks of Bayou Lafourche, The Claiborne at Thibodaux (2495 Talbot Ave.) offers independent and assisted living options with meals, activities and excursions to shopping, entertainment and outdoor recreation opportunities in Cajun country. Both Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center are nearby. Vista Shores (vistashores.com)
Located on the former site of the Vista Shores Country Club overlooking Bayou St. John, Vista Shores (5958 St. Bernard Ave.) offers residents 24-hour care, personalized fitness and wellness programs, transportation and restaurant-style dining. The third floor is devoted entirely to memory care patients. Southside Gardens (southsidegardens.com)
Providing both independent and assisted living options, Baton Rouge’s Southside Gardens (4604 Perkins Rd.) has activities and exercises for residents, as well as twice-weekly transportation to medical and dental appointments. Each apartment has an emergency intercom.
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LIVING Residents who want to keep their minds active have the opportunity to enroll in non-credit classes at The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at LSU. The courses cover diverse subjects ranging from calligraphy to drawing, Facebook to Zumba, literature to film studies and Tai Chi. Physically active seniors can enjoy a gym, a heated indoor swimming pool, exercise equipment for diverse ability levels, shuffleboard, ping pong, billiards, walking trails and a putting green. Haircuts and styling, massages, facials, manicures and pedicures are available at the salon and spa. For dining and socializing, there is a buffet-style restaurant, a fine dining restaurant, a coffee shop and a pub with cocktails and board games. There are also field trips to Baton Rouge restaurants, including the popular Five Guys Burgers and Fries. The Landing at Behrman Place 601 Behrman Place sunshineretirementliving.com/ community-locations/new-orleans Located on the Westbank of New Orleans, the Landing at Behrman Place provides high-quality amenities in a luxurious setting minutes from shopping and dining options. Weekly activities include beanbag baseball, aerobics, bingo, poker, choir practice and Catholic Mass. One of the most popular is a Wheel of Fortune game. No, it doesn’t mean the residents sit around a TV and watch the game show; they play their own version with prizes. Since the Landing at Behrman Place is part of the Sunrise Retirement Living community, it offers its residents the chance to travel to other Sunrise facilities in cities like Austin, Texas; Hot Springs, Arkansas and Chula Vista, California. Residents can stay up to seven nights in any of these locations and receive the same room, board and transportation services they get at home. And like any good retirement community, there are ample on-site amenities in the form of three chefprepared meals a day, free Wi-Fi, a hair salon, library, gym and a computer center. Cats and dogs are welcome for all residents. u
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Tulane University Department of Dermatology excels in providing cutting edge medical care. Innovators in the treatment of skin diseases, faculty physicians provide general dermatology care as well as treatment of complicated dermatological problems. Led by Erin Boh, MD, PhD, the department employs national experts in comprehensive psoriasis care, skin cancer treatment, and cosmetic dermatology. Tulane Dermatology is known and respected by patients and peers. Tulane Dermatology is also known as one of the best resources to community dermatologists. Physicians at
Dr. Andrea Murina, Dr. Erin Boh & Dr. Brittany Stumpf
Tulane offer access to highly specialized care,
Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology
is the go-to destination for skincare as well
1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor, New Orleans, La 504-988-1700 www.TulaneDermatology.com
as well as general dermatology for patients of all ages. No matter the health concern, Tulane as concerns that go deeper than the surface. Tulane specialists’ ability to overlap into other medical fields allows for big-picture care and better, quicker outcomes.
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TRAVEL
Well Traveled Three easy Louisiana destinations that put fun at your fingertips By Cheré Coen
Dew Drop Inn Jazz Hall in Mandeville
When you live in a state known
as an international destination, vacationing in your backyard is not only a great idea, it’s a must. These three fall getaways are chock full of fun, fine food, beautiful scenery and one-stop shopping. Just across the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, 30 minutes from the busy streets of New Orleans, isan oasis surrounded by history and nature. The Blue Heron Bed & Breakfast (blueheronmandevillela.com) is a newcomer to historic Mandeville. It is walking distance from the lake, area restaurants and the Mandeville Trailhead of the Tammany Trace nature trail. “Our guests tend to spend a lot of time outdoors,” says Sarah Chambless Federer, who owns the inn with her husband, restauranteur Steven Federer. “We’re
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perfectly situated between the Trace and the lake. It’s a nice, peaceful getaway.” The couple restored the 100-yearold rustic Craftsman cottage, which has two king-sized suites with private entrances. Each suite includes an outdoor seating area and breakfast that’s stocked ahead of time with local favorites so guests may enjoy their morning meal in the room or outside. There’s plenty of excitement to complement the peace. The Dew Drop Jazz Hall is close by and the Mandeville Trailhead offers concerts in the fall and spring. Joseph A. Bentley wanted a world-class hotel for Alexandria so the lumber baron built The Hotel Bentley ((historicbentley. com) with its dramatic lobby, marble pillars, elegant staircase, fountain and
crystal chandeliers. The Bentley in the heart of downtown was the talk of the region for years, but fell into neglect at the turn of the 21st century. Alexandria businessman Michael Jenkins purchased the property and restored the hotel, its Mirror Room lounge and restaurant, grand ballroom and meeting spaces so visitors can once again enjoy its opulence. (Enjoy a tour of Alexandria with Jenkins in Paul Stahls’ Traveler column on pg. 36.) The Bentley has a fascinating history. Central Louisiana was the site of the Louisiana Maneuvers during World War II, where soldiers were trained for overseas action. Some of the military greats to stay at the Bentley include Major Gen. George Patton and Pres. Dwight David Eisenhower. A small museum is just off the lobby.
photo courtesy dew drop inn
Entertainers John Wayne and Roy Rogers also graced the halls, and Elvis Presley serenaded guests on the veranda, said Lynn Cole Jones, the hotel’s current general manager. Jenkins also owns Diamond Grill, a fine dining establishment in a former jewelry store, and other nearby eateries include Embers which has live music, The Sandwich Shoppe for casual dining and Tamp and Grind, an eclectic coffee shop. Visitors love Cypress Bend Resort at Toledo Bend (cypressbend.com) for its 18-hole championship golf course and outstanding bass fishing. The full-service resort also includes a spa, hiking and walking trails, bird watching — especially for bald eagles — and a quiet spot for a romantic weekend. The resort includes hotel rooms and suites within the main building, plus one- and two-bedroom “golf suites” in a separate facility close to the golf course. At the spa, choose from body treatments,
massages and facials. The golf course is part of the Audubon Golf Trail and winds through wetlands, bayous and forests with dazzling views of the lake. There are also several dining options on the property. Toledo Bend remains the largest man-made lake in the South and was named the No. 1 bass fishing lake in America, so fishing is a natural draw. Cypress Bend offers fishing reports at the front desk and can arrange a guided fishing experience. Visitors may also bring their own boats. Among the resort’s hidden treasures, however, are the hiking and walking trails that travel through a lovely forest down to the lake. It’s common to view bald eagles and local and migratory birds flying over Toledo Bend and nesting in the area the first months of the new year. According to Audubon Louisiana, the state is only second to Florida in hosting eagle nests. u
Plan your trip around a festival Fall in Louisiana means festivals so visitors will be hard-pressed to find a weekend devoid of a celebration. The Alexandria Museum of Art examines the state’s varied French heritage with “Tiercé: Artists of Louisiana Francophone Cultures.” Francis Pavy, one of the exhibit’s artists, also selected the entries for the museum’s “29th September Competition” on the third floor. Both will be available through Nov. 19. The museum also offers yoga in the gallery every Tuesday evening and concerts the third Thursdays of the month, in addition to other special events. Two sites that give visitors a trip back in time are the Kent Plantation House with its interactive activities and special events and the Fort Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site in Pineville. Kent House offers the annual Sugar Day the second Saturday in
November and visitors to Fort Randolph may learn about Bailey’s Dam, built to help the Union fleet navigate below the Red River rapids, and travel the elevated boardwalk around the old fort used by Confederates to repel Union troops. The area along the Sabine River, that now includes Toledo Bend, was declared a “neutral ground” at one time because of its border dispute between Spain and the United States. Celebrating this historic time is the Sabine Freestate Festival Nov. 4 to 6 in Florien. In nearby Ebarb, the fifth annual Louisiana Native American Art Festival and Veterans Pow-Wow happens Nov. 4 and 5 to kick off Native American Heritage Month. Downtown Covington attracts around 200 exhibiting artists for its annual Three River Art Festival Nov. 12 and 13. In addition, there will be music
and food for the event that raises money for St. Tammany’s arts education. Best of all, it’s free. The Dew Drop Jazz Hall on Lamarque Street in Mandeville is considered the world’s oldest virtuallyunaltered rural jazz dance hall and the fall concert season is now rocking. It continues every other Friday through Dec. 16. Naturally, there’s plenty of holiday fun along the Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights, a collective of central and north Louisiana towns spanning Interstates 20 and 49. The Alexandria Zoo, for instance, glows with thousands of lights during its annual Holiday Light Safari. The largest celebration occurs in Natchitoches for its famous Natchitoches Christmas. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the event that’s been labeled by Yahoo.com the “Best Holiday Light Show” behind Rockefeller Center and Disney World.
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Eating Well Easy and filling Louisiana fare for any night of the week By Stanley Dry with Styling and Photographs by Eugenia Uhl
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Mention Louisiana food and immediately the
mind fills with visions of favorites to natives and vistors alike, such as gumbo, jambalaya, crawfish etouffée, boudin, red beans and rice, all manner of seafood, strong coffee, bread pudding and pecan pralines. These and a hundred other dishes have given Louisiana a deserved reputation for its distinctive and delicious regional cuisine. Indeed, for anyone who loves to eat Louisiana is a paradise. The state’s fabled gumbos of course include chicken and sausage varieties that predominate inland and seafood gumbos that are more common in coastal areas. In either case, a dark roux is the thickener, sometimes combined with either filé or okra. The sausage is usually smoked, but fresh sausages occasionally make an appearance, as does tasso, a heavily spiced and smoked pork. Seafood gumbos may include some combination of shrimp, crab, crawfish and oysters. The variations among gumbos are almost endless and we all have our go-to. Boiled crawfish, shrimp and crabs are extremely popular all over he state, either prepared in the backyard or eaten at restaurants that specialize in boiled seafood. Fried catfish, shrimp, oysters, crawfish and soft-shell crabs are available almost everywhere as are poor boys filled with fried seafood, roast beef or any number of other options. Everyday vegetables include tomatoes, okra, greens, corn, sweet potatoes, field peas, red beans and white beans (with rice, of course), as well as a variety of specialty produce from farmers markets throughout the state. Louisiana restaurants, particularly in New Orleans, specialize in Creole classics such as crawfish bisque, turtle soup, shrimp remoulade, oysters Rockefeller and Bienville, pompano en papillote, chicken bonne femme, sautéed speckled trout or redfish topped with lump crabmeat, buttery and peppered barbecued shrimp and grillades and grits. Desserts and sweet confections occupy places of distinction in the Creole firmament. It is impossible to imagine Louisiana food without pralines, bananas Foster, bread pudding with whiskey sauce, soufflés, creme brulee, caramel custard, calas, king cake and beignets. As you travel around Louisiana, the cooking will vary from one place to another, just as it varies from one cook to another. No one has ever been able to compile a list of all the different Louisiana gumbos or etouffées because the cuisine is alive and evolving. Just when you think you’ve sampled the best gumbo of your life, an even better one may be just around the next bend in the road. u
Crawfish, Shrimp & Lump Crabmeat Etouffée An etouffée is a type of stew, usually featuring crawfish, but it may also be made with shrimp or with a combination of seafood, as in this version. Crawfish etouffée occupies such an exalted place in Louisiana cookery that it is often thought to have a long lineage. Actually, it is a mid-20th-century creation, but no less delicious for that. ½ cup butter 2 large onions, chopped fine 2 stalks celery, chopped fine 2 cups chicken stock or broth ¼ cup all-purpose flour 1 pound crawfish tails, with fat 2 tablespoons lemon juice coarse salt and cayenne hot sauce 1 pound peeled and deveined shrimp
1.In a heavy pot over medium heat, melt butter and cook onions and celery until softened, about 5 minutes. 2. Meanwhile, in a small mixing bowl, whisk together cold chicken broth and flour until smooth. Add to pot. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer until thickened and raw taste of flour disappears, about 30 minutes. 3. Add crawfish and fat and cook an additional 15 minutes. Add lemon juice. Season to taste with salt, cayenne and hot sauce. 4. Add shrimp and cook until shrimp color, about 5 minutes. Add lump crabmeat and cook only until crabmeat is heated through. Adjust seasonings. Add onion tops and parsley. Serve over steamed rice. Makes about 6 servings.
1 pound lump crabmeat, picked over ¼ cup chopped green onion tops ¼ cup chopped parsley
If you’re serving this etouffée to guests whose taste and tolerance for hot foods may vary, go easy on the spice and provide bottles of hot sauce that diners can add as desired.
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Shrimp, Oyster & Crabmeat Gumbo No dish is as evocative of Louisiana cooking as gumbo. Everyone makes it, and everyone makes it differently. It is possible to ascribe certain styles of gumbo to specific geographical locations, but within those areas the gumbos can vary greatly, even within the same family. This recipe is for a special occasion gumbo, made from three of the finest seafoods in the Gulf. 2 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil 1 large onion, diced 1 stalk celery, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced Ÿ cup dark roux 8 cups chicken stock or broth 1 bay leaf ½ teaspoon dried thyme leaves 2 pounds medium shrimp, peeled and deveined coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper cayenne hot sauce 1 pound lump crabmeat, picked over
1. In a large pot, cook onion, celery and garlic in oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Add roux and stir to combine. 2. Slowly add chicken stock or broth to vegetable/roux mixture, while stirring, to combine. Add bay leaf and thyme, bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for about an hour. 3. Skim surface of gumbo. Add shrimp and cook for about 10 minutes. 4. Season to taste with salt, peppers and hot sauce. Add crabmeat and oysters; cook until crabmeat is heated through and oysters begin to curl. Adjust seasonings. Add parsley and onion tops. Serve with steamed rice. Makes about 4 servings.
1 pint shucked oysters, drained 2 tablespoons chopped parsley 2 tablespoons chopped green onion tops
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Chocolate Bread Pudding with Whipped Cream Bread pudding is another dish that is prepared by restaurant chefs and home cooks all over Louisiana. Originally conceived as a way to use up leftover bread, it ranges from homey examples to elegant confections, such as the Bread Pudding Soufflé at Commander’s Palace in New Orleans. If you love the combination of bread and chocolate, this version will have a special appeal.
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate
1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Butter a standard loaf pan.
2 cups milk
2. Break chocolate into pieces, combine with milk in a small saucepan and heat, stirring occasionally, just until chocolate melts.
4 cups French bread torn into small pieces 4 tablespoons melted butter 2 eggs, separated ½ cup sugar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 2 tablespoons bourbon, dark rum or brandy
Whipped Cream ½ pint very cold heavy cream 3 tablespoons powdered sugar
3. Drizzle bread with melted butter in a small bowl and toss to coat. 4. In a mixing bowl, combine egg yolks, sugar, vanilla and liquor. While whisking, add melted chocolate and milk. Add bread and combine. Beat egg whites until stiff and fold into bread mixture. 5. Turn into loaf pan and bake until set in the center, about 40 minutes. Serve with whipped cream. Makes 6-8 servings.
Whipped Cream 1. Whip cream until it begins to thicken. 2. Add sugar and whip until soft peaks form. Makes about 2 1/2 cups.
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NORTH Holiday for Arts in Ruston BY jeanne frois
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he historic district of Ruston is at the city’s heart, which is dotted with old buildings, eclectic specialty boutiques and eateries providing delectable dining, as well as the annual Holiday Arts Tour. Sponsored by the North Central Louisiana Art Council, 30 locations in the downtown area were selected as festive visitation points. Forty artists will perform, offering jazz renditions, a cappella harmony, bluegrass and blues. Demonstrations by artists in the form of linocut printing, calligraphy and oil painting celebrate the expressive culture of Louisiana during the holiday season. Boutiques such as 2 Crazy Girls and Beau
DUCK DINING Anyone who has followed the saga of the Robertson family on the popular A&E series, “Duck Dynasty,” knows each episode ends as the family gathers around the dinner table of patriarch Phil Robertson and matriarch Miss Kay. After giving thanks, the family consumes mouth-watering looking dishes
created by that supreme cook, Miss Kay. Her down-home dishes include bowls of creamy mac and cheese, meatloaf, fried chicken and homemade banana pudding. Entrepreneur that he is, Willie Robertson opened, “Willie’s Duck Diner,” filled with hearty family-mealtype fare, with the obvious influence of his mother, Miss Kay, in place. The
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restaurant has been closed for renovations, but is scheduled to reopen at the end of November or the beginning of December. When it does, hustle over for Sadie’s (Willie’s daughter) Bacon and Cheese Fries, Boudin or a generous basket of fried pickles. The delicious, overstuffed Cajun poor boys selection offers pulled pork or fried gator, oyster or
nimble artistic hands. Strolling through the festive streets, you just may happen upon members of the Tech Theatre Players juggling or engaging in thespian combat on Ruston’s sidewalks showcasing their
shrimp spilling from two slices of crisp French bread. You can choose from the “Signature Sammiches,” which includes “The Boss Hog,” Willie’s own creation of fried bologna, Colby Jack cheese and candied jalapenos resting on Texas Toast. “The Godwin,” has three decks of ham, onion straws, Swiss and cheddar cheese with mayo on Texas Toast.
acting ability. The celebration offers many activities geared for children during the Yuletide. u
Holiday Arts Tour in Ruston Downtown Ruston; Dec. 2 to 3 nclarts.org/holidayartstour
Miss Kay’s meatloaf is a hearty entrée choice, especially eaten with a side of her famous mac and cheese. A wide range of Cajun and seafood entrees, such as Jase’s Frog Legs; the jambalaya plate; crawfish etouffee; good old red beans and rice; and fittingly, duck and andouille gumbo are delicious possibilities for a fine meal inspired by a family
matriarch who obviously cooks with love. Finish your meal with a helping of Miss Kay’s velvety banana pudding. This eatery is perfect for down home comfort food, especially during cold winter months.
Willie’s Duck Diner 125 Constitution Ave. West Monroe 318-807-DUCK williesduckdiner.com
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west monroe
Monde are among the many shops offering Christmas gift choices. Visitors can spend time engrossed in viewing photography, woodworking, handmade jewelry, sculpture and fiber arts, all created by
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ix years ago, Brown Bag Gourmet opened in the Marksville area, a region filled with fried chicken joints, casino buffets and other convenience food establishments loaded with sodium and cholesterol. It was not exactly prime real estate conducive to the success of a high-end farm-to-table eatery. Using the abundant fresh resources of the farming community nearby, proprietor and Moreauville native Trent Bonnette began serving hearty, healthy salads and sandwiches. It was a risk that struck a gastronomic chord. Patronizing both the local growers and the backyard gardeners maintained mutual
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christmas past Alexandria has revered Christmas in its own quiet way as far back as the Antebellum period. Christmas
revenue between Bonnette and his neighbors. People began lining up for the masterful Brown Bag Burger, made with Louisiana beef, avocado and caramelized onions topping a grilled Portobello mushroom all resting within an onion roll. Crab cakes made with Louisiana crab and shrimp
season heralded the end of the harvest. The work was done and it was time to celebrate all the goodness of the preceding year. The celebration centered around two things — church and family. Nineteenth century
families anticipated dressing the church in Christmas finery, the religious service and the Christmas feast. Eggnog, as usual, remained a traditional Christmas libation. Each year, Kent Plantation House
accentuated by the delicate flavors of beurre blanc sauce and corn and blackened tuna served on locally sourced lettuce doused lightly in vinaigrette, were also in demand. The dinner menu changes seasonally, but as of writing this piece includes grilled mahimahi with lump crab, thyme butter and mirliton slaw. But one
commemorates this time, once blessedly devoid of mobile devices, with the Old Fashioned Christmas Celebration. Held in conjunction with Alexandria’s Twelve Nights of Christmas, the plantation opens its doors to children
popular item will always remain due to public outcry when it was taken off the menu — the Louisiana beef burger with bacon jam, caramelized onions and bleu cheese layers. u
Brown Bag Gourmet 310 Acton Road 318-240-8211
who help decorate the old-fashioned way with popcorn, cranberry strands and paper chains. A bell choirs performs as the audience joins in song. Papa Noel is there to make note of all Christmas requests.
Old Fashioned Christmas Celebration Kent Plantation House 3601 Bayou Rapides Road Alexandria 318-487-5998 kenthouse.org
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Plantation Country
A scene from “Outlander.” Season 1, episode 11 - “The Devil’s Mark” was written by Toni Graphia.
Chrismas at Laura Plantation BY jeanne frois
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aura Plantation, upriver from New Orleans at Vacherie, is first and foremost a Creole plantation. Forsaking the sugar-white Grecian designs of plantations traditionally found in the South, this bewitching raised home exudes warmth and friendliness rather than grandeur. The home is washed in soft shades of primary colors with a yellow exterior and blue and red trim. Here, on these shady grounds, Compair Lapin (B’rer Rabbit) was born. It remains one of my favorite River Road plantations in a vast gallery of exquisite homes. Inside the house, you won’t find a traditional Christmas tree
standing anywhere. Preserving the Creole tradition of citrusthemed Christmas decorations, a kumquat tree adorns the gleaming dining room table, looking no less festive than a bank of poinsettias. Citrus interspersed with greenery was widely used in Creole homes during the holidays.
When December fogs shroud the Mississippi River and all seems hidden from the world, a wooden teepee burns on the levee just outside the plantation’s grounds to guide Papa Noel to Louisiana on Christmas Eve. Take tours of the charming house, with its lovely, intimate
little rooms and beautiful sprawling grounds, spoken either in Francaise or Anglaise, according to your preference. u
Laura Plantation 2247 Hwy.18 Vacherie 888-799-7690 lauraplantation.com
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MERRY MEDITERRANEAN Holiday feasts in most American cultures don’t usually include dishes from the healthy Mediterranean diet yet, what better season is there to enjoy them? After all, this is the time Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, who most
certainly followed the Mediterranean diet during his time on earth. Some passages of the Bible illustrate that contemporaries of the young Nazarene ate fishes, lamb, goat cheese, whole grain breads, both flat and loaves, olive oil, olives, herbs, fruits, vegetables,
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legumes and honey. We know from the story of the wedding at Cana that wine was also an option. It was a time when unleavened bread was dipped into olive oil and with a animal fat used in cooking, herbs and spices were added for flavor. Enter Lebanese and Greek cuisine, such as the savory dishes prepared at Serop’s Café in
Baton Rouge, which includes all of the aforementioned food items along with shellfish and chicken. Savory appetizers include velvety hummus, flavored with garlic and lemon juice, baba ganoush, roasted eggplant in tahini, lemon and garlic with olive oil as well as fried halloumi cheese or vegetarian moussaka.
Feta salad, rice pilaf and hummus accompany nearly all entrees. Chicken shawarma is a vertically broiled chicken breast that first spent the night marinating in garlic, red wine vinegar, olive oil and Lebanese spices. Marinated cubes of grilled chicken, lamb or beef are skewered for kebabs. Order the vegetarian plate and select four items
from the following choices: hummus, baba ganoush, grape leaves, moussaka, falafel; tabouleh; mujadrah (lentils and rice); or spinach pie. Fresh fish, chicken or shrimp are grilled and served in a creamy dill sauce.
Serop’s Café 7474 Corporate Blvd. Baton Rouge 225-201-8100 seropscafe.com
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Cajun Country Sugar and Pecans in Cut Off BY jeanne frois
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he Cajun Pecan House was established in 1985, offering fresh, shelled pecans and homemade pralines to locals. It experienced a sweet expansion over time. The charming little wooden structure on West Main Street in Cut Off now features 23 varieties of candies and flavored pecans, as well as flaky delicious pies, including pecan, praline apple, tarte a la bouille (a wickedly delicious traditional custard pie). This place has Christmas dessert written all over it. If you have long given up on the sawdust quality of fruitcake,
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Village of Light Le Vieux Village (the old village) in Opelousas was founded in 1720. Originally peopled by the Opelousa Indians, Opelousas is a native Indian word meaning, “black legs,” a term that
hearkens practice of members of the light-skinned tribe painting their lower legs black. In 1988, the Opelousas Tourism and Activities Committee officially created this historic rural enclave. However, as far back as the early 1970s, local citizens donated and moved
historic buildings to the site. Today, visitors can catch a glimpse of life, as it was in the past in St. Landry Parish. Replete with one of the oldest Creole homes west of the Mississippi River; a 1911 schoolhouse; 19th century country store and doctor’s office and the Jim Bowie Museum
(paying tribute to Opelousas’ one time resident), Le Vieux Village is a St. Landry Parish treasure. On the first Friday of December the “Lighting of the Village” takes place. This has quickly become a favorite holiday tradition that kicks off with music from the Opelousas
you might have a change of heart here. The bakery has placed its own individual stamp on fruitcake with a recipe filled with fresh fruit and nuts that quickly sell out. If you love to take one-tank trips exploring Christmas gift or meal options, this bakery is worth a quick zip down historic Highway 1 to Cut Off. You might want to indulge in some of the candies, including pecan clusters, chocolate pecan brittle, Cajun pecan logs or peanut butter fudge. When Christmas season ends and Epiphany arrives on Jan. 6, the Cajun Pecan House switches gear and falls into full king cake mode. Some of its fans have claimed this royal confectionery even surpasses the king cakes of New Orleans. u
Cajun Pecan House 14808 W. Main St. Cut Off 985-432-2586 cajunpecanhouse.com
High School band, followed by the official “pulling of the switch,” an act that sets the old building ablaze with Christmas lights. Vendors are present to assist with Christmas shopping in the form of arts and crafts; baby needs; jewelry; baked goods and home décor.
Santa pays a visit for a photo op and children can ride ponies, horse-drawn buggies.
Le Vieux Village 828 East St. Landry St. Opelousas Dec. 2, 2016 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. cityofopelousas.com
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Cobb. Stand a spell and sip Christmas cheer in the form of a Sazerac, Pimm’s Cup or Absinthe Drip prepared the classic way with sugar cube and cold water. The spicy shrimp remoulade is still on the menu as it was from the beginning, along with the house specialty brisket fittingly accompanied by horseradish sauce. Barbecue shrimp and grits are more modern offerings, using Abita Amber beer as an ingredient for the New Orleans-style barbecue butter to cover huge Gulf shrimp and stone ground grits. Savor the veal Oscar, a tender veal cutlet with jumbo lump crabmeat, sauce béarnaise, Brabant potatoes and asparagus as you savor your surroundings. It’s like a gift itself to remember you’re seated within walls saturated with history and lore — butcher’s yarns, ghost stories and war stories shared by soldiers who made it safely home. u
Greater New Orleans Tujaque’s BY jeanne frois photo by chryl gerber
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t wouldn’t be fitting to let 2016 end without wishing a Grande Dame of dining a happy 160th birthday. The recently renovated Tujague’s Restaurant on Decatur in the French Quarter was established in 1856 next to New Orleans’ first public market. The second oldest dining institution in New Orleans, Tujague’s is said to be the birthplace of the brunch (once known as the midday “butcher’s breakfast” for workers) and iconic grasshopper and whiskey punch cocktails. Tujague’s also lays claim to being the oldest stand-up bar in America with guests including presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and DeGaulle, as well as notables Harrison Ford, Cole Porter, O. Henry and Ty
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THE PASSIONATE PLATTER During the season for cooking, feasting and presents, the gift of cooking classes at The Passionate Platter in Olde Towne Slidell sounds ideal.
The proprietress is Linda Franzo, master gardener. The setting for her classes is storybook perfect — herb gardens cradled beneath the sheltering branches of an oak tree near Bayou Lacombe. Here, the mission to produce scrumptious farm-to-table
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Tujague’s Restaurant 823 Decatur St. New Orleans 504-525-8676 tujaguesrestaurant.com
cuisine takes center stage. Inside the clear Plexiglas greenhouse walls, Franzo, a former speech therapist, offers workshops in a magical setting. The garden, pregnant with fresh vegetables and herbs is just outside the door. A nearby chicken coop
provides fresh eggs. Nestled around the wood-burning beehive stove, students learn how to grill meat, make pizza and flatbread, as well as master barbecued shrimp. A firm believer in utilizing the many natural ingredients local to Louisiana, Franzo conducts
hands-on cooking demonstrations that have also created herb-infused remoulade sauces and green gumbo z’herbes. Lunch or evening dining combined with cooking classes in the greenhouse is a culinary celebration. Interspersed with all the cookery are
Franzo’s tips for cultivating herbs and constructing compost piles.
The Passionate Platter 2104 First St. Slidell 985-781-4372
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Traveling Around Louisiana Fall & Winter Destinations & Events The fall and winter holidays are a perfect time to travel the state and surrounding area. Twinkling lights line various downtowns, perfect for admiring with a loved one and a warm mocha latte or hot chocolate in your hands. A diverse lineup of festivals and events brings everything from celebrations of the holidays to art openings, bonfires, theatrical performances, and much more. Whether shopping for fine art, holiday gifts, beautiful crafts, or a new wardrobe, the destinations across the region are filling walls and shelves with seasonal winter items and Louisiana-made gifts sure to dazzle the eye. Don’t forget to explore the great outdoors while you’re at it, as Louisiana’s mild, mosquito-free winters make for pleasant days on the water, in the woods, and even on the golf course. From making holiday family memories to relaxing with friends on a weekend getaway, Louisiana offers it all among the following destinations. Destinations & Events Across Louisiana This winter, Natchitoches gears up for its 90th Annual Christmas Festival. The festival season draws around 500,000 people every year from across Louisiana and the region for its variety of celebrations, entertainment, tours, food, music, and shopping. With live music, fireworks, 300,000+ lights illuminating Cane River, and—of course—visits from Santa, the charming holiday festival amidst the beatific backdrop of historic Natchitoches
offers visitors the opportunity to delight in the Christmas spirit and the warmth of family. With the start of Epiphany on January 6th comes the revelry of Mardi Gras, and Natchitoches is host to three Mardi Gras balls and one celebratory parade. The Krewe of Dionysos rolls on the evening of Saturday, February 25th, and brings family-friendly fun to Natchitoches’ joyous streets throughout the day and night. For more travel ideas and Natchitoches attractions, including historic homes and the famous Natchitoches Meat Pie, visit Natchitoches.com. Seasonal aromas are wafting through Avoyelles Parish, and winter activities are picking up! On November 19, the Avoyelles Arts and Humanities Council brings its Fais Do Do to Bordelonville where Bruce Daigrepont is scheduled to take the stage at 7:00pm. In addition, ticket holders are eligible for Cajun Dance lessons before the show at 5:30pm. Tickets are available by calling 318-264-9392. Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville continues to bring great entertainment through the region as The Country Revolution Tour arrives Friday, November 4, and Brian McKnight performs on Saturday, November 26. Shows are at 8:00pm, and tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000. The Town of Cottonport invites you to its annual Christmas on the Bayou Festival on the banks of Cottonport, December 10-11. Fireworks illuminate the sky at dusk on
Saturday and the Christmas parade fills the streets on Sunday. Call Cottonport Town Hall for additional information at 318-876-3485. Lafayette is at the heart of Louisiana’s Cajun Country, an area known for letting the good times roll, or as they say it, laissez les bons temps rouler. That’s in large part because no matter what time of year you visit Lafayette they will have something for you to celebrate. One celebration that has visitors from all over the world heading down south with smiles on their faces is the two-month long Cajun & Creole Christmas celebration. Beginning in November and lasting through the New Year, the heart of Cajun & Creole Country is transformed into a winter wonderland. From light shows to street and boat parades, tour of homes, performances, carolers and much more, you can be sure to find something to get the family in the holiday spirit. Visit LafayetteTravel.com/Christmas for the 2016 schedule of events. Experience the holidays in Ruston & Lincoln Parish like never before with events for the family all season long. Festivities kick off December 1st with Downtown Ruston’s Christmas Open House. Shop extended hours and witness the ceremonial lighting that sets Downtown Ruston aglow. The beautiful lights twinkle throughout the holiday season. Returning again this year is ice-skating! Additionally, December 2nd and 3rd bring the Holiday Arts Tours, offering an opportunity to shop works from local artists. The fun doesn’t stop with downtown shopping! Locals and visitors alike are enjoying Ruston’s premiere drive-through lights display at Lincoln Park and local choirs singing for the community at Winter Fest. Theatre fans won’t want to miss the holiday performances coming to the Dixie Center for the Arts stage like family favorite “It’s a Wonderful Life,” the Russ-Town Band Christmas Concert and the always delightful Dixie Dancers. For more information and upcoming events in Ruston & Lincoln Parish, visit experienceruston.com. The live garland draped from wrought iron balconies at the majestic Nottoway Plantation, the glimmer of lighted Christmas scenes along beautiful Bayou Plaquemine, and the soulful sounds of choirs from historic houses of worship —these are just a few of the details that make the holidays sparkle in Iberville. The parish’s local cuisine is reason alone to celebrate the season. Savor authentic Louisiana fare at Roberto’s River Road Restaurant in Sunshine. Enjoy the eclectic culinary offerings of Portobello’s in Plaquemine or indulge on seafood delicacies deep in the heart of the Atchafalaya at Carbo’s Restaurant. Browse the Depot Market where that perfect antique or handmade find is sure to rival Santa’s workshop. Candlelight tours, tree lightings, bonfires on the levee, and special events are featured throughout November and December, providing experiences that prompt tradition. Join Iberville Parish this holiday season and experience the heart of Louisiana Plantation Country and the soul
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ADVERTISING SECTION of the Atchafalaya Basin at its brightest. For ideas and information, go to VisitIberville.com. Whether it is football you crave, high-speed drag racing, historic plantation homes, visiting the award-winning sugar museum, scenic views of the Mighty Mississippi, or a fun festival, West Baton Rouge has it all. Travelers across South Louisiana this winter will not want to pass up West Baton Rouge Parish, known as the Kite Capital of Louisiana, and now home of MOBY, the 13-foot, 760-lb. alligator. Visit the West Baton rouge Tourist Center, Exit #151, and see him for yourself. Visit December 8-11 and 15-23 and experience Reflections of the Season, with millions of lights, wagon rides, carnival rides, a snow night, and ice fishing. Inside the tourist center, enjoy the works of crafters, jolly ol’ Santa, and a decorated winter wonderland. For more information, or to view short videos of events, attractions, and event day trip itineraries, visit West Baton Rouge.net. For three days, downtown Alexandria is magically transformed into a winter wonderland with snow, ice rinks, snow globes and all the sights and sounds of the winter holiday season. During the AlexWinterFête, the streets become a holiday village with shops selling unique gifts, cakes and cookies, as well as art, crafts, and jewelry. Santa Claus greets his fans as children laugh and play to the sounds of jingling sleigh bells. Delicious eggnog flows as people mingle, shop, skate and sled, and street performers delight the crowds with mesmerizing talents. Stellar music fills the air from two big bandstands while fireworks light up the twinkling night sky. No one wants this festival to end! Join Alexandria for the goodwill, good cheer, and great fun that is AlexWinterFête. For more information on scheduled events and lineups, visit CityofAlexandriaLA.com/alexwinterfete. Plan a holiday escape to Alexandria/Pineville where everyone enjoys the theatrics of the stage during The Nutcracker and the Cenla Christmas Spectacular. The City of Alexandria lights the town during its annual lighting event, Holiday Magic, which kicks off the exciting 12 Nights of Christmas celebration and AlexWinterFete. Each of the 12 Nights of Christmas offers fun, family-friendly activities across three weeks in December. Events include concerts, parades, Kent House’s Old Fashioned Christmas, and the Alexandria Zoo’s annual Holiday Light Safari. Returning to the holiday lineup will be the Alexandria Garden District Holiday Tour of Homes where visitors can tour five homes, each with its own unique story. Learn more about these and other events in Central Louisiana at AlexandriaPinevilleLa.com. Celebration in the Oaks in New Orleans City Park is the most spectacular holiday lights festivals in the country. City Park’s famous oaks are swathed in over a million twinkling lights with breathtaking light displays placed throughout 25 acres of the Park, including the Botanical Garden, Storyland, and Carousel Gardens Amusement Park. New Orleans’ mild winter weather and City Park’s stunning landscape with its oak groves, moss-covered cypresses, and meandering lagoons make Celebration in the Oaks a unique holiday event. This annual celebration is magi94 | Louisiana Life november/december 2016
cal for all ages and has become an enduring holiday tradition for families. Visitors experience a range of attractions, from light displays to walkways lined with Christmas trees, to rides on the holiday train and historic Carousel. Celebration in the Oaks runs now through January 1st. The event is closed November 28th through December 1st as well as on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Hours are Sunday through Thursday, 6:00pm-10:00pm, and Friday and Saturday, 6:00pm-11:00pm. For more information on events and Park amenities, visit NewOrleansCityPark.com. River Oaks Square Arts Center is located in the heart of Alexandria’s historic downtown and is one of the South’s most unique arts centers. River Oaks features over 20 exhibitions and nearly 200 visual artists annually. The center offers premiere education components with featured artists and houses studio space for over 40 working artists. This season, River Oaks plays host to two exciting events. First, the 5x5x5 Show invites local and regional artists to enter and display miniature works of art, ranging from paintings and sculpture to ceramics and mixed media, all within a 5-inch by 5-inch by 5-inch measurement. Juried by Mark Tullos, the show runs November 18, 2016, through January 13, 2017, with an opening reception November 18 at 5:00pm. On December 3, 2016, River Oaks hosts its Annual Christmas Porch Sale from 9:00am3:00pm. Running for over 25 years, the sale features original, contemporary works from over 100 artists in addition to artist demonstrations. The sale continues with remaining inventory through December 21. For more information on River Oaks Square Arts Center, visit their website, riveroaksartscenter.com, and follow them on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. This November, visit the beautiful town of Covington and experience a winning combination of fine art and festival atmosphere. The Covington Three Rivers Art Festival, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, brings fine art, crafts, and music to the quaint and friendly downtown area. Three Rivers poster artist Candice Alexander will demonstrate the art of print making at the Arts Alive! Tent, where you can join in the fun by adding some paint to the 20th anniversary working mural. Art lovers can stroll down charming Columbia Street to view the five blocks of tents featuring juried artists from 28 states. The festival also features a live music stage, a food court along with street food, and a Children’s Discovery Area complete with a performance stage, and student art exhibits. This high-end art and fine crafts festival takes place November 12 and 13, from 10:00am-5:00pm. The public is invited to meet the artists at the Covington Trailhead on Saturday, from 6:30-9:30pm. There is no charge for admission. No pets allowed. For more information, visit ThreeRiversArtFestival.com. The holiday season brings to light one of the oldest holiday traditions in the United States: Christmas Eve bonfires. Held along the Mississippi River levees since the 1720s, over one hundred wooden bonfire structures line the river for miles and attract thousands of visitors to the towns of Reserve, Garyville, Gramercy,
Lutcher, and Paulina in New Orleans Plantation Country. The first European settlers brought the custom with them, and the tradition flourishes as families work together to create bonfires each year into amazing works of art. All bonfires are ignited simultaneously at 7:00pm to welcome the arrival of Papa Noel on Christmas Eve. Visitors are welcome to join the merriment. The area is also a hit for holiday shopping, as plantation home gift shops offer a diverse selection of southern crafts, books, handmade collectibles and more. You’ll also find fabulous jewelry stores and quality antique shops. For links to shops and stores as well as more information on Christmas Eve bonfires, visit NewOrleansPlantationCountry.com and begin planning your holiday visit. St. Mary Parish, also known as the Cajun Coast, is a gem for experiencing the great outdoors in Sportsman’s Paradise. Surrounded by the waters of Bayou Teche, Atchafalaya River, and the Atchafalaya Swamp Basin, the Cajun Coast is known for its natural splendor and “road less traveled” atmosphere. Options for exploration, relaxation, and excitement abound on both water and land. Find your calm among the serene wilderness of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area or along the Bayou Teche Scenic Byway. Boaters enjoy the waters of the Atchafalaya Basin, the largest overflow swamp, as well as the scenery and sounds offered by the Bayou Teche National Wildlife Refuge. Golfers won’t want to miss a chance to hit the Atchafalaya at Idlewild, which was rated the number one golf course in Louisiana by Golfweek Magazine in 2008 and 2009. Fall events include Harvest Moon Fest, Chitimacha POW WOW and Berwick Lighthouse Fest. In winter, enjoy Mardi Gras and Eagle Expo. For more information, visit cajuncoast.com. Neighboring Destinations Welcome, intrepid shoppers, seekers of the stylish, and explorers of great living! You’ve arrived at the right place—Ridgeland, Mississippi—for an exciting retail getaway experience that delights and satisfies. The Ridgeland Retail Trail is paved with locally owned, unique treasures and more. Ridgeland invites you to enjoy the special Sleigh and Stay Shopping Package (November 4 - December 21) with details at VisitRidgeland.com/WrapIt. It takes a delicate touch to create culinary masterpieces, patience to weave a perfect basket, and vision to transform a lump of clay into a piece of graceful pottery. These talents have helped Ridgeland grow from a small artist colony to a premier shopping destination with over 150 restaurants and quality accommodations. Ridgeland is also home to a variety of attractions including the Natchez Trace Parkway, a 444-mile All-American Road and National Scenic Byway, with 157 types of birds, state parks, riding trails, historic interpretations, American-Indian artifacts and cultural opportunities. Other attraction include the Mississippi Craft Center showcasing traditional and contemporary crafts and the 33,000-acre Ross Barnett Reservoir for parks and outdoor activities. Explore VisitRidgeland.com for more info.
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Louisiana’s healthcare providers continue to improve services across the state by offering new programs, proven practices, state of the art procedures, and advanced technologies. From smoking cessation and cardiovascular interventional procedures, to accomplishing a pregnancy with advanced reproductive technologies, today’s medicine continuously offers new options for patients seeking improved health or help for an ongoing condition. Cancer patients and patients requiring surgery may want to check out the latest technologies Louisiana’s hospitals are utilizing to enhance surgeries and improve outcomes. The following practices and hospitals, from North and Central Louisiana down to South Louisiana, may have a solution for your family’s health concerns. The local state of medicine continues to impress with such a vast range of coveted programs, services, procedures, and more. Cardiovascular Care Are you ready to quit smoking? Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) offers a comprehensive tobacco cessation program called Commit to Quit, which combines physician evaluations, medications, and counseling. In addition to providing prescription or over-thecounter medications, CIS also offers counseling sessions, both in person and over the phone, to guide the participant in resisting cravings and responding to moments of temptation. Nicotine addiction is the only addiction in which cessation is the most successful after multiple attempts. CIS works with patients individually to determine a personalized quit plan. It’s never too late to quit, and the chances of developing cardiovascular disease are greatly reduced after quitting. Program services are free to Louisiana residents who smoked a cigarette before September of 1988. However, many insurance carriers cover costs of the program as well. To learn more about the Commit To Quit Program at CIS, call 1-877-288-0011 or visit cardio.com. When you or someone you love is in need of top-quality cardio care, the doctors and staff at Freedman Memorial Cardiology in Alexandria are there to help. From educating on preventative measures to offering advanced treatment and procedures, the team provides a full range of cardiac services including: echocardiography; stress and echo stress testing; carotid ultrasound; nuclear stress testing; holter monitoring; pacemaker clinic and ECP for patients with inoperable CAD having intractable angina; and MTWA to determine patients who may be prone to sudden death syndrome. Personalized care is provided by a team of highly trained, caring staff. All doctors are triple board certified in medicine, cardiovascu-
first IVF. With a team of five physicians and additional staff, the Fertility Institute has accomplished over 16,000 pregnancies from all forms of fertility treatment, including those who have suffered from recurrent miscarriages. Offices are located in Mandeville, Metairie, and New Orleans with the addition of a second state-of-the-art IVF laboratory in Baton Rouge. Schedule appointments at 1-800375-0048. Visit FertilityInstitute.com. Technological Advances in Healthcare Systems
State of Medicine lar disease, and interventional cardiology, which enables the practice to successfully treat a wide range of cardiac conditions, including cardiovascular, coronary artery, valvular heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, congenital heart conditions, and heart failure and heart rhythm problems. They offer the latest in cardiovascular interventional procedures, including: balloon angioplasty; coronary; carotid; arterial and vascular stenting; pacemaker and ICD (internal cardiac defibrillator) implants; and Pfo closures. For more information, or to schedule an appointment, call 318-767-0960. Fertility Since 1977, New Orleans has been home to one of the nation’s leading, state-of-the-art clinics specializing in new infertility treatment. The Fertility Institute has over 30 years of successful in vitro fertilization (IVF) and continues to be recognized for its excellence by peers and health insurance companies providing benefits for infertility and in vitro fertilization. Employing traditional treatments and the latest advances in reproductive technology, including IVF, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and cryopreservation of eggs, they offer hope for families who have trouble conceiving or who have genetic abnormalities that may cause a difficult quality of life for a child. The Fertility Institute is a pioneer in the Gulf South and the first to perform IVF in the region and achieve a pregnancy with its
In September of 2014, Willis-Knighton Cancer Center in Shreveport opened its WK Proton Therapy Center, becoming the first in the state to offer this advanced technology for cancer treatment. In September 2016, it marked another milestone, the 200th patient treated with the technology. The proton therapy unit has been tremendously successful, attracting patients from six states to Shreveport for use of the technology. In addition to attracting out-of-town patients, the WK Proton Therapy Center has brought national and international physicians and healthcare executives to Shreveport to learn about this exciting technology. “The addition of proton therapy at WillisKnighton has significantly improved the quality of cancer care for patients in this region,” said Lane Rosen, MD, director of radiation oncology. “Our experience has shown proton therapy to be a valid and often superior treatment for certain cancers. We look forward to continuing to lead the world in state-of-the-art proton therapy.” For more information on the Cancer Center’s Proton Therapy Center and Willis-Knighton Health System, visit wkhs.com/cancer. Lafayette General Health (LGH) is a community-owned, non-profit regional healthcare system committed to always delivering excellence. Being a community-owned healthcare system means not paying money to shareholders, nor to a parent company. LGH reinvests its profits in new equipment and technology that benefits the community it serves as opposed to sending its revenue to Baton Rouge or Nashville. LGH has invested in some of the most innovative technology in the country as evidenced by the Femtosecond CATALYS® Laser, which provides a less invasive option for cataract procedures. BAHA® bone conduction implants are a unique solution for restoring hearing. The da Vinci® Xi Surgical System is now being used for thoracic surgery to treat diseased or injured organs such as the esophagus, chest wall, heart, and lungs. NicView™ cameras were added to each bed in LGH’s Neonatal ICU, allowing family members to view their newborn from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. For more information about LGH and its advanced technologies, visit LafayetteGeneral.com. LouisianaLife.com | 95
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november/ december Festivals and events around the state BY kelly massicot
Greater New Orleans Nov. 4. Boudin, Bourbon & Beer. New Orleans. boudinbourbonandbeer.com Nov. 4-5. Pontchartrain Film Festival. Mandeville. pontchartrainfilmfestival.com Nov. 5. Central City Fest. New Orleans. ochaleyblvd.org/centralcity-festival-1 Nov. 5. Second District Blues Festival. New Orleans. 2nddistrictbluesfest.com Nov. 5. Bayou Bacchanal. New Orleans. 504-220-8441. bayoubacchanal.org Nov. 5-Jan.7. Napoléon. General. Emperor. Legend. Exhibit at M.S. Rau Antiques. New Orleans. 212-580-0835. rauantiques.com Nov. 11-12. New Orleans Book Festival. New Orleans. nolabookfest.org Nov. 11-13. Westwego Cypress Swamp Festival. Westwego. 504-341-3424 Nov. 12-13. Treme Creole Gumbo Festival. New Orleans. 504-5586100. jazzandheritage.org/ treme-gumbo
Dec. 2. St. Tammany’s Ozone Camellia Festival. Slidell. 985-643-7153 louisiananorthshore.com/event Dec. 2-4. Plaquemines Parish Fair and Orange Festival. Buras. 504-405-8535. orangefestival.com
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Dec. 17. Jingle Bell Run. New Orleans. 337-540-0615. arthritis.org/louisiana
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Cajun Country Nov. 4-5. Festival of Words. Grand Coteau. 337-254-9695. festivalofwords.org Nov. 4-6. Louisiana Swine Festival. Basile. 337-230-1479. americantowns.com/la/basile Nov. 5. Jungle Gardens Fun Run. New Iberia. junglegardens5k.com Nov. 10. Ducks Unlimited Annual Banquet & Outdoor Show. Houma. 985-855-9619. ducks.org/louisiana/events Nov. 10-13. Southern Screen Film Festival. Lafayette. southernscreen.org Nov. 12. Atchafalaya Basin Festival. Henderson. 337-2052443. basinfestival.com Nov. 12. Bayou Beer Fest. Houma. 985-873-9185. bayoubeerfest.com Nov. 12-13. Flea Fest. Lake Charles. 337-502-8584. fleafest.com
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central Louisiana was impacted by another devastating flood wiping out homes, city buildings and leaving an overwhelming recovery process for residents and businesses. The Louisiana Renaissance Festival was also impacted by the storm with more than 10 feet of water covering the festival grounds and affecting the performers. After a two week cleanup process, donations are being collected to help the participating merchants, who provide and pay for all of their belongings at the fair, get back on their feet. The festival is set to begin the first weekend of November and continue each weekend until Dec. 10 and 11. To donate to the effort, visit the Renaissance Festival’s GoFundMe page at gofundme. com/larfflood.
Central Nov. 4-6. Louisiana Pecan Festival. Colfax. 318-627-5196. lapecanfest.com Nov. 4-6. Sabine Freestate Festival. Florien. 318-586-3521 Nov. 19-Jan.6. Natchitoches Christmas Festival. Natchitoches. natchitocheschristmas.com
North Nov. 17-19. Annual Les Boutiques De Noel. Bossier City. 318-393-2164. lesboutiquesdenoel.com Dec. 3. Christmas on Caddo Fireworks Festival. Oil City. 318-631-0182. christmasoncaddofireworks.com Dec. 10. Benton Christmas on the Square Festival and Parade. Benton. bentonchristmasonthesquare.com
Plantation Country Nov. 18-20. El Festival Español de Nueva Iberia. New Iberia. newiberiaspanishfestival.com Dec. 2-3. Houma Cajun Christmas Parade. Houma. 985-873-6408 Dec. 3. Al Berard Music Festival. Arnaudville. alberard.com
Nov. 5,6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 25,26,27; Dec. 3,4,10,11. Louisiana Renaissance Fest. Hammond. larf.net Nov. 19-20. Fall Pow Wow. Gonzales. 985-796-5433 Dec. 9-11. Festival of the Bonfires. Lutcher. 225-562-2520 u
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Nov. 12-13. Three Rivers Arts Festival. Covington. 985-3279797. threeriversartfestival.com
Dec. 16-30. Nola Christmas Fest. New Orleans. nolachristmasfest.com
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Sugar Buzz A Shreveport liquor store serves drive-through daiquiris with character By Chris Jay photo by berg photography
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onsider the drive-through daiquiri: cheap, boozy and ambiguously fruity, these oversized alcoholic slurpees are seldom considered “artful.” At Alky Therapy Daiquiris in Shreveport, owner Katina Gosey is hard at work rewriting expectations of what a drivethrough daiquiri can be. Alky Therapy drinks are colorful sculptures topped with skewers of fresh fruit, chocolate-covered strawberries, Kool-Aid-soaked pickles and outrageous candy towers. The drinks require so much time to assemble that Gosey asks customers to place orders in advance by phone. Unlike the vast majority of daiquiri shops, Alky Therapy only offers one drink size — an 18 ounce Mason jar, which is served inside of a sealed, 32-ounce styrofoam cup in order to comply with liquor laws while leaving room for the crown of toppings that adorn each drink. Affixed to each frosty Mason jar is a prescription-style label that reads: “This product has an intoxicating effect. Drink as often as needed.” Extra shots are served in plastic ampules that
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Alky Therapy drinks are topped with everything from fresh fruit and chocolate-covered strawberries to outrageous candy towers.
Gosey orders from a medical supply company. In a major departure from drive-through daiquiri tradition, Alky Therapy doesn’t offer buy-one-get-onefree drinks. “Everyone else in the city has buyone-get-one-free deals, and I just didn’t want to compete with that,” Gosey says. “I wanted our drinks to be unique because everything that I do is unique.” Each month, Gosey dreams up a limited edition “daiquiri of the month” that will be offered alongside her daily menu of drinks with names like Picadilly, Marley, Papa Smurf and Candy Crush. The limited edition daiquiris have become a phenomenon on social media platforms like Instagram, where Alky Therapy has amassed more than 6,000 followers in one year of business. In May, following the death of Prince, Gosey paid tribute to the legendary musician by crafting a purple totem pole of a frozen daiquiri topped with a grape-flavored gummy guitar and rimmed with edible glitter sugar. Other daiquiri of the month creations have paid tribute to Pokémon Go, Cookie Monster, Little Debbie snack cakes and the Disney-Pixar animated film “Finding Dory.” “I don’t know where I get the inspiration for these drinks,” Gosey says. “Some things don’t work, but I’d say that 85 or 90 percent of the ideas that I come up with wind up on the menu.” When she’s not concocting outrageous daiquiri flavors, Gosey is beginning to toy with the idea of opening Alky Therapy locations throughout Louisiana. A big dreamer with a master’s degree in business, she sees her Shreveport location as a successful experiment that is ready to be replicated. u
Alky Therapy Daiquiris 4312 Greenwood Rd. Shreveport 318-716-1322 alkytherapy.com
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Oh, Shucks! Oyster shucker Becky Wasden cuts her own path in New Orleans BY MEGAN HILL photo by romero & Romero
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n a field dominated by men, Becky Wasden is working to turn the oyster industry on its shell. Wasden and her partner in life and business, Stefani Sell, launched their oyster-shucking business two years ago after spending nearly a year shucking casually at backyard parties. One evening, a friend piped up. “He came to the table and said ‘You girls shucking oysters, why don’t you have a tip jar,’” Wasden says. At the time, Wasden was busy finishing her Master of Education. Originally from Salt Lake City, Wasden admits seafood hasn’t always been her specialty. She taught art and music for six years in New Orleans after visiting in 2001, when she “instantly fell in love” with the city. Wasden learned as she shucked and the duo started the company, Two Girls One Shuck, in 2014. She gave up teaching full time. “I miss the kids, but I don’t miss the politics of being in a school,” she says. Two Girls One Shuck is a roving oyster bar, specializing in both raw and chargrilled oysters. They’ve catered birthday parties, weddings, TV sets and other events and parties. Most of the oysters Wasden shucks are harvested in St. Bernard Parish; others come from Bayou La Batre, Alabama and prime beds on the east and west coasts. Wasden says she aims to be an ambassador for Gulf oysters and hopes to educate the public about growing methods and subtle flavor variations that come with growing oysters in different regions — a concept similar to terroir in wine-grape growing. Oystershucking classes are in the works, too. “It’s so much fun to watch an adult pop their first oyster and just snack,” she says. “An oyster will never taste the same.” u
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Becky Wasden was asked to shuck oysters behind the scenes during the filming of HGTV’s “Brothers Take New Orleans,” a fourpart series airing this month starring twins Jonathan and Drew Scott of the popular show “Property Brothers.” Wasden also shucked and served oysters at the show’s wrap party.