New Orleans Magazine August 2023

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FROM THE EDITOR

The dog days are here, and with them summer storms and summer stresses.

Many of us are still reeling from Hurricane Ida and watch the weather religiously for any signs of storms reaching the Gulf. If you are a storm-watcher, like I am, you are not alone.

While I was lucky to not have been impacted by damage to my home, those sweltering poststorm, pre-return of power days were brutal. From long lines at the grocery stores trying to get ice and provisions to scanning the crank radio for information on who had electricity and available resources, the days and nights stretched out forever. On the second day after the storm, thinking I would get out for a walk, I tripped on some branches and bloodied both knees and my elbow. This was perhaps one of my lowest points. Sitting on the curb just trying to catch my breath and wondering if I had enough ice for my injuries or if I should save it for my meager provisions. Again, I was lucky. I was OK, the wounds would heal and three days later, power was restored. I know many were not nearly as fortunate.

We have stories from neighbors across the city who are also dealing with anxiety and the stress of trying to make a plan, hopefully just in case. Plus we have advice from the pros on how to navigate weather preparation without losing your mind. Protip, don’t try to walk through storm debris.

It’s all about baby steps, as you will read in this issue.

August is also our annual Top Doctors issue in which we highlight some of the best physicians in the area practicing at the top of their fields. Our cover subject, Dr. Denrick Cooper, is one exceptional example. Dr. Cooper is an ER specialist who is making a difference both at home in New Orleans and beyond, living up to his middle name, Kimath, which, he explained, “is the Kenyan word for ‘earnest provider.’” Earnest provider, indeed. Dr. Cooper’s message inspires us to become changemakers and voice the need for health equity for all. We hope it will inspire you as well.

August is a challenging month in New Orleans. For many it brings all of the stresses of back to school. Vacations are over and it’s back to business. It’s hot as hell, with seemingly no end in sight. And it’s peak hurricane season. But instead of looking at it with dread, it can also be a great time to take care, slow down and focus on moving past these dog days of summer.

ASHLEY MCLELLAN, EDITOR

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The Bird is the Word

HEY J & P,

Since Louisiana is the Pelican State, we should all be aware of that great poem about the bird. I would recite it, but I don’t remember it. Do you recall it? And who was the author?

DRAKE MANUEL, WESTWEGO, LA

Even Poydras, who does not take kindly to references about other birds likes this classic:

A wonderful bird is the pelican.

His bill can hold more than his belican.

He can take in his beak

Food enough for a week,

But I’m damned if I see how the helican.

That was written by Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879–1972) who was an American poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the “Tennessean,” Nashville’s morning paper, and president of the American Press Humorists Association. According to PoemHunter.com, he wrote the limerick in 1910. It was inspired by a post card sent to him from a female reader of his newspaper column who was visiting Florida beaches.

You know, sometimes when a person is working on one question, such as what I am doing, they stumble across something else, such as I just did. Merritt’s middle name was “Lanier.” There was a rather famous playwright born in the South whose middle name was also Lanier - Thomas Lanier Williams, better known by his first name of “Tennessee.” Was there any relationship? The two men were obviously gifted with words. Hmmm.

Meanwhile, there is a book out from LSU Press called “Brown Pelican.” It is a great piece of writing by New Orleans author Rien Fertel that explores the science and the mystique of the bird, of which there is plenty.

Speaking of family connections, Fertel is from the family of Ruth Fertel as in Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. Be careful though. A sizzling t-bone plate can hold more than the belican.

HELLO JULIA AND POYDRAS,

I am writing in connection to your April article about Regal Beer. As a native of the city, I remember New Orleans having four operating breweries - Falstaff, Dixie, Regal and Jax. My father-in-law was a brewer at Jax for many years.

My questions are: when did they shut down the tasting rooms, and when did the three breweries shut down and why?

Yes. Jax, Dixie, Regal, and Falstaff were all brewed in New Orleans. Falstaff had several owners (including Pabst) and several names through the years. The New Orleans facility did have a tasting room and an adjacent color-coded weather ball, which still stands, as does the original brewery, which was converted to condos after the building closed in 1979.

Dixie beer was the last surviving local name. Its final owners were Tom and Gale Benson who built a new brewery in eastern New Orleans. The name “Dixie” was changed to “Faubourg” in 2019.

Located in the French Quarter, Regal Beer was once very popular, but died a slow death as its French Quarter facility, now the site of the Royal Sonesta Hotel was closed in 1960. The Chicago-based owner still used the “Regal” name until the 1970s.

Jax’s main facility still stands as the site of the Jax Brewery shopping area on the French Quarter riverfront.

Once, most cities had several local breweries, but the rise of the advertising-rich mega breweries, with their refrigerated trucks, made it easier for the big nationals to move into extended markets.

Now the trend has gone the opposite direction with tightly regulated micro “craft” breweries serving regional markets. All serve beer on premises, so, in a sense, the tasting room has returned.

And because of the craft breweries, the tastes have expanded.

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THOUGHT LEADER

LUCIO A. FRAGOSO

President and CEO, Children’s Hospital New Orleans

Lucio Fragoso’s work ethic was established during childhood— growing up on the south side of Chicago surrounded by his hardworking, immigrant parents, he quickly learned that overcoming adversity and achieving success required putting his all into everything he did. His parents inspired him not just to work hard but work for the good of the community. Today, as President and CEO of Children’s Hospital New Orleans, Fragoso leads the charge of improving the lives of children across the Gulf South.

“Here at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, we are committed to providing the best possible care and experience for every child and his or her family,” says Fragoso.

With the goal that no child should have to leave Louisiana for expert or lifesaving care, Children’s Hospital has recruited top pediatric providers from across the country to grow and expand access and to build new specialized programs. From its Trauma & Grief Center and Burn Care program to its new Heart Center, nationally recognized inpatient rehabilitation program, and one of the nation’s most comprehensive pediatric behavioral health programs, Children’s Hospital is proud to serve as the health experts for all kids and only kids here at home.

Under Fragoso’s leadership, Children’s Hospital has made an unprecedented investment in pediatric healthcare. A recent $300M transformation of its campus enabled Children’s Hospital to serve more children—about 65,000 more than a few years ago—and to say “yes” to all kids who need care regardless of their family’s ability to pay.

In 2020, Children’s Hospital launched ThriveKids, the Student Wellness Project, a multispecialty

program intended to increase access to healthcare for kids at school. Born out of the hospital’s support of schools at the onset of the pandemic, the program quickly evolved into a comprehensive health program for children from birth to graduation that bridges the health and education sectors. ThriveKids currently supports 180 school campuses across Jefferson and Orleans parishes and more than 40 early learning centers in Orleans Parish. The program provides trained medical and mental health professionals, coordinates with educators to provide healthcare to children and offers ongoing education for school faculty and partners.

“This is how we change the health of a generation—shifting from a sickcare to a well-care model—which we believe will be transformational for the health and wellbeing of kids in our community,” says Fragoso.

Within the organization, a passion project of Fragoso’s is to honor the contributions of Children’s Hospital’s long-serving team members, taking time to pause, to make connections and recognize and thank them for their dedication.

“Over many years, our longtenured staff and providers have continued to show up each and every day to deliver on our promise for the children of Louisiana.” Children’s Hospital recently honored its longest serving employee, Leola Rolland, by naming its gift shop in her honor as she celebrated her 50-year work anniversary.

“Here at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, we are committed to providing the best possible care and experience for every child and his or her family”.

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New Orleans Magazine launches the brand new “Beyond the Kitchen” podcast this month. In celebration of Coolinary, we chat with top chefs across the city about what they love to cook and eat when not at work, their guilty pleasures and what they have in their own fridges.

Plus, if you or someone you know is getting ready to tie the knot, be sure to listen to our sister publication’s July podcast. The Wediquette, the new series from New Orleans Bride, walks listeners through some of the most common pitfalls, problems and questions surrounding wedding celebrations from bridesmaids’ parties to the dress or suit, catering, guests and so much more.

TOP DOCTORS

Our 2023 Top Doctors list is here. From allergy specialists to vascular surgery, we have the top professionals across the area.

JOIE D’EVE

It’s back to school time for many families and students! Follow blogger Eve Crawford Peyton as she navigates the world of school, teens, tweens and more each week with humor and sensitivity.

BY FRITZ ESKER

KREWE

OF KRAMPUS

FIDELITY

New Orleans’ summers can be brutal. Cool off with a cocktail and admire art at some of the Warehouse District’s finest galleries on Fidelity Bank White Linen Night on Aug. 5. ArtsDistrictNewOrleans.comw

Celebrate the birthday of New Orleans’ favorite son Louis Armstrong with live music and food at Satchmo Summerfest, Aug. 5-6 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. SatchmoSummerfest.com

COUNTING CROWS

Nineties rock band Counting Crows of “Mr. Jones” fame will be coming to the Saenger on Aug. 18, along with Dashboard Confessional, as part of its Banshee Season Tour. SaengerNOLA.com

CHRISTIAN NODAL

Latin Grammy-winning artist Christian Nodal performs at the Smoothie King Center on Aug. 31 for one night only as part of his FORAJI2 Tour. SmoothieKingCenter.com

PRESENTS

THE BARBEGAZI SNOBALL FIGHT

The snoball is one of the Crescent City’s most cherished delicacies, especially in the punishing New Orleans summers. Go to the French Market on August 19 for the Krewe of Krampus’ Barbegazi Snoball Fight and taste different varieties of snoballs. There will also be Carnival-style games for kids. KreweOfKrampus.com

SUMMER MOVIE NIGHTS WITH THE JEFFERSON PERFORMING ARTS SOCIETY

Movie night! On Aug. 4, the Jefferson Performing Arts Society will host a screening of Southern cinema classic “Steel Magnolias”, starring Sally Field, Julia Roberts, and Dolly Parton at the Westwego Community Center on Sala Avenue. jpas.org

DISENCHANTED

This hit off-Broadway musical comedy features storybook heroines who are not too happy with the way they have been portrayed in fairy tales and have decided to set the record straight. Note to parents: this musical is for adults, so get a babysitter and keep the kids at home. It is playing Aug. 11-20 at Rivertown Theatres in Kenner. RivertownTheatres.com

STAGE DOOR IDOL FINALS

Come to BB’s Stage Door Canteen at the National World War II Museum on Aug. 15 for the finals of Stage Door Idol 2023. Finalists will be accompanied by the Victory Six Swing Band. NationalWW2Museum.org

FIELD AND FIGURE: RECENT GIFTS FROM DIANE AND CHARLES L. FRANKEL

African art aficionados should visit the New Orleans Museum of Art for “Field and Figure: Recent Gifts from Diane and Charles L. Frankel.” The exhibit highlights the Frankels’ recent gifts to the museum, which range from the historical to the contemporary. The exhibit ends on Aug. 20. NOMA.org

Dirty Linen Night, the sister event to White Linen Night, shines a spotlight on art galleries on Royal Street, Aug. 12 in the French Quarter. Enter a raffle for a chance to take some of the beautiful art home with you. DirtyLinen.org

RED

Put on (maybe not your best) red dress and join this annual run/pub crawl favorite (you can run, but it’s OK if you just choose to stroll and socialize). The event starts at Crescent Park on Aug. 12. NewOrleansHash.com

SOUTHERN DECADENCE

New Orleans’ bawdy celebration of LGBTQ culture will take place throughout the French Quarter Aug. 31-Sept. 4. There will be street parties, concerts, a parade and much more. SouthernDecadence.com

Check all event websites for the most up-to-date information.

BANK WHITE LINEN NIGHT

DIRTY LINEN NIGHT

DRESS RUN

SATCHMO SUMMERFEST

BY MISTY MILIOTO BAR TAB

Cocktail Classes

The Sazerac House has launched a new tasting schedule with three tastings per day, seven days per week. At noon, join for the tropical cocktails tasting ($30, approximately 60 minutes), which includes two luxury rums and two tropical cocktails. After the class, visitors will be familiar with the production of sugar, how rum is made, rum’s cultural significance, the tropical cocktail movement and New Orleans’ place in rum culture. At 2 p.m., check out the Sazerac cocktail tasting ($30, approximately 45 minutes), featuring Sazerac products to learn about the evolution of New Orleans’ official cocktail. Finally, at 4 p.m., discover the whiskey grid tasting ($45, approximately 75 minutes), which includes the art of nosing, tasting and evaluating whiskies from Buffalo Trace Distillery. These tastings include full access to the exhibit floors. 101 Magazine St., 504-910-0100, sazerachouse.com

THIRSTY THURSDAY

Chapter IV - the newest restaurant and bar from Chef Dook Chase and his wife, Gretchen - is now offering happy hour every Thursday from 3-7 p.m. Drink specials include a featured happy hour cocktail ($9), a glass of house wine ($5), and specialty cocktails and classic cocktails ($12-$13). There’s also special pricing on small bites like crab cakes ($16), soups ($12), sandwiches ($15$17) and a weekly featured entree. 1315 Gravier St., 504766-7851, chapterivnola.com

LIVELY LIBATIONS

The final event in the summer “Friends of Purple Grackle” popup series at Chemin à la Mer in the Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans takes place Aug. 21 in the restaurant’s lounge. The popup event with Latitude 29 includes two cocktails and an appetizer. Two seatings are available (at 5 and 7 p.m.), and reservations are required. 2 Canal St., 504-434-5898, fourseasons.com

A TOAST TO SUMMER

The Sazerac Bar at the Roosevelt New Orleans has debuted a menu of carefully crafted summer cocktails. Highlights include the “Tainted Love” (Casa del Sol tequila, Giffard’s passionfruit liqueur, passionfruit puree, Tempus Fugit crème de cacao and Herbsaint), the “Beetnik” (Wheatley vodka, beet-ginger juice, Giffard’s ginger liqueur, Giffard’s Caribbean pineapple liqueur, lime, pineapple and ginger beer) and the “Bee Peachy” (Aviation gin, peach puree, honey and lemon). 130 Roosevelt Way, 504-648-1200, hilton.com

FALL PREVIEW

Gnarly Barley Brewing Co. has released its Fest Bier - an Oktoberfeststyle, medium-bodied lager with a rich malt profile. A dash of caramel on the front end finishes up with a delicate palate of scrubbing effervescence and no lingering bitterness. 1709 Corbin Road, Hammond, 985-3180723, gnarlybeer.com

Meanwhile, loa at International House (2023 Tales of the Cocktail Top Ten Regional Honoree for Best U.S. Hotel Bar) has a new summer cocktail, “The Summer Dress.” The light and fragrant drink is a South American take on a sangria, combining white wine clerico, apricot eau de vie and fresh summer fruits. 221 Camp St., 504-553-9550, ihhotel.com

SUMMER WINES

The Grill Room at The Windsor Court is inviting guests to journey through the world of wines at the summer wine seminar series. The theme for the Aug. 17 event ($75, at 6:30 p.m.) is “Sadie Family Wines: Sips from South Africa.” In addition to a selection of five fine wines, the evening will include personal gourmet cheese boards, and enriching education led by the in-house sommelier and other renowned experts in the field. 300 Gravier St., 504-522-1994, windsorcourthotel.com

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Summer Menus

Through Aug. 27, Ruby Slipper is offering a special summer menu at all of its locations throughout the city. Highlights include seasonal beignets, shrimp Cortez (griddled corn cakes with poached eggs and topped with a sauce made with Gulf shrimp, artichokes, tasso, corn and peppers), “Very Berry Stuffed French Toast” and pineapple upside-down pancakes. Pair the meal with a seasonal mocktail or Ruby Slipper’s popular mimosa flight. Multiple locations, rubybrunch.com

Meanwhile, Higgins Hotel and Conference Center has new menus at Rosie’s on the Roof and Kilroy’s, all developed by award-winning executive chef Virgile Brandel. At Rosie’s, guests can expect a menu that focuses on regional flavors with an international twist, with items like crab beignets, blackened tuna tacos and alligator meatball po’babies. At Kilroy’s, the menu focuses on comfort foods like soft shell crab and grits, oyster and pork belly tacos, and confit duck cassoulet. Also be sure to check out Kilroy’s new happy hour every weekday from 4-6 p.m. with discounted craft cocktails, local beers and an array of small plates. 1000 Magazine St., 504-528-1941, higginshotelnola.com

And at Chemin à la Mer at Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans, a new summer menu features items like spinach salad, a fried Gulf fish sandwich, blue crab and Creole tomatoes, and roasted pork belly served over Louisiana rice and topped with local wild mushrooms and Louisiana crawfish tails. Sommelier Emily Kitzmiller also has curated a light and balanced wine menu to complement the seasonal menu additions. 2 Canal St., 504-434-5898, fourseasons.com

HALF-SHELL DELIGHTS

Just in time for National Oyster Day (Aug. 5), The Elysian Bar at Hotel Peter and Paul is offering a new raw oyster special every Friday, Saturday and Sunday during brunch and dinner service. Each week, executive chef Kyle Focken presents a playful new preparation. Examples include Forgotten Bay oysters topped with cilantro salsa verde, pickled jalapeños, cilantro stems and radish; Murder Point oysters topped with Louisiana-strawberry mignonette and mint oil; and Shiny Dimes topped with red-wine mignonette and lemon zest. 2317 Burgundy St., 504-356-6769, theelysianbar.com

FRENCH CONNECTION

Couvant, the French restaurant inside The Eliza Jane hotel, is hosting a 2023 Tour de France Dinner Series with menu specials and monthly curated dinners inspired by select regions throughout France. In August, the focus is on Lyon with a featured dish (Onglet de Boeuf— roasted hangar steak, pomme Lyonnaise and sauce au poivre) available all month. The Lyon dinner takes place Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. featuring Lyonnaise salad, Quenelle de Brochet, Onglet de Boeuf and Tarte a la Praline Lyon, plus curated wine pairings to complement each course. The following two dinners take place Sept. 28 at 7 p.m. (focusing on the Normandy region) and Oct. 26 at 7 p.m. (focusing on the Alsace region). 315 Magazine St., 504-342-2316, couvant.com

TASTE OF ITALY

Gianna also is hosting a summer dinner series celebrating Italian American classic dishes paired with Italian table wines. On Aug. 30, the focus is on Sardinia, while the final dinner on September 27 will focus on mushrooms and the Piedmont region. 700 Magazine St., Ste. 101, 504-399-0816, giannarestaurant.co

MORE MEAT, PLEASE!

Matt Moore, author of “Serial Griller and South's Best Butts,” has released a new cookbook, “Butcher on the Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond” ($40, Harvest). The cookbook includes stories, coveted family recipes and expert tips from butchers around the country (including Leighann Smith and Daniel Jackson of local nose-totail butcher shop and restaurant, Piece of Meat). Available at Available at Octavia Books, 513 Octavia St., 504-899-7323, Octaviabooks.com.

SUMMER SOIREES

Perfect for end-of-summer get togethers, Devil Moon Barbecue has expanded its offerings to include a grab-and-go selection of its smoked meats (like prime brisket, spare ribs, pork butts, turkey breast and smoked sausages) accompanied with snacks, pickles and sauces. Fully cooked and vacuum sealed, the meals include instructions for how to finish the meat on the grill or stovetop, in the oven or in a sous-vide cooker, plus video tutorials on how to slice and serve like a pit master. The restaurant also is offering its full catering menu, featuring hot barbecue meats alongside barbecue sliders, taco platters and sides. 1188 Girod St., 504-7880093, devilmoonbbq.com

BY ANDY MYER

New Orleans-based designer Lakan Golden recently opened a new Magazine St. studio featuring timeless, made-to-measure womenswear under her own signature label. The Vested Shell and The Pillar Pant in terracotta are made from 100% breezy linen and sure to become wardrobe staples for years to come. Limited ready to wear is available in studio and buyers can also book an appointment for custom fabrics and fit. Available at Laken, lakan.com.

BENE’s founder, Ellie Schwing, partners with female artists to feature one-of-a-kind artwork on her pieces. This beautiful silk/cashmere blend scarf showcases original work by local artist Beth Lambert and is perfect for adding a bit of flair to your outfit or covering your shoulders once you leave the heat and frosty air-conditioned interiors beckon. Available at BENE, benehandbags.com.

Safari Summer

It’s officially sweltering. Why not take a nod from the intrepid explorers who for centuries have fine-tuned functional beat the heat gear?

A modern cut slide in an easy-to-pair tan is the perfect summer shoe. It works with almost any outfit and is easy to slip on and go. The Regina by Chinese Laundry has a flattering flat base and fit and will wear well with age. Available at Indigo Boutique, shopindigoboutique.com.

Sun protection is essential year-round, but August’s temps combined with relentless rays mean one thing – a versatile hat is key. Wallaroo’s Sedona comes in a classic safari shape and is updated with an Aztec print band. The structured brim provides significant shade with a UPF 50+ fabric that blocks 97.5% of ultraviolet exposure, according to the Australian Radiation Protection Agency. Available at Meyer The Hatter, meyerthehatter.com.

The countless benefits of a cute pouch are undeniable. Stash small items that toss around your purse in Inoui Edition’s Pouchette in Tiger Eyes or simply use as a stand-alone clutch. Made in India from 100% cotton with a leather finish, and perfect for an LSU game or any occasion. Available at Angelique Boutique, shopangeliqueboutique.com.

BY KELLY MASSICOT

JU + CHAN

In 2020, TikTok took off in popularity during the coronavirus pandemic. It was an outlet for creators and for the general public to feel like they were connected to the outside world while confined to their homes. It was also a big year for New Orleans Saints player Juwan Johnson and his wife Chanen Johnson. Not only did the two marry, but they used TikTok as a way to connect with their new city and community. The two college sweethearts embraced the social media app, among much backlash to create a persona outside the NFL. The two athletes (Chanen is a college gymnast) are not only embarking on a new NFL contract, but are welcoming their first child while navigating life outside a global pandemic. We talk to the two about navigating a new city, signing a big contract and setting down roots in the Big Easy.

Q: How did you become “Ju and Chan”? Chan: We were in a mutual Bible study. So we knew of each other. We did not know each other at all. We also were athletes; like every athlete knows every athlete. That’s just kind of a thing. We added each other on Instagram. We added each other on Snapchat, but never communicated.

Ju: We met [in person] at a mutual friend’s birthday party. It was summer school. This is the first time she’s been

in summer courses ever in her college career. And I felt like this would be my only chance to really talk to her. So, I did, with a little liquid courage.

Q: And who, would you say, is the better athlete? Ju: I’ve never tried gymnastics, but I would say I’m a better flipper.

Chan: That’s so disrespectful. You’re not a better flipper, that’s like me saying I’m better at catching balls.

Ju: There are different aspects to gymnastics, but I will say that she is. She is a better athlete.

Chan: I would like to claim this. When anyone, in general, tries gymnastics, they can’t do it. If I tried football right now, I could do it. I might not be good at it, but I could go through the steps.

Q: How have you been adjusting to New Orleans? Ju: We love New Orleans. New Orleans is great. We just purchased a home here, so we’re already setting down roots. We have a daughter on the way, and she’ll be well accustomed to New Orleans. New Jersey, where I’m from, is very different in terms of food and people, and Chan being from California is very different, slower paced than New Orleans. But New Orleans has been great to us. The people are great, they love the city and they love Saints football.

Chan: It’s so wild. But with the way football is, I feel like this is the

most secure we’ve ever felt. Because we’ve never really had one of those multi-year contracts before. And so knowing that, we’re like, “Alright, this is home.” We feel good. We’re sticking around. We’re happy to set roots here. And we’re obsessed with the city. We’re glad we didn’t have to go anywhere else.

Q: How did @JuAndChan on TikTok come about? Chan: [During COVID] His agency told all of the guys, who were in any sport, y’all should get on TikTok. And we were kind of like, “Ok, I mean the agency said to so we might as well,” and so we just did a couple’s account. One of the agents said it would be the next big thing. We started doing it and it obviously takes some time to have a “viral” video. And it really does just take one. We had our first viral video maybe two or three months in and it has skyrocketed ever since.

Q: How do you respond to negative comments? Chan: At first I took a lot of offense to it. I used to care a lot of people would say. I would get really offended. He wasn’t even on the team yet and people were saying, “oh my gosh, of course she’s married to him because he’s in the NFL. He’s making so much money.” I’m like, actually, we’re broke. Like, he’s not even in the NFL. And of course, the one way that I was able to start to cope with all of people just making assumptions about me was making jokes. So when people would say, “Oh, she’s a gold digger,” I’d be like, “Heck yeah.” I ran with it. I still run with it. It helped me a lot

to not care. I used to care a lot what people said, and now I don’t.

Q: With the house and the new baby, should we expect new content for Ju and Chan? Chan: Oh, yeah, we already have so many plans to make family vlogs. We definitely plan on showing her to the world. And we’re excited too. We show everything else in our life. We’re super vulnerable. Everyone’s been through this journey with us. It’s been a tough journey. And so we think that it’ll be special to share her.

Lagniappe: Which team are y’all excited to play this year?

Ju: Personally, I’m excited for the first game. I just think more so because the Tennessee Titans were my childhood favorite team. But also, just the last time we played it wasn’t it wasn’t pleasant. We lost, so just eager to get back.

Chan: LA Rams

Favorite thing to do around the city?

Both: we love FOOD! Anything to do with food.

What’s your date night restaurant?

Ju: We just tried this new restaurant called Sun Chong. Chan: It’s so delicious. It’s our new fave!

Are we going to win the Super Bowl this year?

Ju: Yes!

Road Tripping

Lessons from the woods

Some people never learn. And by that, I mean me.

Last year me and the entire Gunch family took a trip to Tennessee and would you believe, I got caught with my pants down by a big black bear who tiptoes around in the woods just hoping to sneak up on a lady relieving herself (in a environmentally respectable manner with bio-degradable toilet paper wove out of bamboo shards) and causing that lady (me) to shriek like a banshee. Then she (still me) loses her balance and rolls head over fancy hiking shoes into the holler - that’s a low place in mountain country where people holler. We don’t have hollers in New Orleans. We holler wherever we feel like it.

Anyways, this year, my mother-in-law Ms. Larda got a real deal on this same lodge house that we had last year, and a lot of us didn’t have enough time at Dollywood last year, so we all go back.

My gentleman friend Lust comes along too. To defend me from bears, he says.

The other thing is Buc-ees. The beaver store with everything you could possibly want in this world, plus especially clean bathrooms. Cleaner than Buckingham Place. They got billboards announcing them all the way through Alabama and Georgia, but they are always someplace after you turn off if you are going to Tennessee.

Then they stop, and there ain’t no more Buc-ees, and instead of a super clean bathroom, you wind up using a holler. Like I said.

I personally don’t believe in Buc-ees. I think they are just a legend, like the Honey Island Swamp Monster.

Anyway, the first night there, when it is my sister-

in-law Gloriosa’s turn to cook, she chooses beans. Can you believe? In a lodge full of Gunches. Well, she’ll learn something tonight.

After supper, her husband, Proteus, is washing the dishes and he looks out the window. My gentleman friend Lust has gone out to get some fresh air (which I don’t blame him for) and is strolling back, taking deep breaths - but just ahead of him on the road, a big bear is emerging from the woods with two little baby bears behind her. Lust can’t see them because they are around the bend.

We - all 17 of us - rush outside on the porch and wave our arms and yell for Lust to run. But Lust left his hearing aids back in the cabin. So when he sees us all waving, he just waves back.

So then we get real frantic. (Not frantic enough to run down off the porch to rescue him.) We start acting out, imitating a bear attack, clutching each other and growling loud. He thinks it is some kind of game, and he imitates us.

Meanwhile, this bear is watching us - a bunch of crazy people shrieking on the porch. Then Lurch leans over the railing too far and tumbles into these big bushes underneath, and comes out stomping and waving branches and looking like Azalea Man.

That’s enough for the Mama Bear. She and the cubs scurry off down the road, straight at Lust, who finally understands what we been yelling about. He turns around and starts running ahead of them.

Inevitably the bear catches up. She and the cubs run right around him and keep going. And now Lust finds himself chasing the bears to get away from the bears. He screeches to a stop, turns around, and starts back up the road to the house.

He told me later that he was pondering the vicissitudes of life, whatever that is, I think. Probably Dolly Parton’s chest.

Vicissitude. Sounds like something somebody might name one of my grandchildren some day. They are coming up with all kinds of weird names now.

Gumdrop actually got a picture of Lust chasing those bears, before he realized. It’s a little far away, but she used her telescope lens. We are going to get it framed and hang it up in the Sloth Lounge (the bar he owns) over the cash register.

Maybe that will keep people from trying to skip out without paying.

That’s a vicissitude for you.

BY JOHN R. KEMP

when city government moved to its current location in Duncan Plaza. The building just to the left of Gallier Hall is the old Soule Business College, founded in 1826 by George Soule. Described as one of the preeminent “practical” business colleges in the South, the school drew students from across the nation. Listed among its alums were former Louisiana Gov. Jimmie Davis and Supreme Court Justice Walter Hamlin. The college moved to Jackson Ave. in 1923 and closed in 1983.

Lafayette Square, as seen in this circa 1905 photograph by the Detroit Publishing Company, was to the Central Business District what Jackson Square was to the French Quarter in colonial days. It was an outdoor park where local residents strolled, celebrated holidays, attended festivals, or protested government actions. By the mid 1800s, the square stood at the center of political life in New Orleans political.

Lafayette Square was the first park in the city’s first suburb, Faubourg Ste. Marie, now today’s Central Business District. Based on a 1788 design by Carlos Laveau Trudeau, surveyor general during the Spanish

colonial era, what would become Lafayette Square bore the name Place Publique. The city changed the name to Lafayette Square in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette’s 1825 visit to New Orleans.

One of the many historical incidents that took place in the square happened during the city’s 1858 mayoral election between the American Party candidate Gerard Stith and the self-organized political group “Independent Voters of New Orleans” who put up P.G.T. Beauregard as its candidate. Supporting Beauregard was the “Vigilance Committee,” a band of citizens who seized the state armory on St. Peter Street and set up a barricaded armed camp at Jackson Square.

Stith’s supporters fortified their camp at Lafayette Square. Though threats volleyed back and forth, only four members of the Vigilance Committee were killed and they were mistakenly shot by their own people as they returned to Jackson Square after scouting out the enemy camp. The New Orleans Bee described politics during those years as “the despotism of faction.” Stith won.

Lafayette Square, ca. 1905, Detroit Publishing Company, Library of Congress

Standing to the left is the First Presbyterian Church, the second oldest Protestant church in New Orleans. Founded in 1818, the first building, located on St. Charles Ave., burned to the ground in 1854. By November 1857 the new church was up and holding services on Lafayette Square. Its most famous pastor was Dr. Benjamin Palmer, the ardent secessionist and driving force against the 19th century’s corrupt Louisiana Lotter Company. Tragedy struck once again in 1915 when a hurricane destroyed most of the building. Once again it was rebuilt but without the towering spire. In 1938, the federal government purchased and demolished the church to make way for a federal office building that stands there to this day. First Presbyterian rebuilt uptown on South Claiborne and Jefferson avenues.

Moving forward, the columned building located at center right is Gallier Hall, designed in the Greek Revival style by James Gallier, Sr. and constructed between 1845 and 1853. The prominent building served as City Hall from 1853 to the mid-1950s

A close look at the photograph’s center also reveals a large statue of the “Great Compromiser” Henry Clay that towered over Canal Street until 1900 when the city moved it to the square as it began to interfere with increased streetcar traffic.

by Adrienne Battistella

By Topher Danial // Photography

THE EARNEST PROVIDER

Health equity is an international emergency—and Dr. Denrick Cooper intends to answer the call.

Don’t worry. Dr. Denrick Kimathi Cooper, Director of International Emergency Medicine at Ochsner Health System, is in no real danger. As he assures me, this is just an example—one that, if I follow along, will not just illustrate the components of a functioning emergency medicine system, but will also help me understand health equity from a global perspective.

“If that happened in New Orleans, you’d call 911 for me,” he goes on, “and an ambulance would come pick me up. I’d go to the ER. I’d be evaluated. Pretty soon, I’d be seen by a cardiologist.”

Barring some major complication, Cooper would probably be alright. He would go back to his normal life with a new understanding of his health and a memorable story about a magazine interview that took a remarkable left turn.

“But if that happened somewhere like Liberia, there is no 911, and there’s no EMS system,” Cooper said. “You might have a good Samaritan bringing you to the emergency room. Or if an ambulance does pick you up, it might be staffed by responders who aren’t really trained. Then you get to the ER, and maybe there’s just a dermatologist who doesn’t know how to diagnose a heart attack.”

The New Orleans scenario, Cooper explains, indicates some degree of health equity. Not only did the dominos fall in a perfect line, but the dominos existed to be lined up in the first place. In the other scenario, there would be no promise of such a chain reaction. Too many dominos—proximity to someone who

IImagine we’re talking just like we are right now, and I have a heart attack.”

can help, access to a phone, that phone’s ability to connect you with prompt and specific medical care—could be missing, leaving crucial gaps that would make the outcome unpredictable.

What this metaphorical comparison reveals, Cooper said, is a difference in resources, the allocation of which is a key determinant of equity. But even that example might be too extreme. Such radical differences in health-affecting resources need not occur among continental lines. They can occur between neighboring cities. Between neighboring streets. Or even between neighboring houses.

Because, when it comes to health equity, it’s not just about the body you inhabit. Moreso, it’s about who you are, where you are, and the sociological intersection of the two that dictate how you live and how you die.

Cooper puts it most succinctly when he said: “Your zip code is just as important to your health as your genetic code.”

It might sound pessimistic, but it’s a reality—one that, if Cooper has his way, he will help to change for people everywhere, from New Orleans to Liberia and beyond.

The way he sees it, Dr. Cooper’s path in life always came down to one of two options: he could work in medicine, or he could put his long limbs to use as a professional basketball player.

“Unfortunately, I can’t shoot,” Cooper said, “so that decision was made for me.”

Cooper was born to Jamaican immigrants in (rather aptly) Jamaica, Queens in New York City. His father had had much better luck with his own long frame and was recruited by NYU for his exceptional talent in track and field. After arriving in New York, Cooper’s parents gradually flew out other relatives until they’d established their own home away from home, albeit one still intimately connected to Jamaican culture. Their primary tethers to that culture were Cooper’s grandmothers, who remained in Jamaica and served as role models for their grandson.

“I grew up going back and forth to Jamaica for holidays and winters…or if I was being bad in the summer,” Cooper said. “Both of my grandmothers were nurses there, and just being exposed to medicine, and seeing someone who looks like me being involved, played a huge part in me becoming a physician.”

Cooper was diligent in watering the seed his grandmothers planted. While in high school, he volunteered at Mercy Medical Center in Long Island, where he cleaned stretchers in the emergency room. Then, while earning his undergraduate degree in molecular biology from Princeton University, he enrolled in a pipeline program meant to expose minority students to medicine.

“That’s when I said, ‘I’m actually going to do this,’” Cooper said.

He took some time off after college— to “grow out my dreadlocks, play with my band, and live that life”—but Cooper said there was never any doubt he would continue to pursue medicine. He held true to that promise. After a year off, Cooper went to medical school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and matched into emergency medicine.

Cooper was back in the ER. But this was no longer high school, and this time, he was doing more than just cleaning gurneys. He was elated.

“I loved the pace. I loved being around patients,” Cooper said. “In the ER, you’re the doorman to the health system. You’re seeing all walks of life. I felt very proud to serve that, even to this day.”

Cooper next completed his residency at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s in western Manhattan. From day one of the three-year program, Cooper had his sights set on a path forward. Several facets of his life and identity had crystallized into a clear goal: his reverence for his grandmothers and their selfless dedication to others, his instilled virtues of living in service to one’s community, his passion for emergency medicine, his love of travel and culture.

“I knew I wanted to pursue global health,” Cooper said. “So, I did a two-year fellowship working at St. Luke’s and going abroad. I went to Liberia, Uganda, Indonesia, and Thailand. Medical school gives you a good foundation in taking care of patients, but at the level of being a real health advocate, that’s where I got my chops.”

And, as it turns out, it’s also where Cooper realized health equity was to become an inextricable aspect of his career.

Go Where the Need Goes

It would be inaccurate, Dr. Cooper explained, to conflate health equity and equality.

“It’s not about giving everyone the same amount,” he said, “because not everyone starts with the same amount.”

Think of it this way: equality would be serving everyone at a dinner party the same amount of food, even though some guests began the evening with already-heaping plates. Equity would be serving more to the guests who began with empty plates until everyone has a similar portion.

“Health equity is about thinking of where the most tremendous need is, and figuring out how we can allocate resources to fit that need in the best way possible,” Cooper said.

How are those needs measured? He said it comes down to a term that, while previously used only by those working in medical professions, became more commonly known during the COVID-19 pandemic: social determinants of health.

“Literacy, finances, access to healthcare, education, housing stability, food security, and so on— these are all social determinants of health,” Cooper explains. “And they’re affected by things like racism and discrimination.”

Therefore, health disparities— negative consequences that emerge in the absence of health equity—typically affect populations that are already vulnerable, such as “minorities in race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, and gender.” For example, consider how Black people are more likely than any other race to die from heart disease, or how LGBTQ+ people suffer poorer mental health outcomes than cisgender heterosexual people.

Even before his medical training, Cooper had witnessed the realities of inequity and health disparities.

“Anyone can be a social advocate, and the more changemakers we have towards rectifying health disparities, the further we will go together.”

His father’s family came from a rural part of Jamaica where “poor access to healthcare ran rampant, and it would take hours for someone to get to a doctor.” And, growing up in Queens to immigrant parents, Cooper knew that it was difficult—for some people, impossible—to start acquiring resources and changing one’s social determinants of health.

“My family climbed the socioeconomic ladder through my childhood,” Cooper said. “We moved from a friend’s basement, to an apartment, to a house. But the entire time, my parents let me know that we were fortunate to have the resources we did have. It changed my approach to life and being a physician.”

Cooper came to appreciate that lesson even more when he began practicing international emergency medicine during his fellowship. In Liberia, he observed a stunning lack of resources. There was no national health insurance system, and poverty was widespread, meaning most people either paid for healthcare out of pocket or simply did not receive care. On top of that, as Cooper made clear in his 911 example, there were no emergency medical services—a deficiency his presence was meant to address.

Building emergency medicine capacity in such vulnerable communities was rewarding, Cooper said, but it wasn’t easy.

“One of the nurses I worked with went into cardiac arrest,” Cooper recalls. “In America, we might give them an IV, shock them with a defibrillator…but none of those things were around. It came to a point where I thought, ‘I’m an emergency medicine doctor, and I’m powerless to help this patient.’ It was disheartening, especially when you know you could do more if you were somewhere else, in another country or state, with different resources.”

Coop and the Stoop

After his fellowship, Cooper returned to New York, a temporary stopover while he searched for the right medical institution to further his work.

Soon, a former director from his residency program recruited him to Ochsner Health System, where emergency medicine specialists were needed to help launch a new Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

“I interviewed with a lot of institutions,” Cooper recalls, “but this one was unique. This one was starting a residency, and it was New Orleans.”

According to Ochsner, the new residency features “a thoughtfully designed and innovative didactic curriculum” and “top-notch clinical training.” For Cooper, it was a perfect match. He accepted a position and moved to New Orleans with his wife in 2019.

Along came COVID.

The city that Cooper had been so eager to experience quickly shut down. Doors were closed. Tickets were refunded. Fear and uncertainty dominated every conversation. It would have been easy to feel frustrated, helpless, or defeated. However, Cooper soon discovered there was little time for all that. Friends, family, and acquaintances had questions about the unfolding pandemic,

which was by all means revealing itself to be an emergency—and they knew who to go to for emergencies.

“People would ask what I think about this, or how I feel about that,” Cooper said. “I had questions coming from all directions, and I had answers because I was very much in it. I could read the research and put it out in understandable terms.”

The pandemic was not just throwing health disparities, particularly among Black Americans, into harsh relief: it was exacerbating them, and Cooper recognized that sharing sound medical information was itself an act of health equity. Once again, a need had made itself known, and he began looking for a way to meet it. Luckily, the perfect forum already existed.

“STOOP55 was originally born out of mine and my friends’ interests,” Cooper said. “Two of my best friends, Stephen and Gavin, are in the media sphere, so before the pandemic, STOOP55 was a way of building community among musicians and artists in Brooklyn.”

The STOOP55 project, Cooper explained, brought out multidisciplinary creators from across Brooklyn for documentary-style interviews and performances on Stephen’s stoop. At the end of the season, all the featured artists would return for a block party. COVID-19 temporarily disrupted that vision, but with its existing audience on social media, Cooper saw another way that STOOP55 could serve the community.

“At the time, I talked to Stephen and Gavin about going live on the STOOP55 Instagram and just fielding questions,” Cooper said. “I was in contact with an ER in Brooklyn that didn’t have PPE, and we thought we’d do this as a way to raise money for masks at Brooklyn Hospital. We were all for it.”

Cooper said that a few hundred

people tuned in for the first live Q&A. That number kept growing on subsequent streams. Cooper answered many of the viewers’ questions himself, but was regularly joined by other medical professionals who would share their own experiences and insight.

“We had more money flowing in, so we said, ‘Let’s keep going,’” Cooper said. “One week turned into five, then 10, then 20. It expanded from just information about COVID to hearing people’s experiences with being at home, being away from family, losing family. It was a way to get everyone’s perspectives. It was nice to answer people’s questions and bring some humanity to the experience.”

When vaccines began to roll out, Cooper talked his audience through their hesitations, offering evidence-based perspective on vaccine safety and efficacy. He even live-streamed getting his own first dose to encourage other vulnerable populations to do the same. Cooper felt called to lead by example—an appropriate instinct for someone who would soon be guiding Ochsner’s next generation of emergency medicine specialists.

Forging a Path Forward

This year, Dr. Cooper and the rest of the emergency medicine residency faculty graduated their first class of residents. The program was—and is—everything Cooper hoped it would be: efficient, highly collaborative, supportive, rewarding.

“Seeing the residents that we’re training grow from students to novice experts to colleagues has been one of my greatest successes,” Cooper said. “I’m very adamant in investing in the greatness of people and representing people who don’t see themselves in medicine. It’s important for me to help them realize their dreams because I’ve been lucky enough to realize mine.”

Still, Cooper said there is work to be done toward achieving health equity in New Orleans, where stark contrasts in health and resources are ever apparent between neighboring communities.

“We have a saying that global health is local health,” Cooper said. “In New Orleans, I find it interesting that when you think of life expectancy, there’s a discrepancy of 10 or more years depending on where you live. I work at Ochsner’s main campus, as well as in Kenner and LaPlace, and the way I have to think of treating a patient changes depending on the resources I know I have available. And even though we treat people in the ER, we discharge them into the same environment that contributed to the disease in the first place.”

So, whose job is it to repair such systemic fractures? Yes, medical professionals, but beyond that, Cooper said it’s important to think more broadly. Real change requires ideological evolution. Societal shifts. Behavioral adjustments. And, most important in Cooper’s view, policy change.

“Any time you’re thinking about social justice and equity, that’s the pattern we have to choose—to create policy that creates change for the better,” Cooper said. “As a community, we have to cherish and understand how important health equity is. A doctor can be a big part of that change, but so can anyone who isn’t in health care at all. We all have a stake in this. On a population level, we need to be advocates for changing policies that may have caused disparities. We have to invest in the community.”

From an institutional standpoint, such an investment might look like the Healthy State initiative, a program launched in partnership between Ochsner, the state of Louisiana, and Governor John Bel Edwards to improve Louisiana’s health rankings by 2030. From an individual

standpoint, that investment can be something as involved as community outreach and volunteering at food banks—or something as simple as casting a vote.

For his part, Cooper just wants to live up to his name: “Kimathi,” he explained, “is the Kenyan word for ‘earnest provider.’” He wants to provide hope and compassion for vulnerable populations worldwide. He wants to provide love and support for his wife and their newly welcomed first child. He wants to provide education and clarity for his emergency medicine residents and his community.

Cooper is poised to do just that. Soon, he and his STOOP55 collaborators will release “Agandi,” a documentary they filmed when he worked in a resource-limited emergency medical center in western Uganda. He’s also part of a joint effort between Ochsner and Vanderbilt to develop emergency medicine programs at Georgetown Public Hospital in Guyana.

Such lofty goals are not easy, but they are not impossible, Cooper said, thanks to those who have walked with him along the way. He makes a point to express gratitude for everyone who has provided for him so that he, in turn, can provide for others: his family, his friends, and all the social advocates in New Orleans “both recognized and unrecognized who are building the foundation from which I have been able to operate.”

“We have to be optimistic about what we can do and what can happen in the future,” Dr. Cooper said. “As long as there are other people working toward that same goal, you don’t have to feel alone in your journey. Anyone can be a social advocate, and the more changemakers we have towards rectifying health disparities, the further we will go together.”

SMALL SOUNDS EASY…SO WHAT’S THE BIG DEAL?

Turn and Face the Small Ch-Ch-Changes: Small Steps Can

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to Major Life Changes

By Amy Kirk Duvoisin

We have all been told not to sweat the small stuff, but as it turns out, it is in fact the small stuff that matters. Rather than focusing on large, grand gestures and using your energy for climbing mountains, real change comes from pausing to pick up a single stone or flower with every step.

Time to put away that telescope and get out the microscope. It’s time to think small.

In 2012 social scientist and Stanford Behavior and Design Lab founder and director BJ Fogg led a Ted Talk called “Forget Big Change, Start with a Tiny Habit.” During the talk (which you can find on YouTube), he leads an audience in a real-time exercise of flossing one tooth to demonstrate how you can start with a tiny behavior that you want to repeat for long term change. He assures the audience that if you commit to it, it will become habitual. In his words, “You train yourself to make it automatic.”

Tiny behavior is easier to accomplish. This sounds obvious, but it doesn’t sink in until you try it for yourself. Fogg’s first personal experience with this “tiny behavior” was to make himself do two pushups after each visit to the bathroom. He started with that, but soon ended up adding a few more each time he dropped to the floor. In a few weeks, he was up to 58 pushups a day, proving that incremental progress leads to real change if you stick with it.

“We live in an aspiration-driven culture that is rooted in self-gratification. We find it difficult to enact or even accept incremental progress.”—B.J.

Habits"

Fogg, "Tiny

The experts and their followers make it sound so logical and simple. So, what’s stopping all of us from digging in? Why do their ideas seem so revolutionary? Because change is slow and difficult. Which is exactly why starting small is so huge.

When you come across articles like “8 Reasons Why It's So Hard to Really Change Your Behavior” (PsychologyToday.com, David DiSalvo, 2017) you really start to appreciate these “start small and simple” gurus, because you realize how starting small allows you to stay positive, realistic, and manage your changes, step by step. These types of lists serve to remind you why it’s taken y’all so long to get started. Because you’re human.

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We’re motivated by negative emotions. Real change needs a positive platform to launch from; you need positive, self-edifying reasons for taking on the challenge.

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We get trapped by thinking fallacies. Feeling overwhelmed by trying to change a behavior tends to foster all-or-nothing thinking: Think of gym memberships exploding in January and petering out by March. If we really want to change, one of the first things we have to do is take all-or-nothing off the table.

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We try to eat the entire elephant. Big and vague has to give way to small and specific. Rather than, “I’m going to start exercising,” it’s, “I’m going to start walking tonight after work for 30 minutes.” Each specific action is one forkful of behavior change, and a set of those actions engaged over time results in cumulative change.

We neglect the toolbox. If you want to fix your car, you need the right tools. Why should changing something about ourselves be any different? Maybe part of the plan includes keeping a crib sheet menu in the notepad on your phone, or daily reminders built into your Outlook calendar. We all need a toolbox of such supports to rely on during the long haul.

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We try to change too much. Trying to change too much places unrealistic demands on those resources and dooms our efforts early on. We forget that the other areas of our lives keep spinning and also require those resources, so even just one additional behaviorchange commitment is a big deal.

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We underestimate the process. Change is never just one thing; it’s a lot of connected things, and sustained change doesn’t happen without a process that considers all of the pieces. It’s a tough, process-oriented challenge to move the needle even a little.

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We forget that failure is usually a given. If you try to make a change and fail, you’ve proven one of the sturdiest truths of behavior change: Failing at least once is part of the process, and it’s probably going to be more than once…failing is a step, not the end of the process or an excuse to stop trying.

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We don’t make a commitment. Finally, but perhaps most important, what the best of behavior change research tells us is that if we haven’t made a commitment to accomplish whatever we want to accomplish, it won’t happen.”

“Take your aspirations and break them down into tiny behaviors.”

–BJ Foggs, Tiny Habits

WHAT IS ONE THING YOU CAN CONTROL IN YOUR LIFE, RIGHT HERE AND NOW?

There are so many big things in our life that are out of our control, once we realize there are small things we can do to make even ten minutes out of our day better, it is profound. When you consider that life is a series of moments, consider this: the more moments you can make better, the better life becomes.

When the day takes off like a racehorse and you are not sure you are still holding the reins, it can be hard to remember to get out of the saddle for a second and take charge. But you can alter your reality, even if for just a few minutes, and those minutes then add up to real change.

Start with just one minute of something that you can do. If that’s too much, how about 30 seconds a day of something new that can slowly grow into a sustainable routine for long term change? Remember the “one tooth at a time” example for starting a habit of flossing. That’s a great metaphor for not biting off more than you can chew!

Talking with others about what they have done to make a change is inspiring. Steal their ideas or come up with one that you know you can do. You will get there. But you have to start somewhere.

Erin Boreros, hospitality specialist: “I started prioritizing myself and my health. It might sound like a big change, but it started with small moments: Saying no to certain events in order to rest or be with my granddaughter. Sticking up for myself in tough conversations at work and home. These small moments among others repeated and turned into big ones. I’ve been able to shift so much in my life that I’m now the healthiest I’ve ever been. I have a confidence and vitality that younger me could only have dreamed of. I choose myself now.”

Allison Durant, Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, director, New Orleans Grief Center: “My approach to making a change is to raise your awareness. If, for instance, you want to work on judgement, begin to notice how you are being judgmental. By starting with awareness, there is not a tremendous amount of pressure to do anything. Self-compassion is critical when incorporating change. There are reasons we think and act the way we do--most of them have to do with survival. It can take time to unlearn the thought patterns we have learned so be kind to yourself.”

Simone Bruni, owner, Demo Diva: “When I decided to take the advice of a friend and really take my health seriously, I decided to invest in a gravel bike (a cross between a mountain bike and a road bike). That led to buying an indoor trainer and that led to purchasing my hot pink Pinarello bike.

While I’m riding, I’m working, thinking, dreaming, organizing, breathing, living life. From my decision to buy a new bike and to make

BACK TO SCHOOL…. BACK TO YOU!

new habits, I am now developing the Demo Diva working apparel line, which will also have cycle wear.”

Marissa “MoeJoe” Joseph, owner, The MoeJoe Gallery: “One small change is allowing myself the opportunity to say ‘yes’. When I accept a transition there’s no room for self-sabotage and reverting back to old ways. Change is healthy. When I opened The MoeJoe Gallery, I didn’t give my mind a chance to block the opportunity and list the pros and cons. I told myself I could get the money to cover the first and last month’s rent from services I was providing and that the store front would give me more opportunity. I said ‘yes’ and I keep saying yes.”

Julie Holman, yoga/fitness instructor, Bona Fide Yoga & Wellness: “My daily routine for self-care is going barefoot for at least 20 minutes a day. It’s free, easy, and can be practiced almost anytime, almost anywhere. You can literally take the first step by asking yourself what’s the end goal or intention and what does the outcome look like or feel like? What works for me to rewire my brain is to focus on the three P’s: PATIENCE, PRACTICE, AND PERSEVERANCE."

Jim Fisher, personal trainer: “People ask me what it felt like completing my first marathon and crossing the finish line, but it was not about that one moment: it was the 5,000 miles that it took to get there, all the steps along the way, all the work that went into it, the whole journey. You do a little thing, then another little thing, getting incrementally better. If a marathon is 40k steps, the hardest step is the first one.”

While starting something at the end of a New Orleans summer when you are literally a hot mess sounds crazy, why not start your own New Year now, when kids everywhere are getting ready for their new school year. Remember that feeling on the first day of school with your clean notebooks, new shoes, freshly sharpened pencils, and all those small things that made you feel big things were about to happen? Try to conjure up that feeling now, with one small thing of your choosing. You know where to begin.

“Every morning I do a deep breathing exercise…sometimes it’s 10 minutes, sometimes I fall asleep but it gets my head right for the day!”

–Amber Glines

“Switching from regular coffee to mushroom coffee has done wonders for my mind and body.”

–Sarah Kestrel Riley

“Getting a fancy upper back support work chair did wonders for my physical well-being.”

–Dale Shuger

“Going to weekly therapy even if there’s nothing happening.”

–Kimberly Kaye

“Not eating until noon.”

–Jamie Hauser

“Having a goal and writing it at the top of a monthly paper calendar. Each day I note on that day’s square my progress.”

–Kathleen Wilkin

“Drinking more water (which I hate) has made a difference!”

–Stacy Gramp

“I started eating berries and it made a huge difference in controlling my weight.”

–Mary McColum

“Gratitude journaling. Listening more and speaking less.”

–Christina Andri

“Walking at least a half hour every day.”

–Olivia

Greene

Here are a few “small changes” examples offered up by locals:

THE EYE OF THE

BY BETH D’ADDONO

Managing hurricane stress and anxiety

It took Lolet Boutté four years to come home from Houston after Katrina. Like so many New Orleanians, she’d underwent serious trauma and lost her home. While the folks in Houston were kind, she wanted to make her way back.

“When I did come back to visit, nobody looked right,” recalled the eldest of 10 siblings, an artistic clan that includes singer John Boutté. “I’d look in their eyes and they just weren’t right. I knew what was behind those eyes, the horrible things they were going through. I still hugged them, but I didn’t want any more of that to come to me. I had enough of my own. I believe that I had PTSD but I thought I was handling it.”

With help from the community and her vocalist daughter Tricia, “Sister Teedy,” Boutté finally came home to one side of a double shotgun rental in Musicians Village, walking distance to the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.“I thought I was all good,” recalled Boutté, a youthful 79. “We survived Betsy, thanks to my grandmother’s gas-powered refrigerator. I survived Katrina. I know what storms can do. I just went on with living my life.”

The Ida Effect

Until Ida. After what turned out to be an ill-fated evacuation, she came home and slept on her porch for seven days. “That broke my body and my head down both. I finally realized I needed to get help.” She started counseling and tended to some physical problems she’d been ignoring with help from the DePaul Community Health Center. “Our family goes back in New Orleans for generations. We have to take care of ourselves. The counseling really makes a difference.”

Hurricane anxiety is real. For those who haven’t been traumatized by a storm, the worry and anticipation are one thing. For folks who have ridden out storms and experienced trauma, the triggers can be debilitating, creating anxiety and fear, even full-blown PTSD. For some, the start of hurricane season brings flashbacks, nightmares, physical and emotional distress, insomnia, depression and lethargy.

For Marguerite Oestreicher, losing her home and livelihood in Katrina was too much to take in at the time. “I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep. I lost 20 pounds.” Fortunately for Oestreicher, who is now the executive director of Habitat for Humanity, her then 12-year-old son weighed in. “I remember breaking down in a Walmart parking lot in Shreveport. I had such a sense of hopelessness. My son looked at me and said, ‘Mom, we get the chance to start over. Most people never get that chance.’ That was my privilege wake up call. I had a vehicle, friends and family, places to go. So many people in New Orleans didn’t have that.”

A storm-triggered life change

That “aha” moment put her on the path that eventually brought her back to New Orleans. She got a degree in nonprofit management from Salem University in North Carolina, knowing she needed to make a difference. Oestreicher missed her family, her community and made it home after eight years. As she leads the charge to build affordable housing in New Orleans, that community has greatly expanded. “Now when there’s a storm, besides family, I worry about the 700 families in our homes. We secure our sites, move vehicles and get people out. During Ida, I had people in more than 20 states.”

Habitat houses are built to fortified gold standards, with additional hurricane straps and elevation, depending on the flood plain. She’s working on cottages for 50 seniors on the West Bank and providing back up power is in the works. “Older people died because of the heat after Ida. We need enough power to cool one room, power medical devices and keep medications cool.”

Because her 94-year-old mother is at the

Poydras House, her current hurricane plan is to shelter in place. “She can’t ride 12 hours in a car,” she said. “I’m a planner. there’s always a plan, A, plan B and sometimes plan C,” she said. “That’s my way of coping with the things that I can control.”

The kids are ok

Ali Loftin came to New Orleans from her home in Kansas after Katrina to help with recovery. “I saw the loss and devastation through the lens of a young person who had resources,” she recalled. She moved to New Orleans in 2014 and now lives with her husband Kyle and their three children, Kale, 8, Hazel 6 and Leone, two months, in Metairie. The experience of evacuating before Ida with children was a whole different ballgame.

“The stress of packing, anticipating what my children needed, what to take in case we lost everything, I wasn’t prepared for that,” she recalled. Her husband grew up in Marrero and is used to hurricanes. “We look at the path of the storm, the temperature, how the water is in the Carolinas and Florida. We try to make an informed decision,” she said. Kyle works in the hotel business, which enabled the family to escape to Pascagoula with their four-month-old still untrained puppy in tow. They stayed two weeks.

“The kids were 3 and 5 and I learned a lot of lessons,” she said. “Kids and babies need a place to be calm. They need routine and space to rest. Next time, I’d try to stay in a house. When your child is having a meltdown because they can’t find their teddy and you can’t find their teddy, your anxiety just goes through the roof.”

Staying calm is her baseline. “They need to feel safe. We get them involved, to pick the special toy they want to bring with them. It’s better not to go into too much detail – to let them let you know what they need to know.”

Dr. Julia Kaplow agrees that talking about storms ahead of time in a calm and factual way is the move. Kaplow, who is executive director for the Trauma and Grief Center (TAG) in Houston at the Hackett Center and in New Orleans at Children’s Hospital, also advises supervising what the kids see on TV and social media. “It can be overwhelming. You might say, ‘I’m sure you’re seeing news about the potential hurricane. What worries do you have?’ This lets them guide the conversation.”

It’s also critical to differentiate between adult worries and child worries, she said. “It’s the adult’s job to keep the family safe, to be sure they have what they need. Take the burden of worry off the child’s shoulders,” she added. Another point is to realize that kids are sponges and will pick up on what their caregiver says and does. “It’s

Mental health resources

Help isn’t just on the way. It’s here now. Here are some resources to tap before the next storm touches down.. There is even free mental tele-health counseling for residents of Louisiana.

• ADAA – the Anxiety and Depression Association of America offers hurricane specific coping and recovery programs and access to free mental health support groups. adaa.org

• The National Disaster Distress Hotline – This multilingual, crisis support service is available by phone 24/7 (1-800-985-5990) or text TalkWithUs to 66746. Get immediate crisis counseling for emotional distress related to any disaster.

• NCTSN - The National Child Traumatic Stress Network provides tip sheets for parents and adults in coping with the aftermath of natural disasters. nctsn.org

• Ready Nola – New Orleans specific info includes how to prepare for a storm, how to shelter in place and access to city-assisted evacuation. ready.nola.gov/plan/ hurricane/

• The University of Holy Cross offers free mental telehealth counseling to all residents of Louisiana. Funded by the Marianites Order, virtual counseling is provided by licensed doctoral students and faculty supervised master’s students. 504-398-2168. Holy Cross also has a 24-hour Crisis line 855-418-7282

• Red Cross Hurricane preparedness provides tips on planning, including a downloadable safety checklist in nine languages, including Spanish, Arabic and traditional Chinese. redcross.org/

• Fill The Needs. New Orleans chef Amy Sins founded this disaster relief network that has made a difference everywhere from the Ukraine and Afghanistan to Lake Charles, New Orleans and Chalmette. Channel that anxiety by volunteering to make a difference both on the ground and behind the scenes. filltheneeds.org

• The National Weather Service offers storm anxiety advice from meteorologists – good info for weather geeks too. weather.gov/ oun/stormanxiety

• The Trauma and Grief (TAG) Center at Children’s Hospital has resources, from counseling to assessment to free virtual parenting workshops to help caregivers cope with their child’s trauma.

A plan

Decrease anxiety symptoms by having a plan, and controlling what you realistically can. Do it now, before the storm rush empties shelves and the vibe is high anxiety.

For sheltering at home

• Prepare your home by protecting doors and windows, securing outdoor objects, freezing bags of water. Clear gutters and trim back tree branches.

• Stay indoors during the hurricane and away from windows and glass doors.

• Close all interior doors and secure external doors.

• Keep curtains and blinds closed.

• Ready an emergency food and water supply for the family and pets.

• Same for an emergency medicine supply for all.

• Collect emergency power sources like flashlights and extra batteries.

• Gather important documents, including insurance info, deeds/titles and ID cards

For evacuating

• Be sure the car is gassed up in and in good working order.

• Have a planned destination, with alternate routes to get there.

• Bring an emergency backpack loaded with photocopies of important documents, a flashlight, a battery powered radio, medicines, cash, extra sets of keys for house and car.

• Assemble a car emergency kit: water, non-perishable snacks, blankets, garbage bags, car phone charger, TP, paper towels, a gas can, jumper cables and a towline.

• Each person needs a bag with necessities, including familiar comfort toys and clothing for the kids.

Look that hurricane in the eye Remember, it’s normal to feel this way and you are not alone.

• Make a plan, which puts you control of your situation.

• Learn about storms to understand what the advisory terms mean.

• Be informed, but limit media exposure. Binging on weather reports makes anxiety worse.

• Discuss your feelings and plans with trusted advisors for emotional support.

• Talk about storms matter-of-factly with your kids before an event happens. Be calm and supportive and let them know you’ve got this.

• Stay healthy, including eating a proper diet, exercising and rest. All have a positive impact on thoughts and emotions and help you make better decisions.

• Seek the help of a mental health professional for yourself or family members if anxiety doesn’t diminish.

not their job to make the parent feel better. That’s for friends, adult family members and therapists. By voicing your own anxiety in front of them, it makes things worse.”

If a child has experienced storm trauma, the onset of hurricane season may come with triggers. “You might see excessive clinginess, crying, behavioral regression in toileting, sleeping and language issues.” For kids who are on the spectrum or more sensitive to their environment, she advises giving the child something to control. “Give them choices,” said Kaplow. “How about you choose which flashlights we are going to use, or which toy or stuffed animal to have with you in case the lights go out. That can make them feel safer.”

Helping underserved populations

Dr. Myo Thwin Myint is on a mission to help underserved populations. The Myanmar native, who moved to New Orleans in 2008, has long seen a stigma around mental health. A specialist in pediatrics and child and adolescent psychiatry with LCMH Health, he’s also associate professor of psychiatry at Tulane’s School of Medicine. Besides working with young people dealing with trauma, Myint is a trusted practitioner within the LGBTQ community.

“We know that marginalized communities have worse outcomes,” he said. “There’s a small but vocal group that ties disasters like hurricanes to the LGBTQ community, saying it’s punishment from God. Those kinds of narratives make it tough for a community that is already under stress and more vulnerable, from trans youth to the Black and Brown population to the undocumented.”

As a familiar figure in the Latinx community, Dr. Roy Salgado works closely with undocumented people in and around New Orleans. Born in New Orleans to Honduran parents, Salgado provides critical counseling services in English and Spanish. He’s been a faculty member of the University of Holy Cross since just after Hurricane Katrina.

“Many in this community have little resources. They may not have the funds to put gas in their car to get out of the city. Or a place to go. For an undocumented person, the idea of going to a government facility can be terrifying,” he said. “I advise getting as far away from the path of the storm as they can, even if they park in a 24-hour Walmart parking lot for a few days. It’s a better option than being stuck in a dark dangerous city at night without services.”

He remembers living through hurricanes from Andrew forward, and his parents and grandparents talking about Betsy and Camille. Because his office flooded after Katrina, he went

to work out in Kenner and offered services through Archdiocese’ Hispanic Apostolic. “I tried to help individuals put the pieces back together on an emotional level. They were dealing with loss of life, family property, everything they had known. There was a dearth of services. I was displaced in Texas for six weeks, but that didn’t compare to those who stayed and the chaos that followed the storm.”

For many of his clients, whenever a significant storm is coming, the PTSD goes to work. “The triggers get them panicked both emotionally and physically,” he said. “I try to offer coping skills. Help them engage in self talk. This weather isn’t the same experience. They are currently safe. They are not in danger. This isn’t the same threat. They need to self soothe.”

The politics of states like Texas and Florida can also come into play when a family is planning to evacuate. Salgado is hopeful on one level. There are many more Spanish media and digital outlets then there were 20 years ago.

Turning anxiety into action

Amy Sins lost her Lakeview home to Katrina. It was a loss that sparked her to action when she experienced first-hand that strategic coordination is sorely lacking immediately after a disaster.

What began as coordination of a community of volunteers in 2008 to quickly mobilize to feed people in the wake of natural disasters like hurricanes, floods and fire evolved into Fill the Needs, the non-profit Sins founded in 2022.

Fill the Needs rapidly mobilizes its network of partners and volunteers to assess and coordinate resources required for efficient disaster response. Sins emphasizes that the first 14 days following a disaster is critical for resource deployment that makes immediate impact to the devastated families involved.

Volunteering in some capacity to help others facing loss and disaster is both empowering and healing, she said. “It’s one way to deal with the mass hysteria and tension around you,” she said.

When facing a storm, Sins craves facts. “For me, the more I know, the more back-up plans I have, the better. Katrina pulled the rug out from under us. We didn’t see that coming. That’s why I do disaster relief. My brain is constantly thinking, if this, then that.”

While volunteering can help stave anxiety, that doesn’t mean being in the heart of devastation. “There’s a lady who helps us at command central by bringing us Coke Zeros and donuts. She’s giving back without adding to her mental health burden. Just think about what your skills are and we can put them to use.”

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Marrero

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LSU Healthcare Network 3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 412-1390

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John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (866) 624-7637

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Cardiovascular Disease

Covington Ali M. Amkieh Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828

Ravi Kanagala

Lakeview Regional Physician Group 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

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

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

Metairie Roland J. Bourgeois Jr. John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 4430 Veterans Boulevard (504) 842-4168

Robert W. Greer East Jefferson Cardiology Consultants 4315 Houma Boulevard, 2nd Floor (504) 454-4102

Frank W. Smart

LSU Healthcare Network 3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 412-1390

New Orleans

Jameel Ahmed

LSU Healthcare Network 478 South Johnson Street (504) 412-1390

Robert M. Bober

John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-4135

Michael Cash

John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-4168

Sapna V. Desai

John Ochsner Heart and 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

Keith C. Ferdinand Tulane Cardiology Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor (504) 988-6113

Robert C. Hendel

Tulane Cardiology Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor (504) 988-6113

Carl J. Lavie

John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-4135

Stephen R. Ramee

John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-4135

Merrill H. Stewart III

John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-4135

Christopher J. White

Ochsner Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-3724

Royce Dean Yount

Baptist Cardiology

2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 230 (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

Lauren W. LaRose Atlas Psychiatry 1301 Antonine Street (504) 899-1682

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

Allison H. Conravey

Children’s Hospital

New Orleans 3040 33rd Street (504) 832-4033

New Orleans Stephen Lewis Nelson Jr. Ochsner Health Center For Children 1315 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 200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 3040

(504) 896-9319

Clinical Genetics

New Orleans

Hans C. Andersson

Tulane 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 William Forrest Johnston

Ochsner Colon Rectal Surgery 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4060

Brian R. Kann Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4060

William C. Kethman Ochsner Colon Rectal Surgery 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4060

Jacquelyn S. Turner Tulane Surgery and GI Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5110

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

Baton Rouge

Scott Dunbar

The Dermatology Clinic & Cosmetic Center 5326 O’Donovan Drive (225) 769-7546

Covington

Erik J. Soine

Soine Dermatology & Aesthetics

1441 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 400-5551

Gretna

Stephen John Klinger

Klinger & Marshall Dermatology 2600 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 202 (504) 393-7393

Dana Marshall Klinger & Marshall Dermatology 2600 Belle Chasse Highway, Suite 202 (504) 393-7393

Harvey Diane N. Trieu Trieu Dermatology 1525 Lapalco Boulevard, Suite 20 (504) 517-2025

Lacombe

Christel C. Malinski Malinski Dermatology

64040 Highway 434, Suite 103 (985) 202-3376

Mandeville Martha E. Stewart Martha E. Stewart

Dermatology 4060 Lonesome Road (985) 727-7701

Metairie Elizabeth F. Bucher

The Skin Surgery Centre 1615 Metairie Road, Suite 101 (504) 644-4226

Kristy Charles Sanova Dermatology 701 Metairie Road, Suite 2A205 (504) 836-2050

William P. Coleman III Coleman Center for Cosmetic Dermatologic Surgery 4425 Conlin Street (504) 455-3180

Julie G. Danna Ochsner Dermatology 2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 842-3940

Adrian Dobrescu NOLA Dermatology 4401 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 899-6652

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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 Dermatology 2005 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 842-3940

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Laura C. Williams Sanova Dermatology 111 Veterans Boulevard, Suite 406 (504) 838-8225

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Eric M. Finley 3434 Prytania Street Suite 240 (504) 896-2255

Patricia R. Hickham Hickham Dermatology & Med Spa 4141 Bienville Street, Suite 108 (504) 962-7771

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

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Jeffrey N. Lackey Tulane Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-1700

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Julie Mermilliod Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 11th Floor (504) 842-3940

Sharon S. Meyer

Sanova Dermatology 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 310 (504) 897-5899

Andrea T. Murina

Tulane Dermatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-1700

Richard N. Sherman Skin Institute

3627 Magazine Street (504) 899-7159

Suneeta S. Walia

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 11th Floor (504) 842-3940

Katy L. Wiltz Southern Dermatology of New Orleans 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 1020 (504) 891-8004

Slidell

Helene Erickson

Ochsner North Shore 105 Medical Center Drive, Suite 303 (985) 639-3777

Thibodaux Ryan J. Matherne 416 LA-308

(985) 446-5888

Diagnostic Radiology

Metairie

Cynthia W. Hanemann Tulane Lakeside Hospital

4700 South I-10 Service Road (504) 780-8282

Bradley S. Shore

Diagnostic Imaging Services

4241 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 100 (504) 883-5999

New Orleans Scott L. Beech

Tulane Medical Center

Radiology

1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-5263

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New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-5700

Paul M. Gulotta

Ochsner Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3000

Anthony L. Modica

Ochsner Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3470

Brett T. Roberts

Lieselotte Tansey Breast Center at Ochsner 1516 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-6406

David L. Smith University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-5700

Bradley Spieler University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-5700

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Marrero

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Metairie Vivian A. Fonseca

Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050

Robert Galagan

Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050

New Orleans

Brandy Panunti Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4023

Slidell

Gabriel I. Uwaifo Ochsner Health CenterSlidell 2750 East Gause Boulevard (985) 639-3777

Thibodaux Lane Frey Thibodaux Regional Wellness Center

726 North Acadia Road, Suite 3300

(985) 493-3080

Family Medicine

Chalmette

Ryan M. Truxillo

Ochsner Health CenterSt. Bernard 8050 West Judge Perez Drive, Suite 3100

(504) 304-2800

Covington Joseph E. Orgeron

Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard

(985) 875-2828

Timothy L. Riddell

Ochsner Health Center

1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828

Galliano Gary J. Birdsall 17771 Highway 3235 (985) 632-5222

Kenner

Rafael A. Cortes-Moran Ochsner Health Center 2120 Driftwood Boulevard (504) 443-9500

Madisonville

Catherine Pechon

St. Tammany Physicians

Network Madisonville Clinic 1520 Highway 22 West (985) 898-4001

Mandeville

R. Paul Guilbault III

Mandeville Private Physician Group

521 Asbury Drive (985) 630-9618

Nathalie MascherpaKerkow

St. Tammany Physicians Network - Mandeville 201 Saint Ann Drive, Suite B (985) 898-4001

Metairie

Luis Arencibia VIP Healthcare 4315 Houma Boulevard, Suite 100 (504) 602-9975

Edwin W. Dennard

Tulane Lakeside Primary Care Clinic

4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050

Ronald A. Slipman

Tulane Lakeside Primary Care Clinic

4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-8050

Rachana Sus Tulane Lakeside Primary Care 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

Vernilyn N. Juan Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-8240

Radha Raman 914 Joliet Street (504) 865-0805

Kiernan Adams Smith

Tulane Multispecialty Clinic

200 Broadway Street, Suite 230

(504) 988-9000

James T. Tebbe Jr. Tulane Doctors - Family Medicine

200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000

Priya P. Velu

Ochsner Health CenterTchoupitoulas

5300 Tchoupitoulas Street, Suite C2 (504) 703-3070

Gastroenterology

Covington Nathaniel R. Ranney

Gastroenterology Group

AMC

131-B Cherokee Rose Lane (985) 871-1721

Kenner Daniel Raines

Ochsner Medical CenterKenner 180 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 200 (504) 464-8500

Marrero Sarath Krishnan Metropolitan

Gastroenterology Associates

1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 4400 (504) 265-9582

Scott D. Pollack Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 4400 (504) 265-9582

Gary Reiss Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 4400 (504) 265-9582

Metairie Howard I. Brenner Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 400 (504) 323-0407

Vernon J. Carriere Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 400 (504) 456-8020

George E. Catinis Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

4224 Houma Boulevard, Suite 400 (504) 456-8020

Mark J. Wegmann Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

3333 Kingman Street, Suite 202 (504) 208-1540

New Orleans

Richard W. Awtrey Jr. Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 720 (504) 267-1135

Natalie H. Bzowej Ochsner Medical Center 4429 Clara Street, Suite 600 (504) 842-3925

Sean E. Connolly Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4015

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

Virendra Joshi Touro LCMC Health 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 110 (504) 897-8005

Abdul M. Khan Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 720 (504) 267-1135

Rebekah H. Lemann Metropolitan Gastroenterology Associates

2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 720 (504) 896-8670

Martin W. Moehlen Tulane Transplant Institute 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

Robin Staudinger

Touro LCMC Health

3434 Prytania Street, Suite 110 (504) 544-0924

Slidell

Bryan DiBuono

Ochsner Specialty Health Center

1850 Gause Boulevard East, Suite 301 (985) 639-3777

Gynecologic Oncology

New Orleans

Pui C. Cheng Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7142

Chad A. Hamilton Ochsner Gynecologic Oncology

2820 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4165

Jessica J. Shank

Tulane Cancer Center Clinic

150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300

Hand Surgery

Marrero

Barton L. Wax Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic 920 Avenue B (504) 349-6804

Metairie

Kelly L. Babineaux

LSU Plastic Surgery 3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 412-1240

New Orleans

Claude S. Williams IV

Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351

Thibodaux

John C. Hildenbrand IV OrthoLA

726 North Acadia Road, Suite 1000 (985) 625-2200

Hematology

Metairie

Chancellor Donald

Tulane Louisiana Center for Bleeding and Clotting Disorders

4720 South I-10 Service Road West (504) 988-5435

Maissaa Janbain Tulane Louisiana Center for Bleeding and Clotting Disorders 4720 South I-10 Service Road West (504) 988-5433

New Orleans Nakhle Saba Tulane Cancer Center Clinic

150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300

Hana F. Safah Tulane Cancer Center Clinic

150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

New Orleans

Sonia Malhotra University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-3669

Infectious Disease

New Orleans

Katherine Baumgarten Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4005

Meredith E. Clement University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Canal Street (504) 702-5700

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

Alfred Luk Tulane Internal Medicine Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5030

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

Obinna Nnedu Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4005

John S. Schieffelin Tulane Internal Medicine Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5030

Internal Medicine

Covington Susan F. Ovella

Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group 728 West 11th Avenue (985) 730-7195

David D. Tran

121 Lakeview Circle Suite A (985) 400-5483

Marrero

Patricia Jackson

1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N408 (504) 349-2908

Metairie

Jenna C. Jordan Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 4430 Veterans Boulevard (504) 842-4747

New Orleans

Jennifer M. Bertsch Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7007

David M. Borne

LSU Healthcare Network 3700 St. Charles Avenue, 2nd Floor (504) 412-1366

Anne J. Carrere Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7007

Jan Cooper New Orleans East Clinic 5646 Read Boulevard, 2nd Floor, Suite 200 (504) 372-5100

Samuel Colby Danna Ochsner Baptist Internal Medicine

2820 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-4250

Princess E. Dennar Premium Care Medical Center 3570 Holiday Drive (504) 361-4203

Steven J. Granier Ochsner Center for Primary Care and Wellness 1401 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4747

Jonathan Gugel University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue, 2nd Floor (504) 702-3000

Christopher J. Lege

Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7999

Callie A. Linden University Medical Center Family Medicine Clinic 2003 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-3000

Marlowe M. Maylin University Medical Center

New Orleans 2001 Canal Street (504) 702-3000

Anjali Niyogi University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-3000

Robert D. Occhipinti

Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7999

Isis T. Smith

UMCNO Ambulatory Care Center

2003 Tulane Avenue (504) 962-6338

Erica V. Tate University Medical Center New Orleans 2001 Tulane Avenue, 2nd Floor (504) 702-3000

Thibodaux Chester G. Boudreaux Regional Internal Medicine Associates

142 Rue Marguerite (985) 446-2131

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

Harvey Michael A. Gaglia Jr. Cardiovascular Institute of the South 1901 Manhattan Boulevard (504) 354-5252

Owen Mogabgab Cardiovascular Institute of the South 1901 Manhattan Boulevard (504) 354-5252

Metairie Anand M. Irimpen Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 101 (504) 988-6113

New Orleans Murtuza J. Ali UMCNO Ambulatory Care Center 2000 Canal Street, 2nd Floor (504) 702-5200

Leonard M. Glade Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Cardiovascular Associates (504) 897-8276

J. Stephen Jenkins Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-3724

Thanh M. Nguyen Baptist Cardiology 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 230 (504) 894-2560

Rajan A. Patel Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-3724

Madhur A. Roberts Tulane Cardiology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor (504) 988-6113

Jose D. Tafur Soto Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (225) 761-5200

Frank E. Wilklow Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Cardiovascular Associates (504) 897-8276

Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Metairie Chi P. Dola Tulane Center for Women’s Health - Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

Cecilia Gambala Tulane Center for Women’s Health - Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

Gabriella C. Pridjian Tulane Center for Women’s Health - Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

New Orleans

Debora Kimberlin Ochsner Baptist Women’s Pavilion 2700 Napoleon Avenue (866) 624-7637

Medical Oncology

Kenner

Thomas Atkinson

Ochsner Health CenterKenner

200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 205 (504) 842-7690

Srikanth Tamma

Ochsner Health CenterKenner

200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 313 (504) 842-7690

New Orleans

Brian Boulmay University Medical Center New Orleans

Ambulatory Care Center (504) 702-3311

John T. Cole Ochsner Medical Center

The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center (504) 842-3910

Bridgette Collins-Burow Tulane Cancer Center Clinic

150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300

James K. Ellis Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-8970

Jodi L. Layton Tulane Cancer Center Clinic

150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300

Brian Lewis 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 Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-8970

Christos Theodossiou Ochsner Medical Center

The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center (504) 842-3910

Thibodaux Scott A. Hebert

Thibodaux Regional Cancer Institute

608 North Acadia Road (985) 493-4346

Ashish Udhrain Cancer Center of Thibodaux Regional 608 North Acadia Road (985) 493-4346

Nephrology Marrero

Hui Jin Kim New Orleans Nephrology Associates 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N511 (504) 349-6301

Trac Tuan Le

New Orleans Nephrology Associates 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N511 (504) 349-6301

Metairie

Ashwin P. Jaikishen

New Orleans Nephrology Associates

4409 Utica Street, Suite 100 (504) 457-3687

New Orleans

A. Brent Alper Jr. Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5344

Adrian J. Baudy IV Tulane Internal Medicine Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-1001

Rhea Bhargava

Tulane Internal Medicine Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-1001

Jing Chen Tulane Internal Medicine Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5030

Francisco C. Cruz Jr. Uptown Nephrology 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 300 (504) 897-4425

Thomas H. Mims II

Touro LCMC Health 3525 Prytania Street, Suite 402 (504) 897-1887

Annalisa B. Perez

LSU Healthcare Network St. Charles Multispecialty Clinic (504) 412-1366

New Orleans

Angela D. Reginelli

Uptown Nephrology 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 300 (504) 897-4425

Catherine Staffeld-Coit Ochsner Medical Center

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 Justin L. Owen DISC of Louisiana 76 Starbrush Circle (985) 400-5778

Mandeville Mohammad A. Almubaslat Advanced Brain & Spine Institute

100 Mariners Boulevard, Suite 1 (985) 400-3210

Marrero Frank Culicchia Culicchia Neurological Clinic 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S750 (504) 340-6976

John C. Steck Culicchia Neurological Clinic 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite S750 (504) 340-6976

Metairie Everett G. Robert Jr. Southern Brain & Spine 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 454-0141

Manish K. Singh Southern Brain & Spine 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 454-0141

New Orleans Aaron Dumont Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

James T. Kalyvas Ochsner Health Center

2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 400 (508) 842-2000

Christopher M. Maulucci Tulane Neurosciences Center

1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Marcus L. Ware

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4033

Neurology

Covington

Ramy El Khoury Neurocare of Louisiana 648 Crestwood Boulevard (985) 805-2555

Thomas H. Gann Jr.

Ochsner Neuroscience Institute

1341 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828

Michele Theresa Longo Tulane DoctorsNeurosciences

101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 (985) 951-3222

Demetrius M. Maraganore Tulane DoctorsNeurosciences 101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 (985) 951-3222

Sarah Perez Tulane DoctorsNeurosciences

101 Judge Tanner Boulevard, Suite 402 (985) 951-3222

Metairie Archibald L. Melcher II East Jefferson Neurological Associates 3800 Houma Boulevard, Suite 325 (504) 885-7337

New Orleans Bridget A. Bagert Ochsner Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor (504) 842-3980

Elizabeth C. Crabtree Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Lauren Dunn Ochsner Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor (504) 842-3980

John D. England

LSU Healthcare Network

Multispecialty Clinic (504) 412-1517

Neda Hidarilak Tulane Neurosciences Center

1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Jessica B. Kraker Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Jesus F. Lovera LSU Healthcare Network Multispecialty Clinic (504) 412-1517

Uma Menon Ochsner Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor (504) 842-3980

Piotr W. Olejniczak LSU Healthcare Network Multispecialty Clinic (504) 412-1517

Holly C. Rutherford Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Justin Salerian Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Korak Sarkar Ochsner Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor (504) 842-3980

Morteza Shamsnia Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Julia Staisch Ochsner Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3980

Christopher R. Trevino Tulane Cancer Center Clinic 150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-6300

Richard M. Zweifler Ochsner Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7th Floor (504) 842-3980

Raceland

Jamie B. Huddleston Ochsner Specialty Health Center

141 Twin Oaks Drive (985) 537-2666

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Covington

Jill Gibson

106 Highland Park Plaza (985) 898-5990

Nancy N. Thomas Ochsner Women’s Health Center 71380 Highway 21 (985) 875-2828

Gretna Mark M. Allen

The Women’s Medical Center 515 Westbank Expressway (504) 366-7233

Elizabeth N. Blanton The Women’s Medical Center 515 Westbank Expressway (504) 366-7233

Vu Anh Vuong Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank 120 Ochsner Boulevard, Suite 360 (504) 595-8896

Kenner Veronica Gillispie Ochsner Health CenterKenner

200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 (504) 464-8506

Amy Truitt Ochsner Health CenterKenner

200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 501 (504) 464-8506

Michael Wiedemann Ochsner Health CenterKenner

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 - Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

Amy Vaughan Tulane Women’s Services 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 104 (504) 988-2160

New Orleans Louis P. DuTriel

Touro LCMC Health

Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7580

Elizabeth Lapeyre

Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

George B. Morris IV Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

Amber Naresh Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000

Angela M. Parise Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

Rebecca U. Perret Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7580

Margaret Roberie Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

Janet Ross Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-8281

William T. Sargent Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

Donna S. Waters Touro LCMC Health

Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7142

Anna White Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

Felton L. Winfield Jr. LSU Healthcare Network 3700 Saint Charles Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 412-1520

Slidell

Diana L. Clavin

Camellia City OB/GYN 1150 Robert Boulevard, Suite 360 (985) 781-4848

Thibodaux

Anne Rodrigue

Thibodaux Regional Women’s Clinic 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 500 (985) 448-1216

Christopher Rodrigue Thibodaux Regional Women’s Clinic 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 500 (985) 448-1216

Ophthalmology Covington Kyle V Acosta Eyelid Cosmetic Surgery Center of the South 185 Greenbriar Boulevard (985) 338-7718

Mandeville Marilu O’Byrne O’Byrne Eye Clinic 1580 West Causeway Approach, Suite 3 (985) 624-5573

Metairie Joshua Groetsch Southern Eye Specialists 2800 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 125 (504) 833-5573

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

David M. Hinkle

Tulane Ophthalmology Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor (504) 988-5831

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

Covington Roderick Chandler Jr. AVALA Ortho

1200 Pinnacle Parkway (985) 674-1700

Kevin F. Darr

Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute

19343 Sunshine Avenue (985) 892-5117

Jeremy James DISC of Louisiana 76 Starbrush Circle (985) 400-5778

Brent V. McCarty AVALA Hand 1200 Pinnacle Parkway (985) 674-1700

McCall McDaniel St. Tammany Health System’s Bone and Joint Clinic 71211 Highway 21 (985) 893-9922

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

Jason Rudd AVALA Ortho 1200 Pinnacle Parkway (985) 674-1700

Charles S. Schumacher Jr. Covington Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Institute 19343 Sunshine Avenue (985) 892-5117

K. Samer Shamieh DISC of Louisiana 76 Starbrush Circle (985) 400-5778

Paul van Deventer AVALA Ortho 1200 Pinnacle Parkway (985) 674-1700

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

Wesley A. Clark 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 Orthopedics 3600 Houma Boulevard (504) 233-0931

Stephen D. Heinrich Children’s Hospital Ridgelake Center 2121 Ridgelake Drive (504) 840-5184

R. William Junius III Crescent City Orthopedics 3600 Houma Boulevard (504) 233-0931

Michael J. O’Brien

Tulane Orthopaedics at Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 301 (504) 988-8010

Fernando L. Sanchez Tulane Orthopaedics at Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 301 (504) 988-8476

William F. Sherman Jr. Tulane Orthopaedics at Lakeside 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 301 (504) 988-8010

New Orleans

William K. Accousti Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9569

Matthew G. Cable University Medical Center New Orleans 2000 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-3000

Paul Celestre Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (866) 624-7637

George F. Chimento Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3970

Anna R. CohenRosenblum University Medical Center New Orleans 2003 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-3000

Mathew Cyriac Tulane Sports Medicine Plus 7030 Canal Boulevard (504) 988-0100

Paul B. Gladden Tulane Orthopaedic Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor (504) 988-2177

Joseph A. Gonzales Children’s Hospital New Orleans 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

Gregor J. Hoffman Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351

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

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

Slidell

Robert A. Butler Ochsner North Shore 104 Medical Center Drive (985) 639-3777

Thibodaux Patrick R. Ellender OrthoLA 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 1000 (985) 625-2200

Otolaryngology

Covington John C. Beatrous ENT & Plastic Surgery Specialists of Louisiana 350 Lakeview Court, Suite A (985) 845-2677

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

Marrero Adil A. Fatakia New Orleans Sinus Center 1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 3100 (504) 349-6400

Metairie Jonathan M. Owens Lakeside HospitalMetairie Surgical Specialty Metairie Clinic (504) 988-2274

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

Christian P. Hasney Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080

Neal M. Jackson Tulane Neurosciences Center 1415 Tulane Avenue, 5th Floor (504) 988-5561

Jeffrey P. Marino Ochsner Medical Center Benson Cancer Center Voice Center (504) 842-4080

Adam Master Ochsner ENT 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080

Timothy B. Molony Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4080

Brian A. Moore Ochsner Medical Center

The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center (504) 842-4080

Elisabeth H. Rareshide

Ochsner ENT 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 820 (504) 897-4455

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

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

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

New Orleans H. Devon Graham III Ochsner ENT 2820 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 820 (504) 897-4455

Christian D. Jacob Hedgewood Plastic Surgery 2427 St. Charles Avenue (504) 895-7642

Thomas Moulthrop Hedgewood Plastic Surgery 2427 St. Charles Avenue (504) 895-7642

Parker A. Velargo

New Orleans Center For Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery 2633 Napoleon Avenue, Suite 920 (504) 533-8848

Pain Medicine

Covington C. Ann Conn Advanced Pain Institute 187 Greenbriar Boulevard, Suite A (985) 345-7246

Richard C. Robertson Jr. Segura Neuroscience & Pain Center 141 Lakeview Circle (985) 231-6751

Ronald C. Segura Segura Neuroscience & Pain Center 141 Lakeview Circle (985) 231-6751

Metairie Suneil M. Jolly Louisiana Pain Specialists 3434 Houma Boulevard, Suite 301 (504) 276-7333

Eric D. Lonseth Lonseth Interventional Pain Center 4213 Teuton Street (504) 327-5857

Kevin R. Martinez Southern Brain & Spine 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 454-0141

Patrick H. Waring Pain Intervention Center 701 Metairie Road, Suite 2A310 (504) 455-2225

New Orleans Hazem E. Eissa Ochsner 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 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9817

Pediatric Allergy & Immunology

Covington Luke A. Wall

Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 5025 Keystone Boulevard (504) 896-2888

Metairie Elizabeth L. Wisner

Children’s Hospital New Orleans Allergy Immunology Department (504) 896-9589

New Orleans

Andrew M. Abreo

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue, 1st Floor (504) 896-9589

John C. Carlson

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-6742

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

New Orleans

Sergio Bartakian

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751

Tamara T. Bradford

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751

Michael R. Brumund

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751

Ivory Crittendon III

Ochsner Health Center for Children 1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Kelly Gajewski

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751

Thomas R. Kimball

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

James S. Krulisky

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Victor W. Lucas

Ochsner Health Center for Children

1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Scott Macicek

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751

Hans Mulder

Ochsner Health Center for Children

1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Shannon K. Powell

The Heart Center at Children’s Hospital

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9751

Steffan Sernich

Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Patricia E. Thomas Ochsner Health Center for Children

1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Jason P. Turner Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9732

Michael G. White Ochsner Health Center for Children

1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Song-Gui Yang Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Thomas W. Young Ochsner Health Center for Children

1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Pediatric Endocrinology

New Orleans

Stuart Chalew Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Ricardo Gomez 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 (504) 896-2888

Ilana Fortgang Ochsner Health Center for Children

1315 Jefferson Highway (866) 624-7637

Colleen C. LeBlanc

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Brian G. Morris

Ochsner Health Center for Children

1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3900

Pediatric HematologyOncology Metairie

Amina Rafique

Tulane Sickle Cell Center of Southern Louisiana

4720 South 110 Service

Road West, Suite 401 (504) 988-5435

New Orleans

Dana M. LeBlanc

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9740

Craig D. Lotterman

Ochsner Health Center for Children

1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 703-2218

Pinki Prasad

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9740

Maria C. Velez-Yanguas

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 4109 (504) 896-9740

Lolie Yu Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9740

Pediatric Infectious Disease

New Orleans

Margarita Silio

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Pediatric Nephrology

New Orleans

Diego H. Aviles

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Samir S. El-Dahr

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

K’Joy J. Simms

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9238

Caroline Straatmann

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9238

Ihor V. Yosypiv

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Pediatric Otolaryngology New Orleans

John Carter

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4080

Adele K. Evans

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Belinda A. Mantle

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Kimsey H. Rodriguez

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4080

Pediatric Pulmonology New Orleans Scott H. Davis

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Adrienne P. Savant

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

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 (504) 896-2888

Fabienne L. Gray

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9756

Rodney B. Steiner

Ochsner Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3907

David C. Yu

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-2888

Jessica A. Zagory

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-9756

Pediatric Urology New Orleans

Frank R. Cerniglia Jr. Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4083

Aaron D. Martin

Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue, Suite 3030 (504) 896-2888

Joseph Ortenberg Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (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

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

Madisonville

Robert Faucheux St. Tammany Pediatrics 1520 Highway 22 West (985) 773-1600

Linda Keefer St. Tammany Pediatrics 1520 Highway 22 West (985) 773-1600

Mandeville Jill Fitzpatrick

Ochsner Health CenterEast Mandeville 3235 East Causeway Approach (985) 875-2828

Joshua B. LeBlanc

LeBlanc Pediatrics 1305 West Causeway Approach (985) 674-2227

Pamela E. Richard Ochsner Health CenterEast Mandeville 3235 East Causeway Approach (985) 875-2828

Metairie Mamatha Ananth

A & G Pediatrics

3001 Division Street, Suite 206 (504) 267-9001

John Barbara III

Children’s Hospital

Pediatrics

2201 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 833-7374

Laura Classen Boykin Ochsner Health Center For Children - Metairie 4901 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 887-1133

Theresa L. Dise Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 (504) 894-5479

Patrice Evers Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 (504) 894-5479

Gabrielle Glasgow Sprout Pediatrics 1041 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 267-9336

Lauren Hernandez Sprout Pediatrics 1041 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 267-9336

Suzette G. Kingston Sprout Pediatrics 1041 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 267-9336

Reita Lawrence Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 3100 Kingman Street (504) 887-6355

Betty P. Lo-Blais Ochsner Health CenterOld Metairie 800 Metairie Road (866) 624-7637

Rayne F. Schexnayder Ochsner Health Center For Children - Metairie 4901 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 887-1133

Nicole N. Sheldon Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 (504) 894-5479

Elizabeth Theriot Ochsner Health Center For Children - Metairie 4901 Veterans Memorial Boulevard (504) 887-1133

Stephen M. Weimer Children’s Hospital Pediatrics 4740 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 200 (504) 894-5479

Amanda G. Williams Children’s Hospital Napoleon Pediatrics 3040 33rd Street (504) 219-0880

New Orleans Terry L. Cummings Tulane Multispecialty Clinic 200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000

Amanda F. Messer Children’s Hospital New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-3924

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

Quynh-Anh Tran Ochsner Community Health Brees Family Center 5950 Bullard Avenue (504) 354-4188

River Ridge

Janine T. Lissard Ochsner River RidgePediatrics 9605 Jefferson Highway, Suite J (504) 703-3270

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

Beau J. Bagley

Gulf Coast Brain Sport & Spine 1331 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 234-0490

Aaron M. Karlin

Ochsner Health Center 1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828

Metairie

Justin Lundgren Southern Brain & Spine 3798 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 454-0141

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

Jeffrey N. Watkins

Ochsner Physical Medicine

1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3998

Thibodaux

Todd D. Cowen Cowen Clinic 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 2600 (985) 447-9922

Plastic Surgery

Mandeville

Benjamin J Boudreaux Northshore Plastic Surgery 3401 East Causeway Approach (985) 237-6050

Jeffrey Claiborne Northshore Plastic Surgery 3401 East Causeway Approach (985) 237-6050

Metairie

Abigail E. Chaffin

Tulane Breast & Surgery Clinic 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 100 (504) 988-8100

John P. Guste

Jansen Plastic Surgery 3900 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 475-1248

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

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

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

Ravi Tandon Jansen Plastic Surgery 3900 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 200 (504) 455-1000

New Orleans Frank DellaCroce Center for Restorative Breast Surgery 1717 St. Charles Avenue (504) 899-2800

Michael Thomas Friel Ochsner Pediatric Plastic Surgery

1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5338

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

Podiatry

New Orleans

Denardo D. Dunham

Premier Foot Specialists 7311 Downman Road (504) 241-5707

Psychiatry

New Orleans

Degan J. Dansereau 3705 Coliseum Street (504) 897-0201

Morgan B. Feibelman Integrated Behavioral Health

400 Poydras Street, Suite 1950 (504) 322-3837

Jennifer Greco Integrated Behavioral Health

400 Poydras Street, Suite 1950 (504) 322-3837

Holly MacKenna

Dara Wellness

1900 South Carrollton Avenue (504) 356-1624

Nicholas G. Pejic Atlas Psychiatry

1301 Antonine Street (504) 899-1682

Pulmonary Disease

Kenner

Carol Mason

Ochsner LSU Multispecialty 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705

Judd E. Shellito

Ochsner LSU Multispecialty 200 West Esplanade Avenue, Suite 701 (504) 412-1705

New Orleans Ramsy A. Abdelghani

Tulane Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 7th Floor (504) 988-8600

David M. Becnel Tulane Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-8600

Christine Bojanowski

Tulane Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 7th Floor (504) 988-8600

Bennett deBoisblanc University Medical Center New Orleans

Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic (504) 702-5057

Stephen P. Kantrow Ochsner Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-4055

Ross C. Klingsberg

Tulane Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 7th Floor (504) 988-8600

Joseph A. Lasky

Tulane Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-8600

Cesar A. Aguilar Lopez Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System

2400 Canal Street (800) 935-8387

Nereida A. Parada

Tulane Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue (504) 988-8600

Shigeki Saito University Medical Center New Orleans Comprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic (504) 702-5057

Victor J. Thannickal University Medical Center 2000 Canal Street (504) 988-7800

Radiation Oncology

Metairie

Paul D. Monsour

East Jefferson General Hospital

Department of Radiation Oncology (504) 454-1727

New Orleans Kendra Harris Tulane Cancer Center Clinic

150 South Liberty Street (504) 988-1070

Ellen L. Zakris

Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-8387

Reproductive Endocrinology/ Infertility

Mandeville Peter Lu

The Fertility Institute 800 North Causeway Boulevard, Suite 2C (985) 892-7621

Metairie P. Ronald Clisham

The Fertility Institute

4770 South I-10 Service Road West (504) 454-2165

Warren Jay Huber III

The Fertility Institute 4770 South I-20 Service Road West (504) 233-6789

Belinda M. Sartor

The 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

Gretna

Christopher Mesa Ochsner Medical CenterWest Bank Campus 2500 Belle Chasse Highway (866) 624-7637

Metairie Madelaine Feldman

The Rheumatology Group 111 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 404 (504) 899-1120

New Orleans

William E. Davis Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3920

Chandana

Keshavamurthy

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-3920

Robert Quinet Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (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

Thibodaux Ross Thibodaux

Thibodaux Regional Rheumatology Clinic 726 North Acadia Road, Suite 3400 (985) 449-4656

Sports Medicine

New Orleans

Timothy P. Finney

Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351

Deryk G. Jones

Ochsner Health CenterElmwood 1221 South Clearview Parkway, Building B (504) 736-4800

Christine M. Keating

Ochsner Baptist Back and Spine Center 2820 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-2000

Michael McNulty IV Southern Orthopaedic Specialists 2731 Napoleon Avenue (504) 897-6351

Scott C. Montgomery

Ochsner Health CenterElmwood 1221 South Clearview Parkway, Building B (504) 736-4800

Felix H. Savoie III Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine

202 Janet Yulman Way (504) 988-8476

Surgery

Bogalusa

Richard M. Karlin

Our Lady of the Angels Surgery Clinic 433 Plaza Street, Suite 3 (985) 730-7030

Covington Jacob B. Daigle St. Tammany Health System Northlake Surgical Associates (985) 892-3766

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

Thomas E. Lavin Surgical Specialists of Louisiana 7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 (877) 690-2884

James G. Redmann Surgical Specialists of Louisiana 7015 Highway 190 East Service Road, Suite 200 (877) 691-3001

W. Grayson Terral Avala Hand 1200 Pinnacle Parkway (985) 674-1700

Jefferson David T. Pointer Jr. Ochsner General Surgery 1515 River Road (504) 842-4070

Marrero Sarah E. Baker

Southern Surgical Specialists 1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 4100 (504) 349-6713

Robert D. Cummiskey III

Southern Surgical Specialists 1151 Barataria Boulevard, Suite 4100 (504) 349-6713

New Orleans John S. Bolton

Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 3rd Floor (504) 842-4070

Ari J. Cohen Ochsner Medical Center Multi-Organ Transplant Institute 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1st Floor (504) 842-3925

Alfred John Colfry III Touro LCMC Health 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 410 (504) 325-2900

George M. Fuhrman Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor (504) 842-4070

Hoonbae Jeon Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5344

Emad Kandil Tulane Surgery and GI Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5110

Mary Killackey Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5344

Shauna M. Levy Tulane Surgery and GI Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5110

Shawn A. McKinney University Medical Center

New Orleans Ambulatory Care Center (504) 702-3311

Anil S. Paramesh Tulane Transplant Institute Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 6th Floor (504) 988-5344

William S. Richardson Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (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 Jose Mena Ochsner Health Center

1000 Ochsner Boulevard (985) 875-2828

New Orleans Eugene L. Kukuy Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 210-4280

P. Eugene Parrino Ochsner Medical Center

1514 Jefferson Highway, 2nd Floor (504) 842-3966

Benjamin B. Peeler Ochsner Health Center for Children Cardiology Clinic

1319 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-5200

Timothy W. Pettitt Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 896-3928

Urogynecology/ Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery

Metairie

Margie Kahn

Tulane Center for Women’s Health - Lakeside

4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 302 (504) 988-8070

Leise R. Knoepp Ochsner Baptist 2700 Napoleon Avenue (504) 842-4155

Urology Covington Sunil Purohit

Louisiana Healthcare Associates Urology Division 71207 Highway 21 (985) 892-6811

Kenner Julie C. Wang Ochsner Health Center 200 West Esplanade Avenue (504) 464-8588

Marrero

Jon Ryan Glass

West Jefferson Urology Specialists 1111 Medical Center Boulevard, Suite N703 (504) 934-8100

Metairie

Stephen M. LaCour

LSU Healthcare Network 3601 Houma Boulevard, Suite 302 (504) 412-1600

New Orleans

Stephen F. Bardot Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4083

Wayne J. Hellstrom

Tulane Urology and Fertility Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 3rd Floor (504) 988-5271

Melissa M. Montgomery Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 4th Floor (504) 842-4083

Raju Thomas Tulane Urology and Fertility Clinic 1415 Tulane Avenue, 3rd Floor (504) 988-5271

Richard Vanlangendonck Jr. Touro LCMC Health Crescent City Physicians (504) 897-7196

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

Slidell

Harold R. Neitzschman III

Northlake Urology Group 1150 Robert Boulevard, Suite 350 (985) 641-3742

Thibodaux Walter J. Simoneaux Jr.

Thibodaux Regional Urology Clinic 504 North Acadia Road (985) 447-5667

Vascular & Interventional Radiology

Metairie

Richard H. Marshall Jr. East Jefferson General Hospital 4200 Houma Boulevard (504) 503-6137

New Orleans

Juan Gimenez Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3000

Dennis Kay Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (504) 842-3470

Dee Malkerneker Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway (985) 646-5075

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, 5th Floor (504) 842-4070

Clayton J. Brinster Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (866) 624-7637

Samuel R. Money Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-4070

W. Charles Sternbergh III Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, 5th Floor (504) 842-4070

Castle Connolly Rising Stars

Castle Connolly Rising Stars are early career doctors recognized for their outstanding accomplishments and dedication to the field of medicine.

Nominated by their peers, these doctors are emerging leaders in the medical community, with clear contributions to the advancement of healthcare through clinical care, research, community service, education and leadership.

Colon & Rectal Surgery

New Orleans

Elyse R. Bevier-Rawls

Touro Surgical Specialties

3525 Prytania Street, Suite 418 (504) 210-4280

Dermatology

Covington

Kristen Bice

Grieshaber Dermatology

714 West 16th Avenue (985) 893-1035

Brianna McDaniel

McDaniel Dermatology & Skin

Surgery Institute

109 New Camellia Boulevard, Suite 200 (985) 277-5463

Gastroenterology

New Orleans

Lauren S. Pointer

Touro LCMC Health 3434 Prytania Street, Suite 110 (504) 822-9024

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

New Orleans

Michelle S. Christopher University Medical Center New Orleans

2001 Tulane Avenue (504) 702-3669

Alexis L. Morvant

Children’s Hospital New Orleans

200 Henry Clay Avenue (504) 894-5332

Maternal & Fetal Medicine

Marrero

Tabitha M Quebedeaux

West Jefferson Medical Center 1101 Medical Center Boulevard (504) 349-2528

Neurology

Metairie

Martha Robinson

Tulane Neurosciences Center

4720 South I-10 Service Road, Suite 101 (504) 503-7001

New Orleans

Maxwell H. Levy

Tulane Multispecialty Clinic

200 Broadway Street, Suite 230 (504) 988-9000

Thibodaux

Jessica Baity

Thibodaux Regional Neurology Clinic

726 North Acadia Road, Suite 2300 (985) 493-3090

Derek Neupert

Thibodaux Regional Neurology Clinic

726 North Acadia Road, Suite 2300 (985) 493-3090

Obstetrics & Gynecology

Metairie

Pratibha Rayapati

Tulane Women’s Services 4720 South I-10 Service Road West, Suite 104 (504) 988-2160

Ophthalmology

New Orleans

Joshua Ford

Tulane Ophthalmology Clinic

1415 Tulane Avenue, 4th Floor (504) 988-5831

Orthopaedic Surgery

Covington

Sean Michael Rider

DISC of Louisiana

76 Starbrush Circle (985) 400-5778

Pediatrics

Metairie

James M. Connick

Sprout Pediatrics

1041 Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Suite 300 (504) 267-9336

BY CHERÉ COEN TRAVEL

Rocket City

Huntsville history, museums and more

In 2021, U.S. News & World Report named Huntsville, Alabama one of the best places to live in the country, surpassed only by Green Bay. And let’s face it, Wisconsin’s cold in the winter. In addition to the north Alabama town being the home to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Earth’s largest space flight museum, it’s the site of oldest railroad depot and the oldest house functioning as a public museum in the state, plus the state’s constitution was created here.

“Everyone thinks of us as high tech,” said local historian and author Jacquelyn Procter Reeves. “But we have a lot of history.”

Huntsville can also boast of a hot arts and music scene, numerous festivals and the Rocket City Trash Pandas, a minor-league baseball

team named for the raccoons who adore garbage cans.

ROCKET CITY

Thousands visit each year to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center’s Space Camp, but the accompanying museum is “the most comprehensive U.S. manned spaceflight hardware museum in the world,” according to the Center. The museum, named the official NASA Visitor Center for Marshall Space Flight Center and an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, features the actual Saturn V Moon Rocket, an Apollo 16 Command Module, an Apollo 12 moon rock and much more. Visitors will learn that rockets for the first U.S. satellite and moon missions, modules for the International Space Station and much more were developed in Huntsville. The list goes on and on.

HARRISON BROTHERS HARDWARE

Everything from local artwork and books to homewares is sold at Alabama’s oldest continuously operating hardware store. Established in 1879 and located on the downtown historic square since 1897, Harrison Brothers Hardware is a trip back in time. Shelves and tables are stocked with modern items but many original products line the historic shelves that reach to the ceiling. Be sure to notice the gem of the store, the 112-year-old cash register still in use.

BOTANICAL GARDENS

It’s easy to get lost in the Huntsville Botanical Garden, and that’s a good thing. Trails wind around an artenhanced pond, through vibrant woods and grassy fields accented with birding stations and benches

and swings and along creeksides filled with local plants. It’s 118 acres of pure bliss for the nature and plant lover. No wonder USA Today rated it number six in the nation for “Best Botanical Garden.”

THE ORION AMPHITHEATER

There’s no bad seat in the brand spanking new Orion Amphitheater, which brings in big-name artists, regional music acts and special events, such as yoga. The sustainability policies are impressive: drinks are served in glasses that are returned and cleaned, native plants used in landscaping, some of which end up in food and drinks, and recycling bins everywhere. It’s all part of The Orion’s zero-waste goals.

LOWE MILL ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A former cotton warehouse and factory for military boots received a new lease on life when transformed into the Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment complex. The giant complex now houses 158 public studios with more than 200 working artists, making it nation’s largest privately owned arts and entertainment venue. Visitors may enjoy watching artists in action (don’t miss Jeff Mello demonstrating at the Cigar Box Guitar Store) and have an opportunity to purchase original pieces, everything from pottery and painting to crepes and coffee. Special events happen regularly, including the Concerts on the Dock — dock meaning loading dock, not something adjacent to water.

Crickett Lapeyre

Creating kid-friendly workspaces at home

August is back-to-school time. In preparation for the return to school schedules and homework demands, we asked Crickett Lapeyre, co-owner (with Jennifer Atkins) of Peony, for advice on creating kid-friendly workspaces at home.

Lapeyre, who raised twins, suggests young children have access to several different zones for homework and artwork/crafts. Because adult supervision and support is important for grade school students, she recommends that homework be done at a kitchen table, kitchen island or dining table. A large flat surface provides room to spread out and a kitchen or dining room offers fewer distractions than a child’s bedroom.

Lapeyre recommends keeping supplies in nearby cubbies or baskets. That way kids know where to find everything and parents can have a hand in keeping things tidy. She suggests one for pens, paper and other homework materials, another for craft items such as yarn and paint, and a third for educational games. Young kids also benefit from a desk in their rooms for artwork, crafts and other creative activities. And a quiet

reading nook in their room or in a playroom provides a spot where a child can read without interruptions. Lapeyre recommends outfitting a reading nook with a comfortable chair such as a beanbag chair, good lighting, and a bookshelf filled with favorite and assigned books.

Lapeyre suggests tailoring incentives to the goals and needs of the child and offers several clever ideas. A chalkboard or chart can be used for checking off finished assignments and books. A shelf or cubby with movies made from books is a fun way to reward a child after they’ve completed the book. Healthy treats and items such as surprise balls (a German tradition of balls made with streamers with little presents inside), which Peony sells, can be kept on hand for a job well-done.

“It really depends on the child,” said Lapeyre. “Everyone is so different.”

Tween and teen students need a designated homework spaces with a desk, a good chair, task lighting and fun storage containers such as clear plastic or acrylic boxes that you can see through.

“Anything you can see through is the way to go,” said Lapeyre, who notes that craft stores are a good source

1

Utensil organizers make great drawer dividers for pens, pencils, scissors and other school supplies.

2

Baskets are an attractive way to keep things neat inside cubbies and add a designer touch.

3

Tiered tea stands are a feminine and functional way for little girls to stow paper clips, erasers, colored chalk for chalkboards and the like.

for inexpensive organizational items.

For teens who prefer sitting on their bed when doing homework, Lapeyre recommends furry throws, good back pillows, task lighting and soft athleisure wear and PJs to keep them comfy, cozy and focused. Getting kids and teens involved in the process of personalizing their study spaces will go a long way toward making them inviting as well.

“Outfit their spaces with stuff they like,” she said.

ABOUT THE EXPERT

Crickett Lapeyre and Jennifer Atkins originally opened Peony for women and gifts, but found they wanted to add inventory for children. Today, the 9-year-old store includes children’s clothing and toys from France and the partners “are always on the search for cool stuff for kids.”

BY EVE CRAWFORD PEYTON GROWING PAINS

Pound Foolish

Born in 1980, I never know if I’m a baby Gen Xer or a – thank you, pop culture, for coining this phrase – geriatric millennial.

On the one hand, I definitely grew up under the more relaxed Gen X model of parenting – biking around the neighborhood, playing in the sprinkler, coming home when the streetlights came on, surviving entire summers on ramen noodles and red Kool-Aid and peanut butter sandwiches on Bunny Bread. I was pretty much born cynical and disaffected with a deep appreciation of irony, and I still wear jeans and Converse to work some days.

On the other hand, I’m not really a slacker; I love words of affirmation and, yes, even participation trophies; I hate making phone calls; I am despondent when I don’t have access

to WiFi; and I could happily eat avocado toast for breakfast for the rest of my life.

Oh, the avocado toast. Somehow, avocado toast has become the symbol of everything wrong with millennials. The reason they can’t buy homes isn’t inflation or student loan debt; it’s spending money on frivolous things.

And here, too, I am something of a hybrid. I bought my first home at 23, sold it at 28, and got very lucky on the timing of all of that, managing to get out right before the market absolutely tanked in 2008. I try to make careful financial decisions.

My husband and I don’t take vacations (unless you count one of us tagging along on the other’s work trip), and dining out is a special treat reserved pretty much for birthdays and anniversaries. We drive practical cars that we bought used. I buy a ton of my clothes and even some of

regrets

my kids’ clothes at the thrift store. I rely heavily on the library to support my reading habit.

But … when I found myself with an unexpected small windfall earlier this summer as the result of a freelance job … well, I didn’t do what a financial planner would have told me to do.

I didn’t put it in savings, even though we desperately need to replace our 2012 minivan that is falling apart in almost every conceivable way a car can fall apart and is going to die entirely on us very soon. I didn’t earmark it for any of the numerous home repairs that are on our to-do list. I didn’t fold it into a pair of socks and hide it in my underwear drawer to serve as emergency money in case of a hurricane or mandatory evacuation. I didn’t even get a head start on buying

school supplies and back-to-school clothes and uniforms, even though I always end up panicked about money come late August after the glut of school expenses has cleared my bank account.

Instead … well … I bought my 16-year-old daughter a Taylor Swift ticket.

For months, she has been longingly watching TikToks from The Eras Tour and telling me excitedly what the surprise songs were in Houston or Tampa or Nashville. She’s (jokingly – I think) asked me if I’d let her sell a kidney to buy a ticket. She’s made dozens of friendship bracelets just to get in the spirit. She desperately wanted to go, and yet she also understood that we really couldn’t afford for her to go. She was fine with it. Which made it all the more delightful to be able to surprise her with a ticket to the Kansas City show while she is spending the summer with her dad in St. Louis.

Now I will say, in my partial defense, that I’m not crazy. This wasn’t wise or prudent, but it also wasn’t complete lunacy: I didn’t spend thousands of dollars or anything even close. But I did spend more than any reasonable, sensible human should spend on a single concert ticket.

For more Eve, check out her blog “Joie d’Eve” on Tuesday mornings at myneworleans.com

Do I regret it, though?

Not even a little bit. She had the time of her life and will never forget it.

And no matter how cynical I might be or how much avocado toast I might have to forgo to recoup this expense, there is nothing worth more to me in the world than making my kids happy.

In which I make a dumb financial decision with no

BY SCOTT GOLD

Out of This World

Beyond bar food

From an early age, chef Trey Rintala always knew he wanted to cook. “I’d gone to Emeril’s book signings at Tower Records when I was 12 years old. Watching ‘Yan Can Cook’ and the chefs on PBS, those were my sports heroes,” said the Slidell native. But his road from wide-eyed child fascinated with the culinary world to working in fine dining was circuitous, to say the least. His education took him to Mississippi, where he studied anthropology and fine arts rather than cooking. The siren’s song of the kitchen proved too powerful, however, and Rintala found himself in the service world full time upon returning to New Orleans just after Hurricane Katrina. Then, after teaching himself culinary techniques in the kitchen at Whole Foods, an unexpected opportunity presented itself.

“In 2014, I wrote Kristen Essig a comment card when we went to Ste. Marie, and I asked for a job. And they said, ‘We’re actually opening up Meauxbar,’ so I was on the opening team of that, as a prep cook. And then I basically got grandfathered into working lines.” Eventually, Rintala made his way up to sous chef, working every position in the restaurant and developing a lauded brunch program. Then Katrina hit, and Rintala, like most New Orleanians, found himself personally and professionally unmoored.

With no job and few prospects, Rintala decided to go on his own, creating a “food fund” popup where he could both experiment with culinary ideas and, at the same time, help feed members of the suffering arts community in New Orleans. When Meauxbar finally reopened and offered him his position back, the chef decided that the freedom

and creativity offered by operating a solo gig, and he struck out on his own. His concept, Bertie’s Intergalactic Diner, appeared at Okay Bar and the Happy Raptor Distillery before eventually finding a permanent home at Carrollton Station on Willow street.

What you can expect at Bertie’s is “bar food” only nominally. The menu sports a tuna melt, a riff on a BLT, cheese fries and pizza rolls, and so forth, but there’s wildly more going on under the hood than you’d ever expect. Take that bacon sandwich, for instance, an upscale, tropicallyinspired pork belly affair with pineapple jam, toasted almonds, havarti cheese, iceberg lettuce and herbed mayo that would easily cost three times as much in a white tablecloth establishment. The fish in the “fish and chips” is smothered in pancake batter, lovingly fried and served with a homemade tartar sauce featuring charred onion powder and fresh dill that takes ten steps to make. A tuna melt sports a seared tuna steak with English pea puree, Calabrian chili cream cheese and pickled onions.

More than anything, Rintala delights in the ability to change up the menu often to keep things interesting, while consistently maintaining his fine dining chops and dedication to classical culinary techniques. “It’s like

coloring outside of the lines a bit,” Rintala said. “This is like a living, breathing art project that’s edible. You can come in after a few weeks and have a completely different experience than you had weeks prior, but it feels like it’s from the same set of hands.”

Anyone who’s eaten at Bertie’s while catching some live music, open mic comedy or trivia night at Carrollton Station quickly understands that this bar food is punching well above its weight, sometimes shockingly so. Sure, the menu can sometimes be unpredictable, according to the chef’s whims and peccadillos, but consider that the price of admission for this wonderfully original, intergalactic culinary cruise. After all, who doesn’t want to take a ride on a rocket ship? Especially when that rocket has pizza rolls and toasted pound cake with Oreo cookie butter.

Berties Intergalactic Diner, at Carrolton Station, 8140 Willow St., @berties.intergalactic.diner

ABOUT THE CHEF

A Slidell native, chef Trey Rintala’s culinary path began in fast food as a teenager and wended its way to French fine dining before striking out on his own to develop Bertie’s, where he finds the freedom exhilarating. “There are no boundaries, and that’s what’s exciting to me,” he said. “I can just come here and cook what makes me happy and try to serve that happiness to the public. It’s like writing songs or making a painting. It’s like, ‘This is me on a plate. I want to share this with you. And I hope that we can connect over that when I see you in person next.’”

PORK BELLY SANDWICH

BY ELIZABETH PEARCE

Practice Makes Perfect

A timely summer cooler

When Lydia Salter creates a new drink at Gianna, it’s likely to be as Italian inspired as the rest of the menu. “I taste a lot of Italian liqueurs and aperitifs to research and see what goes well together.” She has increased her knowledge of Italian spirits considerably, amaros in particular.

“I really like amaro,” she said. “It’s the backbone of the beverage program here.” Amaro features prominently in her summer cooler, “Sign of the Times.” Lydia notes the drink’s creation was a team effort from a bar staff where “we learn from each other…everyone has their own little tidbits of info.” Lydia praises her management, which encourages their collaboration and exploration. “They let me try things…it’s fun to experiment.”

Still, things don’t always end well. “I’ve definitely made drinks that never saw the light of day,” she ruefully admits. But that’s part of the creative process. “Trying and failing and trying and failing-- eventually you make something great.”

SIGN OF THE TIMES

1/4 oz. simple syrup

1/2 oz. lemon juice

1/2 oz. Amara d’Arancia or another light, floral amaro like Nonino

1 oz. Blackberry

Balsamic Shrub (see recipe below)

2 oz. Cathead Honeysuckle vodka

2 dashes Angostura bitters

Soda water

Lemon Twist

Place all ingredients except for the soda in a shaker filled with ice. Shake until chilled. Strain into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with a splash of soda in Collins glass. Garnish with a lemon twist.

RECIPE

1 lb. blackberries

1 cup sugar

1 cup balsamic

Place blackberries and sugar in a mason jar. Mix well and close the lid. Keep at room temp, out of sunlight for 24 hours, shaking occasionally. Add balsamic, shake and place in the refrigerator for 48 hours. Strain through fine mesh, pressing berries to extract juice. Keep refrigerated for up to 6 months

BLACKBERRY BALSAMIC SHRUB

BY JYL BENSON

Easy Does It

A quick party trick

This unusual pairing of unexpected flavors and textures works due to the bright minerality of the okra against the heat and smoke from the harissa, overlayed by the cumin crunch and faint citrus notes from the sumac. The harissa and the crunch can, and really should, be made up to three days in advance. The okra, so inexpensive and abundant right now, cooks in moments. This is a perfect set up for a party. Just toss the okra with harissa then pile it on a platter and let guests dress their own dishes with crunch, and fresh herbs. Okra is believed to have originated somewhere in or around Ethiopia, and was cultivated by the ancient Egyptians by the 12th century B.C. It spread from Ethiopia to north Africa, the Middle East, Brazil, and India. Okra was brought to the United States via the transatlantic slave route sometime between the 16th and 19th centuries. Warm growing conditions in the American South were favorable to okra, leading to it becoming a staple in the Southern diet.

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Both the harissa and the cumin crunch can be used for other purposes: The cumin crunch is great on salads and over vegetables for extra crunch; the harissa can be slathered over corn before roasting or grilling, as a sandwich spread, or as a marinade for chicken.

OKRA WITH HARISSA & ROASTED PEANUT, BLACK SESAME, CUMIN CRUNCH

Shared by Executive Chef Alex Harrell, Common’s Club

Serves six

1 pound firm ripe, green okra

1 tablespoon olive oil

Harissa (store bought, Mina is a good brand, or made from recipe below)

Cumin crunch (see recipe below)

Salt and pepper, to taste

Torn parsley, mint, and cilantro for serving

1. Heat a grill for direct heat cooking. Alternatively, set a large cast iron pan over high heat.

2. Toss the okra in a large bowl with the olive oil, salt, and pepper.

3. Add the okra to the grill or a very hot pan. Use tongs to turn the okra when it starts to blister, char, and soften slightly, 1- 2 minutes per side.

To Serve: Toss the okra with a few tablespoons of the harissa. Garnish with cumin crunch and fresh herbs.

Cumin crunch

4 cups roasted peanuts

3 1/ 2 ounces black sesame seeds, toasted

1 1/ 2 tablespoons cumin seeds, toasted and ground

2/3 tablespoon ground sumac (available in Middle Eastern Markets)

2/3 tablespoons Aleppo pepper (available in Middle Eastern markets)

Combine all ingredients in a food processor. Pulse to obtain a coarse texture. Store in a sealed container.

Harissa

You can skip this and buy a jar, if desired. Mina is a good brand.)

10 1/2 ounces roasted red bell peppers (see method in blue notes)

1 tablespoons fennel seed, toasted and ground

1 tablespoon coriander seed, toasted and ground

1 tablespoon yellow mustard seeds, toasted and ground

1 tablespoon smoked paprika

1 teaspoon sumac

2 heads garlic confit (slow roasted in olive oil, see method in blue notes)

1/2 ounce dried chipotle peppers

3 tablespoons lime juice

1 1/2 tablespoons pomegranate molasses (available in Middle Eastern markets)

3/4 cup water

Salt and pepper to taste

1. Puree all ingredients together in a food processor. This can be stored in the refrigerator in a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Adding a drizzle of olive oil on top will help seal it. It will last for 3 weeks.

2. Don’t feel like making garlic confit and /or roasted red peppers? Raid an antipasti bar. Both Whole Foods and Rouses have good ones. Just make sure neither are prepared with herbs or the flavor of the harissa will be very off.

Roasted Red Bell Pepper

1 red bell pepper (gauge the size based on what you need

1. If you have a gas stove turn the heat. Hold the pepper with tongs. Place the pepper directly atop the flame, turning every 90 seconds or so until the entire thing is black and blistered. Alternatively, put the pepper under the oven broiler and turn it every four minutes or so until it is blackened. Put the blackened pepper in a paper bag and fold the top over so the pepper will steam and cool. Once cool, slip the skin off the pepper under cool running water. Discard the skins, stem, and seeds.

Garlic confit:

Makes about 1 cup

2 heads peeled garlic cloves

1cup neutral oil

Preheat oven to 250°. Place garlic and oil in a small ovenproof dish (add more oil if cloves aren’t submerged). Cover and bake until the cloves are golden and tender, about two hours. Cool, transfer garlic and oil to an airtight container and chill.

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 $ = $5-10 $$ = $11-15 $$$ = $16-20 $$$$ = $21-25 $$$$$ = $25 & UP

AMERICAN

Acorn City Park, $ AcornNola.com

Audubon Clubhouse Uptown, $$ AudubonInstitute.org

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

Caffe! Caffe! Metairie, $ CaffeCaffe.com

Café NOMA City Park, $ CafeNoma.com

Camellia Grill Riverbend, $ 309-2679

District Donuts Sliders Brew Multiple Locations, $ DonutsAndSliders.com

Five Happiness Mid-City, $$ FiveHappiness.com

Martin Wine Cellar Multiple Locations, $ MartinWineCellar.com

New Orleans Social House

CBD/Warehouse District, $$ NOSocialHouse.com

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

Restaurant August

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

Rib Room French Quarter, $$$ RibRoomNewOrleans.com

The Grill Room

CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ GrillRoomNewOrleans.com

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

Ye Olde College Inn Carrollton, $$$ CollegeInn1933.com

Zea’s Rotisserie and Grill Multiple Locations, $$$ ZeaRestaurants.com

ASIAN FUSION/PAN ASIAN Blue Giant Lower Garden District, $$ BlueGiantNOLA.com

Hoshun Restaurant Uptown, $$ HoshunRestaurant.com

Little Tokyo Multiple Locations, $$ LittleTokyoNola.com

Lotus Bistro Lakeview, $$ LotusBistroNOLA.com

MoPho Mid-City, $$$ MoPhoNola.com

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

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

BAKERY/BREAKFAST

Breads on Oak Multiple Locations, $ BreadsOnOak.com.

Café du Monde Multiple Locations, $ CafeDuMonde.com

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

Gracious Bakery + Café Multiple Locations, $ GraciousBakery.com

Ruby Slipper Café Multiple Locations, $$ TheRubySlipperCafe.net

BURGERS

Bayou Burger French Quarter, $$ 5SportsBarNewOrleans.com

Port of Call French Quarter, $$ PortOfCallNola.com

The Company Burger Uptown, $ TheCompanyBurger.com

FRENCH

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

Copper Vine CBD/Warehouse District, $$$ CopperVine.com

Orleans Grapevine Wine Bar and Bistro French Quarter, $$$ OrleansGrapevine.com

Patrick’s Bar Vin French Quarter, $$ PatricksBarVin.com

Sylvain French Quarter, $$$ SylvainNOLA.com

The Delachaise Uptown, $$ TheDelaichaise.com

ITALIAN

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

Chartres House French Quarter, $$$ ChartresHouse.com

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

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

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

Restaurant R’evolution French Quarter, $$$$$ RevolutionNola.com

Tommy’s Cuisine CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$$ TommysNewOrleans.com

Vincent’s Italian Cuisine Multiple Locations, $$$ VicentsItalianCuisine.com

LOUISIANA FARE

Acme Oyster House Multiple Locations, $$ AcmeOyster.com

Antoine’s French Quarter, $$$$$ Antoines.com

CHARLIE’S STEAKHOUSE

There’s never a dull moment – or a dull knife – at Charlie’s, the old-school cool steakhouse on Dryades St. that’s been satiating New Orleans carnivores for generations, all with an obstinate disregard to the effete trappings of most traditional steakhouses. As always, the servers won’t bother you with a menu; their trusty servers will walk you through our offerings with the charm only a New Orleans native can muster, before you dive headfirst into your steak nirvana served on a platter sizzling in butter. As for sides, let’s just say the potatoes au gratin have been known to make grown men weep.

GABRIELLE

While Gabrielle might have taken a slight, twelve-year hiatus in the wake of Katrina, their reopening in 2017 was a revelation for New Orleans diners who’ve adored the upscale (but never fussy) establishment since it opened in the early 90s. You’ll never go wrong with Chef Greg Sonnier’s inventive takes on classic Creole cuisine, including everything from BBQ shrimp pie and their famous “Oysters Gabie,” to dark roux gumbo with quail, rabbit and guinea hen, an alwaysgratifying slow-roasted duck, and of course the brilliant chocolate pecan pie. With cuisine this satisfying, what’s a decade or so off between friends?

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

Austin’s Metairie, $$$ AustinsNo.com

BIrdy’s Behind the Bower Garden District, $$ BirdysNola.com

Boucherie Carrollton, $$ Boucherie-Nola.com

The Bower Garden District, $$$ TheBowerNola.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

Gris Gris Garden District, $$$ GrisGrisNola.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

Mr. B’s Bistro French Quarter, $$$$ MrBsBistro.com

Mulate’s CBD/Warehouse District, $$ Mulates.com

NOLA French Quarter, $$$$$ EmerilsRestaurants.com/NolaRestaurant

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

Saint John French Quarter, $$$ SaintJohnNola.com

St. Roch Market Upper 9th Ward, $$ StRochMarket.com

SoBou French Quarter, $$ SoBouNola.com

Tableau French Quarter, $$$ TableauFrenchQuarter.com

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

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

Le Bayou French Quarter, $$$ LeBayouRestaurant.com

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

SPECIALTY FOODS

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

STEAKHOUSE

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patois Uptown,$$$ PatoisNola.com

Saba Uptown, $$$ EatWithSaba.com

Saffron NOLA Uptown, $$$ SaffronNOLA.com

Seaworthy CBD/Warehouse District, $$$$ SeaworthyNola.com

Shaya Uptown, $$$ ShayaRestaurant.com

Specialty Medicine

Regular visits to your primary care physician are an important part of ensuring your healthcare goals are met, immunizations are up to date, and that screenings are completed on time. But when it’s time for a more in-depth diagnosis or procedure, specialists can provide that additional expertise for your precise need. From treating your back pain with the help of an orthopedist, spinal surgeon, or pain management expert to overcoming depression or anxiety with the help of a psychiatrist, specialists across New Orleans have the added years of training and experience as well as cutting-edge technologies to can improve wellness from head to toe.

BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & PSYCHIATRY

Podesta Wellness

Podesta Wellness, in Mid-City New Orleans, is a premier multidisciplinary practice that offers psychiatry, psychotherapy, and nutrition. Arwen Podesta, MD, is a psychiatrist sub-specialized in addiction medicine, holistic and integrative medicine, and forensic psychiatry. She is a nationally known speaker, teaching and speaking frequently. In her forensic role, she works closely with judges and specialty courts and is an expert witness.

Tricia Brown, LPC-S, has 19 years’ experience providing therapy for people with anxiety, depression, addiction, and more. She has an extensive background treating addiction and providing therapy for people in recovery and their families. She specializes in treating codependency, depression, self-esteem, PTSD, anxiety and addiction.

Nutritionist and Functional medicine specialist, Jan Johnson, RD, LDN, CLT, has been helping people achieve whole health for decades. She is an expert in addressing the underlying “root cause” disease through nutrition and lifestyle modification.

Please visit podestawellness.com for more details.

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.

CARDIOVASCULAR CARE Cardiovascular Institute of the South

This year, Cardiovascular Institute of the South (CIS) celebrates 40 years of providing advanced cardiovascular care. Since 1983, CIS has pioneered hundreds of “firsts” in south Louisiana to improve care for cardiovascular diseases. With a mission to provide the highest quality cardiovascular care available, CIS has impacted thousands of lives for the better with advanced diagnostics and treatments to improve care. CIS offers complete cardiovascular care from head to toe through new technology, virtual care, and now national growth. Comfort and convenience are top of mind, with in-clinic vein treatments, interventional procedures at your local hospital, and cost-saving outpatient procedures at the CIS Ambulatory Surgery Center in Gray.

CIS continues to improve lives and lead the way for advanced care and innovation. Drs. Owen Mogabgab and Ahmad Jabbar provide care at the CIS location on the Westbank in Harvey. Schedule an appointment today by calling 504-354-5252 or visiting cardio.com

HAND SURGERY

The Hand Center of Louisiana

For more than 40 years, the physicians and staff of The Hand Center of Louisiana have pursued a passion for patient-centered care. As a fully integrated healthcare facility offering all medical, surgical, and therapy services for patients with upper extremity conditions, the Hand Center of Louisiana continues its legacy as a leading healthcare provider in the Gulf South.

Board certified Hand Center surgeons are widely recognized for their expertise and successful outcomes. Using the most current approaches in surgical and non-surgical treatments, they develop a plan of care suited to each individual patient.

Certified Hand Therapists at The Hand Therapy Center use advanced techniques and protocols for post-operative management of surgical patients. Therapists are often able to move patients into therapy more quickly, resulting in earlier clinical results and recovery.

At The Center for Rheumatology and Neurological Testing, advanced diagnostic tools such as ultrasound imaging, Bone Mineral Density, and Nerve Conduction Studies are being used to customize treatments. For information and scheduling, visit handsurgical.com or call 504-454-2191.

ORTHOPEDICS & SPORTS MEDICINE

Southern Orthopaedic Specialists

At Southern Orthopaedic Specialists, patients experience care that goes above and beyond normal expectations. A group of seven orthopaedic surgeons, a pain management specialist, three physical therapists, and a hand therapist, Southern Orthopaedic Specialists offers prompt, comprehensive orthopaedic care to Greater New Orleans with locations in Uptown (2731 Napoleon Ave.), Metairie (1615 Metairie Rd.), and Slidell (1810 Lindberg Dr.).

Each physician specializes in Orthopaedic Surgery with a sub-specialty as well. Their specialties and subspecialties include General Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Total Joint Replacements and Revisions, Hand, Shoulder, Foot and Ankle, Back and Spine Care/Surgery, and Pain Management. This level of advanced specialization allows Southern Orthopaedic Specialists to provide the absolute best treatment for patients. As a team, they can treat just about any orthopaedic problem. Southern Orthopedics is excited to welcome Dr. Jonathan Finney.

For more information, visit sosneworleans.com. All locations are easily accessible and provide complimentary parking. For scheduling and all departments, call 504-897-6351. The practice accepts all major health insurance plans and worker’s compensation insurance plans.

Westside Orthopaedic Clinic

Serving the West Bank and Greater New Orleans, Westside Orthopaedic Clinic is known for its exceptional general orthopaedic and spinal treatment with personalized care. Founded in 1961, it is one of the longest operating area orthopaedic clinics.

In practice at Westside Orthopaedic Clinic for 26 years, Dr. Ralph Katz

performs minimally invasive procedures among other surgeries with consistently excellent outcomes. For the patient who has failed conservative treatment (e.g. medication, physical therapy, injections), a minimally invasive procedure such as a micro-discetomy could be the treatment that relieves your pain. The procedure can be done in an outpatient setting and typically takes about an hour. Most patients can return to normal activities within four to six weeks. Dr. Katz performs other spinal procedures—such as cervical and lumbar fusions—utilizing small incisions techniques with minimally invasive systems when needed. He is one of a few local surgeons who perform both cervical and lumbar disc replacements.

Westside Orthopaedic Clinic offers full-service care, including in-house x-rays, with one-on-one personal service. For more information, visit westsideortho.com.

Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic

Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic was opened in 1978 and is one of the premier orthopedic clinics in the New Orleans area. Located in Marrero, the practice continues the mission of its founding orthopedists in treating patients like family and offering individualized treatment plans that reflects their personal needs and goals. For the past two years, all of Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic’s surgeons have been recognized by the publication “Best Doctors in America” and the practice has had physicians named area Top Doctors for more than 20 years.

Drs. Wesley Clark, Scott Tucker, and Barton Wax, as well as Physician Assistant John Kesler, are all board certified and look forward to assisting you in your healing process. Jefferson Orthopedic Clinic offers same-day appointments and accepts most insurances and worker’s compensation cases. The office conveniently offers x-ray, physical therapy, and occupational therapy all at its primary location. Should you like to schedule an appointment, you can do so 24 hours a day at jeffortho.com, or call the office directly to schedule an appointment at 504-349-6804.

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 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 diagnostic ultrasound-guided joint injections.

Metairie Orthopedics & Sports Medicine is proud to welcome sports medicine specialist Dr. Ryan Roubion to the practice. Its office 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.

PAIN MANAGEMENT

Southern Pain & Neurological

For those with degenerative disc disease, back pain is an unfortunate part of everyday life. At Southern Pain & Neurological, Doctors Paul Hubbell and Donald Richardson have introduced new technology that has proven effective in clinical trials at repairing degenerative discs and increasing function. A non-surgical, cutting-edge technology, VIA DISC is an injection that uses allogeneic tissue and micronized disc material to reverse disc damage from the inside out and thereby reduce pain.

Until now, there was no way to repair damage caused by degenerative disc disease. The VIA Disc procedure is performed under local anesthesia or sedation, under the guidance of your doctor, via fluoroscopy. Computer images provide live-action visuals during the procedure allowing the doctor to see exact needle placement. The needle is then inserted into the center of the intervertebral disc.

To learn more about degenerative disc disease, VIA Disc, and Southern Pain & Neurological, call 1-800-277-1265.

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, 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 board-certified 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 nonsurgical plan to help improve your appearance and self-confidence.

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. Sean Weiss

Looking for an expert rhinoplasty surgeon? Dr. Sean Weiss is a double board certified facial plastic surgeon with fellowship training in advanced rhinoplasty techniques. Rhinoplasty surgery can change the shape of the nose for a more balanced facial appearance. Sometimes referred to as a “nose job,” rhinoplasty can help correct a drooping tip, bulbous tip, crooked nose, and bumps on the bridge of the nose. In addition, rhinoplasty can also be performed to improve breathing or nasal function.

Rhinoplasty is a safe and effective procedure that can be performed on men and women of varying ages. Dr. Weiss is a board-certified facial plastic surgeon with extensive experience in cosmetic and functional nasal surgery. He will work with you to create a customized treatment plan that meets your individual needs.

If you’re ready to look and feel your best, contact Dr. Sean Weiss today to schedule a rhinoplasty consultation by calling 504-814-3223 or visiting seanweissmd.com.

SPINE SURGERY

AVALA Spine

DISC of Louisiana and AVALA have historically brought patients cuttingedge spine surgery in a spa-like environment. The practices are proud to announce that they have joined together to form one of the state’s only Centers of Excellence for spine surgery. Dr. Samer Shamieh, Dr. Jeremy James, Dr. Justin Owen, and Dr. Sean Michael Rider are some of the highest rated spine specialists in the state and offer the least invasive procedures treating neck and back pain. Their expertise includes treating herniated discs, degenerative disc disease, sciatica, pinched nerves, and other conditions affecting the spine. At AVALA Spine, every person who walks through the door is treated like a member of the family. Staff do everything possible to make sure patients are consistently well cared for.

Convenient clinics are located in Covington, Hammond, Slidell, Metairie, and Houma. For more information on services, call the practice at 985-400-5778 or visit avalaspine.com

WEIGHT LOSS

Tulane Bariatric Center

Are you sick of trying diet or weight loss plans that don’t work? The Tulane Bariatric Center thinks differently about weight loss. Obesity is a chronic medical condition, and the board-certified physicians at Tulane Bariatric Center are experts in both surgical and non-surgical medical weight loss. At Tulane Bariatric Center, Tulane Doctors and expert clinical staff take the time to know you, explain your options, and formulate a plan tailored to your individual goals and needs.

Losing weight is really hard, but you are not alone. Tulane Doctors are here to help. Call 504-988-BARI or visit tulaneweightloss.com today to get started on your personalized weight loss journey. •

Resources

Perhaps it’s time to start looking at downsizing and bringing in additional support, or perhaps making wellness a priority has you looking for ways to improve your health. Resources across the metro area make living well possible in a variety of ways, whether you’re looking to transition into a new supportive home setting, schedule needed immunizations, or finally get help for that nagging pain. The following health and wellness-focused professionals and destinations may offer just what you need.

RETIREMENT LIVING

The Carrollton

The Carrollton is a luxury assisted living and memory care community that promotes independence while providing exceptional care. Nestled in the newly renovated Carrollton Courthouse, the community offers a variety of amenities and services including restaurant-style dining, studio and one-bedroom apartments, housekeeping and laundry services, and onsite parking.

As a Liberty Senior Living Community, The Carrollton is also the first senior living community in New Orleans to offer The INSPIRE wellness and activity programs for focus on whole-person wellness and the Genuine Engaging and Meaningful Memory Support (GEMMS) program, which provides residents unique ways to remain active, social, and engaged in their retirement years.

For more information, please call 504-290-0228 or visit thecarrollton.com.

St. Margaret’s at Mercy

The St. Margaret’s Daughter’s Home (St. Margaret’s at Mercy) has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for Nursing Care Center Accreditation and Post-Acute Care Certification by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The Gold Seal is a symbol of quality that reflects a health care organization’s commitment to providing safe and quality patient care.

The St. Margaret’s Daughters underwent a rigorous, unannounced onsite review last October. A team of Joint Commission reviewers evaluated compliance with Nursing Care Center Accreditation and PostAcute Care Certification standards spanning several areas: emergency management, life safety, human resources, environment of care, infection prevention and control, leadership, medication management, rights and responsibilities of the individual, information management, provisions and records of care, treatment, and services.

“It is an honor and privilege to receive accreditation and certification from The Joint Commission,” says Larry Stansberry, CEO of St. Margaret’s Daughters. “We are ensuring our team is held to the highest standards which ultimately improves quality and outcomes for the elders we serve.”

For more information on St. Margaret’s, visit stmmercy.org.

HEALTHCARE

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 immunizations from infancy through college. Adults need routine vaccines for shingles, pneumonia, meningitis, tetanus and other conditions, too.

The best way to find out if your family is up to date on immunizations is by scheduling a checkup. Everyone should have at least one checkup per year. Young children and people with long-term health conditions may need more frequent visits. The annual visit is also a good time to find out about any screenings, tests or labs you need and get those scheduled. An annual checkup is covered at $0 or very low cost on most health plans. Call your healthcare provider and schedule a checkup today – especially if it’s been more than a year since your last one.

For more information, call Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana at 1-800-495-2583 or visit bcbsla.com.

Ochsner Health

Celebrating more than 80 years of service, Ochsner Health is an integrated healthcare system with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate. The not-for-profit organization is the catalyst for the Healthy State initiative, a bold and collaborative plan with Louisiana’s leading healthcare, education, and policy organizations to create healthier, happier and more productive communities with health equity at the forefront of these efforts.

Ochsner prevents diseases by providing patient-centered care that is accessible, affordable, and effective. It leads nationally in multiple healthcare specialties and has more than 37,000 employees and over 4,700 employed and affiliated physicians. It operates 46 hospitals and more than 370 health and urgent care centers across the Gulf South, with a Connected Health digital medicine program caring for patients beyond its walls.

In 2022, Ochsner treated more than 1.4 million people from every state and 62 countries. To learn more, visit ochsner.org.

Trinity Physical Therapy + Performance

Your journey starts with a first step. At Trinity Physical Therapy + Performance, Owners/Therapists John Moran, PT, DPT, and Chris Piacun, PT, DPT, MTC, offer more than 40 years of combined experience helping patients “restore, optimize, and maintain”—keys to improving quality of life. Trinity PT offers personalized care, whether through manual therapy, sport-specific care, orthopedics, pre- and post-operative PT, preventative care, and return to sports care. John and Chris work closely with many of New Orleans’ best orthopedic surgeons as well as strength and performance coaches and hold Titleist Performance Institute, Champion Sports Performance, and Tactical Strength and Conditioning certifications. They incorporate advanced rehabilitative technology, including Perch, VALD, and shoulder pacemaker.

Trinity PT welcomes patients of all ages, offering pediatric through geriatric physical therapy. The practice recently expanded to a second location and now serves patients from convenient locations in Harahan and Jefferson. The practice takes pride in giving back and supports organizations such as Girls on The Run, Youth Run Nola, Fore!Kids Foundation, Lt. Michael Murphy Foundation, and Cancer Crusaders. For more information or to schedule, visit trinityptnola.com or call 504-274-1449. •

PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

Watch all WYES programs on WYES-TV and stream on wyes.org/live and on the free WYES and PBS Apps

SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS

Series finale airs on Tuesday, August 1 at 8pm

Catch up on the past two episodes anytime on WYES Passport. Some of the South’s most influential creators take us to the places that feed their imaginations: author Jesmyn Ward, screenwriter Michael Waldron, poet Natasha Trethewey, and songwriters Justin Moore, Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Thao Nguyen. Pictured: New Orleans band Tank and the Bangas and singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen.

HOTEL AL

Wednesday, August 2 at 10pm; Monday, August 7 at 9:30pm

This award-winning documentary film honors "Hotel Al" Barras, the longtime French Quarter character and New Orleans native who spent 63 years working as a bellman and in other roles at Hotel Monteleone. He died in June 2023 and will be honored with a memorial service on August 13 (his birthday).

BROADWAY'S BRIGHTEST LIGHTS

Sunday, August 20 at 4pm

Grab a front-row seat at a concert featuring some of the greatest show tunes of musical theatre. Performers include Megan Hilty (pictured), Michael Maliakel, Nikki Renée Daniels and Tommy Sutter with Luke Frazier and The American Pops Orchestra. Photo Credit: McKenzie Lakey/Nouveau Productions, LLC

GREAT PERFORMANCES “Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2023”

Friday, August 25 at 9pm

Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual openair summer concert featuring guest soloist Elīna Garanča (pictured) under the direction of guest conductor and Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin from the gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. Photo Credit: Sarah-Katharina

The WYES Gala Online Auction is coming soon! Bid on jewelry, art, staycations, vacations, sporting events, home goodies, dining experiences, family fun and more. Register and bid soon at wyes.org.

FOR ALL EVENT DETAILS AND TO PURCHASE TICKETS TO ALL EVENTS BELOW, VISIT WYES.ORG/EVENTS

Saturday, August 5 11:30am | WYES Studio

Tickets $40

WYES & CREATE TV PRESENT

TAILGATING WITH KEVIN BELTON

Just before the start of football season, WYES & Create TV star Chef Kevin Belton shares some of his favorite tailgating recipes for the perfect game day menu! Guests will enjoy a cooking demo, food tasting & some beer sipping!

Menu

Creamy Sausage Game Day Soup | Winning Andouille Dip | Touchdown Sausage Bread

Menu ingredients provided by:

Chef will have his autographed cookbooks on hand to sell, plus goodies to giveaway.

WYES NORTHSHORE LUNCH & LEARN

Featuring Tulane University Business Professor and host of “Out to Lunch” on NPR Radio 89.9 WWNO Peter Ricchiuti

Discussion Topic: “What, In This Economy?”

Hear what may be in store for the region’s investors and public companies, including a discussion of interest rates, inflation and energy.

Thank you to our event sponsor: Thursday, August 24 at 11:30am

Noon – Seated 3-Course Lunch & Discussion

Pat Gallagher’s 527 Restaurant & Bar, Mandeville

Tickets $45

LUNCH MENU: 1st Course: Salad

2nd Course: Choice of :

• Beef Kabobs

• Gulf Fish Almondine

• Stuffed Chicken with vegetable du jour

3rd Course:

Ooey gooey cake with ice cream

Soft drink, tea & coffee service included.

Peter Ricchiuti

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Science Pioneers”

HIGHLIGHT

10pm

HIGHLIGHT

8pm

SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS (Pt. 3/3)

Some of the South’s most influential creators take us to the places that feed their imaginations: author

Jesmyn Ward, screenwriter Michael Waldron, poet Natasha Trethewey and songwriters Justin Moore, Tarriona “Tank” Ball and Thao Nguyen. Pictured: “Tank” of the New Orleans band—Tank and the Bangas

9pm

ICONIC AMERICA: OUR SYMBOLS AND STORIES WITH DAVID RUBENSTEIN “Golden Gate Bridge”

10pm

10 MODERN MARVELS THAT CHANGED AMERICA

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

2 WEDNESDAY

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

NATURE: ANIMALS WITH CAMERAS

“Australia” Koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos take cameras into their secret worlds.

8pm

HUMAN FOOTPRINT “The Urban Jungle” (Pt. 5/6) Biologist and Princeton University professor Shane Campbell-Staton explores three thriving urban species and envisions a wilder future for our cities.

9pm

NOVA “The Planets: Ice Worlds (Pt. 5/5)

HOTEL AL This award-winning documentary film honors “Hotel Al” Barras, the longtime French Quarter character and New Orleans native who spent 63 years working as a bellman and in other roles at Hotel Monteleone. He died in June 2023 and will be honored with a memorial service on August 13 (his birthday). Pictured: Frank Monteleone and Al Barras

10:30pm

BOURBON STREET: THE NEON STRIP

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

3 THURSDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm STEPPIN’ OUT

7:30pm

BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

8pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE, SEASON 5

“The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side” (Pt. 4/4) A troubled Hollywood star and her husband move to St. Mary Mead, but their arrival becomes clouded in tragedy when a fan is fatally poisoned during a garden fête.

9:30pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON

2 “The Adventure of the Western Star” (Pt. 10/10) When Belgian film star Marie Marvelle receives threatening letters demanding her famous diamond, the Western Star, she decides to visit her old friend Hercule Poirot in London to seek his help.

10:30pm

CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 9 (Pt. 2/8)

11:30pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

4 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 looks at the past week’s market and brings local and national investment professionals to you. Have a question for André? Email andre@benacapital.com.

9pm

THE GREAT AMERICAN RECIPE, SEASON 2 (Pt. 7/8)

10pm

LA FRONTERA WITH PATI JINICH

“From Dos Laredos to Mars” Pati travels from Laredo and Nuevo Laredo to Brownsville, Texas. She learns how tight-knit family bonds are an underlying theme connecting everything in the Laredos, and throughout La Frontera.

11pm

STEPPIN’ OUT

11:30pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

5 SATURDAY

5pm

WHERE NEW ORLEANS SHOPPED

6pm

THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “Salute to Cole Porter”

7pm

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Cleveland” (Hour 1/3)

5am & 1:30pm ARTHUR

Watch the iconic, award-winning PBS Kids series that has touched audiences around the world with its heartfelt and humorous stories about family, friends and the challenges of growing up.

8pm

FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Science Pioneers” Scientists Harold Varmus, Francis Collins and Shirley Ann Jackson look back on their family history.

9pm

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Citizen Hearst” (Pt. 2/2)

11pm

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “Pavement” The legendary band performs a 15-song fever dream career-spanning set filled with fan favorites and classics in a fascinating hour offering viewers an immersive dive into their influential artistry.

6 SUNDAY

6pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON

2 “The Adventure of the Western Star” (Pt. 10/10)

7pm

RIDLEY “Numbered Days, Part 2/2” (Pt. 8/8)

8pm

MASTERPIECE “Grantchester, Season

8” (Pt. 5/6) Geordie is placed on desk duty as Elliot contrives to force him to resign.

7pm

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Cleveland” (Hour 2/3)

7am

WILD KRATTS

7:30am

CURIOUS GEORGE

8am

DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD

8:30am ROSIE’S RULES

9am

SESAME STREET

9:30am WORK IT OUT WOMBATS!

10am DONKEY HODIE

10:30am

PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC

11am ELINOR WONDERS WHY

11:30am NATURE CAT NOON HERO ELEMENTARY

12:30pm

XAVIER RIDDLE AND THE SECRET MUSEUM 1pm

DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD 1:30pm ARTHUR

9pm

MASTERPIECE “Grantchester, Season

8” (Pt. 6/6) Will has disappeared, but with Bonnie about to give birth, Geordie must find him and bring him to his senses before it’s too late. Photo Credit: Kudos and MASTERPIECE

10pm

MASTERPIECE “Unforgotten, Season

4” (Pt. 5/6)

11pm

LUNA AND SOPHIE “Family Disgrace” (Pt. 3/10) In German with English subtitles.

7 MONDAY 6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

8pm

THE GREAT AMERICAN RECIPE, SEASON 2 (Pt. 8/8) Gather one last time for the grand finale feast. Who will be named the winner?

9:30pm

HOTEL AL honors longtime Hotel Monteleone bellman Al Barras.

10pm

THE NIGHTLIFE THAT WAS Reminiscences of New Orleans’ favorite entertainment places.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

8 TUESDAY

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

FINDING YOUR ROOTS “Italian Roots”

8pm

AL CAPONE: ICON Just his name sparks images of pin-stripe suits and bloody violence. To this day, Americans are fascinated by this celebrity gangster. The question is why?

9pm

FRONTLINE “Inside the Iranian Uprising” goes inside the uprising that rocked Iran after the death of a young woman in police custody.

10pm

FRONTLINE “Afghanistan Undercover”

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

9 WEDNESDAY

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

NATURE “The Bat Man of Mexico”

8pm

HUMAN FOOTPRINT “The Ground Below” (Pt. 6/6) explores the history and science of cotton.

9pm

NOVA “Bat Superpowers”

10pm

WHERE NEW ORLEANS SHOPPED Makin’ groceries Schwegmann style and so much more. New Orleans shoppers enjoy a trip down memory lane. Photo Credit: Historic New Orleans Collection

11pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

10 THURSDAY

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

STEPPIN’ OUT

7:30pm

BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

8pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE “The Body in the Library” (Pt. 1/4) Dolly Bantry calls upon her old friend Miss Marple when the strangled corpse of an unknown blonde girl is found in the library of her home, Gossington Hall.

9:30pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON 3

“How Does Your Garden Grow” (Pt. 1/10) When an elderly woman is poisoned in her home, Poirot’s new-found interest in gardening pays off when he spots something fishy in the garden border.

10:30pm

CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 9 (Pt. 3/8)

11:30pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

11 FRIDAY

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

Errol Laborde gives an in-depth look into the important news of metro New Orleans and Louisiana. Repeats Sunday mornings at 9:30am.

7:30pm

LOUISIANA: THE STATE WE’RE IN

8pm

WASHINGTON WEEK

8:30pm

WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE

9pm

THE GREAT AMERICAN RECIPE, SEASON 2 (Pt. 8/8)

10:30pm

STEPPIN’ OUT

11pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

12 SATURDAY

7am

RICK STEVES’ ISLAND HOPPING EUROPE

7:30am

GREAT SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

9:30am

KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA

10am

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY

memory and remember what matters most to you.

4:30pm

RICK STEVES’ FESTIVE EUROPE

5pm

THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “TV Treasures”

7pm

INFORMED SOURCES Now in its 39th year, the weekly series hosted by Marcia Kavanaugh and produced by

11:30am

YOUNG FOREVER, WITH MARK HYMAN, MD To uncover the secrets to longevity, Dr. Mark Hyman explores the biological hallmarks of aging, their causes, and their consequences—then shows us how to overcome them with simple dietary, lifestyle and emerging longevity strategies.

1:00pm

THE GREAT AMERICAN RECIPE, SEASON 2 (Pt. 8/8)

2:30pm

MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD Award-winning psychiatrist, neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen will show you how to supercharge your

7pm

KENNY ROGERS LIVE IN CONCERT

Celebrate the career of the worldwide music icon in a 1983 concert recorded at the peak of his popularity. Features performances of 11 Top 10 songs, including fan favorites “The Gambler,” “Lady” and “Through the Years.”

8:30pm

JOHNNY CASH: MAN IN BLACK – LIVE IN DENMARK 1971

10pm

THE EVERLY BROTHERS: HARMONIES FROM HEAVEN

11:30pm

SANTANA LIVE AT THE US FESTIVAL features hits “Black Magic Woman,” Gypsy Queen” and “Oye Como Va.”

13 SUNDAY

10am

THE AFRICAN AMERICANS: MANY RIVERS TO CROSS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of AfricanAmerican history in his groundbreaking six-part series that premiered in 2013.

6pm

I GO TO THE ROCK: THE GOSPEL MUSIC OF WHITNEY HOUSTON From her first performance in front of an audience to the best-selling Gospel album of all time, The Preacher’s Wife, experience how profoundly Gospel music influenced Whitney Houston’s personal life and helped shape her career. CeCe Winans hosts.

10am

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY

Shot on location in Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, the 26-part cooking series celebrates the legendary Leah Chase. Each 30-minute episode shares dishes prepared by younger generations of the Chase family who have led the restaurant since Leah’s death in 2019. Pictured: Chefs Zoe Chase and Dook Chase

5am MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOOD 5:30am ARTHUR 6am MOLLY OF DENALI 6:30am ALMA’S WAY 7am J SCHWANKE'S LIFE IN BLOOM 7:30am AMERICAN WOODSHOP 8am THIS OLD HOUSE 8:30am ASK THIS OLD HOUSE

9am KITCHEN QUEENS: NEW ORLEANS

9:30am

KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA

10am

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY

7:30pm

ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL: CHAPTER THREE

3:30pm

RICK STEVES’ ISLAND HOPPING EUROPE

4pm

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

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

9pm

CELINE DION: TAKING CHANCES WORLD TOUR – THE CONCERT

Experience the magical moments of Celine Dion’s record-breaking, soldout 2008-09 world tour. The concert featured her greatest hits, from the energetic “I Drove All Night” to the moving and emotional grand finale ballad “My Heart Will Go On.”

10:30pm

STING: LIVE AT THE OLYMPIA PARIS Grab a front-row seat at this 2017 concert reflecting the impulsive energy of the 57th & 9th album recording sessions.

10:30am CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME'S ALWAYS COOKING

11am

LIDIA’S KITCHEN

11:30am

AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK’S ILLUSTRATED

NOON COOK’S COUNTRY

12:30pm

CHRISTOPHER

KIMBALL'S MILK STREET TELEVISION

1pm

GREAT AMERICAN RECIPE

2pm SARA'S WEEKNIGHT MEALS

2:30pm

STEVEN RAICHLEN'S PLANET BARBECUE

14 MONDAY

4:30pm

MASTERPIECE “Grantchester, Season 8” (Pt. 6/6)

5:30pm

BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

IRELAND MADE WITH LOVE Explore the legacy of craftsmanship through the skill, pride and love that go into legendary Irish products.

8:30pm

CELTIC THUNDER IRELAND Hear the Irish singing group’s unique take on beloved Irish classics such as “Danny Boy,” “She Moved Through The Fair,” “Caledonia” and many more.

10:30pm

JUST ONE THING WITH STEVEN GUNDRY, MD

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IRELAND MADE WITH LOVE

7pm

70’S SOUL SUPERSTARS includes performances by the Commodores, The Chi-Lites, The Stylistics, Yvonne Elliman, Heatwave, The Trammps featuring Earl Young, The Emotions (pictured) and The Manhattans.

9:30pm

BUFFALO SOLDIERS: FIGHTING ON TWO FRONTS Explore the complex history of Black Americans who enlisted in the U.S. military.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

16 WEDNESDAY

2pm

YOUR DNA SECRETS REVEALED

4pm

RICK STEVES’ GREAT GERMAN CITIES explores Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt and Nürnberg.

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

KEN BURNS: THE NATIONAL PARKS

9pm

YOUNG FOREVER, WITH MARK HYMAN, MD challenges us to reimagine our biology, health and the process of aging.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

2pm

KEN BURNS: THE NATIONAL PARKS

9pm

JOHNNY CASH: MAN IN BLACK – LIVE IN DENMARK 1971

10:30pm

STEPPIN’ OUT

11pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

19 SATURDAY

7am

GUT CHECK: HOPE FOR ULTIMATE HEALTH WITH BRENDA WATSON

8:30am

7pm

70’S SOUL SUPERSTARS

9:30pm

THE BEE GEES: ONE NIGHT ONLY features the group’s 1997 concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

4pm

GREAT SCENIC RAILWAY JOURNEYS

30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL viewers gain access to some of America’s best railway adventures, from the Rocky Mountaineer to the Skyrail.

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

STEPPIN’ OUT

7:30pm

KENNY ROGERS LIVE IN CONCERT

Features performances of 11 Top 10 songs, including fan favorites “The Gambler,” “Lady” and “Through the Years.”

9pm

MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

18 FRIDAY

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YOUNG FOREVER, WITH MARK HYMAN, MD

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MEMORY MAKEOVER WITH DANIEL AMEN, MD

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

AGING BACKWARDS 4: THE MIRACLE OF FLEXIBILITY WITH MIRANDA ESMONDEWHITE

9:30am

KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA

10am

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY

10:30am

CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME’S ALWAYS COOKING!

11pm

JOHN FARNHAM AND OLIVIA NEWTONJOHN — TWO STRONG HEARTS Backed by a 60-piece orchestra, songs include “Physical,” “Have You Never Been Mellow,” as well as “Summer Nights” and “You’re the One That I Want” from the hit movie musical Grease.

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10am

I GO TO THE ROCK: THE GOSPEL MUSIC OF WHITNEY HOUSTON

11:30am

70’S SOUL SUPERSTARS

2pm RICK STEVES’ GREAT GERMAN CITIES

11am

AMERICA’S HOME COOKING: WHEN IN ROME From a simply delicious caprese salad, to the fantastically easy beef straccetti, Chris Fennimore and company show that cooking authentic recipes doesn’t have to be complicated. Photo Credit: Dave Hallewell

1pm

RICK STEVES’ HEART OF ITALY

3pm

JUST ONE THING WITH STEVEN GUNDRY, M.D.

4:30pm

THE EVERLY BROTHERS: HARMONIES FROM HEAVEN features archival interviews with Don and Phil, following their career from child performers on their father’s radio show, through their move to Nashville and their relationship with publishers Acuff-Rose.

6pm

THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “Salute to Nashville”

HIGHLIGHT

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BROADWAY’S BRIGHTEST LIGHTS Grab a front-row seat at a concert featuring some of the greatest show tunes of musical theatre. Performers include Megan Hilty (pictured), Michael Maliakel, Nikki Renée Daniels and Tommy Sutter with Luke Frazier and The American Pops Orchestra. Photo Credit: McKenzie Lakey/ Nouveau Productions, LLC

5:30pm

MOMENTS TO REMEMBER

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CELTIC THUNDER IRELAND

10pm

SUZE ORMAN’S ULTIMATE RETIREMENT GUIDE

SUNDAYS ON

8pm

NOVA “Killer Hurricanes”

9pm

NOVA “Killer Floods”

7pm

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Vintage Baltimore” (Hour 2/3)

8pm

GREAT PERFORMANCES “Leonard Bernstein’s Kaddish Symphony”

Recorded in July 2022, Bernstein protege Marin Alsop conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony at the Ravinia Festival.

9pm

I DANCED FOR THE ANGEL OF DEATH

- THE DR. EDITH EVA EGER STORY Edie recounts her remarkable story of survival as a prisoner at Auschwitz and her struggles with survivor’s guilt.

10pm

11:30am

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY

Love the new cooking series? Then be sure to purchase a revised edition of the 1990 cookbook by Leah Chase. The series’ companion cookbook includes all recipes from the series, plus more family favorites — totaling 252 recipes. All cookbooks are signed by Chef Dook Chase. Purchase yours today for $33.95 at dookychase.wyes.org.

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8am WALL $TREET WRAP-UP WITH ANDRÉ LABORDE

8:30am

LOUISIANA THE STATE WE’RE IN

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9:30am INFORMED SOURCES

10am VARIOUS PROGRAMMING

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KEVIN BELTON’S COOKIN’ LOUISIANA

11:30am

THE DOOKY CHASE KITCHEN: LEAH’S LEGACY

NOON ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

1pm

RICK STEVES' EUROPE

1:30pm

WILD RIVERS

FIRE ON THE HILL: THE COWBOYS OF SOUTH CENTRAL LA The acclaimed story of urban cowboys from Compton and South Central Los Angeles.

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

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FINDING YOUR ROOTS “DNA Mysteries”

8pm

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Flood in the Desert”

9pm

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Fatal Flood” is a story of greed, power and race during one of America’s greatest natural disasters.

10pm

NEW ORLEANS AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

23 WEDNESDAY 6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

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NATURE “Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas”

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ON OUR WATCH examines Louisiana’s coastal land loss crisis through the eyes of its local residents, community leaders, and experts. Directed, written and edited by Jonathan Evans.

11pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

24 THURSDAY

6pm PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

STEPPIN’ OUT Host and producer Peggy Scott Laborde welcomes regular guests Poppy Tooker, Alan Smason, plus new roundtable visitors every week to discuss New Orleans restaurants, arts and entertainment. Each week's episode is also available on WYES' YouTube channel. Pictured: Host Peggy Scott Laborde with Detroit Brooks and The Dixie Cups

7:30pm

BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

8pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MARPLE “The Murder at the Vicarage” (Pt. 2/4)

9:30pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT, SEASON 3 “The Million Dollar Bond Robbery” (Pt. 2/10)

10:30pm CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 9 (Pt. 4/8)

11:30pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

25 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

HIGHLIGHT

BINGE WATCH

7pm

WHAT TO DO WHEN SOMEONE DIES

(Pt. 1-3/3) Ellie’s beloved husband is killed in a car accident. A woman was in the car with him and killed too. Who was she? Was he having an affair?

9:30pm

LIGHT & LIFE: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY OF DAVE MCNAMARA

10pm

MASTERPIECE “Unforgotten, Season 4” (Pt. 6/6) Despite a tragic turn of events, Sunny and the team narrow down the suspects.

11pm

LUNA AND SOPHIE “The Container” (Pt. 4/10) In German with English subtitles.

29 TUESDAY

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

FINDING YOUR ROOTS “War Stories”

8pm

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN

IRELAND “So Many Broken Hearts” (Pt. 3/5)

9pm

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN

IRELAND “The Dirty War” (Pt. 4/5)

10pm

IN THE NAME OF PEACE: JOHN HUME IN AMERICA

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

30 WEDNESDAY

6pm

PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

NOVA “Arctic Ghost Ship”

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9pm

GREAT PERFORMANCES “Vienna

Philharmonic Summer Night Concert

2023” Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s annual open-air summer concert from the gardens of Austria’s Imperial Schönbrunn Palace. Photo Credit: Julius-Silver

10:30pm

STEPPIN’ OUT

11pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

26 SATURDAY

5pm

STAYED TUNED: NEW ORLEANS’ CLASSIC TV COMMERCIALS

6pm

THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW “Academy Awards”

7pm

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Vintage Baltimore” (Hour 2/3)

8pm

FINDING YOUR ROOTS “DNA Mysteries”

9pm

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “Freedom Summer”

11pm

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS “The War on Drugs”

28 MONDAY

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PBS NEWSHOUR

7pm

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW “Vintage Tucson 2021” (Hour 1/3)

NOVA “Sunken Ship Rescue”

9pm

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN IRELAND “Who Wants to Live Like That?” (Pt. 5/5)

10pm

THE BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS: A MEANINGFUL VICTORY

11pm AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

31 THURSDAY

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PBS NEWSHOUR

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ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN

IRELAND “It Wasn’t Like a Movie Anymore” (Pt. 1/5) A powerful five-part series from the makers of the Bafta and Emmy-winning “Once Upon a Time in Iraq.” This is the story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland told by the ordinary people whose lives it changed forever.

9pm

ONCE UPON A TIME IN NORTHERN

IRELAND “Do Paramilitaries Lie Awake At Night?” (Pt. 2/5)

10pm

GROWING UP IN NEW ORLEANS

11pm

AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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STEPPIN’ OUT

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BRITISH ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

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9:3pm

AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT “The Plymouth Express” (Pt. 3/10)

10:30pm

CALL THE MIDWIFE, SEASON 9 (Pt. 5/8)

11:30pm

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Dolphins on the Move

If you are a dolphin and the word gets out that you are “out-of-habitat,” you might want to surrender to the authorities, or at least hope for luck.

Such luck happened this past June 17 when a dolphin relocation maneuver took place in a pond system near Grand Isle, Louisiana.

As boat engines whirred, the final scene was coming in place for a saga that began almost two years earlier, August 29, 2021. That was the day of the wrath of Hurricane Ida.

No one knows exactly how it happened as the 150 mph, Category 4 storm churned the waters of the Gulf and its tributaries, but it is common in situations like that for marine mammals and sea turtles to be washed away into inland waterways or stranded on land. Sometimes they are not spotted for months. Among the displaced was a particular dolphin already known by marine researchers who kept count of mammals in the ‘hood.

Property owners in the Grand Isle

area, who were surveying post-Ida structural damage, had first spotted dolphins out of place in connecting ponds by September 2021. In January 2022 marine authorities were notified about the out-of-place dolphins. And there was a surprise - a dolphin calf.

It is uncertain if the infant was born before the storm and then rode in with her mom, or if the blessed event happened after the arrival. I think it was the latter because it would have been hard for a calf to survive what must have been a rough ride. Once discovered, mom and child were surviving peacefully.

There was some good news. The pond where the pair now lived had ample food supplies, salinity and tidal flow. The problem was that there was no outlet to the Gulf of Mexico.

What would happen next would be supervised by the Audubon Nature Institute’s Coastal Wildlife Network, where Gabriella Vazquez works. Her job title is long: She is the,”Audubon Marine Mammal and Sea Turtle Stranding and Rehab Coordinator.”

Gabriella and related support groups wanted to return the dolphins to the Gulf, but it was determined that they would have to wait at least a year before the calf could be old enough to undergo such a move.

During that time the two dolphins were closely watched and even given names. Taking from the popular TV sitcom series “Schitt’s Creek” (note the first name is spelled correctly and not as commonly pronounced), the Audubon folks named the parent dolphin “Moira” after the program’s mother character. The offspring was named “Alexis” after Moira’s daughter.

June 17 was re-location day for Moira and Alexis. They were herded to a shallow area of the pond where they were surrounded by a boatload of volunteer animal-handlers, who lifted the two onto a stretcher-like device. From there, the wayward mammals were taken to an “animal ambulance.” The Ford transit van carried the rescued and the rescuers to a pier that opened to the Gulf. Since this was the first time that the

dolphin duo had not been immersed in water, they were given a gentle sponge bath as they lay of their sides.

When they reached the Gulf landing, the two were gently nudged into the water where they instinctively knew what to do. They offered no goodbyes, threw no kisses. The last that the waterlogged volunteers saw of the pair was their fins quickly descending.

One of those fins would play an important role in the rest of the saga. An electronic satellite tag was placed on the mother. For research, it would track her movements for the next few months.

According to Vazquez, in mid-July Moira’s was tracked as being near Port Fourchon in Lafourche Parish. (Interestingly, that’s near the same spot where Ida had made landfall in 2021.)

Dolphins tend to be territorial, so they seldom travel far. Moira and Alexis will likely live their lives in the vicinity of Grand Isle.

At least they are free now, and in-habitat.