Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
The Department of Surgery has divisions in Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Transplant Surgery, and Vascular Surgery. The division of General Surgery includes Acute Care/Critical Care, Bariatrics & Foregut, Breast, Endocrine, and Surgical Oncology. There is a separate Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, through which all General Surgery residents rotate during their first and fifth years.
Dr. Babin's practice involves Acute Care Surgery and Trauma/Critical Care, in addition
to elective General Surgery. He
has special interest in abdominal wall reconstruction, intensive care performance improvement, and Robotic
Surgery.
Resident education and training are a central part of his practice and he is heavily involved with resident
didactics
and simulation training. He believes resident autonomy is key to develop the clinical skills necessary to
function
independently and actively involves them in all phases of patient care
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Dr. Babycos earned his medical degree from Tulane where he also completed his surgical
internship and residency. He
completed a plastic surgery fellowship at Tulane followed by a fellowship with the Australian Craniofacial
Unit in
Adelaide, Australia. Dr. Babycos is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the American
Society of
Plastic Surgeons, and has been on staff at Ochsner since 1995. He is board certified in surgery and plastic
surgery. Dr.
Babycos specializes in plastic and reconstructive surgery with specific interests in craniofacial and
cosmetic surgery
including aesthetic, breast, and reconstructive surgeries.
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Dr. Blackstock is a staff vascular surgeon and joined Ochsner in 2022. He earned his M.D. at the Louisiana State
University School of Medicine in New Orleans and completed his training in Vascular Surgery at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Dr. Blackstock offers surgical therapies for nearly all areas of vascular disease including thoracic and abdominal
aortic aneurysms, carotid artery disease, peripheral arterial disease, chronic-limb threatening ischemia, thoracic
outlet syndrome, hemodialysis access, and venous disease (including varicose veins). During his training at Penn, Dr.
Blackstock gained a robust experience using cutting-edge technologies such as branched and fenestrated endografts for
the treatment of thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. Through his proficiency in performing open surgery,
complex endovascular, and hybrid approaches, Dr. Blackstock is equipped to treat the most complex vascular disease and
develop a surgical strategy tailored to the individual patient.
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Dr. Humberto Bohorquez, is a general surgeon with subsequent fellowship training in
abdominal transplantation. He is the
director of pancreas transplant surgery. He is lecturer with the University of Queensland. He has mentored
trainees from
first year medical school to final year residency. His areas of interests include organ allocation, liver,
kidney,
pancreas transplantation and liver surgery.
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Dr. Nathan Bolton received his Doctor of Medicine from Louisiana State University
Health Sciences Center in New Orleans
and completed his General Surgery residency at Ochsner, where he served as chief resident of the General
Surgery
program. He moved on to complete a Surgical Oncology fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York before
returning
home to Ochsner as a member of the Upper GI/HPB Surgical Oncology team. He is a member of the resident
education
committee and has an active interest in surgical resident training.
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Dr. Russell Brown earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Texas
Health Sciences Center School of
Medicine located in Houston, TX. He then completed a General Surgery Residency at the Ochsner Clinic
Foundation. Dr.
Brown went on to complete a Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the University of Louisville. He is board
certified by the
American Board of Surgery.
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Dr. Bruce has been a member of the Ochsner faculty since 2008. His clinical interests
include liver, kidney, and pancreas transplantation, as well as robotic living donor nephrectomy. After
graduating from the
University of Michigan Medical
School in 1985, he did his general surgery residency at University of Chicago, where he also completed a
research fellowship in immunology and a clinical fellowship in liver and kidney transplant surgery. He was a
member of the University
of
Chicago faculty from 1995 to 2000. Since 2012, Dr. Bruce has been active in medical informatics at Ochsner,
and
spends most of his non-clinical time working on Epic implementation for both the transplant program and the
Ochsner health
system
as a whole.
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Dr. Emily Bugeaud completed her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Michigan. She then went on to
complete her residency in General Surgery at the University of Chicago. During her clinical training, she simultaneously
earned her doctorate in immunology from the University of Chicago studying the role of bacterial infections in
transplantation tolerance. Dr. Bugeaud then went on to continue her clinical training in Abdominal Organ
Transplantation, completing her fellowship at the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Bugeaud joined the Ochsner Multi-Organ
Transplant Institute in August 2014 with an interest in liver, kidney and pancreas transplant as well as organ donation,
including living donation.
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Dr. Ian C. Carmody is a general surgeon with subsequent training in abdominal
transplantation, trauma and critical care. During his training he was awarded two teaching awards. He is an
associate professor with the
University of Queensland
and the medical director of the Louisiana Organ Procurement Association. He has mentored trainees from first
year medical school to final year residency. He is involved in the medical school curriculum as well as the
abdominal transplant
fellowship program. His areas of interests include organ allocation, biliary complications, hepatocellular
carcinoma and history of transplantation.
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Dr. Jessica Dahle completed her fellowship training in Endocrine Surgery at Duke University and is the faculty member of
the Endocrine Surgery service. Fourth year surgical residents rotate on the Endocrine Surgery service, a one-on-one
apprenticeship model service designed to teach senior level residents comprehensive understanding of endocrine disorders
of the adrenal, parathyroid, and thyroid glands. Endocrine surgical techniques are taught with graduated responsibility
to build operative skills in robotic and open adrenalectomy, minimally invasive surgery parathyroidectomy,
thyroidectomy, and lymph node dissection. Dr. Dahle is also actively involved in resident recruitment, didactics, and
medical student education.
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Dr Dozier completed his general surgery internship and residency at Rutgers University NJMS in Newark, New Jersey.
During his residency, he completed a two-year research fellowship focusing on immunotherapy for thoracic malignancies at
Memorial Sloan Kettering in New York. He completed his fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at The Ohio State University
in Columbus, Ohio. Dr. Dozier has been on staff at Ochsner since 2022. He specializes in removing both benign and
malignant tumors of the lung, esophagus, mediastinum chest wall, trachea, and diaphragm. He has a special clinical
interest in robotic surgery. Dr. Dozier's research interests include immunotherapy and healthcare disparities. He has
published 10 peer-reviewed scientific papers and presented his work at several international conferences.
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Dr. Elder is originally from Tulsa, OK. She received her medical degree from Michigan
State
University College of Human Medicine after completing a degree in Neurobiology at the University of Miami.
She
underwent general
surgery training at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. She then completed subspeciality training in breast
surgical oncology at Atrium Health/Levine Cancer Institute in Charlotte, NC.
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Dr. Salim Hosein is a General and Bariatric Surgeon who returned to Ochsner in 2023 following several years of practice
in Southern Illinois. He is a graduate of the Aga Khan University Medical College. He completed his Surgery Residency
training at Brown University & Ochsner, before additional fellowship training in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric
Surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. His interests include bariatric (weight loss) and
anti-reflux surgeries, hernia repair and resident education.
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Dr. Kethman earned his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and medical doctorate from Tulane University in
New Orleans. He completed his general surgery residency at Stanford University and a colon and rectal surgery fellowship
at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center - Case Western Reserve University. He completed a research fellowship
at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, an organization dedicated to educating and empowering health technology
innovators and leading the transition to a value-driven innovation ecosystem. He joined the staff at Ochsner Health in
August 2020 and is interested in leveraging technology to improve the care we provide patients.
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Dr. Charles Leithead is a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana and earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biological
Sciences with a minor in French at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He received his Doctor of Medicine from
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. He completed an Integrated Vascular Surgery Residency
at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Dr. Leithead treats a wide variety of vascular conditions including
aneurysms, carotid artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, DVT (blood clots), spider veins and varicose veins with
both open surgery and minimally invasive procedures. He is the Medical Director of The Ochsner Vein Clinic. Dr. Leithead
loves being a vascular surgeon because he has a passion for vascular surgery and treating patients from head to toe.
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Dr. Jeffanne Millien received her medical degree with a focus on global health from the
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC. She then moved to New
Orleans to complete
her internship and
residency at Ochsner Clinic Foundation. She successfully completed a fellowship in trauma and surgical
critical
care at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. She then returned to Ochsner in the Summer of
2020 to
assume an acute
care surgery position. Her interests include global health medicine, critical care surgery and medicine, and
resident education.
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Samuel R. Money attended the State University of New York College of Medicine – SUNY
Downstate and graduated with distinction. He trained in vascular surgery at the Ochsner Clinic in New
Orleans,
Louisiana, under the
tutelage of Larry H.Hollier and John Ochsner. He remained at Ochsner Clinic for 15 years where he rose
through
the ranks to be Division Head of Vascular Surgery. He then moved to Mayo Clinic in Arizona where he served
as
professor and Chairman of the
Department
of
Surgery. He has served in numerous leadership positions including presidency of the society for clinical
vascular surgery, the southern association of vascular surgery and the vascular and endovascular society. He
currently serves as the
treasurer of the society for vascular surgery.
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Dr. Andrew Newton received his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He completed his
general surgery residency at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. After residency, Dr. Newton completed a
fellowship in complex general surgical oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He is board certified in
General Surgery and Complex General Surgical Oncology by the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Newton's expertise is in
hepatopancreaticobiliary malignancies, gastroesophageal malignancies, neuroendocrine tumors, peritoneal surface
malignancies including HIPEC, sarcoma, and melanoma.
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Ross Parkerson is a staff surgeon in the section of vascular surgery. He earned his
undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University. He then returned home to attend LSU school of Medicine in
New
Orleans where he earned
his MD and was elected
to the AOA Honor Medical Society. Afterward, he moved to Tampa where completed integrated vascular surgery
residency at the University of South Florida. While in Tampa, Dr. Parkerson was able to participate in
numerous
clinical trials of
novel endovascular devices designed for the treatment of complex thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic
aneurysms.
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Dr Paruch earned her medical degree from the University of Michigan and completed her
General Surgery Residency at the University of Chicago. While there, she earned an award for excellence in
teaching from the junior
residents. She
completed her fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. Dr Paruch is
board certified in general surgery and colon and rectal surgery. She was in practice in Chicago for 2 years
before joining Ochsner
in
the summer
of 2019. She has been an instructor for several advanced endoscopy courses for residents and fellows.
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