Money & Career Dr. Lacey Cavanaugh knew she wanted to become a physician after a junior high school field trip to a science museum. “I held a human brain and heart in my hands, and just knew that science and medicine were meant for me,” she says. Attracted by the small-school atmosphere and a scholarship offer, Dr. Cavanaugh attended Centenary College in Shreveport and double majored in biochemistry and neuroscience. There, she met the love of her life, Jake Cavanaugh. The two were married in 2009 and have two young daughters. In 2005, Dr. Cavanaugh began studies at LSU Medical School in New Orleans. Three weeks into her first semester, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city – but she and her classmates persevered. She chose a career in Family Medicine because she wanted to “create meaningful relationships and work in a small town where I knew people and could help them through whatever events happened through their lives.”
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Dr. Lacey Cavanaugh, Region 5 Medical Director by Angie Kay Dilmore
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Thrive Magazine for Better Living • June 2021
