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Contents

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FEATURES 30

A Fertile Mind Dr. Belinda Sartor, The Fertility Institute of New Orleans

BY SUZANNE PFEFFERLE TAFUR

Making Groceries Food inequalities across New Orleans

BY BETH D'ADDONNO

Top Doctors List More than 400 New Orleans professionals at the top of their game

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ON THE COVER

Dr. Belinda M. Sartor, Fertility Institute of New Orleans, p. 30

STANDARDS FROM THE EDITOR

JULIA STREET

NEWS + NOTES

Managing the Dog Days

The Scoop

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Photograph by Craig Mulcahy

Top Things to Do, Read & Try THE DISH

News from NOLA Kitchens

BAR TAB

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Best Bars, Drinks & More

STYLE

PERSONA

MODINE

VINTAGE

66 TRAVEL Island Hopping

Beat the Heat Trixie Minx Back to School

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GROWING PAINS

New Year, New Me?

HOME ADVICE

Susan Currie TABLE TALK

Fresh Catch CHEERS

Birthday Dream NOSH

Tarte Temptation DINING GUIDE

Listings from Around the City

112 STREETCAR Why Bon Temps Rouler?

DIAL 12, D1

PBS will mark Broadway’s return with WICKED IN CONCERT, a musical event celebrating the songs from one of the most iconic hits in Broadway history, on Sunday, August 29 at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on WYES-TV, wyes.org/live and on the WYES and PBS apps. This special performance will feature reimagined, never-before-heard musical arrangements created just for this broadcast, performed by celebrity artists from the worlds of film, pop music and television. Details at wyes.org.

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FROM THE EDITOR

ith the end of summer comes that lagg i ng summer feeling – the heat and humidity seems never-ending; vacations have been planned and taken; students face another school year; diets and healthy eating practices for “swimsuit” season have come and gone. The summertime blahs. And yet, we can flip that script and take a refreshed look at the end of summer. It’s the perfect time to beat the heat with seasonal, fresh foods from the local farmers market. When else can you get the best sweet corn, berries and tomatoes? You don’t need an excuse to indulge in frozen beverages while listening to music from live local neighborhood players from your front porch. It’s ok to take things a bit slower, to stay cool and made in the shade. Fall lies just ahead of us. Although the weather may stay hot for a while longer, the light is at the end of this long, humid Have something you tunnel with the (relatively) cooler months just a few weeks away. And want to share with with those cooler months comes festival season – and boy do we have us? Email ashley@ myneworleans.com. a well-deserved, jam-packed doozy of a fall festival season this year (something we all can daydream about while by the pool). This month we focus on staying healthy and avoiding that late summer rut. We champion the top doctors in our region, with the best of the best highlighted in a wide variety of specialties. We profile Dr. Belinda Sartor, a specialist at The Fertility Institute of New Orleans to discuss the COVID-19 baby bust or boom, the latest in IVF and what inspires her practice. We also take a look at the important issue of food inequalities in the city, and efforts being made to provide healthy food to everyone in our community. From our monthly calendar of events, our style guide with fashionable ways to beat the heat, island getaways near and far, and so much more, this issue will certainly become an essential tool in managing these dog days of summer. So, hang in there! Grab a refreshing cold drink and enjoy our August issue. Fall is right around the corner.

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JULIA STREET

W I TH P O Y DR AS THE P A RROT

The Scoop

Associate Publisher Kate Henry EDITORIAL

DEAR JULIA & POYDRAS,

I remember as a child we would get, I believe it was a free, sample of ice cream at the creamery on Carrollton Avenue and another creamery on Airline Highway. Not sure if Brown's Velvet, Walker-Roemer, or Borden’s. What a treat! - Ray Gremillion (New Roads, LA) By the creamery on Carrollton Avenue, I assume you are talking about what was the Cloverland Dairy. Part of the building at 3400 N. Carrollton still stands, only, when the dairy shut down, the property was eventually taken over by the post office. The distinguished white Renaissance-style terra cotta façade of the building was kept and incorporated into the remodeling for the post office. It was a good example of the feds being sensitive to classic design. What did not survive the cut, however, was a water tower shaped like a milk bottle which stood 140 feet above the building. It was capable of collecting 20 tons of water used for cleaning vehicles and the building’s exterior. Of all the local dairies, what really distinguished Cloverland was its up-to-date pasteurizing equipment. Milk quality was a major public health issue, so the dairy got some consumer points by developing a system for sanitized milk. Yes, the dairy did operate an ice cream stand next to its factory for public sales. We’re not sure about the free samples, though it is not uncommon for ice cream shops to offer a small taste to customers trying to settle on a flavor. In the 1960s Cloverland sold to Sealtest, a big national corporation, which was ultimately sold to Kraft Co., and then became part of Breyers and on and on. Another dairy, Borden’s, once operated a facility and shop on Airline Highway in Metairie. Poydras remembers the day that a kid-friendly, street driven Borden’s For more of Julia, train came to the dairy. Kids stood in a long line to be lifted into the check out her engine where they could pull a rope to blow the whistle. Elsie the Cow monthly blog at MyNewOrleans. made a public appearance and waved to her fans. It was not until years com/Julia-Street later that Poydras learned that real cows neither make public appearances nor wave to fans. Gold Seal Creamery, which was owned by the Centanni family, operated a creamery on South Alexander and D’Hemecourt near Canal Street. The building included an ornate shop for walk-in customer service. The Centannis were known for their Christmas lights on their Canal Street mansion. Gold Seal was known for its local classic Creole Cream Cheese ice cream. The business closed in 1986. The building was converted into apartments and still stands, known as the Gold Seal Lofts. Finally, all of the above no longer exists, but there is one grand purveyor of store-made ice cream in the neighborhood - Angelo Brocato’s at 214 N. Carrollton St. This is perhaps New Orleans’ finest ice cream maker and, unlike the dairies, also includes ices (try the classic lemon ice) and Italian flavors. To quote Louis Prima in his song “Angelina, the Waitress at the Pizzeria,” “I will meet in matrimony the girl who serves spumoni.” If not, the rum raisin is good too.

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NEWS+NOTES

BY FR ITZ E SKE R

TRY THIS

CHERYL GERBER PHOTO

BRICK UNIVERSE LEGO FAN EXPO

WHITE LINEN NIGHT

The Arts District of New Orleans is bringing one of the Crescent City’s iconic summer social events back with White Linen Night. It will be scaled down a bit this year, and some details were still being worked on with vendors and the city at press time, and yet, the party will go on. This year’s event will take place on Saturday, August 7 in the Warehouse District Galleries located in the 300-600 blocks of Julia Street, open from 6 p.m.-9 p.m. with an after party at the Contemporary Arts Center from 9 p.m. until midnight. Individual galleries may choose to have safety protocols in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the number of people in a given gallery at any time may be limited, and patrons may be asked to wear a mask while inside. However, even a limited White Linen Night is a breath of fresh air after the trials and tribulations of 2020. Put on your best whites and enjoy the art at some of the city’s best galleries in a fun, social setting.

BETTER THAN EZRA AT THE HOUSE OF BLUES

Get excited, children of the 1990s, because the New Orleans's own Better than Ezra is performing at the House of Blues on August 13 and 14 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their album “Friction, Baby.” Tickets can be purchased at HouseOfBlues.com.

On August 14 and 15, visit Kenner’s Pontchartrain Center for the Brick Universe LEGO Fan Expo. Even if you’re not a LEGO builder yourself, you’ll marvel at the intricate constructions on display, which include Mt. Rushmore, Notre Dame de Paris, and much more. For more information and tickets, visit BrickUniverse.com.

2 NEW ORLEANS PHARMACY MUSEUM

One of the Crescent City’s hidden museum gems on Chartres Street in the French Quarter. Located in a historic building, it showcases an extensive collection of artifacts on the history of pharmacy and healthcare in Louisiana. PharmacyMuseum.org

THE HOT 8 BRASS BAND AT HOWLIN’ WOLF

New Orleanians have been without live music for too long, and if you want t o make up for lost time, the Grammynominated Hot 8 Brass Band will be playing at Howlin’ Wolf on August 8. TheHowlinWolf.com

“DREAM GIRL” BY LAURA LIPPMAN

Part-time New Orleans resident and best-selling novelist Laura Lippman (2019’s excellent “The Lady in the Lake” is worth your attention as well) returns with “Dream Girl,” a mystery/horror hybrid with echoes of Stephen King’s “Misery.” 60-something novelist Gerry Anderson is bedridden in his luxury high-rise apartment after seriously injuring himself in a fall. One night, he receives a call from a mysterious woman claiming to be the “real” version of the title character of his most famous novel, “Dream Girl.” But there’s no record of the call afterwards, so Gerry wonders if he’s succumbing to dementia like his mother did or if a woman from his past is trying to settle old scores with him. In a starred review, “Booklist” wrote “This is both a beguiling look at the mysteries of authorship and a powerful #MeToo novel, but that’s only the tip of a devilishly jagged iceberg…»

LOUISIANA CHILDREN’S MUSEUM

The new Louisiana Children’s Museum in City Park had not been open long when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. But it is open once again, and it’s a wonderful choice for parents seeking an air-conditioned outing with their children in the sweltering August heat. There are plenty of fun, educational exhibits where kids can learn about local food, culture, nature and industry. LCM.org

*Events subject to change because of COVID-19 restrictions.

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BAR TAB

BY MISTY MIL IO TO

COLORFUL CIDERY

New cider taproom Kingfish Cider has opened as the first taproom of any category in Jefferson Parish. The crisp and bubbly alcoholic beverage offers a new way to imbibe. The eclectic taproom features a vintage theme with pieces of old cars comprising the bar. The cider menu is even drawn on the hood of an antique Chevy. The microdistillery, named after the infamous Louisiana politician Huey P. Long (a.k.a. the “Kingfish”) also features a Prohibition-era aesthetic steeped in Louisiana history and culture. Kingfish Cider also has a small number of Louisiana beers on draft, along with some local spirits. Guests can create their own charcuterie boards using cheese and meats that the cidery keeps stocked from St. James Cheese Co. 331 Iris Ave., Jefferson, 273-7868, kingfishcider.com.

LIVE MUSIC AT BAYOU BAR

Rooftop Pool Bar

Opening Labor Day weekend in the Warehouse District, the new $80-million Virgin Hotels New Orleans will feature multiple dining and drinking outlets - including the Pool Club. The rooftop pool and lounge, situated on the 13th floor, will serve as a haven overlooking the New Orleans skyline offering food, libations and dancing. 550 Baronne St., virginhotels.com/new-orleans.

SUMMER COCKTAILS

The entire LeBLANC + SMITH portfolio of restaurants and bars is offering new summer drink specials that won’t be around for long. At Sylvain, Cavan and Barrel Proof, any time the temperature hits 98 degrees or higher, frozen drinks will be offered at half off (one per person). Also at Sylvain, anyone showing a picture of their vaccine card will receive half off a frozen cocktail. At The Chloe, guests can expect a new summer cocktail menu with specialty drinks that include the Yacht Party (chamomile vodka, cranberry, elderflower, Curaçao, lemon and bubbles) or Idle Hands (Trakal, Genépi, lemon, almond, sparkling wine and eucalyptus), to name a few. 625 Chartres St., 265-8123, sylvainnola.com; 3607 Magazine St., 509-7655, cavannola.com; 1201 Magazine St., barrelproofnola. com; 4125 St. Charles Ave., 541-5500, thechloenola.com.

MARIGNY BAR DEBUT

TO-GO FOREVER

Governor John Bel Edwards has signed HB 219 that allows businesses to sell cocktails to-go permanently in order to help accelerate the hospitality industry’s recovery from the pandemic.

Located on the ground floor of the Pontchartrain Hotel, Bayou Bar has returned to offering live music Wednesday through Saturday evenings from 7-10 p.m. The casual, tavern-style bar has a storied past, with both Sinatra and Capote spending many nights imbibing in the Garden District drinking den. Tables are available on a first-come, firstserved basis, and there is no cover charge. Performances feature an array of local artists, including the Peter Harris Trio and Jordan Anderson, amongst others. Also be sure to peruse the extensive whiskey collection, creative craft cocktail menu and inventive dishes from the Jack Rose dinner menu. 2031 St. Charles Ave., 323-1456, bayoubarneworleans. com.

Madame Vic’s bar recently opened in the Marigny. As his first commercial project, owner Scott Veazey wanted to open a neighborhood bar that would be on par with the original Ms. Mae’s, Pal's Lounge and Mimi’s in the Marigny. In fact, Mimi even helped with the bar equipment and design, giving the boîte a “Mimi’s “feel. He also wanted live music played by local musicians, mainly traditional jazz. The name is a nod to the woman who built the structure in 1885 as a single-family home. Madame Vic’s offers drink specials weekdays during happy hour and on weekends, plus live music five nights per week. So far, bands have included Madame Vic’s House Jazz Band and Russell Welch Gypsy Jazz Band (among others). Food pop-ups are also featured on nights with live music. There’s a six-bedroom inn on the top floor, so guests can book a stay.1500 Elysian Fields Ave., 841-9248.

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THE DISH

BY MISTY MIL IO TO TOP TOQUE

Opening in September in the Warehouse District, the 238-room Virgin Hotel New Orleans has tapped award-winning local chef Alex Harrell to helm the hotel’s signature restaurant, lounge and bar, Commons Club. Harrell served as executive chef at Elysian Bar - which, under his tutelage, earned a Best New Restaurant nomination by the James Beard Foundation. Commons Club will serve as the social epicenter at the entrance of the hotel, and it will feature Harrell’s creative and modern American cuisine with a Southern touch. 550 Baronne St., Commonsclub.com/new-orleans.

Global Cuisine

A new tropical roadhouse restaurant from chef Sophina Uong and her husband/ partner William Greenwell, dubbed Mister Mao, features a static menu of eclectic globally-inspired cuisine, along with an ever-changing selection of small plates served from roving carts. Dishes include “Escargot Wellingtons” with Creole cream cheese, hoisin and ramp butter; Louisiana “Backwater Foie Duck Ham and Raclette Croissant” with muscadine agrodolce; “Pani Puri” with Camellia red beans, tamarind and fiery mint water; and “Red Cooked Beef Shin” with ugly potato dumplings, star anise and MaLa cucumber gremolata. There is a bar and lounge that seats 25, a vibrant and lively dining room and an interactive chef’s counter. 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., 345-2056, mistermaonola.com.

ROOFTOP REDO

Alto, the rooftop bar at the Ace Hotel, has undergone a refresh with new chairs and cushions, plus a new summer menu. The space, which has been newly activated, now features all kinds of programming for the summer season to create more of a community vibe. New weekly events include Monday industry swim days for hospitality workers, Thursday night food pop-ups, Saturday DJ sets and Sunday brunch. A new summer food menu features items like spring artichoke hummus, a number of different pizzas, chicken wings and more. Meanwhile, the new beverage menu includes a Paloma, a daily frozen drink and the purple Ube frozen cocktail. 600 Carondelet St., 900-1180, acehotel.com/neworleans.

FISH TALES

BEAT THE HEAT

A number of new ice creams are now available in New Orleans. First up is the new Creole Creamery location in Old Metairie. The ice creams are made daily and combine unique and delicious flavors that reflect the tastes of New Orleans. Fan favorites include Cookie Monster, cafe au lait, Creole Cream Cheese and lavender honey. Next up is the new Popbar, a contemporary concept in the French Quarter serving all-natural, handcrafted, fully customizable gelato and sorbetto on a stick. Guests will find more than 60 rotating flavors, from classics like vanilla and pistachio to the more unique, such as green tea, passion fruit and spicy chocolate, plus seasonal flavors like watermelon and pumpkin pie. Popbar also offers vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free and soy-free options. Finally, La Boulangerie has started offering fresh ice creams and sorbets made with produce from small local farms. 2565 Metairie Road, Ste. 104, 354-8069, creolecreamery. com; 207 N. Peters St., Ste. 2B, 354-8822, pop-bar.com; 4600 Magazine St., 269.3777, laboulangerienola.com.

During the pandemic, executive chef Michael Nelson at GW Fins, a seafoodforward restaurant in the French Quarter, resolved to innovate seafood. He decided to try out dry aging fish, a decades-old tradition for Japan's sushi chefs. One of the only chefs in the United States to use a temperature- and humiditycontrolled environment to dry age fish, Nelson has received an overwhelming response from guests. He started off dry aging tilefish, which he says has a watery consistency and skin that one would never want to eat. After just five days in the dry-aging cabinet, the flavor of the fish was dramatically more pronounced with crispy, almost cracklin’-like skin. Since then, he has also dry aged everything from one of the finest fish in the world (Ora King Salmon) to swordfish, snapper and more. Nelson also has started FaceTiming with fishers, spear-fishers and purveyors every morning to hand-select the exact fish that he wants delivered to GW Fins. 808 Bienville St., 581-3467, gwfins.com.

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Style

BY ANDY MY E R

Shield your skin with this gorgeous wide-brim Lola hat by BrunnaCo., complete with a linen inner strap lining and ribbon for tying. Woven by artisans in Bali from natural jute and designed with ideal thickness allowing its brim to be easily folded, stretched, and styled to pack for any trip. Available at West London Boutique, westlondonboutique.com.

Stay cool in this lightweight Kora dress by Corey Lynn Calter. Its loose silhouette, flouncy ruffled hem and delightful tropical toucan motif will help you feel pulled together even as temperatures soar. Available at Saint Claude Social Club, saintclaudesocialclub.com

If you’re going to carry a handheld fan, make it “opawesome.” Made from plant-based satin fabric and recycled bamboo, this take featuring tiny possums, is both adorable and excellent for combatting the sweltering summer heat. Available at Cocoally, itsmesesame. com.

Beat the Heat

Wearing sunglasses daily helps protect your eyes from damaging UV rays. Krewe’s Simone shades in Oyster, black and crystal 24k blend lightweight acetate and metal to create an oversized version of a classic shape, with hand-carved nosepads that provide a universal fit. Available at Krewe, krewe.com.

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Stylishly perfect your cannonball or lounge starboard side. Either way, this Goldie suit in "Lagos" from Amanda Talley’s swimwear line is sure to make a splash. Available in nine prints and a range of sizes by custom order and handmade in the Magazine Street studio, amandatalley.com.

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PERSONA

BY KE L L Y MASSIC O T

TRIXIE MINX

lirtatious, dramatic, eccentric, colorful. These words, and more, can all be used to describe both the city of New Orleans and the art of burlesque. Burlesque as we know it today, came to the United States in the late 1800s from Great Britain, but burlesque – unsurprisingly – has been a part of the Big Easy for decades. my top off.” My background is in Miami native and classically orchestra music and rehearsals in trained ballerina Trixie Minx made professional studios, everything I New Orleans her home in the early saw was fun, but I thought it just 2000s and has been at the forefront of wasn’t for me. But all these people the burlesque scene in New Orleans who really knew me kept saying since. She spends her time advocating that I had to try. for the art and putting its artists and I auditioned for a show, got the performers in the spotlight with her part and still hadn’t performed before production company Trixie Minx Hurricane Katrina hit. It was sort of Productions. this like major moment Over the COVID-19 in time where it was like, LAGNIAPPE pandemic Minx had what is important? What Favorite place matters? And being away to find other ways to to perform? from New Orleans and reach her fans that That’s an unfair having that time to reassess would normally be in question. Favorite happy her audience at various and stop. It really made hour spot? bars and clubs around me think, nothing in Any place the city. Minx created a life is guaranteed. I have with cheese. Favorite talk show right from her three people I trust very restaurant? bathroom and dreamed much that keep telling me Jacques-Imo’s up the various ways to give this a shot. And burlesque would come why not? I have nothing back as things returned to normal. to lose. Besides, if I don’t like it, I In this month’s Persona, Trixie Minx don’t have to do it. But, and I tell shares her passion for burlesque and this to everybody, because this is what fans can expect next from Minx the truth, the moment my foot hit and her cast of colorful characters. the stage and I felt the light it was like a fish to water and this, being Q: How did you get into the Trixie performing burlesque, is the burlesque scene in New Orleans? most me I’ve ever felt in my life. I had been in New Orleans since 2001. And in that time, I was dancing Q:What’s your favorite part about with an ethnic folk dance company. the work that you do and your I was still taking ballet classes. I job? Interaction with the audience, was very involved in like the dance 100 percent. That’s something that community. But I kept meeting these became incredibly apparent during people who said, “you should do COVID-19. The joy of burlesque, and burlesque.” part of the reason why it is such a And I saw a show. And I thought, special, ephemeral experience, is that “this is great, but this is definitely no two shows are ever alike…even when the music or the choreography not me. No, no, I would never take

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is set to the number, and the audience. It’s their interaction because there’s clapping and cheer and that’s what inspires the rate at which the performer disrobes. It really is an energy that’s very tangible, but hard to describe, like, you can feel it and it’s joy and happiness and all the all the good vibes. We love what we do, but we love doing it because of the audience. We did a few shows during COVID-19 that were virtual, and it was a big challenge. When you’re performing for a camera, there’s no reaction or interaction. And it’s hard to read what’s hitting or what’s not versus a live show. I feel like it’s the same thing with music too. Like, obviously a record is great, but live? It’s like, oh, man, this feels awesome. So, right. I think that’s my favorite part. Well, that’s my favorite part about performing. My favorite part about the work in general, as a producer, is collaborating and creating those two, because I have this awesome team I get to work with. And so, it’s not just me, but it’s a bunch of people. And getting to create stuff that is so much bigger than just me is really the best part.

bought my house a long time ago, but it has this giant bathtub. And I was like, why can’t I host a show in? It’s great. When I first started, it was nightly, but then I had to do it weekly, and it has since sort of dipped off. It started off as something I posted on Facebook Live, but then I was realizing that – this is again the difference between virtual and in person – a 30 minute to an hour show in person is very entertaining, but online it’s different. So, I taught myself video editing skills and I was able to not only have that talk show, but I also started doing little comedy skits, mini shows and mini performances. It gave me something to focus on that was positive. Q: What shows are you and your performers doing now? All the shows I got rocking and rolling right now are all through Trixie Minx Productions. We have three, which is great. One of them is one we’ve been running for over a dozen years. We’re so happy to be back. And that’s Burlesque Ballroom every Friday at Royal Sonesta. It’s a much earlier show now at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. And that show is inspired by traditional classic 1960s Bourbon Street burlesque shows. You have the live jazz band, but with the dancers with gowns and gloves. We put a contemporary twist on it. So, we create it more like an interactive environment. The dancers perform throughout the room, rather than on a formal stage, which gives you that sort of speakeasy vibe.

Q: How did you pivoted your

creative energy during quarantine? I’ve had these things I’ve

always wanted to pursue and just there wasn’t time, with shows and just general life, and so now I had a chance. I had always wanted to do a talk show from my bathtub. I thought it would be really nice. I

To continue this conversation, and find out what’s next for Trixie Minx, visit our website for exclusive online content. MyNewOrleans.com

MODINE GUNCH

Back to School Post-pandemic cursive lessons

Here it is, August - still hot enough to keep your underwear in the freezer. Also the peak of hurricane season. But school is starting anyway. I used to say that they should push the first day of school back to October, so in case we got to flee for our lives, at least the kids won’t miss no classes. But I ain’t saying that this year. This year nobody, including myself, can wait another blessed second to get them kids out the house and into actual in-person school. And then we will take a week off work and sleep three days straight, and on the fourth day, give their room a good cleaning. Find out what is causing that smell. That’s my plan. After all them months of them sitting in front the computer, and us slinking around the house, not raising our voice, or passing gas, or appearing in the background without our pants on; followed by summer vacation, with them still sitting in front the computer, but watching TikTok and then acting out whatever they watched - we’ll have peace. Of course, we now have to admit that these kids know a LOT we never heard of. That ridiculous new math. How to text each other on Google classroom instead of passing notes in class. Which is why we got to INSIST that the schools make them learn cursive writing. It’s the one thing we know and they don’t. So what if they can write computer code and we can’t? We can join letters together and make twirly tails on our y’s. So there. My sister-in-law Gloriosa is bragging that her little daughter Flambeau is going to learn cursive right from the start. She enrolled the child in this fancy preschool, PrimaNOLA. Gloriosa’s older kids went to their parish church’s preschool, but Gloriosa says PrimaNOLA is more prestigious. The admission standards are very high. Not only does everybody have to pass basic potty training, but they also got to know their alphabet. And did she mention that Flambeau will be learning cursive? Now Flambeau is listening to all this about cursive. But she thinks they are saying “cursing.” You can see where this is going. Each PrimaNOLA teacher pays a house call on each new student

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before school officially starts, to evaluate them in their home environment. Gloriosa spent a week cleaning Flambeau’s home environment, mowing the home environment’s lawn, and she even hangs a autumn wreath on the home environment’s front door. And when Gloriosa opens the door to Miss Bootsie, Flambeau peeks out from behind her mama and greets her teacher with a big smile. And a bad word. A very bad word. Gloriosa thinks fast. “LUCK! Yes, Flambeau, it is very good LUCK that Miss Bootsie is here! Just sit down, Miss Bootsie, and we’ll get you a nice cold glass of…” she hustles Flambeau into the kitchen. “Sweet tea would be lovely,” calls Miss Bootsie, who is new in town and under the impression she is in the South, instead of New Orleans, where we each sweeten our ice tea separately, or add a slug of rum on a bad day. In the kitchen, Gloriosa is telling Flambeau, through gritted teeth, NEVER to use that word again. Then they come back with the tea, and Miss Bootsie chit-chats to Gloriosa, who smiles and nods and wracks her brain

wondering where Flambeau picked up that word… a TikTok video her brother watched? Miss Bootsie is saying how first we learn our printing and then move on to cursive…. Immediately Flambeau pipes up with another bad word. A DOOZY of a bad word. Then she says, “I can curse already!” Miss Bootsie stands up, leaves her ice tea sweating on the coffee table, and says she’d best be going now - and Gloriosa should expect to hear from the school director in the morning. So much for PrimaNOLA. Thank God some kid dropped out of the church preschool at the last minute, so Flambeau is going there after all. I ask Gloriosa if they will teach cursive. She snorts, “To hell with cursive.” Flambeau couldn’t of said it better.

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ew events have equaled the heartbreak created by the the country as fiercely as if in search of something upon which to satisfy great floods that have swept over New Orleans since the its vengeance.” When the floodwaters reached New Orleans, the city’s drainage system 18th century. could not stop the on-coming tragedy. Much like Hurricane Katrina in Among the greatest of these was the flood of 1871 when the rising river broke through the levees upriver at the little 2005, strong north winds, pushed rising water over the lake’s marshy village of Bonnet Carré. Waters rushed across the land to Lake banks and up the city’s canals, inundating everything in its way. On the Within hours, much of New Orleans sat under two to twelve feet Pontchartrain and then down to New Orleans. In this woodcut Mississippi-The print published on June 10, 1871, in “Every Saturday,” the British- Great Crevasse of water. After a few days, floodwaters slowly retreated to the lake at Bonnet as people returned to salvage their homes and lives. born American artist Alfred Waud captured the visual drama of Carré, 1871, torrential floodwaters raging through the Bonnet Carré crevasse. Ironically, the devastating event also had ecological benefits. For The Historic New Orleans Here’s how one New Orleans newspaper reporter described the next 12 years, the river’s sediment-rich water flowed through Collection the Bonnet Carré crevasse, building up land in that swampy the scene in May 1871: flood-prone region. In 1883 a new levee closed the breach, and “Standing on the broken edge of the levee, one can gaze down upon the huge volume as it rushes through the gap 1,200 feet wide, foaming in 1931 following the tragic Flood of 1927, the Army Corps of Engineers and seething while the angry roar impresses a sense of fear…Over and completed the Bonnet Carré Spillway, an engineering marvel that now through all the flood pours with a resistless force, rushing up and down protects the city.

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A FERTILE MIND INFERTILITY SPECIALIST SHARES HER THOUGHTS ON THE BABY BUST, THE IMPORTANCE OF A POSITIVE PATIENT RAPPORT, AND W OME N IN THE WORKFORCE

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ccording to The Brookings Institution, a public policy organization based in Washington, D.C., a baby bust is on the way. A group of researchers associated with the nonprofit predicted that the public health crisis – COVID-19 – and the subsequent recession “would result in 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births in 2021.” A related survey revealed that 34-percent of American women have either delayed their plans to have a baby, or reduced the number of children they’d like to have, because of the pandemic. “I think that couples who are either young, or already had a child in the nest, COVID knocked down their desire to make a new baby,” said Dr. Belinda “Sissy” M. Sartor, a local reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist. “And why? I would say the anxiety related to, ‘Are we going to have a job? What does COVID do to women who are pregnant and to the fetus?’ I think there was just so much uncertainty surrounding it.” Sartor, however, did not slow down. She works for The Fertility Institute of New Orleans. Through a wellbalanced mix of experience, science, technology, and compassion, she helps individuals of all backgrounds who are struggling to conceive, become parents-to-be. The fertility clinic temporarily closed during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, but when they reopened their doors in late May, physicians welcomed a slew of patients eager to receive a consultation and treatment. Although some of those individuals had planned their appointments well in advance, several others did so while in quarantine, contemplating the idea of bringing a bundle of joy into world. “Times like that, when you’re home and you’re not working full time, you have time to reflect,” Sartor said. “When they are in a reflective, maybe anxious state about the future, they are more likely to be honest: ‘Hey, maybe we should have been pregnant. Maybe we need to push ahead, see what’s going on and get treatment.’ And they also realized that family is one of the most important things for us all.” Sartor called this “The Katrina Effect,” since a similar trend occurred during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. “Even when the city was on its knees, once we were able to get an office and open back up, (the office) was really was humming,” she recalled.

“The general population was less likely to make a baby. But the infertile population … I think it helped them see that it is time to go get it.” MOVING WITH THE MOMENTUM Sartor boasts more than 30 years of working experience in the medical field. After graduating from Tulane University’s School of Medicine, she fulfilled a four year residency, training with doctors, in Tulane’s department of obstetrics and gynecology. She then spent three years of a subspecialty fellowship, learning reproductive endocrinology and infertility, in Georgetown University School of Medicine’s department of obstetrics and gynecology. When Sartor emerged from her fellowship, she and the physicians in her field were expected to become “experts in menopausal medicine, and help patients along with their transition puberty issues,” she said. “I think the majority of non-academic reproductive endocrinologists pretty much take care of infertility,” Sartor said, foreshadowing the actual trend that followed. Once Sartor became a practicing physician, she had the opportunity to take care of couples struggling within fertility – a challenge she quickly came to appreciate. Something else was happening at the time, Sartor said. Knowledge and advancements in reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF), were soaring. The American Society of Reproductive Medicine was presenting new research during national fertility meetings. Ethical concerns about IVF technology began cropping up in conversations between physicians. “It was just really exciting,” she said. “We felt like we were on the cutting edge, and we really were.” The first IVF baby was born in Great Britain in 1978. Three years later, the first IVF baby was born in the U.S. Throughout the 1980s, and into the 1990s, the use of IVF technology and advanced medicines spread to clinics across the country. A technique called intracytoplasmic injection of sperm (ICSI) was developed in the late 1980s, and allowed fertilization by injecting one sperm into each egg. The first baby born using ICSI to fertilize the egg was in January 1992.

Technology and medicine continued to advance, as did Sartor’s career. “When I finished fellowship in 1990, the takehome baby rate in IVF cycles per embryo transfer was about 12-percent,” she said. “It is now close to 50-percent, in women age 35 or less.” Sartor gravitated towards OB-GYN in general, because she knew she would have the ability to care for patients of various ages, and follow them through life. But it is safe to say that her family – her father, in particular – influenced her decision to move in that direction. ALL IN/MILY Sartor grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi – a small Delta town in the northwest section of the state. Her mother was a “nurse turned homemaker” and her father was a physician – an OBGYN, as a matter of fact – so she was raised with firsthand knowledge on what it is like to work as a doctor. “My dad really inspired me,” Sartor said. “He had the discipline, and the devotion, and the ethics to be what I think was a fabulous doctor. So he inspired me, and my mother nurtured me.” Sartor and her father worked on science projects together, and once saved an injured duck that they discovered in a stream behind their home. When Sartor began actively pursuing a medical career, she would occasionally shadow her father in the operating room and hospital clinic. Her father once invited Sartor and her then-boyfriend, who was a medical student at the time, to witness and assist a late night delivery. It was a dramatic moment, she said, but not for the reason you’d expect. “There was this large clatter, as my (boyfriend) fainted,” she recalled. “As he fainted, he took the instrument tray out with him and cut his eyes. And he ended up having to be put on the table and sewed up by my father.” But aside from delivering babies and suturing former boyfriends, Sartor’s father illustrated the importance of patient care – something she now prioritizes with her own patients. “It’s not always easy to describe, but it is a very intimate area,” she said. “It’s an intimate way of helping a fellow human being, but there is also an intellectual overlay that satisfies my needs as well.” For Sartor, the patient-physician relationship begins with listening and education, remaining very clear about the treatment plan, and helping the patient maintain a healthy perspective. But from there, her role slightly varies. “It’s going to depend on the couple, because everybody that walks through the door brings their

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own set of personalities, and for some people, pathology,” Sartor said, explaining that the stresses of infertility and the uncertainty of an outcome create an emotionally difficult place for most patients. “How they negotiate that stress is in part affected by how well myself and my team guide them, and by their own innate emotional fabric,” she said. “A lot of what the patient experiences in the diagnostic and treatment phases places them in a passive position. This can be a very difficult place to be.” On top of that, the road through infertility treatment is often littered with unexpected setbacks and challenges, she said. The patients that keep their eyes on the future goal, and work with Sartor on solving the problem seem to negotiate these difficulties with less distress. “What I have found is that some things that make you the most successful in your career attainment – obsessive compulsive tendencies, tremendous work ethic – sometimes make it hard to be a comfortable infertility patient. You are used to driving the train and not being a passenger on it, and so there is always that little bit of tug there,” she said. “I do feel that the patients who are able to take the knocks and the grinds, problem solve, and keep their wits about them, they tend to deal. There are very low lows, and very high highs with this. They tend to make their way through all those peaks and valleys, and reach the prize.” SOLVING THE PROBLEM Patients are often referred to Sartor by a general OB-GYN. The length of the process to help a patient conceive depends on a number of factors, including the cause of infertility and whether or not the patient has had a “work-up.” The work-up is a series of tests that help pinpoint what may be responsible for the infertility, and it helps Sartor develop the appropriate treatment plan. “In order to conceive, a patient has to have open fallopian tubes, has to be ovulating, and has to be partnered with a man with normal semen. The work-up includes assessment of those pieces,” Sartor explained, noting that the tests may be completed within a month. Following the work-up, nearly ten-percent of couples are deemed to have “infertility of an unknown cause.” If the diagnosis is ovulatory dysfunction, male factor infertility, or mild pelvic factor, such as surgically treated endometriosis, MYNEWORLEANS.COM

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the initial treatment usually involves ovulation enhancement ready and can afford children, they discover that they don’t combined with intrauterine insemination. If those approaches have enough eggs to make that happen. don’t succeed, then IVF is used. “Reproductive fertility is a very specific arc, and it is not The most extraordinary cases involve patients who are very forgiving,” Sartor said. “So even though women may considered sterile, pre-IVF, or patients who are born without be trying to attain their career goals, and they look in the a uterus – a rarity that occurs in 1 per 4,500 to 5,000 females, mirror and they look young and youthful, their ovaries are on a different path. And so we’re seeing more women who are said Sartor. By doing IVF – retrieving eggs and fertilizing them with in the middle of that professional attainment, and worried partner’s sperm – and then transferring the embryo into the about what will happen on the other side.” Sartor said she has noticed a growing use in infertility uterus of a gestational surrogate, the patient is able to have treatments and egg preservation practices. her own genetically related children. Other intriguing cases include couples that are at a high-risk According to an article from “Aging,” a peer-reviewed biofor passing debilitating genetic diseases on to their offspring. medical journal, the global prevalence of infertility among Sartor explained that IVF with preimplantation genetic diagnosis women, ages 15 to 44, increased by 14.96-percent between 1990 could help them have healthy babies. and 2017. The highest increase was in women ages 35 to 40. If a woman is facing a cancer treatment that will compromise The numbers vary from country to country, and the reasons her ovarian health, oocyte or embryo freezing helps to preserve for the increase rely on multiple factors. their future fertility, said Sartor. Referring to the article, Sartor “These are the type of cases that explained that women are waiting a really require the assisted reproductive longer amount of time to have their technologies to bring the continued gift first baby. In the U.S., the average woman of new life,” Sartor said. waits until she is 26 years old; if she is “The ability to actually put one sperm college-educated, she may wait until into one egg has changed the landscape she is 32 or 33 years old. for couples with male factor infertility,” This means that more women are she added. trying to have their first babies towards the end of their reproductive years, If the woman’s partner is paraplegic, said Sartor. But at that point, natural and the couple needs help conceiving, ovarian aging has lowered their ability an urologist would extract sperm and then fertilize the egg inside a laboratory. to conceive. Also, women are more likely “For me, each patient is special. Each experience endometriosis, fibroids, and relationship is different. Everybody has tubal damage, among other problems. a different story,” Sartor said. “When The increase in egg freezing and the I first meet a patient, I really want to improvement in vitrification – freezing listen. And then my relationship with techniques – suggest that the demand for fertility preservation has grown, them will develop. It morphs through time, depending on the needs. But I view claims an article in “The New England -DR. SARTOR my role as part shepherd, shepherding Journal of Medicine.” my flock to the desired end, which is Sartor said even statistics compiled a pregnancy. I view myself as a coach. by the Fertility Institute of New Orleans I view myself as an educator, and at show that the incidence of oocyte times a friend, depending on their comfort level with that.” freezing for fertility purposes has increased almost 50-percent The most common cases Sartor manages comprise patients each year, over the last three years. who meet the definition of infertility: they under 35 and have “Is the need higher year after year? Or is it that the services tried to conceive for one year; or they are over 35 and have that are available to help them are more apparent and more tried to conceive for six months. available? I think it’s a little bit of both,” Sartor said. “And, She also meets individuals seeking “fertility preservation” unfortunately the sort of career development in most disciplines, – those who are hoping to save the ability to conceive, “in the the expectation is that you are going to make your mark when face of either aging ovaries,” surgery, chemotherapy, or any type you are in your twenties and thirties. And the expectation is of medical treatment that would harm reproductive organs. that you are going to have a monkish devotion to that. And you are rewarded if you do, and you are not rewarded if you don’t.” Fertility preservation typically calls for IVF. Sartor believes society needs change its stance on this issue, especially since women are such a major part of the workforce. CHALLENGES FOR WORKING WOMEN “If a woman takes a few years to meet her reproductive goals, For women – particularly single women – the largest need for preservation is due to personal reasons, said Sartor. Those she should not be bumped off of the promotion tract,” she said. personal reasons are often related to pursuing a career. Women As an example, Sartor cited women in academia pursuing may hold off having children, but when they realize they are positions as tenured professors. They are expected to churn

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out research publications at an “acceptable rate” over a finite and limited period of time. That period of time occurs when women are most reproductively healthy and should be birthing, if that’s what they choose to do, Sartor explained. The same is true of women hoping to become partners in a law firm, she said. “How much you bill and collect depends on in-office time and networking dinners, where you are trying to develop your own clients. All of this takes you away from home and childcare,” Sartor said, adding that if a woman is to become a partner in a law firm, it is usually decided within seven to eight years of her joining the firm – the best time for her, in terms of her ability to procreate. Women’s professional productivity is often assessed by a committee – a committee mostly comprised of men – who hold the archaic belief that if a woman was truly serious about becoming a member their “club,” she would delay having a child or children, said Sartor. And although the sharing of home and childcare responsibilities has improved with each generation, much of it still falls solidly on the wife – and the pandemic proved this, Sartor said. Throughout the COVID-19 quarantine, more women than men left their jobs to meet the in-home demands of childcare and virtual learning. This fact backs up the baby bust theory. WORK-LIFE BALANCE The pandemic affected Sartor’s career in more ways the one. Back in March of 2020, when it was becoming clear that the novel coronavirus was a deadly and highly contagious pathogen, The Fertility Institute was working with patients who were undergoing or preparing for fertility treatments. Physicians were forced to put them on hold to conserve resources and avoid any procedures or treatments that were not “emergent,” said Sartor. “We had some patients that we had to disappoint by pulling them back from their treatment protocols. That was difficult for both the patient and the doctor,” said Sartor. “Then in April, we were shut tight as a drum up into the middle of May. But we were doing new patient appointments by June.” Sartor, like other doctors around the world, pivoted to meeting with patients online. “In the beginning, there wasn’t a whole lot known about the biology of the virus and best way to treat it, and who is at risk and so on,” Sartor said. “That was developing and evolving in real time, and you are trying to come up with the best advice to give the patient. And so that’s been a little bit difficult.” The biggest challenge was properly providing infertility care, while simultaneously keeping employees and patients safe and healthy. Once the clinic reopened, physicians nearly doubled their new patient visits and procedures. The rush of patients continued through October 2020. Doctors also quickly resumed their relationships with patients who had to cancel their appointments in the early spring. But still, Sartor contracted COVID-19 from a fellow physician. “On the day that I received my first vaccine, I worked next to a colleague who became symptomatic that evening and then tested positive,” she said. “One week later, I tested negative and felt like I had missed the bullet.”

IN VITRO FERTILIZATION (IVF) RETRIEVING EGGS AND FERTILIZING THEM WITH PARTNER’S SPERM

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY (ART) INCLUDES IVF, USE OF AN EGG DONOR, SPERM DONOR OR ADOPTED EMBRYO.

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UNDER 35 AND HAVE TRIED TO CONCEIVE FOR ONE YEAR; OR OVER 35 AND HAVE TRIED TO CONCEIVE FOR SIX MONTHS.

26 YEARS OLD, 33 IF COLLEGEEDUCATED. AVERAGE AGE A WOMAN HAS HER FIRST BABY IN THE U.S.

About twelve days after the exposure, however, Sartor became symptomatic. “I was lucky because my symptoms were mostly that of a moderately bad flu,” she said. Sartor didn’t experience fever or loose her sense of taste, but she did develop severe headaches, body aches, a runny nose and a cough. Sartor received the monoclonal antibody-infusion within 24 hours of her diagnosis, which she believes moderated the course of the disease. She returned to work 11 days later. Now fully recovered, Sartor – when she is not in the office – spends long summer days in Uptown New Orleans. She lives near the Milton Latter Library on St. Charles Avenue, which is an area known for its walkability and easy access to excellent restaurants and shops. “I love it,” she said. “I can hear the streetcar rumbling by and the noises from the wharf and river. I can hear high school bands practicing for Carnival. I can walk and enjoy the lovely architecture and live oaks and greenery – yet the cultural amenities are minutes away.” Sartor gardens and spends time with her two dogs – a Jack Russell Terrier and a poodle. Early in the morning, she swims or plays tennis at a nearby club. “I have to be a tennis substitute because I have egg retrievals (in the morning), so I can’t be dependable with that,” said Sartor. “I kind of come in when they need an additional participant.” Lately, now that the city has largely reopened, Sartor is enjoying the live music scene. One of her favorite events is the candlelight series, where local musicians perform in gorgeous, intimate venues, such as Felicity Church or Hotel Peter & Paul, while illuminated by electric candlelight. “We listened to a string quartet one night,” said Sartor, noting that she also attended the reopening of Howlin’ Wolf, which featured the Headhunters. But medicine has always played a starring role in her life; and it likely always will. Both of her grown children – now in their early thirties – are practicing physicians. One is training to become an OB-GYN. Sartor has been a role model physician for them, just as her father was for her. But when asked what she values most about her career, Sartor is reluctant to pinpoint a specific element. “I just like everything – the intimacy with the patient, the bringing to bear my knowledge, and the technical skills that are required,” she said. “I’m a lucky woman. I’ve been in a subspecialty that I really love. It has been a gift for me, and I think I have been able to help many patients.”

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MAKING GROCERIES TAKING A LOOK AT FOOD INEQUITIES ACROSS NEW ORLEANS

t’s Monday morning and the warehouse space behind Whole Foods on Broad Street is a hive of activity. That’s because the community nonprofit Top Box Foods operates out of the building, packing as many as 500 boxes full of fresh and mostly local fruits and veggies for pick up and free delivery to its customers. A typical $20 box might have bell peppers, celery, bananas, apples, onions, berries – most items locally sourced and equal to more than $40 in product if bought at the average grocery store. Anybody can sign up for a variety of boxes at any time and EBT is accepted. Add-ons from an a la carte menu can be anything from meat to honey and seafood. Regular customers help subsidize the group’s Community Food Share program which provides fresh

food to neighbors that need a little more help. Connor Deloach co-founded Top Box New Orleans in 2013, modeling it after the original non-profit in Chicago, where he first started doing this work as a volunteer. “I wanted to do this work, to participate in something that would make a difference in people’s lives,” said Deloach, 28, now the group’s executive director. When there wasn’t a spot for him to work full time in Chicago, he did some research, looking for cities where equitable access to healthy and affordable food was an ongoing problem. New Orleans kept coming up at the top of that list. Deloach had never been to New Orleans when he moved here at the age of 19 to start a non-profit, something else he’d never done.

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“There was two of us in the beginning, and we didn’t know anybody,” he recalled. What he did know was that mission-oriented work couldn’t steam roll into town with preconceived ideas as to how things should be done, and what the communities needed. “In the beginning we forged relationships with community activists and faith-based organizations that were already on the ground.” Reverend Willie Williams with the True Love Missionary Baptist Church in Central City proved to be the linchpin. Once he supported the idea, the ripple effect reached many neighborhoods grappling with food insecurity, so called food deserts, where access to fresh food is difficult and cheap and less healthy fast-food outlets and corner stores prevail. Working in tandem with local community organizations and churches, Top Box builds strategic partnerships and delivery sites where members and neighbors can pick up grocery boxes with products such as fresh fruits and vegetables along with frozen meats, fish, and poultry. “If we make it easier for folks to get fresh food, they’ll do it,” he said.

FOOD INEQUITY Although it’s commonly used, the term 'food desert' can be controversial. Washington D.C.-based food justice activist and urban farming expert Karen Washington prefers the term “food apartheid” to account for the systemic racism permeating America’s food system. In an interview that ran in “The Guardian” in 2018, Washington pointed out that food desert is a term coined by people outside of a neighborhood, not used by its residents. And the word desert conjures a bleak, empty and desolate place. These neighborhoods all have a vibrancy and social structure that shouldn’t be diminished, she pointed out. Using food apartheid, takes race, economics, faith, and geography into account, Washington said. The effects of this food inequity have been tragically felt during the pandemic, where people of color suffering from diabetes, obesity, and hypertension were more likely to get COVID-19 and die from it. Early in the pandemic, in April 2020, Louisiana had the highest rate of deaths from COVID-19 in the nation and, according to Gov. John Bel Edwards, more than 70 percent of the people who had died at that point were black, although Black people make up just 32 percent of the state’s population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. “When I moved here, New Orleans was very much a recovering city,” said Deloach. “Foundational aspects of the city – like grocery stores – had not returned after Katrina. There was a reluctance from bigger corporate food stores to invest in infrastructure in neighborhoods that didn’t seem desirable.” Economic and transportation barriers prevent a lot of working families from access to healthy food, he said. “If a single parent is working two jobs and living on a tight budget, she might only have time to feed her family less healthy options.”

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CORNER STORES IN THE LOOP Top Box works closely with Propellor, a New Orleans nonprofit that grows and supports entrepreneurs working to tackle social and environmental disparities. Given that one in five New Orleanians are food insecure and one in four participate in SNAP, meeting these local families where they shop seemed to make sense. Enter the Healthy Corner Store Collaborative, which is hosted by Propeller, funded by the City of New Orleans, and operated by Liberty’s Kitchen and Top Box Foods. The idea for the program is straight forward. HCSC is a 12-month program that works with New Orleans corner store operators to maximize their business sustainability and increase the amount of fresh, healthy food they offer in-store. The program provides store owners with one-on-one business mentorship and technical assistance to optimize their business for profit and long-term sustainability. The owners get a hand-up from a range of other resources, including the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee, the Tulane Prevention Research Center, the Guste Homes Residence and the Food Trust. Located in neighborhoods across New Orleans, including Central City, Treme, Bywater, the Lower 9th Ward and Freret, the operators are guaranteed buy-back if the fresh food doesn’t sell. But it does – within the first three months of the program, Good 2 Go food stores sold 93 percent of all produce delivered, distributing 3,720 lbs. and generating $5,657 in combined revenue. Matt’s # 2 on Michoud Boulevard, DM Market on N. Broad, King’s on St. Bernard and Algiers Market on Teche Street are just a few past and current program participants. Increasing equitable access to fresh food in New Orleans is a driver for 2Brothers1Love, a catering company made up of chef/partners Byron Bradley and Davide Hargrove. The pair, who just opened Del Sur restaurant serving Afro Latin cuisine in the Catahoula Hotel in the CBD, also have a company called Homegrown Distributions. The idea is to create a sustainable farming model, contracting with a cooperative of 30 family farms in Jamaica growing ginger, cacao beans and coffee. “The idea is to sell fresh produce overseas in bulk and use the proceeds from that to introduce healthier product to so called food deserts,” said Bradley. The Jamaica connection came from one of their friends, a Jamaican-born sous chef how made the first introductions. “Farmers were struggling because of the pandemic,” said Bradley. “The idea just mushroomed. New Orleans overlaps with Jamaica culturally in many ways. Two years ago, we had no idea we’d be doing this – but it falls within our shared mission, to use our careers to help elevate our community out of turmoil and difficult circumstances.”

ENVISIONING A PLACE WITH HEALTHY FOODS FOR ALL In his work as a professor and director of nutrition at Tulane’s School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Diego Rose is always thinking about food equity and access. Rose’s latest research projects examine grass-roots efforts to improve healthy food access in New Orleans and the environmental impacts of U.S. dietary choices. Rose’s research explores the social and economic side of nutrition problems, with a focus on nutrition assistance programs, food security, and the food environment. As a member of the New Orleans Food Policy Advisory Committee, Rose and his colleagues have spearheaded programming to support healthy food retail in underserved areas. Affecting policy and furthering research is at the heart of his work. Rose, who called his current sabbatical a “staybbatical” because of COVID-19, grew up in California and has worked in nutrition, health and food access for most of his career. Connecting the dots between hunger in America and food inequity is something that he’s long considered. “When I moved here, I didn’t have a car,” recalled the professor. “I noticed that there are a lot of neighborhoods without supermarkets. There’s not many choices if you don’t have transportation. And it just got worse after Katrina. Nobody had food access for a while.” Stigmatizing a neighborhood isn’t the point, he said. The system creates unequal access to healthy food, it’s a systemic problem that has to do with race and racism and lots of other things. Working with growers, community activists and people in public health, Rose was involved in policy making that paved the way for supermarkets to be incentivized to reopen – Whole Foods on Broad Street and Robert’s in the Marigny are two examples. “There are a lot of new and creative organizations trying all sorts of different things,” he said. “Top Box is one of them. Connecting farmers markets to clinics is another example.” Sankofa New Orleans is another impressive initiative, opening Fresh Stop Market in the Lower Ninth Ward, where 98 percent of residents are Black and predominantly low-income. The market provides fresh produce from local farmers and producers.

Community solutions were making heartening inroads – and then the pandemic happened. “We took a step backwards for sure,” said Rose. “It’s been hard on everybody. But still there is creative work being done to address the problems.” Although he doesn’t think we’re 100 percent back, especially for the many unemployed who are returning to work, things are slowly getting better. One change he’d love to see is to expand EBT benefits to include prepared foods from supermarkets. “You can buy soda but not a rotisserie chicken? That doesn’t make sense. If you’re poor and your wages aren’t that high, cooking dinner from scratch isn’t always an option. We need to come up with solutions to support these folks as they struggle to take care of their families.”

social and health services work in tandem to provide a holistic approach to growing healthier communities Here are snapshots of just a few of the non-profits and businesses that are making a difference every day Tulane University Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine

Housed in a stunning demonstration kitchen, The Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University trains future doctors in hands-on nutrition to help them better heal patients and serve communities. These doctors in training in turn lead free community cooking classes - six-week programs so popular that there’s always a 300-person waiting list. Liberty’s Kitchen This café adjacent to the Broad Street Whole

THEY ARE ALREADY MAKING A DIFFERENCE Changemakers understand that improving equitable access to healthy food is a grassroots movement that starts from the inside of communities and ripples out. The mere presence of fresh vegetables doesn’t address the root causes of inequity, so

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Foods is a social enterprise dedicated to transforming the lives of at rick New Orleans youths by providing a path to self-sufficiency through food-service-based training, leadership and work-readiness programs. The kitchen serves coffee, and light fare. There’s a catering option too – a great win/win for your next event.

24 Carrot Garden is a youth garden located in the St. Roch

Boys Town Louisiana When children are at risk and in

neighborhood on Music Street. They meet three days a week for garden upkeep, mentoring, and incubating entrepreneurial opportunities. The program is open to all young people and includes activities such as cooking, learning about plants, harvesting, feeding the chickens, and occasional field trips toother local gardens.

trouble, Boys Town Louisiana can help. Through a variety of Integrated Continuum of Care services, Boys Town Louisiana reunites children with their families, provides a Boys Town family for those with nowhere else to turn, and assists others at home, where they can remain together as families. Ruth U. Fertel Tulane Community Health Center Located

FirstLine Schools This nonprofit creates and inspires open

admissions public schools in New Orleans by providing a variety of rich experiences to nurture health, character, and active citizenship and prepare students for college and careers. Edible Schoolyard New Orleans Based on a model created

in Oakland by chef Alice Waters in 1995, Edible Schoolyard Nola was formally founded post-Katrina by Cathy Pierson, Karin Giger, and Randy Fertel, first taking root at the Samuel J. Green Charter School. The garden is built by many volunteers, and a teaching kitchen is funded by the Emeril Lagasse Foundation. The program ensures that food education is part of core academics, underscoring the idea that children learn by doing and that health and wellness contribute to the success of the whole child. The program, incorporated in Firstline Charter schools including Arthur Ashe, Samuel J. Green and Langston Hughes, teachers more than 4,500 kitchen and garden classes each year, with 97 percent of students trying new foods in the program – and eating leafy greens four times as often as the average U.S. student. Whole Foods When the Austin-based supermarket chain

opened on Broad Street in 2014, where Schwegmann’s used to be, the neighborhood wasn’t too sure that this “fancy” store was for them. Management worked with local community leaders and neighbors, delivering fair prices on produce and seafood and an expanded line of its 365 store brand priced on par with other locally owned grocery stores. Its Whole Kids Foundation and Whole Planet Foundation underwrites a slew of local programming, including health fairs at places like the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club and a summer camp for kids on the onsite Refresh Farm. Sprout Nola This dynamic nonprofit works toward a better

food system by making farming accessible to everyone. Partnering with groups that help farmers at every level, including LSU, Acadiana Food Alliance, and the Crescent City Farmer’s Market, Sprout Nola facilitates Grow LA, a USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program. The group supports more than 30 community gardens, the building block of elevated food sovereignty for all.

on the site of the original Ruth’s Chris steakhouse (and named for the pioneering restaurateur), this clinic opened in 2012, providing behavioral health, pediatric care and a wide range of health services and amenities like a computer lab and a full-time social worker to neighborhood residents. Exam rooms are named after musicians including Duke Ellington and Kermit Ruffins and photographs of Mardi Gras Indians, donated by Randy Fertel, decorate community spaces. The ReFresh Community Farm This teaching farm on the site of the Broad Street ReFresh Project helps increase fresh food and includes on-site programs like Volunteer for Veggies, urban growing apprenticeships, and gardening classes for adults, families, and children. Wholistic Culinary Market in Circle Foods Led by chef

Gary Netter, who came up with the Next To Each brand for the market, Wholistic offers six different food stands, a mini food hall with the emphasis on fresh, whole foods, including hot lunches and grab and go dinner choices to help families eat healthy on a budget. Netter, the city’s culinary ambassador, recruited chefs and makers interested in keeping it healthy. There’s Mannie King, whose Froot Orleans focuses on fresh fruit bowls, Adam Haughton runs Johnny’s Jamaican Grill with authentic island ingredients and flavors and Bissap Breeze is all about fresh fruit and vegetable juices, fresh fruit smoothies, and healing Hibiscus teas Grow Dat This youth farming and leadership training

program nurtures a diverse group of young leaders through the meaningful work of growing food. Each year the young growers raise 35,000 pounds of food, 10,500 pounds of which is donated to Shared Harvest partners.

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ccording to the company, Castle Connolly Top Doctors is a healthcare research company and the official source for Top Doctors for the past 25 years. Castle Connolly’s established nomination survey, research, screening and selection process, under the direction of an MD, involves many hundreds of thousands of physicians as well as academic medical centers, specialty hospitals and regional and community hospitals all across the nation. The online nominations process – located at castleconnolly.com/nominations – is open to all licensed physicians in America who are able to nominate physicians in any medical specialty and in any part of the country, as well as indicate whether the nominated physician is, in their opinion, among the best in their region in their medical specialty or among the best in the nation in their medical specialty. Once nominated, Castle Connolly’s physician-led team of researchers follow a rigorous screening process to select top doctors on both the national and regional levels. Careful screening of doctors’ educational and professional experience is essential before final selection is made among those physicians most highly regarded by their peers. The result – we identify the top doctors in America and provide you, the consumer, with detailed information about their education, training and special expertise in our paperback guides, national and regional magazine “Top Doctors” features and

ADDICTION PSYCHIATRY NEW ORLEANS Dean Hickman Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4025 ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY METAIRIE

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online directories. Doctors do not and cannot pay to be selected and profiled as Castle Connolly Top Doctors. Physicians selected for inclusion in this magazine’s “Top Doctors” feature also appear online at castleconnolly.com, or in conjunction with other Castle Connolly Top Doctors databases online on other sites and/or in print. Castle Connolly was acquired by Everyday Health Group (EHG), one of the world’s most prominent digital healthcare companies, in late 2018. EHG, a recognized leader in patient and provider education, attracts an engaged audience of over 53 million health consumers and over 780,000 U.S. practicing physicians and clinicians to its premier health and wellness websites. EHG combines social listening data and analytics expertise to deliver highly personalized healthcare consumer content and effective patient engagement solutions. EHG’s vision is to drive better clinical and health outcomes through decision-making informed by highly relevant data and analytics. Healthcare professionals and consumers are empowered with trusted content and services through the Everyday Health Group’s flagship brands including Everyday Health®, What to Expect®, MedPage Today®, Health eCareers®, PRIME® Education and our exclusive partnership with MayoClinic.org® and The Mayo Clinic Diet.® Everyday Health Group is a division of J2 Global Inc. (NASDAQ: JCOM), and is headquartered in New York City.

David L. Schneider Allergies Answered 3225 Danny Park, Suite 100 (504) 889-0550 NEW ORLEANS William Edward Davis III Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-6742

Margaret Huntwork Tulane Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 7th Floor (504) 988-8600 Reena Mehta Uptown Allergy & Asthma 2622 Jena Street (504) 605-5351

Kenneth Paris Children’s Hospital New Orleans Allergy & Immunology 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9589 Laurianne Wild Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-8600

SLIDELL Jennifer Olivier SMH Physicians Network Allergy Clinic 1051 Gause Boulevard, Suite 400 (985) 280-5350 CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY New Orleans Colleen J. Johnson Tulane Cardiology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 4th Floor (504) 988-6113 Sammy Khatib John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4145 Paul A. Lelorier LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue 5th Floor (504) 412-1520 Daniel P. Morin Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (866) 624-7637 Glenn Polin Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4145 CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE CHALMETTE Keith G. Hickey Louisiana Heart Center 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 2500 (504) 277-0886 COVINGTON Ali M. Amkieh Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 Ravi Kanagala Lakeview Regional Heart Center 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard Suite 300 (985) 867-2100 Jay R. Silverstein Lakeview Regional Physician Group 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard Suite 300 (985) 867-2100 MARRERO Jameel Ahmed West Jefferson Medical Center 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite 340 (504) 412-1390

Edmund K. Kerut West Jefferson Heart Clinic of Louisiana 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N613 (504) 349-6810

Hector O. Ventura John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4721

Stephen LaGuardia West Jefferson Heart Clinic of Louisiana 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N613 (504) 349-6800

Christopher J. White Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-3724

METAIRIE Roland J. Bourgeois Jr. Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 842-4168 Robert W. Greer Cardiology Associates of Jefferson 4200 Houma Boulevard 2nd Floor (504) 454-4102 NEW ORLEANS Robert M. Bober John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4135 Sapna V. Desai John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4721 Clement C. Eiswirth Jr. John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4721 Robert C. Hendel Tulane Cardiology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 4th Floor (504) 988-6113 Carl J. Lavie John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-4135 Stephen R. Ramee Ochsner Medical Center Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-3727 Frank W. Smart LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue 5th Floor (504) 412-1520

Royce Dean Yount Ochsner Health Center Baptist Napoleon Medical Plaza 2820 Napoleon Avenue Suite 400 (504) 894-2608 RACELAND Kenneth Wong Cardiovascular Institute of the South 102 Twin Oaks Drive (985) 837-4000 THIBODAUX Bart G. Denys Cardiovascular Institute of the South 1320 Martin Luther King Drive (985) 446-2021 CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY NEW ORLEANS Martin J. Drell LSU Behavioral Science Center 478 South Johnson Street 7th Floor (504) 412-1580 Ashley Weiss Tulane Doctors Specialty Psychiatry Clinic 4000 Bienville Street Suite G (504) 988-0301 Charles H. Zeanah Jr Tulane Medical Center 131 South Robertson Street (504) 988-5405 CHILD NEUROLOGY METAIRIE Stephen Lewis Nelson Jr Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 NEW ORLEANS Allison H. Conravey Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900 Ann Tilton Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Maria B. Weimer Children’s Hospital New Orleans Department of Neurology 200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 3040 (504) 896-9319 CLINICAL GENETICS NEW ORLEANS Hans C. Andersson Hayward Genetics Center 1430 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-5101 COLON & RECTAL SURGERY COVINGTON Joshua D. Parks Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 METAIRIE Sean G. Mayfield Colon & Rectal Surgery Associates 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 303 (504) 456-5108 Jennifer D. Silinsky Colon & Rectal Surgery Associates 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 303 (504) 456-5108 NEW ORLEANS Brian R. Kann Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4060 H. David Vargas Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4060 Charles B. Whitlow Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4060 DERMATOLOGY MANDEVILLE Martha E. Stewart Martha E. Stewart Dermatology 4060 Lonesome Road, Highway 190 (985) 727-7701 METAIRIE Elizabeth F. Bucher The Skin Surgery Centre 1615 Metairie Road, Suite 101 (504) 644-4226 William P. Coleman III Coleman Center for Cosmetic Dermatologic Surgery 4425 Conlin Street (504) 455-3180

Patricia Farris Sanova Dermatology 701 Metairie Road, Suite 2A-205 (504) 836-2050 Mara Alena Haseltine Pure Dermatology 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 203 (504) 226-7873 Keith G. LeBlanc The Skin Surgery Centre 1615 Metairie Road, Suite 101 (504) 644-4226 Alan T. Lewis Crescent DermSurgery 4421 Chastant Street (504) 570-6370 Jeffrey C. Poole Poole Dermatology 111 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 406 (504) 838-8225 Marilyn C. Ray Ochsner Health Center - Metairie 2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard 5th Floor (504) 842-3940 Nicole Elaine Rogers Hair Restoration of the South 3100 Galleria Drive, Suite 201 (504) 315-4247 NEW ORLEANS Erin E. Boh Tulane Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-1700 Adrian Dobrescu NOLA Dermatology 6042 Magazine Street (504) 899-8852 Eric M. Finley 3434 Prytania Street Suite 240 (504) 896-2255 Patricia R. Hickham Hickham Dermatology & Med Spa 4141 Bienville Street, Suite 108 (504) 224-6040 Deirdre O. Hooper Audubon Dermatology 3525 Prytania Street Suite 501 (504) 895-3376 Leah G. Jacob Tulane Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-1700 MYNEWORLEANS.COM

Kathryn G. Kerisit Ochsner Health Center Mid-City at Canal 4100 Canal Street (504) 703-2750

Bradley Spieler LSU Radiology 1542 Tulane Avenue, Room 343 (504) 568-4647

Mary P. Lupo Lupo Center for Aesthetic & General Dermatology 145 Robert E. Lee Boulevard, Suite 302 (504) 288-2381

ENDOCRINOLOGY, DIABETES & METABOLISM MARRERO Marideli C Scanlan West Jefferson Medical Center Endocrinology 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, South Tower Suite 850 (504) 349-6824

Julie Mermilliod Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 11th Floor (504) 842-3940 Andrea T. Murina Tulane Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-1700 Richard N. Sherman Skin Institute 2633 Napoleon Avenue (504) 899-7158 Suneeta S. Walia Ochsner Medical Center 1516 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3940 Laura C. Williams Tulane Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-1700 Katy L. Wiltz Southern Dermatology of New Orleans 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 1020 (504) 891-8004 DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY NEW ORLEANS Christopher M. Arcement Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9566 Raman Danrad University Medical Center New Orleans 1542 Tulane Avenue (504) 568-4647 Anthony L. Modica Ochsner Medical Center - Radiology 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3470 Brett T. Roberts Lieselotte Tansey Breast Center at Ochsner 1516 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-6406

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METAIRIE Vivian A. Fonseca Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050 Dragana Lovre Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050 Joseph E. Murray Jr Diabetes & Metabolism Associates 3901 Houma Boulevard, Suite 103 (504) 455-1300 NEW ORLEANS Brandy Panunti Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4023 SLIDELL Gabriel I. Uwaifo Ochsner Health Center - Slidell 2750 East Gause Boulevard (985) 875-2828 THIBODAUX Lane Frey Thibodaux Regional Wellness Center 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 3300 (985) 493-3080 FAMILY MEDICINE CHALMETTE Ryan M. Truxillo Ochsner Health Center - St. Bernard 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 3100 (504) 304-2800 COVINGTON Timothy L. Riddell Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 CUT OFF Gary J. Birdsall 102 West 112th Street (985) 632-5222

KENNER Ariel Aguillard Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 210 (504) 464-8588 MANDEVILLE R. Paul Guilbault III Mandeville Private Physician Group 521 Asbury Drive (985) 630-9618 Daniel K. Jens Ochsner Health Center - East Mandeville 3235 East Causeway Approach (985) 875-2828 Nathalie Mascherpa-Kerkow St. Tammany Physicians Network - Mandeville 201 St. Ann Drive Suite B (985) 898-4001 METAIRIE Luis Arencibia 4315 Houma Boulevard, Suite 100 (504) 602-9975 Clarissa J. Hoff Tulane Doctors Family Medicine 2800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Suite 140 (504) 988-0501 Rachana Sus Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050 NEW ORLEANS Joseph L.Breault Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4747 Rebekah Byrne Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000 Vernilyn N. Juan Crescent City Physicians 3525 Prytania Street Suite 301 (504) 897-8118 Azikiwe K. Lombard Ochsner Health Center - Algiers 3401 Behrman Place (504) 371-9355

Rade N. Pejic Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000 Radha Raman Oak Street Medical 8708 Oak Street (504) 865-0805 Kiernan Adams Smith Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000 Priya P. Velu Ochsner Health Center Tchoupitoulas 5300 Tchoupitoulas Street Suite C2 (504) 703-3070 GASTROENTEROLOGY KENNER Daniel Raines Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner 180 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 200 (504) 464-8500 METAIRIE Vernon J. Carriere Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 4228 Houma Boulevard (504) 456-8020 George E. Catinis Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 520 (504) 456-8020 NEW ORLEANS John P. Affronti Tulane GI & Surgery Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5110 Natalie H. Bzowej 4429 Clara Street, Suite 600 (504) 842-3925 Sean E. Connolly Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4015

Rebekah H. Lemann Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 2820 Napoleon Avenue Suite 720 (504) 896-8670 Martin W. Moehlen Tulane Abdominal Transplant Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5344 Fredric G. Regenstein Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5344 Janak N. Shah Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4015 Shamita Bhupendra Shah Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4015 James William Smith Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4015 GYNECOLOGIC ONCOLOGY NEW ORLEANS Pui C. Cheng Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania Street Suite 320 (504) 897-7142 Richard C. Kline Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4165 HAND SURGERY THIBODAUX John C. Hildenbrand IV OrthoLA 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 1000 (985) 625-2200 INFECTIOUS DISEASE NEW ORLEANS Katherine Baumgarten Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4005

Abdul El Chafic Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4015

Sandra A. Kemmerly Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4005

Virendra Joshi University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-3882

David Mushatt Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Internal Medicine Department 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5030

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Obinna Nnedu Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4005 John S. Schieffelin Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Internal Medicine Department 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5030 INTERNAL MEDICINE COVINGTON Susan F. Ovella Lakeview Circle Primary Care 130 Lakeview Circle (985) 892-6858 NEW ORLEANS Jennifer M. Bertsch Crescent City Physicians 3700 St. Charles Avenue 4th Floor (504) 897-7007 David M. Borne LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue 2nd Floor (504) 412-1366 Pedro Cazabon Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4747 Jan Cooper New Orleans East Hospital 5620 Read Boulevard (504) 592-6760 Steven J. Granier Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4747 Gloria M. Leary Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4747 Christopher J. Lege Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania Street Suite 460 (504) 897-7999 Erica V. Tate University Medical Center 2001 Tulane Avenue 2nd Floor (504) 962-6330 THIBODAUX Chester G. Boudreaux Regional Internal Medicine Associates 142 Rue Marguerite (985) 446-2131 48

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James T. Soignet Regional Internal Medicine Associates 142 Rue Marguerite (985) 446-2131 INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY COVINGTON Farhad X. Aduli Louisiana Heart & Vascular Institute 20 Starbrush Circle, Suite A (985) 777-7000 George F. Isa Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 Pramod Menon Louisiana Heart Center 39 Starbrush Circle (985) 871-4155 METAIRIE Anand M. Irimpen Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-6113 NEW ORLEANS Murtuza J. Ali LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue 5th Floor (504) 412-1520 J. Stephen Jenkins Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-3724 Frank E. Wilklow Crescent City Physicians 2820 Canal Street 1st Floor (504) 897-8276 THIBODAUX Chad M. Dugas Cardiovascular Institute of the South 1320 Martin Luther King Drive (985) 446-2021 MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE METAIRIE Chi P. Dola Tulane Center for Women’s Health 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070 Cecilia Gambala Tulane Center for Women’s Health 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

Gabriella C. Pridjian Tulane Center for Women’s Health 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070 MEDICAL ONCOLOGY KENNER Srikanth Tamma Ochsner Health Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 313 (504) 842-7690 MARRERO James K. Ellis West Jefferson Cancer Center 4513 Westbank Expressway (504) 349-6360 NEW ORLEANS Brian Boulmay UMCNO Ambulatory Care Center 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-5700 John T. Cole The Gayle & Tom Benson Cancer Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-3910 Bridgette Collins-Burow Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300 A. Oliver Sartor Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300 Scott A. Sonnier Crescent City Physicians 1401 Foucher Street 1st Floor (504) 897-8970

NEW ORLEANS A. Brent Alper Jr Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-5344 Catherine Staffeld-Coit Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway 1st Floor (504) 842-3925 Federico J. Teran Tulane Internal Medicine Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-1001 SLIDELL Daniel P. Tveit Northlake Nephrology Associates 664 Robert Boulevard (985) 646-0360 THIBODAUX Allen W. Vander Kidney Center of South Louisiana 604 North Acadia Road (985) 446-0871 NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY COVINGTON Robert Dallapiazza Tulane Doctors Neurosciences 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard Suite 402 (985) 951-3222 MANDEVILLE Mohammad A. Almubaslat Advanced Brain & Spine Institute 100 Mariners Boulevard, Suite 1 (985) 400-3210

Christos Theodossiou The Gayle & Tom Benson Cancer Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor (504) 842-3910

MARRERO Frank Culicchia Culicchia Neurological Clinic 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S-750 (504) 340-6976

THIBODAUX Ashish Udhrain Cancer Center of Thibodaux Regional 290 Bowie Road (985) 493-4346

John C. Steck Culicchia Neurological Clinic 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S-750 (504) 340-6976

NEPHROLOGY METAIRIE Jill S. Lindberg New Orleans Nephrology Associates 4409 Utica Street, Suite 100 (504) 457-3687

NEW ORLEANS Peter S. Amenta Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Aaron Dumont Tulane Neuroscience Clinics 1415 Tulane Avenue 4th Floor (504) 988-5561 Marcus L. Ware Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4033 NEUROLOGY COVINGTON Rana Abusoufeh Tulane Doctors Neurosciences 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard Suite 402 (985) 951-3222 Ramy El Khoury Neurocare of Louisiana 648 Crestwood Boulevard (985) 205-1744 LACOMBE Thomas Krefft Paradigm Health System 64301 Highway 434 (985) 882-4500 METAIRIE Archibald L. Melcher II East Jefferson Neurological Associates 3800 Houma Boulevard, Suite 325 (504) 885-7337 NEW ORLEANS Bridget A. Bagert Ochsner Medical Center Department of Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3980 John D. England LSU Campus Multispecialty Clinic 478 South Johnson Street 5th Floor (504) 412-1517 Jesus F. Lovera LSU Campus Multispecialty Clinic 478 South Johnson Street 5th Floor (504) 412-1517 Piotr W. Olejniczak LSU Campus Multispecialty Clinic 478 South Johnson Street 5th Floor (504) 412-1517 Richard M. Zweifler Ochsner Medical Center Department of Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor (504) 842-3980 RACELAND Jamie B. Huddleston Ochsner Specialty Health Center 141 Twin Oaks Drive (985) 537-2666

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OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY COVINGTON Nancy N. Thomas Ochsner Women’s Health Center 71380 Highway 21 (985) 875-2828 GRETNA Vu Anh Vuong Ochsner Health Center - West Bank 120 Ochsner Boulevard, Suite 360 (504) 391-8896 KENNER Veronica Gillispie Ochsner Health Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 (504) 464-8506 Amy Truitt Ochsner Health Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 (504) 464-8506 Michael Wiedemann Ochsner Health Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 (504) 464-8506 MADISONVILLE Gary M. Agena 393 Highway 21 Suite 525 (985) 845-7121 METAIRIE Amy N. Grace Lakeside Women’s Services 4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 205 (504) 779-8282 Eduardo A. Herrera Tulane Center for Women’s Health 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070 NEW ORLEANS Louis P. DuTriel Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania Street Suite 130 (504) 897-7580 Ellen R. Kruger Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 Elizabeth Lapeyre Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 George B. Morris IV Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 50

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Angela M. Parise Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 Rebecca U. Perret Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania Street Suite 130 (504) 897-7580 Margaret Roberie Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 Janet Ross Crescent City Physicians 3525 Prytania Street Suite 206 (504) 897-8281 William T. Sargent Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 Donna S. Waters Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania Street Suite 320 (504) 897-7142 Anna White Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 Felton L. Winfield Jr LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue 5th Floor (504) 412-1520 SLIDELL Diana L. Clavin Camellia City OB/GYN 1150 Robert Boulevard, Suite 360 (985) 781-4848 OPHTHALMOLOGY COVINGTON Kyle V. Acosta Eyelid Cosmetic Surgery Center of the South 185 Greenbriar Boulevard (985) 898-2001 MANDEVILLE Marilu O’Byrne O’Byrne Eye Clinic 1580 West Causeway Approach, Suite 3 (985) 624-5573 METAIRIE Ronald A. Landry Eyecare Associates 4324 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 102 (504) 455-9825 Patrick S. O’Sullivan Southern Retinal Institute 2800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 264-9428

NEW ORLEANS George S. Ellis Jr Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue Suite 3104 (504) 896-2888 H. Sprague Eustis Jr Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 10th Floor (504) 842-3995 Rebecca C. Metzinger Tulane Ophthalmology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 4th Floor (504) 988-5831 THIBODAUX Nano Karen Zeringue Southern Eye Institute 900 Canal Boulevard, Suite 3 (985) 448-3353 ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY CHALMETTE Frank DiFazio Ochsner Specialty Health Center - St. Bernard 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 3200 (866) 624-7637 COVINGTON Kevin F. Darr Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Avenue (985) 892-5117 H. Reiss Plauche Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Avenue (985) 892-5117 Jason L. Rolling Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Avenue (985) 892-5117 KENNER Vinod Dasa Ochsner LSU Multispecialty 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705 Michael W. Hartman Ochsner LSU Multispecialty 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705 LACOMBE John B. Logan Dietze and Logan Spine Specialists 29301 North Dixie Ranch Road (985) 871-4114

MARRERO Matthew R. Grimm Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic 920 Avenue B (504) 349-6804 Scott A. Tucker Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic 920 Avenue B (504) 349-6804 METAIRIE Robert D. Bostick III Metairie Orthopedics & Sports Medicine 3001 Division Street, Suite 204 (504) 541-5800 Scott A. Buhler Crescent City Orthopaedics 3600 Houma Boulevard (504) 233-0986 Stephen D. Heinrich Children’s Hospital Metairie Center 2121 Ridgelake Drive (504) 832-4033 R. William Junius III Crescent City Orthopaedics 3600 Houma Boulevard (504) 233-0986 Michael J. O’Brien Tulane Lakeside Orthopedic Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West (504) 988-8476 Fernando L. Sanchez Tulane Lakeside Orthopedic Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West (504) 988-8476 William F. Sherman Jr Orthopedic Center for Sports Medicine 4921 Airline Drive (504) 889-2663 NEW ORLEANS William K. Accousti Children’s Hospital New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9569 Paul Celestre Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (866) 624-7637 George F. Chimento Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970

Paul B. Gladden Tulane Orthopaedic Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 4th Floor (504) 988-2177 Joseph A. Gonzales Children’s Hospital New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888 Lawrence Lee Haber Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970 Wendell M. R. Heard Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 Janet Yulman Way (504) 988-8476 Andrew G. King Children’s Hospital New Orleans Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9569 Peter C. Krause University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-4400 Christopher Marrero University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-4400 James F. Mautner Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970 Gleb Medvedev Tulane Orthopaedic Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 4th Floor (504) 988-2177 Mark S. Meyer Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970 Chad W. Millet Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351 Mary K. Mulcahey Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 Janet Yulman Way (504) 988-8476 R. Field Ogden Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351

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Leslie Elaine Sisco Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970 Andrew G. Todd Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351 Robert J. Treuting Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970 Robert D. Zura University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-4400 THIBODAUX Patrick R. Ellender OrthoLA 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 1000 (985) 625-2200 OTOLARYNGOLOGY COVINGTON Kathy L. Chauvin ENT & Plastic Surgery Specialists of Louisiana 350 Lakeview Court Suite A (985) 845-2677 Gerard J. Gianoli The Ear & Balance Institute 1401 Ochsner Boulevard, Suite A (985) 809-1111 Kevin E. McLaughlin Associated Surgical Specialists 350 Lakeview Court, Suite A (985) 845-2677 MANDEVILLE James L. Connolly SLENT-South Louisiana Ear, Nose & Throat 1420 North Causeway Boulevard (985) 327-5905 NEW ORLEANS Ronald G. Amedee Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080 Paul L. Friedlander Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300 John L. Guarisco Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080 52

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Christian P. Hasney Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4080 Timothy B. Molony Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080 Brian A. Moore Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080 Elisabeth H. Rareshide Ochsner Health Center - Baptist Napoleon Medical Plaza 2820 Napoleon Avenue Suite 820 (504) 897-4455 SLIDELL Gerard F .Pena Slidell ENT Associates 2050 Gause Boulevard East, Suite 200 (985) 646-4400 THIBODAUX James V. Broussard Southern ENT Associates 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 101 (985) 446-5079 Justin M. Tenney Southern ENT Associates 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 101 (985) 446-5079 Guy P. Zeringue III Southern ENT Associates 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 101 (985) 446-5079 OTOLARYNGOLOGY/ FACIAL PLASTIC SURGERY COVINGTON R. Graham Boyce Associated Surgical Specialists 350 Lakeview Court, Suite A (985) 845-2677

NEW ORLEANS H. Devon Graham III Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080 Thomas Moulthrop Hedgewood Plastic Surgery 2427 St. Charles Avenue (504) 895-7642 PAIN MEDICINE METAIRIE Joseph T. Crapanzano Jr 4320 Houma Boulevard 6th Floor (504) 503-4109 Eric D. Lonseth Lonseth Interventional Pain Center 4213 Teuton Street (504) 327-5857 Kevin R. Martinez Southern Brain & Spine 3798 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 454-0141 Patrick H. Waring Pain Intervention Center 701 Metairie Road Unit 2A310 (504) 455-2225 NEW ORLEANS Hazem E. Eissa Ochsner Health Center - Baptist Napoleon Medical Plaza Pain Management 2820 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-5300 PATHOLOGY NEW ORLEANS Shams K. Halat Tulane Medical Center 1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-5224 Matthew W. Stark Children’s Hospital New Orleans Pathology 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9817

MANDEVILLE Jason Guillot SLENT-South Louisiana Ear, Nose & Throat 1420 North Causeway Boulevard (985) 327-5905

PEDIATRIC ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY JEFFERSON John C. Carlson Ochsner Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3000

METAIRIE Sean R. Weiss 2201 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Suite 408 (504) 814-3223

NEW ORLEANS Cathryn C. Hassett Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-6742 Lawrence Edward Montelibano Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-6742

PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY METAIRIE Song-Gui Yang Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 NEW ORLEANS Michael R. Brumund The Heart Center Cardiology Department 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751 Ivory Crittendon III Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200 Kelly Gajewski The Heart Center Cardiology Department 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751 Victor W. Lucas Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200 Hans Mulder Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200 Patricia E. Thomas Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200 Michael G. White Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200 Thomas W. Young Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200 PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY NEW ORLEANS Stuart Chalew Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888 PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY NEW ORLEANS Patricio A. Arias Valencia Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue Suite 3030 (504) 896-2888

Brian G. Morris Ochsner Health Center for Children 1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900 PEDIATRIC HEMATOLOGYONCOLOGY NEW ORLEANS Craig D. Lotterman Ochsner Health Center for Children 1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4249 Lolie Yu Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9740 SLIDELL Tammuella E. Chrisentery-Singleton Louisiana Center for Advanced Medicine 2053 Gause Boulevard East, Suite 200 (985) 259-8045 PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE METAIRIE Margarita Silio Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 Pediatric Nephrology METAIRIE Samir S. El-Dahr Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 Ihor V. Yosypiv Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 NEW ORLEANS Diego H. Aviles Children’s Hospital New Orleans Department of Nephrology 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9238 PEDIATRIC OTOLARYNGOLOGY NEW ORLEANS Kimsey H. Rodriguez Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4111

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PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY METAIRIE Scott H. Davis Tulane Pediatric Specialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 NEW ORLEANS Fernando A. Urrego Ochsner Health Center for Children 1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900 Kristin N. Van Hook Ochsner Health Center for Children 1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900 PEDIATRIC SURGERY NEW ORLEANS Vincent R. Adolph Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3907 Mary L. Brandt Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue 1st floor (504) 896-9756 Rodney B. Steiner Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3907 PEDIATRIC UROLOGY NEW ORLEANS Frank R. Cerniglia Jr Ochsner Medical Center - Urology 1514 Jefferson Highway 4th Floor (504) 842-4083 Aaron D. Martin Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue Suite 3030 (504) 896-9233 Joseph Ortenberg Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue Suite 3020 (504) 896-2888 Christopher C. Roth Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue Suite 2309 (504) 896-2888 PEDIATRICS COVINGTON William Brian Britton Fairway Pediatrics 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C (985) 871-7337

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Sharon Lilly Fairway Pediatrics 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C (985) 871-7337

Betty P. Lo-Blais LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue 2nd Floor (504) 412-1366

David A. Jansen Jansen Plastic Surgery 3900 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 455-1000

Nancy Mula Fairway Pediatrics 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C (985) 871-7337

M. Nora Oates Hales Pediatrics 3525 Prytania Street Suite 602 (504) 897-0744

Kamran Khoobehi Khoobehi & Associates 3901 Veterans Boulevard (504) 779-5538

Kathryn Quarls Fairway Pediatrics 7020 North Highway 190, Suite C (985) 871-7337

RIVER RIDGE Janine T. Lissard Ochsner River Ridge Pediatrics 9605 Jefferson Highway, Suite J (504) 703-3270

MANDEVILLE Pamela E. Richard Ochsner Health Center East Mandeville 3235 East Causeway Approach (985) 875-2828 METAIRIE John Barbara III LCMC-Metairie Pediatrics 2201 Veterans Memorial Boulevard Suite 300 (504) 833-7374 Diane M. deFrance Sunrise Pediatrics 3116 6th Street, Suite 101 (504) 837-9000 Patrice Evers Tulane General Pediatric Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-6253 Reita Lawrence Pelican Pediatric Physicians 3100 Kingman Street (504) 887-6355 Stephen M. Weimer Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 4740 South I-10 Service Road Suite 200 (504) 988-6253 NEW ORLEANS Terry L. Cummings Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000 Theresa L. Dise Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 2633 Napoleon Avenue Suite 707 (504) 269-3955 Ricardo Gomez Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

SLIDELL Tara E. Mitchell Ochsner Health Center for Children - Slidell 2370 Gause Boulevard East (985) 639-3755 THIBODAUX Anne T. Boudreaux Preferred Pediatrics 142 Rue Marguerite (985) 449-7529 Henry M. Peltier Center for Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 200 (985) 448-3700 PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION COVINGTON Aaron M. Karlin Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 NEW ORLEANS Jacques Courseault Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 Janet Yulman Way (504) 988-8476 Gregory W. Stewart Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 Janet Yulman Way (504) 988-8476 PLASTIC SURGERY MANDEVILLE Benjamin J. Boudreaux Northshore Plastic Surgery 3401 East Causeway Approach (985) 214-2162 METAIRIE Abigail E. Chaffin Tulane Breast & Surgery Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 100 (504) 988-8100

John T. Lindsey Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery 4228 Houma Boulevard, Suite 500 (504) 885-4508 Stephen E. Metzinger Aesthetic Surgical Associates 3223 8th Street, Suite 200 (504) 309-7061 Hugo St. Hilaire LSU Plastic Surgery 3601 Houma Boulevard Suite 300 (504) 412-1240 NEW ORLEANS Frank DellaCroce Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 St. Charles Avenue (504) 899-2800 Michael H. Moses 1603 2nd Street (504) 895-7200 Scott K. Sullivan Jr Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 St. Charles Avenue (504) 899-2800 Christopher G. Trahan Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 St. Charles Avenue (504) 899-2800 Matthew W. Wise Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 St. Charles Avenue (504) 899-2800 PSYCHIATRY NEW ORLEANS Morgan B. Feibelman Integrated Behavioral Health 400 Poydras Street Suite 1950 (504) 322-3837 Nicholas G. Pejic Atlas Psychiatry 1301 Antonine Street (504) 899-1682 PULMONARY DISEASE KENNER Carol Mason Ochsner Health Center Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705

Judd E. Shellito Ochsner Health Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705 Richard Tejedor Ochsner Health Center - Kenner 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705 NEW ORLEANS Ramsy A. Abdelghani Tulane Pulmonary Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 7th Floor (504) 988-8600 Bennett deBoisblanc Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic University Medical Center 2001 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-5057 Stephen P. Kantrow Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4055 Ross C. Klingsberg Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Avenue 7th Floor (504) 988-8600 Joseph A. Lasky Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-8600 Nereida A. Parada Tulane Lung Center 1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-8600 RADIATION ONCOLOGY METAIRIE Paul D. Monsour East Jefferson General Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology 4204 Houma Boulevard, Suite 100 (504) 454-1727 NEW ORLEANS Ellen L. Zakris Crescent City Physicians Radiation Oncology 1401 Foucher Street (504) 897-8387 REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY/ INFERTILITY MANDEVILLE Peter Lu The Fertility Institute 800 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 2C (985) 892-7621

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METAIRIE P. Ronald Clisham New Orleans Fertility Clinic 4770 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 201 (504) 454-2165 Belinda M. Sartor Fertility Institute 4770 South I-10 Service Road West (504) 454-2165 NEW ORLEANS Lindsay M. Wells Audubon Fertility & Reproductive Medicine 4321 Magnolia Street (504) 891-1390 RHEUMATOLOGY NEW ORLEANS William E. Davis Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 5th Floor (504) 842-3920 Madelaine Feldman The Rheumatology Group 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 530 (504) 899-1120 Chandana Keshavamurthy Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 5th Floor (504) 842-3920 Robert Quinet Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3920 Karen A. Toribio Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 5th Floor (504) 842-3920 Tamika A. Webb-Detiege Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 5th Floor (504) 842-3920 SPORTS MEDICINE NEW ORLEANS Timothy P. Finney Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351 Deryk G. Jones Ochsner Health Center - Elmwood 1221 South Clearview Parkway, Building B (504) 736-4800 Christine M. Keating Ochsner Health Center - Baptist Napoleon Medical Plaza Pain Management 2820 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-2000

Michael McNulty IV Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351 Scott C. Montgomery Ochsner Health Center - Elmwood 1221 South Clearview Parkway, Building B (504) 736-4800

Mary Killackey Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5344

Timothy W. Pettitt Children’s Hospital New Orleans Cardiothoracic Surgery 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-3928

Richard Vanlangendonck Jr Crescent City Physicians 3434 Prytania Street Suite 450 (504) 897-7196

Shauna M. Levy Tulane GI & Surgery Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5110

UROGYNECOLOGY/ FEMALE PELVIC MEDICINE & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY METAIRIE Margie Kahn Tulane Center for Women’s Health 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

Howard H. Woo Ochsner Medical Center - Urology 1514 Jefferson Highway 4th Floor (504) 842-4083

Felix H. Savoie III Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine 202 Janet Yulman Way (504) 988-8476

Shawn A. McKinney University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-5700

SURGERY COVINGTON Matthew S. French Surgical Specialists of Louisiana 7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 (877) 691-3001

William S. Richardson Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor, Suite T-8 (504) 842-4070

James G. Redmann Surgical Specialists of Louisiana 7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 (877) 691-3001 METAIRIE Richard M. Karlin 3901 Houma Boulevard Suite 425 (504) 454-1100 NEW ORLEANS Kofi Atiemo Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5344 John S. Bolton Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor, Suite T-8 (504) 842-4070 Ari J. Cohen Ochsner Medical Center Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1st Floor (504) 842-3925 George M. Fuhrman Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Highway, 8th Floor (504) 842-4070 Hoonbae Jeon Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5344 Emad Kandil Tulane GI & Surgery Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5110

Michael Townsend Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor, Suite T-8 (504) 842-4070 THIBODAUX William B. Bisland Jr. Thibodaux Surgical Specialists 604 North Acadia Road Suite 207 (985) 446-1763 Mark F. Hebert Thibodaux Surgical Specialists 604 North Acadia Road Suite 207 (985) 446-1763 THORACIC & CARDIAC SURGERY COVINGTON Charles J. DiCorte Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 Jose Mena Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828 NEW ORLEANS Eugene L. Kukuy Crescent City Physicians 3715 Prytania Street Suite 400 (504) 897-8276 P. Eugene Parrino Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 2nd Floor (504) 842-3966 Benjamin B. Peeler Ochsner Hospital For Children Cardiology Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200

NEW ORLEANS Leise R. Knoepp Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155 UROLOGY MARRERO Jon Ryan Glass West Jefferson Urology Specialists 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, North Tower Suite 703 (504) 934-8100 METAIRIE Stephen M. LaCour 3601 Houma Boulevard Suite 302 (504) 412-1600 NEW ORLEANS Stephen F. Bardot Ochsner Medical Center - Urology 1514 Jefferson Highway 4th Floor (504) 842-4083 Wayne J. Hellstrom Tulane Urology & Fertility Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 3rd Floor (504) 988-5271 L. Spencer Krane Tulane Doctors - Urology 3525 Prytania Street Suite 614 (504) 891-8454 Melissa M. Montgomery Ochsner Medical Center - Urology 1514 Jefferson Highway 4th Floor (504) 842-4083 Raju Thomas Tulane Urology & Fertility Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 3rd Floor (504) 988-5271

THIBODAUX Walter J. Simoneaux Jr Thibodaux Regional Urology Clinic 504 North Acadia Road (985) 447-5667 VASCULAR & INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY GRETNA Dee Malkerneker Ochsner Medical Center - West Bank Campus 2500 Belle Chasse Highway (504) 391-5177 NEW ORLEANS Dennis Kay Ochsner Medical Center - Radiology 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3470 Richard H. Marshall University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-3309 VASCULAR SURGERY MARRERO Malachi Sheahan Westbank Multi-Specialty 4500 10th Street Suite B (504) 412-1960 NEW ORLEANS Hernan Bazan Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 3rd Floor, Suite T-8 (504) 842-4070 Clayton J. Brinster Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 5th Floor (866) 624-7637 W. Charles Sternbergh III Ochsner Medical Center Department of Surgery 1514 Jefferson Highway, 8th Floor (504) 842-4070 Nicolas Zea Tulane GI & Surgery Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue 6th Floor (504) 988-5110

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Bridget Brahney, DDS

r. Bridget Brahney and her team are dedicated to helping patients achieve and maintain long-term dental health and a beautiful smile. Always expanding, the practice offers a comprehensive list of general, restorative, and cosmetic dental services to meet the needs of the whole family, from Velscope oral cancer screening to fillings, crowns, and tooth whitening. Receiving her Doctorate of Dental Surgery in 2003, Dr. Brahney has built her practice around a priority to exceed her patients’ expectations in every way possible. 3508 Veterans Blvd., Metairie 504-888-6860 SmileNewOrleans.com

DiMarco Dental

Alan Sheen, MD

309 Gretna Blvd., Gretna 504-366-5611 DiMarcoDental.com

3701 Houma Blvd., #101, Metairie | 504-456-1999 208 Highland Park Plaza, Covington | 985-246-6077 DrAlanSheenAllergist.com

iMarco Dental has provided quality care for over 50 years in a friendly, family environment. DiMarco Dental provides a holistic approach to dental health. Doctors Damon DiMarco, DDS and Joanne Hoppe, DDS offer individualized care and tailored solutions unique to each patient’s health and smile. We love creating and keeping beautiful smiles. We keep up with the latest technology and techniques to bring patients the highest quality most economical options. To combat the spread of COVID-19, we have implemented all CDC guidelines for the health and safety of patients and staff.

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r. Sheen received his medical degree from LSU Medical School in N.O. He completed his internship at Ochsner Foundation Hospital, residency in pediatrics at Charity Hospital of LA, Tulane Division and post doctoral Fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Charity Hospital of LA, LSU Division and Children’s Hospital National Medical Center, Washington DC. Dr. Sheen was named a top doctor in New Orleans Magazine in 1993. He was recognized in the International Who’s Who in Medicine. His practice is limited to pediatric and adult allergic disease.

Tufton Family Dentistry

he family-run practice of Tufton Family Dentistry has offered a full range of affordable dental services to patients of all ages for over 45 years. A father-and-son team, Drs. Peter Tufton and Michael Tufton are attuned to the needs of patients, equipping the practice with advanced technologies to provide outstanding care and comfort. From a Trios 3D scanner for digital impressions to intraoral cameras, pain-free injections, digital x-rays and advanced cavity detection, the practice incorporates the latest proven techniques for accurate diagnosis and treatment. Patient safety is a priority, and the office follows all CDC and LHD protocols to remain open and protect patients and staff.

654 Terry Pkwy., Gretna 504-362-5270 TuftonDDS.com

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Gulf storms and the pandemic, but should reopen this summer. Check the ferry website for updates. GALVESTON ISLAND, TEXAS

Island Hopping Five great beachy destinations Summer means head-to-the-beach time, but how about taking that one step further? There are numerous islands located throughout the Gulf South and along the Atlantic coast that offer crystal clear waters and pristine beaches. Here are five excellent ways to enjoy summer at the beach, literally surrounded by water, each destination unique in what it offers. ST. GEORGE ISLAND, FLORIDA

Travel writer Kathleen Walls, a native of New Orleans who now lives in Florida, raves about St. George Island. Part of the “Forgotten Coast” southeast of Panama City and opposite the town of Apalachicola, this Gulf barrier island offers 28 miles of rental properties — no high-rises — and

secluded beaches. “Nicest thing is it’s not crowded,” Walls said. In addition to sunbathing and swimming in both the Gulf and Apalachicola Bay, visitors will enjoy fishing, birding, wildlife viewing in the marshes and hiking through trails in St. George Island State Park, itself a reason to visit. JEKYLL ISLAND, GEORGIA

There’s much to love along Georgia’s Golden Isles,15 barrier islands located between Savannah and Jacksonville, Florida. The four islands of Jekyll, St. Simons, Sea Island and Tybee near Savannah are easily accessible by car and include a variety of accommodations, historic attractions and unique ways to get on the water. Jekyll Island includes two attractions not found anywhere — the

historic Jekyll Island Club Resort, created to host America’s elite of the 19th and 20th century, namely the Vanderbilts, Pulitzers and Rockefellers, and Driftwood Beach, a stretch of Atlantic shore covered in trees killed by storms and erosion, which are ironically breathtaking in death. SHIP ISLAND, MISSISSIPPI

The quickest way to access an island from New Orleans is to hop aboard Ship Island Excursions from Gulfport and enjoy the white sandy beaches and blue Gulf waters of Ship Island. The ferry usually passes dolphins, pelicans and other wildlife on the way, so the trip to Ship Island can be as entertaining as the hours on the Mississippi barrier island. Once there, be sure to visit Civil War Fort Massachusetts. Ship Island was closed due to

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If your idea of an island getaway includes vibrant city life, Galveston offers lots of amusements, from topnotch restaurants, museums and historic attractions to the historic Pleasure Pier with its Ferris wheel and other fun rides. There’s also Moody Gardens, the Schitterbahn Waterpark, a thriving arts and culture scene and great outdoors adventures, from world-famous birding to water sports. SWANSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA

Darryl Marsh takes visitors to the quaint town of Swansboro anywhere they want to go aboard his 23-foot Bay Rider Skiff. His “Marsh Cruises” shelling excursions aren’t exactly located on islands, but Atlantic water sandbars, but it’s still pretty darn awesome. He hands visitors bags and points them in the right direction and they spend the next hour and a half discovering some of the most beautiful shells on the Atlantic Seaboard while enjoying emerald-colored waters. But if a bonafide island is required, the nearby Hammocks Beach State Park offers hiking, sunbathing, swimming and primitive camping, accessible by a daily ferry boat. Or if you’re really adventurous, rent a kayak and paddle out.

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Most of the jobs I’ve had since becom i ng an adult have warped my sense of time. When I worked in book publishing, we always planned and designed our fall catalog in the spring. When I worked in magazines, we were working two months out, so we’d be planning a Halloween issue in the heat of August, a Christmas issue while skeleton decorations were hanging all over the office, a Valentine’s issue while everyone else was singing Christmas carols. And then there’s the academic world, in which the “new year” starts in August. I still make resolutions on Jan. 1 (and then break them by Jan. 6) like everyone else, but I get my biggest “fresh start” rush at the start of every school year when I open my new academic calendar, spruce up my office, and meet all of the new students. As a mom, too, I get jazzed every year to buy new clothes and new backpacks and put the list of Important Dates up on the fridge, fully believing that this year we will have a great homework routine and a bin of healthy after-school snacks at the ready and I’ll never again forget dress-up days or somehow drive my kid all the way to school without realizing that she’s barefoot and her

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New Year, New Me? Back to school takes on new meaning

shoes are back at the house. (These always go the way of traditional resolutions, for the record.) This year, the changes are even more pronounced than usual, the prospect of a clean slate both more promising and more intimidating. My stepson will be officially headed off to college after doing his freshman year from home due

to COVID-19. My older daughter will be starting high school at a new school. My younger daughter will be switching from the school she has attended since the age of 2 to a school much closer to our house. This will be our first year since COVID-19 where we will be totally back in-person. And of course, we will be doing all of this without

having my mom as backup, as she’s been for my kids’ entire lives. I’ve never had to fill out an emergency form without her on it, and it makes such a mundane task exquisitely painful. Ultimately, I’m excited for all of them. The freedom and independence of campus life will be good for my stepson. My older daughter will have a chance to explore her passions and hone her identity. My younger daughter will get to meet new people and spread her wings a bit. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t also scared and worried. High school and college are higher stakes; the peer pressure intensifies; the choices get much bigger; the course work gets more challenging. What if my younger one doesn’t make friends? What if she struggles academically? What if she gets lost? How strictly is the uniform policy enforced? Every new beginning, whether it comes in January or August, has this same blend of exhilaration and thrilling possibilities … and blind terror of the unknown, of what’s to come, of what cannot ever be fully anticipated. As anxiety-provoking as it can be, though, I’m lucky to get this opportunity not once but twice every year. Because if I don’t get it right this month, I can always try again come January. Happy New Year, everyone!

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HOME ADVICE

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ABOUT THE DESIGNER

Interior designer Susan Currie, ASID member and certified Aging in Place Specialist, is known for her traditional style combining “a twist of modern, a touch of vintage, and a sprinkle of fun,” as well as her inspirational passion for color. Currie has two rescue pups – Shih Tzus Paisley and Mica, and recently opened a second office in Atlanta.

SUSAN CURRIE Pet Friendly Spaces

uch has been written about the emotional value of having a pet or pets. Pets make us laugh, warm our hearts and even lower our blood pressure. Why not then consider our furry friends when designing our homes? Susan Currie of Susan Currie Design, owner of two precious dogs of her own, offers some sage advice on integrating pet-friendly ideas into our surroundings. For those who are building or renovating, Currie suggests adding a pet-washing station to a laundry room or mudroom. A raised tub and handheld sprayer make the task infinitely easier and can cut down on the tracking of muddy paws through the main house. An outdoor shower such as a pool shower can also double as a place to clean off a dirty pet during

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warm weather. Creating designated spaces for pet toys, pet care items, and even pets themselves, helps to keep a house tidy. Currie says custom-built hideaways or cubbies where pets can snuggle up in comfort can be carved out of a variety of areas –under an island, counter, desk or even under a bench at the foot of a bed. Just be sure that the space is aesthetically pleasing and large enough for both the animal’s comfort and for easy cleaning. Because pets may need to be confined at times — when entertaining for instance — Currie suggests custom gates and doors as a more attractive option than baby gates from the pet store. A custom pocket gate can slide into a wall and disappear (just like a pocket door) while a Dutch door can be partially closed. “Be creative,” said Currie, noting that a good carpenter who knows how to make a pocket door can also make a pocket gate. “Use a lattice pattern or slats or mimic something nearby to blend with the architecture of the house.” A spare, unused area can even be turned into a pet room with the addition of pet-themed wallpaper and other pet décor. Stain and scratch resistant materials, and washability are all worth considering when choosing fabrics and flooring for your home. “Read your labels,” said Currie who recommends indoor outdoor rugs made of polypropylene (many 1 are colorfast and can stand up to scrubbing and Pick out a even pressure washing), ceramic floors with the washable fabric look of wood (they scratch less than real wood), and that coordinates with your décor performance fabrics like Sunbrella and Crypton. and have a blanket “I love polyester velvets, especially a poly velvet made for when your pet perches that has an antique look,” she added. “If they get on the furniture. crushed [by your pets] it’s OK; they’re made to look like they’re supposed to be a little crushed.” 2 If in doubt about the durability of a fabric, Invest in a set she suggests ordering a sample and testing it of attractive containers for before taking the plunge. pet treats. Currie says even doggie doors are better looking these days thanks to wooden-framed 3 options that can be painted to match the door Use a basket or toy for a more seamless look. After all, a pet is part box for wrangling your pet’s toys in of the family – and it’s their home too. one place.

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Fresh Catch

Seafood Sally’s on Oak

et ready to peel n’ eat – there is a new seafood spot in town. Seafood Sally’s swung its doors open this spring on Oak Street, welcoming a post-pandemic crush of New Orleanians looking to get their hands dirty with some choice jumbo blues supercharged with a chili-butter slather. While the menu is straightforward – think boiled crabs, hush puppies and fried seafood baskets – the attention to sourcing and execution sets this place apart. Seafood Sally’s is the latest effort from Caitlin Carney and Marcus Jacobs, who carved out a niche with Margie’s Grill, a casual place on Broad Street that blossomed into an insider’s darling - a place other chefs want to bring their friends and families on their days off. And while there is no culinary overlap between the two restaurants, both are guided by a prevailing ethos. “I’d say our major guiding points as a business are our integrity of product and service, and our ongoing effort to create a welcoming and supportive workspace environment,” said co-owner Jacobs. He and Carney represent the next generation of restauranteurs forging a path forward in a complex and shifting hospitality landscape. Seafood Sally’s is housed in a rambling structure surrounded with a fringe of front porch and alfresco seating where guests can observe passers-by on Oak Street. The overall vibe strikes a laid-back and unpretentious tone. Prior to the pandemic, the pair had actually made plans to open a bar, but the shutdown scuttled that project and compelled them to reexamine their priorities. “We wanted to create something that was more welcoming to a broader array of people than a late-night hipster bar,” Jacobs said. Seafood Sally’s is the result. Chef Joshua Blue (formerly of Shaya and Saba) heads up the kitchen, where he turns out an array of boiled, fried, and grilled local bounty sourced from a network of purveyors that Jacobs has cultivated over the years. “The shrimp for our shrimp cocktail come from Larry Thompson, who goes by the name ‘Mr. Shrimp’,” Jacobs said. “For the boiled shrimp, we buy

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from our friend Dino, a third generation Plaquemines Parish shrimper.” The catfish is wild caught, and aficionados will notice the higher natural fat content and earthier flavor than its hothouse cousins. Start with the “Colossal Shrimp Cocktail,” a simple dish that lets the quality of Mr. Shrimp’s delicacies shine. Also recommended are the charbroiled oysters, always a canvas for personal expression. The version here stars Gulf oysters topped with a homemade compound butter featuring citrus zest, fish sauce, garlic and chili. Topped with Grana Padano cheese and breadcrumbs, the only regret you will have is that they only come six to an order. The sauteed crawfish tails (available seasonally) come smothered in “Louie Lipps” sauce – a buttery concoction spiked with Worcestershire and rosemary boasting an incredible depth of flavor. “Louie Lipps was the owner of the old Crab Trap restaurant in Laplace,” Jacobs said. “Hurricanes shut him down, but this sauce pays him homage.” For entrees, you can’t go wrong with a “Captain’s Fry Basket” - the batter for the fried seafood is notably light – just cornmeal, flour and seasoning – and intentionally lets the quality of the seafood shine. Try the thick curlicues of wild Des Allemandes catfish and plump Gulf oysters. The basket comes with a vinegar-based slaw and a ramekin of T’s Remoulade sauce – a tasty dip but also acidic. If you seek a different contrast, ask for a side of homemade ranch dressing to provide some creaminess for balance. 8400 Oak St., Carrollton. 766-8736. Seafoodsallys.com.

ABOUT THE CHEF

Caitlin Carney and Marcus Jacobs own the critically acclaimed Margie’s Grill, an unpretentious spot near Tulane and Broad which meshes Southeast Asian street foods with dishes from the U.S. Deep South. The duo is among the forefront in a wave of nextgeneration New Orleans restaurant owners who put as much emphasis on their workspace and hiring practices as they do on their menu. Sally’s is built to shine from the inside out, and guests with a keen eye for detail can spot the difference.

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Birthday Dream Brennan’s Local 75

When Brennan’s staff brainstormed 75th birthday celebration ideas, wine director Braithe Tidwell found unlikely inspiration. “I dreamed we changed our entire cocktail menu to French 75s. I woke up and thought, “That is completely ridiculous…. Or, maybe a good idea!” She acknowledges the drink has a permanent home at Arnaud’s, but thinks this selection suits a restaurant known for presenting classics with a spirited twist. While the birthday menu is not entirely composed of French 75‘s (unfortunately!), it features several, including this locally inspired version. Braithe’s sommelier background primed her to dream of a cocktail starring sparkling wine. She fondly remembers the magical moment she first walked into Brennan’s cellar, a former carriage house, “with beams over 200 years old…it swept me off my feet.” She instantly knew she wanted to work there, managing 13,000 bottles of wine, all ready for sharing with New Orleanians toasting this iconic restaurant’s birthday.

LOCAL 75

2 ounces Euphrosine #9 Gin 0.75 ounces lemon juice 0.75 ounces simple syrup 3 ounces sparkling wine

If you like a drier French 75, add Cava as it will balance out the simple sugar in the drink.

Play around with local gin and find the one you like the best. Seven Three Distilling Co. also makes a great Gentilly Gin.

Find your favorite citrus flavor. There are all kinds of flavors you could use to fancy up your drink. Meyer Lemon juice would add some sweetness or adding citrus bitters could create an even more dynamic cocktail.

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Chill a cocktail flute. Shake the gin, lemon juice and simple syrup over ice. Strain into the flute and top with your favorite sparkling wine. Garnish with a lemon twist

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Tarte Temptation Fresh Fig and Boursin Cheese Tarte

Succulent, sweet and enticing, figs are ripening on trees all over Louisiana. In spring and summer, the distinctive lush green leaves and orbs of rosy fruit are as pleasing to the eye as the barren, skeletal branches of the deciduous trees are not in times of dormancy. Native to Asia Minor, the fig tree (ficus carica) is one of the earliest fruit trees to have been cultivated by humans as a food source. According to Dan Gill, a well-known horticulturist with the LSU AgCenter, just about any variety of fig tree will thrive in Louisiana, with Celeste, which produces small to medium sized fruit being among the most common as well as desirable. Since 1991 the LSU AgCenter has been prolific in the development of new fig varieties for the native landscape and table: LSU Purple (medium-size, dark purple fruit), LSU Gold (flavorful yellow, medium-size, yellow fruit), O’Rourke (medium-size, light brown fruit); Champagne (medium size with light red to pink pulp) and Tiger (large, light brown fruit with a darker brown stripe). There are plenty of figs to be found. Chances are if you know someone with a tree they will enthusiastically offer to share. Abundant figs have this in common with cucumber and tomatoes. Following is a simple but stunning way to enjoy all those fresh, sweet figs. Serve as an easy appetizer or a light, sweetsavory dessert. Consider pairing it with an ice cold demi-sec Champagne or an aged Port.

1 Other fresh fruits, such as peaches, strawberries, blackberries, pears, or apples may be used if figs are not available

2 Use softened goat cheese, cream cheese or Mascarpone in place of the Boursin

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3 For a more substantial tarte add julienned pieces of thinly sliced Proscuitto di Parma just before the final baking.

HONEYED FIG AND BOURSIN TARTE

Servings: 6 to 8

Unbleached all-purpose flour, for dusting 1 sheet (half of a 17.3-oz. package) frozen puff pastry, thawed overnight in the refrigerator 4 ounces Boursin cheese with shallots 1/4 cup honey (preferably dark) 8 ripe, fresh figs (6 if large), preferably 4 black and 4 green, stemmed and quartered lengthwise 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh rosemary Kosher salt 1. Lightly dust a sheet of parchment with flour. Unfold the pastry, place on top of the parchment, and lightly dust with flour. Roll out the pastry to a 10-inch square. Prick all over with a fork at 1/2-inch intervals. Make a 3/4-inch border on all sides by pressing the edge of a ruler into the pastry to mark it. Fold the pastry over at the markings to make a double-thick rim. Transfer the pastry on the parchment to a rimmed baking sheet. (The pastry can be prepared up to this point a few hours ahead and kept in the refrigerator.) Bake until the center is golden-brown and puffed, about 8 minutes.

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1. Meanwhile, combine the goat cheese and 2 Tbs. of the honey in a medium bowl. Spread the cheese mixture inside the border of the puff pastry. Arrange the figs on the cheese, alternating colors if you like. Sprinkle with the rosemary and 1/8 tsp. salt. Bake until the rim of the pastry is golden-brown, about 7 minutes. 1. Drizzle with the remaining 2 Tbs. honey and cool for about 15 minutes before slicing and serving.

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DINING GUIDE The Dining Guide is comprised of restaurants recently reviewed and visited by New Orleans Magazine. The list will change regularly to provide information on others that are also worth noting and acknowledging. Please check restaurant websites for up-to-date hours and locations. If you feel that a restaurant has been misplaced, please email Editor Ashley McLellan at Ashley@MyNewOrleans.com. $ = AVERAGE ENTRÉE PRICE

AMERICAN

Acorn City Park, $ AcornNola.com Audubon Clubhouse Uptown, $$ AudubonInstitute.org

$ = $5-10

$$ = $11-15

Ye Olde College Inn Carrollton, $$$ CollegeInn1933.com Zea’s Rotisserie and Grill Multiple Locations, $$$ ZeaRestaurants.com

$$$ = $16-20

$$$$ = $21-25

BURGERS

Bayou Burger French Quarter, $$ 5SportsBarNewOrleans.com

$$$$$ = $25 & UP

The Delachaise Uptown, $$ TheDelaichaise.com ITALIAN

ASIAN FUSION/PAN ASIAN

Port of Call French Quarter, $$ PortOfCallNola.com

Arnaud’s Remoulade French Quarter, $$ Remoulade.com

Boulevard American Bistro Multiple Locations, $$$ BoulevardBistro.com

Blue Giant Lower Garden District, $$ BlueGiantNOLA.com

The Company Burger Uptown, $ TheCompanyBurger.com

Chartres House French Quarter, $$$ ChartresHouse.com

Caffe! Caffe! Metairie, $ CaffeCaffe.com

Hoshun Restaurant Uptown, $$ HoshunRestaurant.com

FRENCH

Café NOMA City Park, $ CafeNoma.com

Little Tokyo Multiple Locations, $$ LittleTokyoNola.com

Domenica CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ DomenicaRestaurant.com

Camellia Grill Riverbend, $ 309-2679

Lotus Bistro Lakeview, $$ LotusBistroNOLA.com

District Donuts Sliders Brew Multiple Locations, $ DonutsAndSliders.com

Magasin Uptown, $ MagasinCafe.com

Five Happiness Mid-City, $$ FiveHappiness.com

MoPho Mid-City, $$$ MoPhoNola.com

Martin Wine Cellar Multiple Locations, $ MartinWineCellar.com

Rock-N-Sake Multiple Locations, $$$ RockNSake.com

New Orleans Social House CBD/Warehouse District, $$ NOSocialHouse.com

Union Ramen Bar Lower Garden District, $$ UnionRamen.com

Parkway Bakery and Tavern Mid-City, $ ParkwayPoorBoys.com

BAKERY/BREAKFAST

Restaurant August CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ RestaurantAugust.com

Breads on Oak Carrollton, $ BreadsOnOak.com. Café du Monde Multiple Locations, $ CafeDuMonde.com

Rib Room French Quarter, $$$ RibRoomNewOrleans.com

CC’s Coffee House Multiple Locations, $ CCsCoffee.com

The Grill Room CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ GrillRoomNewOrleans.com

Gracious Bakery + Café Multiple Locations, $ GraciousBakery.com

The Pelican Club French Quarter, $$$$$ PelicanClub.com Upperline Uptown, $$$$ Upperline.com

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Ruby Slipper Café Multiple Locations, $$ TheRubySlipperCafe.net

Broussard’s French Quarter, $$$$ Broussards.com Café Degas Faubourg St. John, $$ CafeDegas.com Coquette Uptown, $$$ CoquetteNola.com Justine French Quarter, $$$ JustineNola.com La Crêpe Nanou Uptown, $$$ LaCrepeNanou.com La Petite Grocery Uptown, $$$ LaPetiteGrocery.com Lilette Uptown, $$$$$ LiletteRestaurant.com GASTROPUB

Bouligny Tavern Uptown, $$ BoulignyTavern.com Cane & Table French Quarter, $$ CaneAndTableNola.com Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar and Bistro French Quarter, $$$ OrleansGrapevine.com Patrick’s Bar Vin French Quarter, $$ PatricksBarVin.com Sylvain French Quarter, $$$ SylvainNOLA.com

Gianna Restaurant CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ GiannaRestaurant.com

MAGAZINE PIZZA

Tucked away down near the GNO Bridge you will find Magazine Pizza. Convenient to the Convention Center and the surrounding Warehouse District, Magazine Pizza plates up an array of traditional pies rounded out with Mediterraneaninspired salads, sandwiches, wraps and more. Gluten-free crust and Vegan cheese are offered too, making this casual pizza joint a turnkey solution for groups seeking vegetarian and vegan fare. Delivery is available through third-party apps.

Irene’s Cuisine French Quarter, $$$$ IrenesNola.com Josephine Estelle CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ JosephineEstelle.com Liuzza’s Mid-City, $$ Liuzzas.com Muriel’s Jackson Square French Quarter, $$$$ Muriels.com Napoleon House French Quarter, $ NapoleonHouse.com Pascal’s Manale Uptown, $$$$ PascalsManale.com Red Gravy Uptown, $$ RedGravy.com Restaurant R’evolution French Quarter, $$$$$ RevolutionNola.com Tommy’s Cuisine CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ TommysNewOrleans.com Vincent’s Italian Cuisine Multiple Locations, $$$ VicentsItalianCuisine.com

MR. B’S

Mr. B’s Bistro is an oasis of upscale authenticity smack in the heart of the French Quarter. Ducking into its elegant dining room, guests are treated to an array of contemporary Creole fare that draws in locals and visitors alike. Try the peeland-eat BBQ Shrimp, with its peppery, Worcestershire-spiked butter sauce. If you prefer not to get your hands dirty, classics like the chicken and andouille Gumbo Ya Ya or the Asian/Creole mashup duck spring rolls with ginger-soy sauce are also sure to please. Whatever you order, save room for the justifiably famous bread pudding with Irish whiskey sauce dessert.

LOUISIANA FARE

Acme Oyster House Multiple Locations, $$ AcmeOyster.com Antoine’s French Quarter, $$$$$ Antoines.com Arnaud’s French Quarter, $$$$$ ArnaudsRestaurant.com Austin’s Metairie, $$$ AustinsNo.com Boucherie Carrollton, $$ Boucherie-Nola.com Brennan’s French Quarter, $$$$ BrennansNewOrleans.com Brigtsen’s Riverbend, $$$$$ Brigtsens.com Café Reconcile Central City, $$ CafeReconcile.org Casamento’s Uptown, $$ CasamentosRestaurant.com Clancy’s Uptown, $$$ ClancysNewOrleans.com Cochon CBD/Warehouse District, $$ CochonRestaurant.com Copeland’s Multiple Locations, $$ CopelandsofNewOrleans. com Commander’s Palace Garden District, $$$$ CommandersPalace.com Court of Two Sisters French Quarter, $$$$$ CourtOfTwoSisters.com Crabby Jack’s Metairie, $ CrabbyJacksNola.com Criollo French Quarter, $$$ CriolloNola.com Dooky Chase Restaurant Treme, $$ DookyChaseRestaurant.com Drago’s Multiple Locations, $$$$ DragosRestaurant.com

Emeril’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ EmerilsRestaurants.com Galatoire’s French Quarter, $$$$$ Galatoires.com Gautreau’s Uptown, $$$$$ GautreausRestaurant.com Herbsaint CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ Herbsaint.com House of Blues French Quarter, $$ HouseOfBlues.com/ NewOrleans Jack Rose Garden District, $$$$ JackRoseRestaurant.com Katie’s Restaurant and Bar Mid-City, $$ KatiesInMidCity.com Mandina’s Mid-City, $$ MandinasRestaurant.com Mother’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$ MothersRestaurant.net Mulate’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$ Mulates.com NOLA French Quarter, $$$$$ EmerilsRestaurants.com/ Nola-Restaurant Palace Café CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ PalaceCafe.com Ralph’s On The Park Mid-City, $$$ RalphsOnThePark.com Richard Fiske’s Martini Bar & Restaurant French Quarter, $$$ RichardFiskes.com Royal House French Quarter, $$$ RoyalHouseRestaurant.com St. Roch Market Upper 9th Ward, $$ StRochMarket.com SoBou French Quarter, $$ SoBouNola.com

Tableau French Quarter, $$$ TableauFrenchQuarter.com

Le Bayou French Quarter, $$$ LeBayouRestaurant.com

Mr. John’s Steakhouse Uptown, $$$ MrJohnsSteakhouse.com

The Bistreaux French Quarter, $$ MaisonDupuy.com/dining

Mr. Ed’s Seafood and Italian Restaurant Metairie, $$ AustinsNo.com

Ruth’s Chris Steak House Multiple Locations, $$$$$ RuthsChris.com

The Bombay Club French Quarter, $$$$ TheBombayClub.com Toups’ Meatery Mid-City, $$$ ToupsMeatery.com Tujague’s French Quarter, $$$$$ TujaguesRestaurant.com PIZZA

Pizza Delicious Bywater, $ PizzaDelicious.com Reginelli’s Pizzeria Multiple Locations, $$ Reginellis.com Theo’s Pizza Multiple Locations, $$ TheosPizza.com Pizza Domenica Multiple Locations, $$ PizzaDomenica.com SEAFOOD

Borgne CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ BorgneRestaurant.com Briquette CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ Briquette-Nola.com Deanie’s Seafood Multiple Locations,$$$ Deanies.com Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House French Quarter, $$$$ BourbonHouse.com Don’s Seafood Metairie, $$$ DonsSeafoodOnline.com Grand Isle Restaurant CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ GrandIsleRestaurant.com GW Fins French Quarter, $$$$$ GWFins.com Kingfish French Quarter, $$$ KingfishNewOrleans.com

Mr. Ed’s Oyster Bar & Fish House Multiple Locations, $$$ MrEdsRestaurants.com/ oyster-bar New Orleans Creole Cookery French Quarter, $$$ NewOrleansCreoleCookery. com Oceana Grill French Quarter, $$ OceanaGrill.com Pêche CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ PecheRestaurant.com. Pier 424 French Quarter, $$$ Pier424SeafoodMarket.com Red Fish Grill French Quarter, $$$ RedFishGrill.com Sac-A-Lait CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ Sac-A-LaitRestaurant.com

The Steakhouse at Harrah’s CBD/WarehouseDistrict, $$$$$ HarrahsNewOrleans.com WORLD

1000 Figs Faubourg St. John, $$ 1000Figs.com Barracuda Uptown, $ EatBarracuda.com Bayona French Quarter, $$$$$ Bayona.com Bywater Brew Pub Bywater, $$$ BywaterBrewPub.com Compére Lapin CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ CompereLapin.com El Gato Negro Multiple Locations, $$ ElGatoNegroNola.com

SPECIALTY FOODS

Lucy’s CBD/Warehouse District, $ LucysRetiredSurfers.com

Antoine’s Annex French Quarter, $$$ Antoines.com/AntoinesAnnex

Lüke CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ LukeNewOrleans.com

STEAKHOUSE

Mona’s Café Mid-City, $ MonasCafeAndDeli.com

Crescent City Steaks Mid-City, $$$$ CrescentCitySteaks.com Dickie Brennan’s Steakhouse French Quarter, $$$$ DickieBrennansSteakhouse. com Doris Metropolitan French Quarter, $$$$ DorisMetropolitan.com Galatoire’s 33 Bar & Steak French Quarter, $$$ Galatoires33BarAndSteak. com La Boca CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ LaBocaSteaks.com

Patois Uptown,$$$ PatoisNola.com Saba Uptown, $$$ EatWithSaba.com Saffron NOLA Uptown, $$$$$ SaffronNOLA.com Seaworthy CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ SeaworthyNola.com Shaya Uptown, $$$ ShayaRestaurant.com

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EYE CARE Eyecare Associates The physicians of Eyecare Associates are pleased to announce the addition of two well respected and established physicians to its practice: Scott D. Lanoux, MD, and O. Jay LaCour III, MD. In addition to increasing in size, the practice is improving the patient experience by updating its electronic health records systems for better doctor/patient communication and efficiency. Eyecare Associates continues to offer the most up-to-date treatment MYNEWORLEANS.COM

SPONSORED and services for all medical eye conditions as well as examinations and materials for patients seeking routine eye care. Advanced treatments include the the Catalys Precision Laser System, which is designed to make cataract surgery safer and more accurate, and new lens implant options such as the latest in multifocal and extended focus intraocular lenses that provide patients with the best-corrected vision for both distance and near at the same time. Optometrists at Eyecare Associates offer the latest options in daily wear contact lenses that are known for exceptional comfort and clear vision. For more information, call 504-455-9825 or visit eyecareneworleans.com.

GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE & GERIATRICS Tulane University’s Section of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics The faculty of Tulane University’s Section of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics provide high quality patient health care and resident education through several clinical programs and locations across New Orleans, including Tulane Medical Center, University Medical Center, and the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. Their Internal Medicine clinics offer services in the areas of wellness, prevention, management of chronic illness, and acute care for adults. Faculty are trained in a variety of fields such as ambulatory medicine, geriatrics, hospital medicine, medicine-pediatrics, palliative care, and preventative health care. To find a clinic near you, visit medicine.tulane.edu/tulane-doctors and select General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics. Schedule an appointment by calling 504-988-1001 (Tulane Internal Medicine Practice), 504-9888050 (Metairie-Lakeside Hospital) or 504-988-9000 (Tulane-Uptown Square).

NEUROLOGICAL CARE Southern Pain & Neurological At Southern Pain & Neurological, Doctors Paul Hubbell and Donald Richardson understand that chronic pain creates a prison for patients, disabling them from an active lifestyle. Low back pain is one of the most common sources of pain, and it’s important to note that 15-25 percent of people with low back pain actually have SI joint dysfunction. At Southern Pain & Neurological, the advanced, minimally invasive PsiF System allows your doctor to stabilize your SI joint from a familiar posterior approach by inserting strategically designed implants directly into the joint. The procedure is done through a small (1 inch) incision and typically takes less than thirty minutes. Patient testimonials have demonstrated that treatment with the PsiF system improved pain, patient function, and quality of life. If you are experiencing low back pain, sciatic-like pain, hip/pelvis/ groin pain, stiffness, leg instability, disturbed sitting and sleeping, and pain when active or lying on one side, the PsiF System may be an option for you. To learn more about SI joint dysfunction, the PsiF System, and Southern Pain & Neurological, call 1-800-277-1265. Culicchia Neurological The brain is an amazing machine, comprised of over a billion neurons, each at work full time and especially in New Orleans, arguably the most stimulating city on earth. Culicchia Neurological is the synapses that helps not only your neurons connect, but helps you reconnect with who you are. For years, they’ve brought new advancements and understanding to their patients—people come from all around the region seeking care from award-winning, fellowship-trained specialists and subspecialists. The Culicchia team works together to diagnose and treat disorders such as brain tumors, aneurysm, stroke, epilepsy, migraines, and spinal disorders. Specialties include Neurosurgery, Neurology, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Interventional Pain Management. Their affiliate, CNC Hearing and Balance Center, provides the latest in hearing healthcare. With clinics in Marrero, Uptown New Orleans, Slidell and Mandeville, Culicchia’s function is to improve yours. Call 504-340-6976 for an appointment or visit culicchianeuro.com or cnchearing.com. 82

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ORTHOPAEDICS & SPORTS MEDICINE Westside Orthopaedic Clinic Serving the West Bank and Greater New Orleans region, Westside Orthopaedic Clinic provides exceptional general orthopaedic and spinal treatment. Known for its excellent and personalized care, the clinic has been in operation since 1961, making it one of the longest standing orthopaedic clinics in the city. Dr. Ralph Katz is a board certified and fellowship trained orthopedic surgeon who has been performing minimally invasive procedures for 20 years with consistently excellent outcomes. For the right patient who has failed conservative treatment (e.g. medication, physical therapy, injections), a minimally invasive procedure such as a micro-discetomy can be done in an outpatient setting. The procedure typically takes about an hour. Most patients can return to normal activities within three to six weeks. Additionally, Dr. Katz performs cervical and lumbar spinal fusions, utilizing small incisions with minimally invasive systems when needed. He is one of a few local surgeons who perform both cervical and lumbar disc replacements. Westside offers full-service, in-house x-rays, as well as physical therapy services with personal, one-on-one service. Call for an appointment. For more information, visit westsideortho.com or call 504-347-0243. Metairie Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Metairie Orthopedics & Sports Medicine is the clinical practice location of long-established orthopedic surgeon and New Orleans native, Dr. R. Douglas Bostick III. Dr. Bostick specializes in Sports Medicine and is proficient at arthroscopic and minimally-invasive surgery of both upper and lower extremities. Dr. Bostick prides himself on staying on top of the latest surgical and non-surgical orthopedic treatments. His expertise includes emerging technology such as PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma), Lipogems, and state-ofthe-art arthroscopic procedures such as in-office arthroscopy. He is also trained in robotic joint replacement procedures. These techniques give his patients the best possible results with the quickest recovery time and little to no hospitalization. Additionally, the practice offers ultrasoundguided joint injections. Dr. Bostick is also a trusted surgeon for worker’s compensation and litigation support and has extensive experience testifying as an expert in the field of orthopedics. Metairie Orthopedic & Sports Medicine is located at 3001 Division Street, Suite 204, in Metairie. To learn more or to schedule a consultation, visit MetairieSportsMed.com or call 504-541-5800. Crescent City Orthopedics Crescent City Orthopedics offers quality general orthopedic care, joint replacements, fracture care, sports injuries, PRP treatment, and in-house PT, X-ray, and MRI services. Founder of Crescent City Orthopedics, Dr. R. William Junius, III has practiced for 15 years and performed more successful robotic joint replacements and partial knee replacements than any surgeon in the region. His expertise also includes Direct Anterior hip replacement. While advanced surgical techniques allow for a quicker recovery to an active lifestyle, Dr. Junius and his team first collaborate to maximize personalized, non-surgical treatment plans. A sports medicine specialist, Dr. Scott Buhler has served as team physician for Archbishop Rummel High School for the past nine seasons. At Crescent City Orthopedics, he treats a wide range of orthopedic and sports related injuries with specialty training in ACL injuries as well as complex knee and shoulder pathology. He and his team provide innovative and individualized care for surgical patients as well as regenerative medicine techniques for non-surgical patients. For more information, visit CrescentCityOrtho.com or call 504-309-6500.

PLASTIC SURGERY Aesthetic Surgical Associates Stephen E. Metzinger, MD, MSPH, FACS, welcomes patients to Aesthetic Surgical Associates, his cosmetic plastic surgery practice serving the Greater New Orleans area. Dr. Metzinger’s team puts your safety and well-being before anything else. Understanding that pursuing cosmetic plastic surgery is an extremely personal and often emotional choice,

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Aesthetic Surgical Associates works to provide an inviting, spa-like atmosphere where you feel welcome and relaxed. Dr. Metzinger has over three decades of plastic surgery experience and is the only triple boardcertified plastic surgeon in all of Louisiana. Dr. Metzinger and his staff use some of the most advanced surgical techniques to provide outstanding natural results while minimizing scarring and recovery time. Whether you want to improve the look of your face, nose, breasts, or body, Dr. Metzinger can create a customized surgical or non-surgical plan to help improve your appearance and selfconfidence. To learn more about Dr. Metzinger and Aesthetic Surgical Associates, or to schedule a consultation, contact the office at 504-309-7061 or visit AestheticSurgical.com. Dr. Hugo St-Hilaire Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be complicated and confusing—at LSU New Orleans, Plastic Surgeon Hugo St-Hilaire and his multidisciplinary team work to compassionately inform patients of the most up-to-date reconstructive options and help them understand which surgical method is best. “Education is of utmost importance,” says Dr. St-Hilaire, Chief of LSU New Orleans Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. “It’s a lot of information, and sometimes these early decisions are critical to the long-term results of the restorative process. The good news is that we can offer hope and the ability—once treatment is completed—to help the patient feel and live similarly to the way they did prior to diagnosis.” Reconstruction is just a small part of a patient’s recovery, and which reconstruction procedure is utilized varies from patient to patient. Typically, women return to normal activities within six weeks after reconstructive surgery, and to strenuous exercise after several weeks. Clinic locations in New Orleans, Gulfport, Lafayette and Shreveport. Visit LSUplasticsurgery.com to learn more.

VETERINARY MEDICINE Mandeville Animal Hospital At Mandeville Animal Hospital, your pet is part of the family. “As a Fear-Free™ Certified practitioner, we do whatever it takes to 84

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ensure you and your pet feel safe and comfortable—we want you to feel at home,” says Dr. Liza Ledet. Voted “Northshore’s Best Veterinarian” by readers of Sophisticated Woman Magazine six years in a row, Mandeville Animal Hospital delivers an elevated level of competent and compassionate veterinary care in a warm, welcoming environment. Located in the heart of Old Mandeville, Mandeville Animal Hospital’s state-of-the-art facility provides a broad range of services and is your trusted source for exceptional care. From gentle integrative medicine, wellness and sick visits to dental cleanings, nutrition counseling, routine and emergency surgical procedures, and enriched grooming and boarding as well as pampering luxury spa days, the clinic provides all of the veterinary services to keep dogs and cats healthy while treating every patient like family. For more information on this little hospital with a big heart, visit mandevilleah.com or call 985-377-0880.

WOMEN’S HEALTH Southern Institute for Women’s Sexual Health After 20 years of providing women and girls of all ages care in obstetrics and gynecology, Dr. Katherine Williams noted a need for specialized treatment for women experiencing pelvic pain, menopause, and sexual dysfunction. Dr. Williams founded the Southern Institute of Women’s Sexual Health (SIWSH) to provide hope to patients and to treat these conditions as many women suffer in silence. Dr. Williams’s focus is on sexual pain disorders, dermatologic diseases of the vulva, chronic infections, female sexual dysfunction, and sexual pain in women of all ages, including those with complex medical disorders such as breast cancer and coagulopathies. Proper treatment for patients is often life changing and empowering. SIWSH offers women comprehensive and thorough evaluations to obtain an accurate diagnosis and treatment for various conditions with symptoms that include itching, burning, rawness, throbbing, urinary frequency and urgency, and pain during sex. At SIWSH, Dr. Williams is joined by Dr. Jay Saux III, Oncologist, Kelly Brewster, NP, and physical therapists who specialize in women’s health. To learn more, visit siwsh.com, or to schedule a consultation, call 985-871-0707. •

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Health Resources in our Community

s we celebrate the champions of the health community this month, it’s important to keep in mind the various resources that serve both medical professionals and the community at large. Providing additional support are the organizations and businesses that complement that the services of medical institutions—from home care services and retirement living options to insurance and liability coverage providers, pharmacies, community health centers, researchers, blood donation centers, and more. Older adults and their families can benefit from a variety of services, from companionship and added support at home to retirement communities that increase safety and fellowship while decreasing the need for home maintenance. Insurance providers and pharmacies help patients access and follow doctors’ orders, while services like blood donation and clinical trials help medicine improve and evolve. Learn more with help from the following resources.

IN-HOME & HOSPICE CARE Hospice Associates Founded in 2004, Hospice Associates is a local CMS-certified and ACHC86

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accredited provider founded on the belief that when a cure is no longer possible, individuals with life-limiting illness deserve an end-of-life care plan built on knowledge, compassion, and access to services designed to fit their specific needs. The interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, counselors, and other medical professionals at Hospice Associates are uniquely trained to provide physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support to patients and their families. Hospice Associates offers four unique programs to meet patients’ needs in a variety of circumstances. The Pre-Hospice Program provides a palliative management plan for those who may need to later transition to hospice care. The Home Based Program provides hospice care in the home or at any site that meets necessary criteria for care. For patients with greater needs, the Intravenous Therapy Program and Inpatient Hospice Program are also available. Hospice Associates strives to meet the needs of patients for comfort and dignity with 100 percent satisfaction rates. For more information or to request admission into a program, call 504-457-2200 or visit HospiceAssociates.com.

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SPONSORED Personal Homecare Services When you can’t be at home to care for your family member, you want peace of mind knowing that the person who is there will treat your loved one with the same level of care and concern that you would. At Personal Homecare Services, your family is their family. For over 22 years, Personal HomeCare Services has been Providing 24/7, in-home companion care. The company offers clients the ability to remain in the comfort of their own home with their personal memories and possessions while you regain the time and energy needed to experience being a real family again. Personal Homecare Services is one of the first non-medical services specializing in live-in care and working in conjunction with doctors, healthcare providers, and hospices to provide continuous around-theclock care without the worry and expense of hourly services. They’ve built a solid reputation with word-of-mouth referral, evidence of the trust their clients have in their caretakers and services. Services include meal preparation, help with personal hygiene, medicinal reminders, light housekeeping, transportation to/from appointments, and companionship. References are available upon request. To learn more, visit PersonalHomecare.net or call 877-336-8045. Home Instead Senior Care Seeing the signs of an aging parent who needs help can be overwhelming, but with Home Instead Senior Care, caring for an older loved one doesn’t have to be a struggle. From individualized help around the house to advanced Alzheimer’s care, Home Instead CAREGivers enhance the lives of aging adults and their families by working to help keep seniors safe and sound at home. With a sincere passion, CAREGivers are special people genuinely dedicated to helping make a difference in seniors’ lives. A local franchise owned by New Orleans native Lisa Rabito, Home Instead offers the added benefit of staff who understand New Orleans’

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culture and hospitality. CAREGivers provide support through nonmedical services like meal preparation, transportation, personal care, medication reminders, and more, while working in tandem when needed with healthcare providers, home health, and hospice. CAREGivers are available from 20 hours a week to 24 hours a day. Aging adults no longer in the home can also request Home Instead services at the retirement community or nursing facility where they reside. For more information, visit HomeInstead.com/339 or call 504-455-4911. Home Care Solutions Home Care Solutions is a locally owned and operated company specializing in compassionate in-home sitting services, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Care as well as Aging Life Care Management™ services to help your elderly loved ones extend their independence at home. “Our mission is to help our clients age in place gracefully while maintaining as much independence as possible,” says Rachel Palmer, Business Development Coordinator. “Since COVID began, many families have been under additional pressure to provide care for an aging loved one—as many of them are also coping with massive changes to their own schedules and lives, we can step in and provide an extra arm of support that provides less risk of exposure than at a retirement community while allowing for continued connection with family.” Caregivers are carefully matched to meet your loved one’s needs and personality, and their familiarity with local resources saves you time and often saves you money while their compassionate understanding of the aging process relieves you of unnecessary distress. For more information, call 504-828-0900 or visit HomeCareNewOrleans.com. Dependable In-Home Care Aging in the home has always been the preferred choice for the elderly— now it is also one of the safest.

SPONSORED “Exposure to fewer people today is paramount,” says Joni FriedmannLagasse, Owner of Dependable In-Home Care. “That doesn’t mean you cannot safely bring in home care.” An experienced, professional caregiver understands and uses universal precautions such as wearing a mask and washing hands, but it is the families who must be vigilant concerning others in the home, especially younger family members. Everyone should be observing these simple precautions. With thousands of families accessing the pool of highly vetted professional caregivers over the past 50 years, Dependable In-Home has earned its reputation for being the place to go to find your home care. It is the only nationally accredited caregiver registry in the region. They help you access the right caregiver who can provide basic supervision, help with daily activities, meal prep, transportation, plus assistance in many other areas of home care. For more information on the company’s vetted pool of over 100 experienced caregivers, visit dependablecare.net or call 504-486-5044 for a live helpline available 8 a.m. – 8 p.m.

RETIREMENT LIVING Poydras Home With its ongoing expansion, Poydras Home will soon become Louisiana’s first Green House® Project community—this revolutionary care approach is focused on the fundamental principle that each resident should be the central decision maker in his or her daily life. With this expansion and transformation, Poydras Home will offer two new buildings with three homes each. The Green House model groups a smaller number of residents sharing each house led by a dedicated Care Partner highly trained to make each day meaningful. This smaller community setup within the larger community has the added benefit of limiting COVID exposure. Homes will feature open floor plans and increased access to Poydras Home’s beautiful grounds. Poydras Home’s Historic House will be rebuilt as the Center for Healthy Living, where all residents will enjoy yoga, a

therapy gym, a library, meditative space and more. Poydras Home is pleased to be working with Eskew Dumez Ripple architects to ensure the structural changes will be progressive and rooted in established, aesthetic traditions. For more information on Poydras Home’s services, visit poydrashome.com. Vista Shores Vista Shores is a luxury senior living community offering the highest quality assisted living and memory care in the New Orleans area. The community, located on Bayou St. John, is now welcoming new residents. Vista Shores delights residents with chef-prepared meals in the bistro and quaint dining rooms, its relaxing lounge for coffee or cocktails, and a wrap-around porch perfect for sunset. Vista Shores’ diverse social and cultural activities and fitness programs keep residents active and engaged, while weekly housekeeping, laundry, and transportation services ensure that residents can relax and focus on living their best lives. Vista Shores residents are provided with 24-hour personal care and individualized assistance plans. The Filmore Neighborhood is an entire floor dedicated to Memory Care residents. The care team has been rigorously trained in Alzheimer’s/dementia care to enrich the lives of memory care residents. If you have a loved one living with Alzheimer’s or Dementia, find support at Vista Shores’ free Alzheimer’s Association Caregivers Monthly Support Group. Please contact Vista Shores for further details by calling 504-288-3737, or visit vistashores.com. Oak Park Village at Hammond Oak Park Village at Hammond is a small, boutique-style assisted living and memory care community conveniently located in a quiet, country setting in Hammond. Situated among giant oak trees and beautiful landscaping, Oak Park Village’s enclosed courtyards are the perfect place to relax. Meanwhile, its large town square is a great place for socializing, grabbing a coffee, and meeting up with friends and family.

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The Oak Park Village Life Enrichment program boasts many activities and local outings that keep residents active and engaged. With daily spiritual, social, physical, and intellectual activities, the community curates its offerings based on the desires of each resident. The dining experience at Oak Park Village includes three fromscratch meals a day, plus snacks. Meals are served restaurant-style in the dining room from a variety of menus. Meanwhile, iN2L’s content-driven engagement technology brings the joy of connection to the Oak Park Village community. This easyto-use technology features immersive content experiences, including playing games, exercising, listening to music, making video calls, and more. To learn more or make an appointment, call 985-345-8787.

HEALTH INSURANCE Humana You know that creating a successful team starts by celebrating the differences of each member on it. That’s how Humana sees your employees’ health, too—personal, unique, and vital to your workplace. That’s why Humana offers expansive plan options to help your employees better manage their health needs. Humana is constantly innovating and negotiating in order to strengthen its products and partnerships, working hard to create seamless, supportive experiences that are easier on you and your employees. Caring for members’ unique needs with actions that go beyond their expectations—that’s what Humana calls human care. For more information, please contact Marcus Taylor, Humana VicePresident, at mtaylor101@humana.com or 770-722-8303. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is devoted to its mission to improve the health and lives of Louisianians. August is National Immunization Awareness Month. Children need routine 90

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immunizations at different ages, from infancy through college. This helps keep them healthy and prevents them from getting or spreading diseases. And, immunization schedules are not just for kids – adults also need routine vaccines for shingles, pneumonia, meningitis, tetanus or other conditions, depending on their age and health history. Schedule a checkup with your healthcare provider to make sure you’re up to date on any immunizations, screenings or tests you should have. That’s especially important if it’s been more than a year since your last checkup. Remember that the COVID-19 vaccine is available for anyone 12 and older, and it’s covered at $0. Visit LDH.La.Gov to see a list of vaccine locations and schedule your appointment. For more information on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, visit bcbsla.com or call 1-800-495-2583.

PHARMACY & MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Patio Drugs Patio Drugs has been servicing the community since 1958 as a full-service retail pharmacy including sterile and non-sterile compounding as well as medical equipment services. Many seniors benefit from the services offered in their long-term care pharmacy. As the longest- operating pharmacy in Jefferson Parish, Patio Drugs has a unique awareness of its customers’ needs and has geared services to address those needs. Free prescription delivery in Greater New Orleans is offered. Unit dose medication cards and multi-dose drug packaging cards assist patients with remaining adherent to their drug therapies and allow them the independence to do so. With their medication synchronization program, Patio Drugs can coordinate with patients to have all their prescriptions filled on the same day each month, eliminating the worry of running out of a medication or forgetting to call and order a refill. Additionally, the pharmacist team at Patio

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Drugs offers a comprehensive medication review with each patient to discuss any questions or concerns about medications, diet, and overall health. Their team works collaboratively with physicians to ensure patients receive the highest quality of care and the clearest understanding of medication therapies. NOLA Discount Pharmacy NOLA Discount Pharmacy is proud to continue the tradition of offering the Greater New Orleans area a local, family-owned drugstore with superior customer service and discount prices. In addition to filling your prescriptions in 15 minutes or less, they offer immunizations, compounding, and unique over-the-counter items. The stores feature an extensive retail selection with your favorite local and national brands, and if they don’t have it, they will special order it for you. They accept all insurance plans and offer affordable cash prices on prescriptions. Transferring your prescriptions is quick and easy—just speak with a friendly staff member by calling one of their three convenient locations: 504-888-9411 (4305 Clearview Parkway), 504-835-6060 (1107 Veterans Memorial Blvd.) or 985-307-0800 (3001 Ormond Blvd - Destrehan). NOLA Discount Pharmacy is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 7 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. More information and prescription refill services available at NolaPharmacy.com.

MULTI-SPECIALTY HEALTH CENTERS DePaul Community Health Centers Need a doctor? Consider DePaul Community Health Centers, formerly Daughters of Charity Health Centers, for all of your health care needs. DePaul’s work is inspired by its founders, the Daughters of Charity, who possess a 187-year history of providing excellent health care services in New Orleans and surrounding areas. DePaul operates ten state-of-the-art health centers throughout metro New Orleans, offering primary care for children, adults and seniors, women’s health (OB/GYN and prenatal services), pharmacy and behavioral health services under one roof. They also offer dental, optometry, and podiatry services at select locations. DePaul Community Health Centers accepts most commercial insurances like Blue Cross Blue Shield, UnitedHealthcare Commercial, Humana, Peoples Health and WellCare, as well as Medicaid and Medicare. A sliding fee scale also is available for those who qualify. To schedule a virtual appointment, an in-person appointment at any of their health centers, or for more information, visit DePaulCommunityHealthCenters.org or call 504-207-3060. Se habla Espanol.

PRE-PLANNING & ARRANGEMENTS Jacob Schoen & Son Jacob Schoen & Son has been providing pre-need and funeral services to families in Greater New Orleans for over 147 years. Whether you are looking for burial, cremation, or memorial services, their mission is to offer a home, a comforting place to gather in remembrance and celebration of lives well lived. The Schoen family and staff are committed to this vision and passionate about making your time with them as memorable and uplifting as possible. They bring together decades of experience caring for families of all cultural and religious backgrounds. They pledge to treat you and your loved ones just like family, and they guarantee to offer services that meet your specifications while exceeding all of your expectations. Jacob Schoen & Son invites you to compare the value and see the difference. Stop by and visit their one-of-a-kind space located at 3827 Canal Street, call them at 504-267-2924, or visit them online. They are ready to discuss what innovative options they have available and learn more about how they can help you or a loved one fulfill their wishes.

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BLOOD DONATION & ANTIBODY TESTING The Blood Center Find out if you’ve had an immune response to COVID-19 with The Blood Center (TBC). This free service informs blood donors if they carry the COVID-19 antibodies produced from previous exposure and/or vaccinations. TBC is performing COVID-19 Antibody screenings to find potential candidates for COVID Convalescent Plasma collections when and if needed for transfusion. Receiving the vaccination, choosing not to, or previous exposure to the COVID-19 virus do not affect blood donations or the patients whose lives are touched every day by blood donors. Potential donors are urged to give as the country battles a critical need for blood, provided they are healthy and meet all other eligibility criteria for blood donations. Scheduled donations are encouraged to practice social distancing andensure a safe, stable blood supply. Immune response results post three to five days after a completed blood donation. Following the donation, donors need to visit TheBloodCenter.org and log in to My Account for their results. To schedule your blood donation and help save lives, visit TheBloodCenter.org or call 1-800-86-BLOOD.

LIABILITY COVERAGE LHA Trust Funds For more than 40 years, hospitals, healthcare facilities and physician practices have relied upon the Louisiana Hospital Association (LHA) Trust Funds for medical professional liability, general liability, workers’ compensation and cyber liability coverage. This team of risk experts offers proactive patient safety and workplace safety programs, quality initiatives, risk management services and regulatory guidance to assist in minimizing exposures. Designed for the unique needs of Louisiana’s healthcare providers, the cornerstones of LHA Trust Fund’s affordable coverage include on-site risk assessments, education, early intervention on potential claims, and an aggressive defense. As part of its commitment to helping its members thrive, LHA Trust Funds has made more than $4.2 million in grant funding available to support members’ patient and employee safety programs. Learn more about how LHA Trust Funds can help keep your patients and employees safe while saving you money—call Vice President of Business Development Kathy Terry at 225-368-3828 or email kathyterry@lhatrustfunds.com. For more information, visit lhatrustfunds.com.

CLINICAL TRIALS & RESEARCH STUDIES The Clinical Translational Unit The Clinical Translational Unit (CTU) is transforming the research efforts of the region away from the status quo. CTU’s goal is to facilitate the journey of science from the laboratory to community health centers. As part of the Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center (LA CaTS), the CTU helps bring together academic institutions and health systems across the state of Louisiana to work in a unified and comprehensive manner, addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes. The CTU’s current research studies focus on a range of specialties, including diabetes and diseases related to heart, lungs, eyes, kidneys and prostate, stroke studies, maternal health studies, stem cell research, and more. The CTU also performs COVID-19 related studies such as vaccine studies at the CTU COVID Research Center (CCRC). Everyone is different, but when visiting the doctor, treatments are often the same. The more researchers know about what makes everyone unique, the more tailored health care can become. Learn more about the All of Us Research Program by visiting JoinAllofUs.org/Tulane. •

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Hospital Buzz

rom emergency and operating rooms to in-house pharmacies, teams of specialists, state-of-the-art technologies, and the staff members who keep everything running, hospitals are complex machines with gears and cogs spinning beyond what patients see. Whether a small surgical hospital or a comprehensive health care system spanning across the state, the organizations that offer surgical and non-surgical healthcare solutions are consistently expanding services, analyzing processes, incorporating research, and making improvements behind the scenes. From garnering new accreditations and awards to adding population-specific services, or opening new locations, hospitals are buzzing with news and offerings patients will be excited to receive. This summer, check out what’s new from a variety of hospitals across Greater New Orleans and Louisiana and know where to turn when specialized care is needed.

Crescent City Surgical Centre Crescent City Surgical Centre (CCSC) is America’s premier physicianowned surgical hospital. Owned and operated by a combination of 42 elite local practicing physicians and Louisiana Children’s Medical Center, CCSC offers eight operating rooms and two procedure rooms. Using cutting-edge DaVinci robotic laparoscopic technology, CCSC offers patients minimally invasive surgery resulting in less pain and faster recovery time. Twenty VIP private rooms are available, and CCSC can make accommodations for those whose loved ones wish to stay overnight. Catered restaurant-style meals are served and designed to meet 94

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patients’ personal dietary needs. They offer expedited wait times on appointments in a relaxing and comfortable environment. CCSC features surgical specialists in the fields of Bariatric, Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, ENT, Colo-Rectal, General Surgery, Gynecological Procedures, Urology, Interventional Radiology, Pain Management, Plastic, Reconstructive and Advanced Cosmetic Surgery. For more information about Crescent City Surgical Centre, please call 504-830-2500, or visit ccsurg.com. Touro Touro’s Senior Care program combines practices from experts in every specialty to provide individualized, comprehensive care to patients 65 years of age and over. Touro’s “experts in aging” team of physicians specialize in countless areas, from cardiovascular care to cancer care and everything in between. Touro is proud to provide the highest accredited Senior Care Emergency Room in the state of Louisiana designed to provide a higher quality of care to patients 65 plus. Touro’s dedicated Senior Care Inpatient Unit features specialty trained geriatric clinicians and a collaborative care model with healthcare providers from all specialties and practices. The extensive care program includes wellness, mobility, and dementia evaluations, physical and occupational therapy, nutrition and medication education, and individualized care plans. Touro’s Senior Care services makes it the best place for patients over 65 to receive care. To learn more about Touro’s Senior Care, visit touro.com/seniorcare.

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New Orleans East Hospital New Orleans East Hospital has provided extraordinary healthcare to the community since opening its doors in 2014. The newly built facility is the only hospital in New Orleans East and features complete surgical care, intensive and stroke care, diagnostic imaging, laboratory, rehabilitation, sports medicine, and 24-hour emergency services, as well as a nationally certified Diabetes Center and multi-specialty clinic to meet the needs of a growing community. In addition, New Orleans East Hospital is proud to announce the opening of its retail pharmacy, making it more convenient for all patients to get their prescriptions filled before leaving the hospital and outpatient care campus. Within seven years of operation, New Orleans East Hospital has received accreditations from the Joint Commission, American Diabetes Association, and American Heart Association. New Orleans East Hospital is actively recruiting extraordinary individuals to join its family. To learn more about New Orleans East Hospital’s services and offerings, or to apply for a position, visit noehospital.org or call 504-592-6600. Children’s Hospital Children’s Hospital will open a new pediatric Emergency Room in Metairie this September, enhancing access to pediatric emergency services for thousands of Jefferson Parish children and families each year. The dedicated, 11-bed pediatric Emergency Room will provide a complete range of emergency services to care for children from birth through age 21 in addition to scheduled imaging tests. The new facility, located at the corner of Clearview Parkway and Veterans Boulevard, will offer 24/7, fullservice, pediatric emergency care. The comprehensive center connects specialized pediatric emergency services with Children’s Hospital’s network of pediatric specialists. Diagnostic imaging services will include CT scans, x-ray, and ultrasound. Learn more about Children’s Hospital’s Emergency services and other programs at chnola.org. Ochsner Health Ochsner Health has again been recognized nationally for quality and patient outcomes. U.S. News & World Report (USNWR) named Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans, inclusive of Ochsner Baptist and Ochsner’s West Bank Campus, Louisiana’s top hospital for the 10th consecutive year and Ochsner Hospital for Children was named the state’s top children’s hospital. Neurology and neurosurgery and pediatric cardiology and heart surgery also ranked as some of the country’s top programs. Ochsner is the state’s only healthcare provider to be nationally ranked by USNWR, the global authority on hospital rankings and consumer advice. Ochsner’s physicians, leaders and staff are working to expand these leading specialties and bring world-class care to underserved communities across Louisiana. In late 2020, Ochsner announced a $100 million commitment to building a healthier state with the goal of moving Louisiana from #50 to #40 in state health rankings by 2030. To learn more about Ochsner’s award-winning programs and commitment to a healthier community, visit ochsner.org. •

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ealthcare is always evolving, and while some advancements have become expected luxuries for patients—robot-assisted surgeries, vaccines, and digital scans to name a few—other advancements are so cutting-edge that they’ve yet to make it into the mainstream and onto everyone’s radar. Fortunately, a yearly focus on healthcare and its top providers gives us a chance to check in on the latest from a variety of specialties. From new research studies and procedures to recently acquired technologies and effective new medications, cutting-edge health keeps the medical field moving forward and providing the outcomes and solutions that patients seeks. Stay on top of the latest from area providers by reading about their newest offerings, areas of interests, studies, additions and more. Atlas Psychiatry Atlas Psychiatry now offers Virtual Reality (VR) therapy, an exciting new treatment modality for a variety of psychological disorders. With over 70 immersive environments, VR therapy can effectively treat an array of phobias, including public speaking, social interactions, flying, driving, heights, claustrophobia, and more. This technology allows the Atlas Psychiatry team to walk patients through realistic, in-depth scenarios to help confront and overcome fears and behaviors in a way that would be impractical or impossible in real life. This well-researched technology has until recently been mostly limited to large medical centers and university research laboratories. Atlas Psychiatry can now provide this innovative treatment to patients in its comfortable and private outpatient office setting. Atlas’ team of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers harness a wide range of expertise to make a precise diagnosis and comprehensive treatment plan. VR therapy joins a full range of services and advanced technologies, including psychological testing, psychiatric genetic testing, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, couples therapy, medication, SPRAVATO™ (es-ketamine) nasal spray and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS). For more information, visit AtlasPsychiatry.com or call 504-899-1682. •

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 AT 8PM & 10PM Enjoy a musical celebration of the iconic Broadway score written by legendary composer Stephen Schwartz. From the smash hit musical — now in its 18th year running on Broadway.

KRISTIN CHENOWETH (LEFT) IDINA MENZEL (RIGHT)

Watch on WYES-TV, wyes.org/live and on the WYES and PBS apps.

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WYES-TV’s broadcast streams simultaneously at wyes.org/live and on the WYES and PBS apps. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL: BETWEEN THE PAGES Sunday, August 15 at 6:30pm, Thursday, August 19 at 7:30pm & Sunday, August 22 at 5:30pm Get to know the cast and creators of the hit series based on James Herriot’s beloved books. Savor the best moments from the first season, including Dame Diana Rigg in her final role as Mrs. Pumphrey, and look ahead to what might happen in Season 2.

LIZA WITH A Z Tuesday, August 17 at 7pm & Sunday, August 22 at 9pm Join Liza Minnelli for this Emmy, DGA and Peabody Award-winning 1972 concert film produced by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse. Fosse also directed and choreographed, Marvin Hamlisch was the music conductor and Halston designed the costumes.

LUCY WORSLEY’S ROYAL MYTHS & SECRETS “The Reformation” Sunday, August 29 at 7pm Join Lucy for the inside story of the English Reformation. Was Henry VIII’s desire to divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn the real reason for England’s split from Catholic Europe? Or was a secret political agenda really at work?

WICKED IN CONCERT Sunday, August 29 at 8pm & 10pm Join us as we celebrate the music of one of the most successful productions in Broadway history: WICKED. Kristin Chenowith and Idina Menzel will be our guides in this concert version of the famed musical as we explore the story of Elphaba and Glinda. WICKED IN CONCERT reimagines this remarkable musical in an intimate concert setting. Pictured: Amber Riley performs “Defying Gravity” in WICKED IN CONCERT. Photo Credit: Elman Studio LLC/ Nouveau Productions LLC

GENERATION 9/11 Tuesday, August 31 at 8pm Follow seven young people whose fathers died on 9/11. When they were born, the nation was drawn together. Twenty years later, in a divided America, they enter adulthood with a sense of responsibility that stems from their own personal tragedy. D2

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obin Cooper has been selected by the WYES Search Committee to be the station’s new President & Chief Executive Officer.

Search Committee Chairman Marc Leunissen and Board Chairman Anne Redd had this to share, “Robin Cooper is a valued member of the WYES community and has demonstrated her commitment, dedication and passion to WYES for over 32 years. She has extensive experience in all areas of station operations, including production, programming, development, strategic planning and overall management. In her prior role as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, she was instrumental in successfully leading the station during the challenging last 16 months of the pandemic.” “I am extremely excited to see Robin Cooper take over the leadership role for WYES-TV,” said WYES President and Chief Executive Officer Allan Pizzato. He added, “Over the past eight years, I have witnessed her dedication to the mission and success of the station, along with her commitment to excellence and ability to quickly adapt to a changing media and work environment. She will be an outstanding President and CEO for WYES.” Cooper will assume her new role August 1, 2021 and succeeds Allan Pizzato who is retiring after serving eight years at WYES and over 46 years in public broadcasting. WYES looks forward to Cooper’s leadership as WYES continues to be the community leader in the delivery of educational media.

1 SUNDAY

6:30pm VARIETY STUDIO: ACTORS ON ACTORS Film stars discuss their work with host Ramin Setoodeh. 7pm SECRETS OF ROYAL TRAVEL “Secrets of the Royal Flight” 8pm MASTERPIECE “Unforgotten, Season 4” (Pt. 4/6) Cassie and Sunny discover Walsh was chased by all four suspects on the night in question. The pathologist identifies the cause of death. 9pm PROFESSOR T (UK) “Mother Love” (Pt. 4/6) 10pm VIENNA BLOOD “Queen of the Night, Part 2” (Pt. 4/6) A student of Sigmund Freud and an Austrian detective team up to solve some of the most mysterious and deadly cases in early 1900s Vienna.

10pm NATURE “Super Cats: Cats in Every Corner” (Pt. 2/3)

9pm SATCHMO IN NEW ORLEANS

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

10pm POV “Pier Kids” transports audiences to New York City’s historic Christopher Street Pier where homeless queer Black youth navigate the streets to find safety and stability.

5 THURSDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

3 TUESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Freedom Tales” 8pm AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Jesse Owens” See the story of the 22-year-old son of a sharecropper who triumphed over adversity to become a hero and world champion. 9pm AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Fight” explores the famous 1938 heavyweight bout and finds two men who, in the shadow of war, became reluctant symbols of equality and supremacy, democracy and fascism. 10pm IN THEIR OWN WORDS “Muhammad Ali” follows the athlete’s rise from the Columbia Gym in Louisville, Alabama to international fame, as he transcended his great athletic achievements to become one of the most influential Americans of his time. Watch MUHAMMAD ALI, a new series by Ken Burns, on September 19-22.

11pm PROFESSOR T, SEASON 3 “Heir to the Throne, Part 1” (Pt. 1/13)

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

2 MONDAY

4 WEDNESDAY

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Vintage Portland”

7pm NATURE “Super Cats: Cats in Every Corner” (Pt. 2/3)

8pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “RecutTreasure Fever” (Pt. 1/2) Explore artifacts and artistry with health and medicine history across generations including a Lakota Sioux doctor’s bag, a “Female Physician” trade sign from around 1835, and a salesman’s sample operating chair in this half-hour RECUT.

8pm NOVA “Emperor’s Ghost Army” 9pm SECRETS OF THE DEAD “Viking Warrior Queen” Swedish archaeologists prove through a DNA study that remains found in the burial chamber of a Viking warrior in 1878 are that of a woman — not a man.

7pm STEPPIN’ OUT Each week host and producer Peggy Scott Laborde welcomes regular guests Poppy Tooker, Alan Smason, plus new roundtable visitors to discuss New Orleans restaurants, arts and entertainment. Repeats Fridays at 11:00 p.m. Missed an episode? Go to wyes.org/steppinout. 7:30pm BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8pm MASTERPIECE “Downton Abbey, Season 2” (Pt. 6/7) The Spanish flu strikes Downton, disrupting one match, hastening another and transforming the fortunes of all. Mary, Sybil and Robert each confront a moment of truth. Anna and Bates know a moment of happiness.

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5:30pm BIRD: NOT OUT OF NOWHERE looks back at the years Charlie “Bird” Parker spent in Kansas City and his lasting legacy on the Kansas City jazz scene. The documentary features rarely seen archival footage of Parker, interviews with musicians and historians and live performances from Kansas City’s most talented jazz musicians.

8:30pm ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Recut-Treasure Fever” (Pt. 2/2)

10:30pm THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE ROSE: SAGA OF CREOLE JAZZ PIONEERS 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

6 FRIDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm INFORMED SOURCES 7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 8pm WASHINGTON WEEK 8:30pm WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE 9pm ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS “On the Cover” (Pt. 4/6) Discover the uncensored and never-heard-before stories behind the amazing photographs

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that graced the front pages of music magazines and played a pivotal role in elevating music photography to iconic status.

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10pm CLASSIC ALBUMS “Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon” Discover the story of the creation of 1973’s The Dark Side of The Moon. 11pm STEPPIN’ OUT 11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

7 SATURDAY

7:30AM & 3:30PM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM Xavier Riddle, his sister, Yadina, and their friend, Brad, meet heroes from the past — from Eleanor Roosevelt to Leonardo da Vinci.

5:00am READY JET GO!

NOON SESAME STREET

5:30am ARTHUR

12:30PM DONKEY HODIE

6am MOLLY OF DENALI

1:00PM DANIEL TIGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD

6:30AM WILD KRATTS

1:30PM LET’S GO LUNA!

7:00AM HERO ELEMENTARY

2:00PM NATURE CAT

7:30AM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM 8AM CURIOUS GEORGE 8:30AM DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD 9:00AM DONKEY HODIE 9:30AM ELINOR WONDERS WHY 10:00AM SESAME STREET 10:30AM PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC 11:00AM DINOSAUR TRAIN

11:30AM CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG

2:30PM WILD KRATTS 3:00PM MOLLY OF DENALI 3:30PM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM 4:00PM ODD SQUAD 4:30PM ARTHUR 5PM THE CAT IN THE HAT KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THAT! 5:30PM PEG + CAT 6:00PM PBS NEWSHOUR

6pm LAWRENCE WELK: GRAMMY AWARD SONGS 7pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Freedom Tales” 8pm THE WAR “A World Without War” (Pt. 7/7)

7pm IN THEIR OWN WORDS “Diana, Princess of Wales” See how Diana defied expectations and evolved into one of the most impactful icons of our time. Look back on her life through a contemporary lens that credits her choices, suffering and triumphs as the ultimate disrupter for a generation of women. 8pm MASTERPIECE “Unforgotten, Season 4” (Pt. 5/6) Cassie and Sunny interview two of the suspects again and get closer to the truth. Balcombe believes she knows the cause of Walsh’s death. Things take an unexpected and devastating turn for Cassie. 9pm PROFESSOR T (UK), SEASON 1 “Sophie Knows” (Pt. 5/6) 10pm VIENNA BLOOD “The Lost Child, Part 1” (Pt. 5/6)

10:30pm AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue” Revel in an hour with New Orleans funk masters Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, with special guest Cyril Neville. Shorty lays down the grooves with highlights from his recent Voodoo Threauxdown tour.

11pm PROFESSOR T, SEASON 3 “Heir to the Throne, Part 2” (Pt. 2/13)

9 MONDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

11:30pm BLUEGRASS UNDERGROUND

8 SUNDAY 2pm GREAT SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS: 150 YEARS ON THE RIGHT TRACK More than just a tour, the program explores how these railroads defined the spirit of an era, creating a new industry and re-writing the history of transportation. 4pm LONGEVITY PARADOX WITH STEVEN GUNDRY, MD From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant Paradox comes a groundbreaking plan for living a long, healthy, happy life. 5:30pm CLASSICAL REWIND takes viewers on an incredible journey to explore the music of the masters.

7pm CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR captures a memorable performance and includes such hits as “So Far Away,” “Carolina in My Mind,” “It’s Too Late,” “Something in the Way She Moves,” “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” “Fire and Rain” and many more. *TICKET OFFER! James Taylor & His All-Star Band with Jackson Browne in concert on October 16 at the Smoothie King Center.

8:30pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE Join the personal finance expert for essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

11pm STEPPIN’ OUT

12 THURSDAY

11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

10:30pm STEPPIN’ OUT “35th Anniversary Special”

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

14 SATURDAY

10 TUESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Hard Times” 8pm FRONTLINE “In the Shadow of 9/11” tells the story of the so-called ‘Liberty City Seven’ — a group of young Black men accused of assisting Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up buildings within the USA. 10pm NEWS MATTERS Follows the desperate attempt by Colorado journalists to save the 125-year-old Denver Post from slow death at the hands of hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital, while trying to cut through the noise of social media and opinion news outlets.

7pm STEPPIN’ OUT 7:30pm BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 8pm MASTERPIECE “Downton Abbey, Season 2” (Pt. 7/7) In the season finale, the family gathers at Downton Abbey for Christmas. 10pm LONGEVITY PARADOX WITH STEVEN GUNDRY, MD 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

13 FRIDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

11 WEDNESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

8pm WASHINGTON WEEK

7pm MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 30/40 LIVE Celebrate 30 years of musical holiday magic and 40 years of groundbreaking “Fresh Aire” compositions with this milestone special from the American group known for blending classical music and rock. Includes interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. *TICKET OFFER! Mannheim Steamroller in concert on December 23 at 8pm at the Saenger Theatre.

8:30pm WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE

8:30pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD 10:30pm RICK STEVES’ ISLAND HOPPING EUROPE In this unforgettable voyage, join Rick Steves on a tour of four of Europe’s most intriguing and surprising islands: Malta, Capri, Orkney, and Skye. We’ll island-hop to remote beaches, Crusader castles, a Blue Grotto, prehistoric wonders, and salty traditional island lifestyles.

9am RICK STEVES’ FESTIVE EUROPE catches Europeans celebrating the good life. 9:30am KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA Chef’s latest series explores the rich and multi-faceted foodways of Louisiana. 10am KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS turns the spotlight on women who are changing the culinary landscape of New Orleans. 10:30am EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD

7pm INFORMED SOURCES 7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN Kara St. Cyr and Andre’ Moreau anchor the weekly award-winning show that focuses on the important issues in the state along with expert analysis of those issues.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

7am SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE

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11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

12:30pm RICK STEVES: THE ALPS is packed with scenic train rides, breathtaking lifts, majestic glaciers and unforgettable hikes. 2:30pm ULTIMATE PET HEALTH GUIDE WITH DR. GARY RICHTER 4pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE

9pm ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS “On the Wall” (Pt. 5/6) Trace the journey of music photography from a niche pastime to a highly collectable art form. Pictured: Baron Wolman 10pm ICON: MUSIC THROUGH THE LENS “On the Net” (Pt. 6/6) Tune into how music photography fits into the contemporary, popular culture landscape.

6pm LAWRENCE WELK: TV TREASURES includes archival footage, and comments from Larry Welk, the host’s son; and costume designer Rose Weiss. Also: remarks by Ava Barber, Bobby Burgess, Jo Anne Castle, Dick Dale and Ken Delo. Band members perform a medley from “My Fair Lady.” 8pm CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR *TICKET OFFER! James Taylor & His All-Star Band with Jackson Browne in concert on October 16 at the Smoothie King Center.

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11pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD

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NEW SERIES

15 SUNDAY

9:30AM KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA In his fourth public television series, awardwinning Chef Kevin Belton visits locations across the state for a look at the authentic food traditions of Louisiana cuisine. Back in the kitchen, Chef prepares his take on recipes that reflect Louisiana’s complex blending of cultures. Photo Credit: Monica Belton

5:00AM MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD 5:30AM ARTHUR 6:00AM MOLLY OF DENALI 6:30AM WILD KRATTS 7:00AM P. ALLEN SMITH'S GARDEN HOME 7:30AM WOODSMITH SHOP 8:00AM AMERICAN WOODSHOP 8:30AM THIS OLD HOUSE 9:00AM ASK THIS OLD HOUSE 9:30AM KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA 10AM KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS 10:30AM CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME’S ALWAYS COOKING

9:30pm MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 30/40 LIVE *TICKET OFFER! Mannheim Steamroller in concert on December 23 at 8pm at the Saenger Theatre.

11:00AM LIDIA’S KITCHEN 11:30AM AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK’S ILLUSTRATED NOON COOK’S COUNTRY 12:30PM CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL’S MILK STREET 1:00PM MOVEABLE FEAST WITH RELISH 1:30PM STEVEN RAICHLEN'S PROJECT FIRE 2:00PM SARA’S WEEKNIGHT MEALS 2:30PM LES STROUD’S WILD HARVEST 3:00PM NOVA 4:00PM NATURE 5:00PM ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

7am ULTIMATE PET HEALTH GUIDE WITH DR. GARY RICHTER Veterinarian Gary offers simple step-by-step solutions to help pet parents everywhere ensure their pets lead active, energetic, and healthy lives — right into old age. 8:30am WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE 9am LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN 9:30am FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER 10am INFORMED SOURCES 10:30am GREAT PERFORMANCES “Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age” enjoy a Who’s Who compilation of intimate interviews with the stars of Broadway from the 1940s and 50s. 12:30pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD

HIGHLIGHT 6:30pm ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL: BETWEEN THE PAGES Get to know the cast and creators of the hit series based on James Herriot’s beloved books. Savor the best moments from the first season, including Dame Diana Rigg in her final role as Mrs. Pumphrey, and look ahead to what might happen in Season 2. 8pm MASTERPIECE “Unforgotten, Season 4” (6/6) In the series finale, despite a tragic turn of events, Sunny and the team narrow down the suspects. 9pm PROFESSOR T (UK), “The Dutiful Child” (Pt. 6/6) When an attempt is made on a businessman’s life, Professor T believes the culprit may be closer than the police suspect. 10pm CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, HEAL YOUR MIND WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD

16 MONDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm COUNTRY POP LEGENDS (MY MUSIC) Join host Roy Clark for a trip down three decades of memory lane with country pop legends. 9pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD Learn to use food as medicine and understand how it impacts every system of your body.

2:30pm BRAIN REVOLUTION Discover how the brain can change over the course of a lifetime and how to protect it as we age.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

4:30pm RICK STEVES: THE ALPS Join Rick Steves on an alpine adventure in this hour-long thin-air thriller! From Italy to Austria all the way to France, RICK STEVES: THE ALPS is packed with scenic train rides, breathtaking lifts, majestic glaciers, and unforgettable hikes.

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

17 TUESDAY

HIGHLIGHT

7:30pm ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL: BETWEEN THE PAGES Get to know the cast and creators of the hit series based on James Herriot’s beloved books and a look ahead to what might happen in Season 2. 9pm CLASSICAL REWIND

7pm LIZA WITH A Z Join Liza Minnelli for this Emmy, DGA and Peabody Award-winning 1972 concert film produced by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse. Fosse also directed and choreographed, Marvin Hamlisch was the music conductor and Halston designed the costumes. 8:30pm IL VOLO: TEN YEARS Celebrate 10 years of friendship, memories and music with international superstars Il Volo in concert from Matera, Italy. The beloved trio performs stunning new arrangements of their greatest hits and songs from their new album.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

20 FRIDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm INFORMED SOURCES

8:30pm WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE looks at the past week’s market and brings local and national investment professionals to you.

8:30pm CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, HEAL YOUR MIND WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD teaches you six practical steps to help you feel happier, sharper and more in control of your own destiny.

9pm SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE

10:30pm RICK STEVES’ TASTY EUROPE Rick Steves eats his merry way through Europe. One delightful taste at a time, we’ll learn how food is a prime ingredient in what defines cultures all across the Continent.

11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

19 THURSDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR 7pm STEPPIN’ OUT

3:30pm COUNTRY POP LEGENDS 5:30pm MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER 30/40 LIVE Celebrate 30 years of musical holiday magic and 40 years of groundbreaking “Fresh Aire” compositions with this milestone special from the American group known for blending classical music and rock. *TICKET OFFER! Mannheim Steamroller in concert on December 23 at 8pm at the Saenger Theatre.

8pm WASHINGTON WEEK

18 WEDNESDAY

7pm NATURE “Pandas: Born to Be Wild”

2pm CLASSICAL REWIND

7:30pm LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN

10pm MARIAN ANDERSON: ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS traces the arc of Anderson’s life and her struggles against racism and poverty. 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

12:30pm LONGEVITY PARADOX WITH STEVEN GUNDRY, MD

11pm STEPPIN’ OUT

21 SATURDAY 7am CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, HEAL YOUR MIND WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD 9am RICK STEVES’ TASTY EUROPE Learn how food is a prime ingredient in what defines cultures all across the Continent. 9:30am KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA 10am KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS

7pm DOO WOP TO POP ROCK: MY MUSIC CELEBRATES 20 YEARS Celebrate 20 years of greatest hit songs from the 50s to the 70s featuring legendary performers The Kingston Trio, Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy Collins, Davy Jones, Mel Carter, Patti Page and more.

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10:30pm RICK STEVES’ FESTIVE EUROPE

10:30am SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE

9:30pm CAROLE KING & JAMES TAYLOR LIVE AT THE TROUBADOUR captures a memorable performance and includes such hits as “So Far Away,” “Carolina in My Mind,” “It’s Too Late,” and many more. *TICKET OFFER! James Taylor & His All-Star Band with Jackson Browne in concert on October 16 at the Smoothie King Center. 11pm CHANGE YOUR BRAIN, HEAL YOUR MIND WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD

22 SUNDAY 10am MARIAN ANDERSON: ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEARS 11am RICK STEVES: EUROPE AWAITS 1pm EAT YOUR MEDICINE: THE PEGAN DIET WITH MARK HYMAN, MD

SUNDAYS ON

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NEW SERIES

11:00AM KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA The award-winning chef will visit locations across the state for a look at the authentic food traditions of Louisiana cuisine. He’ll also dip into the bounty of Louisiana’s food culture with dishes that reflect its prolific fisheries, its citrus harvest and its thriving family friendly “you pick” farm experiences. Photo Credit: Photograph from Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana by Kevin Belton. Photography by Denny Culbert. Reprinted by permission of Gibbs Smith.

5:00AM MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD

9:30AM INFORMED SOURCES

5:30AM ARTHUR

10:00AM VARIOUS PROGRAMMING

6AM MOLLY OF DENALI 6:30AM WILD KRATTS 7AM HERO ELEMENTARY 7:30AM XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM

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11:00AM KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA 11:30AM KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS 12:00PM PATI'S MEXICAN TABLE

8AM WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE

12:30PM STEVEN RAICHLEN’S PROJECT FIRE

8:30AM LOUISIANA THE STATE WE’RE IN

1:00 PM RICK STEVE'S EUROPE

9:00AM FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER

1:30PM GREAT SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS

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Chinese scientists and doctors, international disease experts and health officials reveal the untold story of the coronavirus pandemic, including how it began and missed opportunities to suppress the outbreak. 10:30pm BUILT TO LAST

7pm COUNTRY POP LEGENDS (MY MUSIC) Enjoy performances from Glen Campbell, Crystal Gayle, Hank Locklin, Bill Anderson, BJ Thomas, the Bellamy Brothers, the Browns and more are intermixed with classic full-length vintage archival gems from the vaults.

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9pm LIZA WITH A Z Join Liza Minnelli for this award-winning 1972 concert film produced by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse.

7pm NATURE “Natural Born Rebels: Hunger Wars” (Pt. 1/3) Meet animals behaving badly.

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8pm WHEN WHALES WALKED: JOURNEYS IN DEEP Discover the evolutionary secrets of some of the world’s most majestic creatures.

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7pm DOO WOP TO POP ROCK: MY MUSIC CELEBRATES 20 YEARS See performances from The Kingston Trio, Glen Campbell, Aretha Franklin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy Collins, Davy Jones, Mel Carter, Patti Page and more.

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9:30pm RICK STEVES’ FASCISM IN EUROPE Visit poignant sights throughout Europe relating to fascism, and talk with Europeans whose families lived through those times.

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Why Bon Temps Rouler?

ave you noticed? There is a fleet of new RTA busses around town. Look at their upper right side corner - there in full glory, written in bold script is a phrase which has been flummoxing me for years: “Laissez les bons temps rouler.” That statement, which translates into “Let the good times roll” is one of those expressions that people who do not know better claim that New Orleanians say, but they really don’t. I have been living in New Orleans all my life and not once, never, have I heard it used as an honest conversational line. There have been many times when it has been spoken as a parody of what we are supposed to say, but that’s not real, that’s cartoonery. There have been several movies where the expression was spoken. In one, a family that had just overcome a cinematic adventure reaches the final scene over dinner where the conversation assures of “bons temps” ahead. Nevertheless, now that the phrase has been sanctified by city busses, and now that global travelers will see us as people who rouler about bon temps, some investigation is needed. Who, what, where did the phrase come from? I began by contacting Warren Perrin who is so devoted to Louisiana French culture that he once sued the British government for deporting the Acadians from Novia Scotia. (No settlement but at least the British acknowledged that it happened.) He was also a founder of CODOFIL, the organization trying to save the French language in Louisiana. Perrin contacted some of the best minds on the subject including music historian Shane Bernard, French linguist David Cheramie, and Canadian-based historian/educator Jean Frigault. To my gratitude, all responded and the verdict pointed in one direction—Louis Jordan. In 1946 Jordan and his band “The Tymphany Five” recorded a song written by New Orleans-born blues singer and songwriter Sam Theard, and co-credited to Jordan’s then wife, Fleecie Moore. Playing in a style called jump-blues, which Jordan pioneered, the lyrics were a celebration: Hey everybody, let’s have some fun You only live but once, and when you’re dead you’re done So let the good times roll, let the good times roll Don’t care if you’re young or old, get together let the good times roll

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By 1947 the song was number two nationally on the Billboard R&B chart. The Blues Foundation would label it a “Classic of Blues Recording.” Frigault pointed out that in the post war years of the late 40s and 50s English songs were sometime translated into French. Hence the Franco title. Cheramie added, “I would think the post-war years of the returning French-speaking Louisiana soldiers were a time for them to blow off steam as they say.” Shane Bernard said, “While I’m skeptical of this being an ‘authentic’ Cajun expression, it’s certainly become a touristy cliché, the phrase can also be found in English.” Perrin added that Clarence Garlow, a native of Welsh, Louisiana, released, in 1949, a zydeco infused song called “Bon Ton Roula.” The lyrics were different from Jordan’s version, but the spirit was the same - Louisiana celebrations adapted to French. Garlow’s version developed traction nationally and climbed to number seven on the Billboard Chart. The song would define Garlow who would adopt the nickname “Bon Ton.” Through the years there would be several other versions of the song by different artists and with modified spellings, but it all traces back to Louis Jordan, who was born in Arkansas, lived most of his life in California, but seemed like he belonged to, and was no doubt influenced by, New Orleans. Jordan was a big star. In his prime he was one of the nation’s top-selling Black musicians and always had a strong cross-over appeal to white audiences. Here’s what I think happened - by 1946 with the war recently ended, folks were looking for celebration, especially after nearly five years of suppression. Young men were coming back from overseas and they were ready to reclaim lost youth. Many local soldiers had been sent to France and then came back to a culture where French was already a secondary language, often associated with good times. It was natural to blend the joy with the language, to let the good times roll. As Cheramie concedes about the statement. “I think it does nonetheless capture the essence of our famous ‘Joie de vivre’, which is an authentic expression.” At first, I frowned at the message on the RTA busses, but now, after further review, I like it. There is a link: two blessing that should be kept rolling - good times and city busses.

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