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8 From the Editor 26 Art Rah-Rah Ruffin Pea Patch Gallery BY ERROL LABORDE More than politics in Winnfield BY JOHN R. KEMP 10 Barometer A compendium of what’s 30 Traveler hot and what’s not The River Roads BY CAROLYN KOLB New Orleans to the Gulf BY PAUL F. STAHLS JR. 12 The Rural Life “Cheap” is Good – Sometimes 100 Christmas Travel BY MELISSA BIENVENU Dashing Through the Glow Visions of a Louisiana Christmas 14 Biz Bits BY LAURA CLAVERIE Business news from 18 around the state 106 Lifetimes BY KATHY FINN Our statewide calendar of events

16 Health 110 Quirky Places Medical news in Louisiana White Lake An ideal spot for hunters, BY EVE KIDD CRAWFORD fishermen – and whooping cranes 18 Traveling Gourmet BY MEGAN HILL Sweet Thoughts 112 Including visions of satsumas A Louisiana Life Julie Kane and sweet potatoes Northwestern State University professor BY STANLEY DRY is Louisiana’s new poet laureate. 22 Home BY MEGAN HILL Cane Country A new addition enlivens a ON THE COVER: Fertitta’s grand Natchitoches home. Delicatessen’s trademark BY BONNIE WARREN “Muffy” sandwich, p. 34 22 PHOTOGRAPH BY Cheryl Gerber

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34 Dining Around 94 Around Louisiana Our restaurant writer reveals Louisiana Life presents “Around some of his favorite stops. Louisiana,” a section featuring the BY ROBERT PEYTON people and places of North Louisiana, Central Louisiana, Cajun Country, 40 Can Bogalusa Baton Rouge and Plantation Country Save the World? and Greater New Orleans An endangered heart study BY JEANNE FROIS has tried to do just that. BY RICHARD MEEK SPECIAL EDITION

44 Best Doctors 79 Good Life 110 The latest survey Annual statewide retirement guide

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Education: Holy Cross in New Orleans; Bachelor’s in General Studies from the University of Lafayette. Enlisted Virginia ROWAN in the United State Navy from 1955-59. Family: Wife, Emma; children Kackie, 46; Tiné, 41; Owner, designer Pelican Coast Neckwear Mark, 48; Stanley, 35. America’s Wetland Foundation. Her Mentor: My Uncle Harold, my seventh grade school children drew images that reminded ( teacher Francis Murphy; Joe Gold; Bill Pearl. ) them of marshes and wetlands that were printed all over silk ties. Five years later, Pelican Coast n a state known for its laissez and attends mass at 7 a.m. Neckware has become a fashion staple faire culture and celebration of every morning. in New Orleans, being sold at Perlis, Irich food and hearty drink, it is He recently won a Lifetime Rubensteins and at the Historic New rare to find someone fully committed Achievement Award from Orleans Collection gift shop. More to health in Louisiana. Red Lerille is Club Industry, a media that person. For nearly 50 years, his source for professionals in than $35,000 has been donated to enthusiasm for health is evident in the fitness industry. America’s Wetland Foundation from his lifestyle, his family’s involvement the sales. Rowan also designs neckties in the business and through his What was the athletic club scene in for charity auctions and volunteers more than 16,000 members who the 1950s? There was the New for non-profit organizations. turn to Red’s as their place to get fit. Orleans Athletic Club, which The health club business is all Red had little weight equipment, the Why start this effort? I feel like it’s Lerille has ever been interested in. Lee Circle YMCA, and Joe Gold, something I’ve inherited — not only the He first started working out as an who started Gold’s Gym, also sense of duty, but the love of giving eight-year-old in his garage using opened AA Jacks Gym in 1953 back. It’s part of who we are. homemade gym equipment. When on Gravier. he joined the Navy, he joined the How did you get the first tie sold? David wrestling team; he returned and What was your first weight Perlis was in a class above me at Newman, entered body building competitions. machine? I put up a bar to do so I brought them to Perlis to get a In 1963, Lerille opened Red’s Health chin-ups and put two posts in professional opinion. He was blown away. Club in Lafayette with $250 the backyard to do dips. My I said, “You know, what’s the harm? I’ll do borrowed from his father. He has first weight machine was a a few, if they sell, great. If they don’t, it since grown his gym into a world- pulley machine. I made a toe- was worth a shot.” They were a hit. renown 200,000 square foot facility raise machine and calf machine offering three indoor tennis courts, out of wood. How do the ties raise awareness for Red racquetball courts, indoor and wetlands? When people wear the ties it outdoor swimming and everything What is an effective workout kind of opens the door to a discussion else one can imagine in a top-class routine? Weight training makes a on the plight. I’m not saying everybody’s gym. His 200 employees have helped phenomenal difference and “raisei will awareness to help protect our wetlands. an advocate, but it definitely gets the LERILLE make Red’s a household name in shapes you. The sooner you word out that these things are important Acadiana and a well-respected start and more often you do it, ” — our coastal ecosystem and our the better your life will be. Owner, Red’s Health Club company in his field. n 2005, Virginia Rowan attended the wetlands and our way of life. He credits his success with Times Picayune’s Loving Cup Award Why did you decide to stay in Education: Isidore Newman making an improvement to the gym ceremony, in which the newspaper What has been your proudest accomplishment? Lafayette? Because Lafayette is I School; Bachelor’s of Psychology, every month. At 75 years old, Lerille honored her father for improving the New The past two Presidents of the United the nicest town in the whole minor in Art History from Vanderbilt still does strength-training four Orleans community. He was the fifth States have worn my ties. One of them world. This is paradise. I feel University; continuing education times a week, rides his bicycle family member to receive the award. was actually purchased in New Orleans, about Lafayette how I felt about degree in interior design. everyday and has an active role in During the ceremony, her 8-year-old which was one of my daughter’s first the Westbank of New Orleans Family: Husband, John; running the business. If that isn’t son, Jack, said, “Mom, now it’s our turn.” design collaborated with her cousin. when I lived there as a kid. daughter, Avery, 15; sons Jack, enough, he opens Red’s at 3:00 a.m. Touched by his statement, Rowan came 13 and Liam, 10 Any designs you discarded? The funniest What music do you listen to when up with a unique way to give back that Mentors: My parents, Judith request I ever had was a cockroach. I riding your bike? Fats Domino – would involve her children: designing and Louis M. Freeman ) didn’t do it, but I looked into it. “ ( men’s neckties with proceeds going to i will I’m from New Orleans. pass along my passion for exercise.” BANKING ON THE FUTURE...BANKING ON LOUISIANA ENTREPRENEURS

EVERY FOUR YEARS two of Louisiana’s passions, state politics and football, come together in the fall. This was one of those years. And while the election year was a yawner, the juxta- position of the two spectator sports reminds me of a particular person who not only played on both fields but also had a major impact on the state’s iconography. Meet Ruffin G. Pleasant. Pleasant was governor of Louisiana from 1916-1920. He is best remembered for mobilizing the state’s impressive war efforts during World War I. Pleasant played his politics well. Born in Union Parish, he rose to political prominence in nearby purple and gold. (Green, according to Shreveport, where he was city one story, was not yet in stock, but that attorney before being elected the would have been Tulane’s color state’s attorney general. Although from anyway.) Coates and Pleasant bought North Louisiana, he had the support of up the supply and made it into badges the potent New Orleans political as decorations for the team to wear. machine, which knew it could never There are variations of the story, but elect one of its own but could swing Pleasant’s involvement has endured, the vote for someone else. (A tipoff thus he might be most celebrated (with that he might have been destined for appreciation to New Orleans’ Rex public service was that his mother’s organization, which in 1872 had maiden name was Martha Washington established Carnival’s colors) as the Duty and his father was Benjamin man who gave LSU football its purple Franklin Pleasant.) and gold. Looking good was about all Having been governor is enough that the LSU team brought to that first of a superlative for anyone’s lifetime, game as it fell to Tulane 34-0. but during his college years, he Pleasant was born in 1871, so this played football for LSU and was year was the 140th anniversary of his the quarterback on the squad that in birth. He died in 1937. Next year will 1893 played the school’s first game be the 75th anniversary of that. But against Tulane. don’t mourn for Ruffin Pleasant; his In preparation for that game, which name survives. There is a building was played on Nov. 25 of that year, named for him on the LSU campus, Pleasant and football coach Charles and even though he’s been gone for Coates went to Reymonds store, on the three-quarters of a century, there’s a corner of Third and Main streets in Facebook page in his name. If you Baton Rouge, to buy ribbons that want to “friend” him, though, a better could add color to the team’s gray gesture might be to just wear purple jerseys. With Carnival not far away, and gold. the store was loaded with purple, green and gold ribbons. The two chose —ERROL LABORDE

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BAROMETER

A compendium of what’s hot University of Technology at organization to build it. and what’s not in Louisiana Sydney, where she established This first phase includes her own interior design firm workout and fitness BY CAROLYN KOLB in 1998. equipment, a lap pool, study areas, youth activity HOT ARMY PARTNERS centers, a café and many WITH LEESVILLE other amenities, according Leesville, now a city in the to the Plaquemines Gazette. Army Community Heritage Partnership Program, is HOT BANDLEADERS: hosting meetings with citizens BORN, NOT MADE? and Fort Polk officials to Bubba Hebert, 11, performed discuss plans. Improved with his band the New Morse housing options for military Playboys at the Rendez-vous families is one of the main des Cajuns show at the suggestions outlined in the historic Liberty Theater in program, which also focuses downtown Eunice, according on downtown development. to the Rayne Acadian-Tribune. Representatives from the Best described as the Cajun National Trust Main Street Grand Ole Opry, the show Center visited Leesville and was emceed in Cajun French Fort Polk to make recommen- by Herman Fuselier and CLEARING THE AIR noticed that the usual black HOT dations, according to the features a dance floor for The East Feliciana dots on the fish’s tail formed Leesville Daily Leader. The the audience. Parish school system, along the number 13. “At first, I state economic impact of with those of DeSoto and St. thought it was a tagged fish Fort Polk during the last fiscal LAST RESTING PLACE Bernard parishes, have been from the [Coastal NOT year totaled $1.7 billion. Funeral services recognized by the Louisiana Conservation Association’s] have finally been held for Joe Department of Health and Star Tournament,” said IT’S FUN TO STAY AT Schexnider of Abbeville, who Hospitals as being “asthma- Christian. The numbers were HOT THE YMCA apparently died and remained friendly,” according to the not a tag – the fish had a A ribbon-cutting at the new in a narrow brick chimney for Baton Rouge Advocate. natural 13. Even a Louisiana Belle Chasse YMCA 27 years. His skeletal remains “Asthma symptoms often Wildlife and Fisheries agent celebrated the completion were found in May in the hinder a child’s ability to thought a photo of the fish of a project dating to 2006, chimney of the Bank of succeed in academic settings,” was faked, but the real when reconstruction from Abbeville during renovations. said DHH Secretary Bruce specimen convinced everyone. Hurricane Katrina started for Mystery surrounding the Greenstein. Reducing environ- The fish has gone to a both St. Bernard Parish and death lingers, according to the mental factors that trigger taxidermist. the Alliance Refinery, owned Abbeville Meridional. All asthma can include stopping by ConocoPhillips. A $5 Abbeville police can say with buses from idling outside DOWN UNDER HOT million donation by the certainty is that Schexnider school, replacing carpets with WONDER company for a new parish became snared in the chimney tile, frequently vacuuming Bogalusa native Michelle community center led to the and apparently died there area rugs and even asking Burton has been named the choice of the YMCA as the in 1984. n teachers not to wear heavy 2011 Australia Bathroom perfume or cologne. Designer of the Year, said the Bogalusa Daily News. Burton QUOTABLE HOT LUCKY 13 began her studies in the field As reported in the of interior design at LSU; “The public education systems of our country still offer opportunities Abbeville Meridional, transferred to the University to those who wish to better themselves. But nothing can happen Christian Hebert of Abbeville of Southern California at Los without the right person in the front of the classroom. Respect should was fishing in the Rollover Angeles; and moved to be given to those who dedicate their lives to teaching because without them … we would have no future.” “Give Respect Where Respect Is Canal and pulled in a 41-inch Sydney, Australia, to Due,” Roman Heleniak, Hammond Daily Star redfish. His father, Jake, complete her studies at the

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THE RURAL LIFE “Cheap” isGood – Sometimes BY MELISSA BIENVENU

I HAVE FOND yet vaguely of saving money. It’s a game I disturbing memories of the can’t stand to lose. college student who – devoid Not that I’m entirely of a job or any income – pleased about this metamor- charged not one but two phosis, because I am all too pairs of expensive cowboy aware that there is a boots to a credit card in a dangerously thin line between single afternoon. being cheap and being cheap, I look back with fascination if you get my drift. As a friend at the young career girl who once put it, people who are would stroll into a gleaming stingy with their money are Atlanta department store and often stingy of spirit, too. plunk down $200 for a suit An example of the bad kind when she had a job but still of cheap was the friend who no money. saved and scrimped for a such circumstance that should advantage of what’s available I remember these people. European vacation and not be underestimated is the at home. In our little town, I just can’t believe they afterward could talk of little mindset it takes to make it on that would include a salvage were me. but the unbelievable deal on a family farm. In farming, you store called, appropriately I don’t know whether to ballet tickets he and his wife invest a lot to get a little. enough, Dirt Cheap. It carries credit myself for getting older got in Paris. The bad kind of Wiggle room is tight. The only damaged and returned items and wiser or chalk it up to cheap was the old boyfriend way to survive is to watch and overstocks from spending 20 years in a retail who stood in front of the beer expenses. This means fixing department stores, discount Siberia under the influence of cooler at the convenience rather than replacing, buying stores and catalogs. The a painfully practical farmer. store dividing dollars by used instead of new, shopping longer the stuff is in the store, (My husband is generous to a ounces instead of just around, doing it yourself and the more it’s marked down, fault – except when it comes grabbing a six-pack of his never spending more than sometimes up to 90 percent. to spending money on himself, favorite brew. We’re talking necessary. When you do As a seasoned veteran of so that’s where I step in and maybe a $3 difference in the manage to make a buck or Dirt Cheap, my haul has take over.) The fact is, least and most expensive two, you totally appreciate the included $250 comforters for somewhere along the way, I brands on the shelf. (That work and the sacrifice it $25, $100 coats for $12, $3 air lost touch with the person wasn’t our love affair’s killing required. You won’t gladly mattresses, $25 pressure who was once so cavalier blow, but it was certainly a red waste a dime. washers, $6 lamps and 25-cent about blowing cash. flag of his emotional I would further argue that dish towels, just to name a few It’s not just that I spend generosity.) Cheap can be a living in the sticks has of the bargains that have more wisely than I once did. serious character flaw. tightened my fist, at least quickened my parsimonious If you must know, I’ve become I, on the other hand, prefer indirectly. When you live 25- pulse. The girl who once fairly obsessed with getting a to think my, er, appreciation plus miles from the closest thought nothing of dropping bargain. Beating the system for a good deal is a natural major shopping, you $30 on a bra recently snagged has become more than a way result of circumstance. One eventually learn to take 10 for the same amount. I

JANE SANDERS ILLUSTRATION 12 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 used to think the $7 clothing items and “bric-a-brac” out came from Sherman’s – from when they should because I’m was a steal until I discovered of an old gas station/country my living room sofa to the holding out for a cheaper the $2 rack. After that, $7 store. Sherman was a picker huge, framed, autographed way. Bad because the people seemed totally outrageous. long before anybody ever poster of Professor Longhair who are most consumed with The catch is that Dirt Cheap heard of pickers. for which I paid 20 bucks. money are the very people is messy and unorganized and When I moved here in (I’ve seen the same poster on who never seem to enjoy a digging through the piles 1992, Sherman’s was open eBay for close to two grand, penny of it. takes time and patience. You only on Saturdays. During the if that explains how I got The good part, I guess – also have to inspect each item week, Sherman scoured addicted to Sherman’s.) and deep down I think this is carefully. My sister, whom I estate sales and flea markets There is no doubt what really drives a lot of took to Dirt Cheap once when for secondhand treasures. Sherman’s has been good for bargain hunters – is secretly she was visiting from Every Saturday morning, my décor and my bank feeling smarter and more Huntsville, Ala., may never a crowd would be waiting account but terrible for my resourceful than everyone fully recover from the time outside his front door, eager expectations of what things else. It’s a primal feeling of she lifted the lid on an to see what he’d picked up. should cost. I can’t tell you security, a deep-down deter- automatic rice cooker on and Going to Sherman’s was a how many times I’ve huffed mination that, come what found somebody’s moldy- weekend tradition here as out of normal stores may, I will find a way to green supper still in the pot. surely as Friday night muttering, “I can get it a lot survive, one way or another, I usually blame Dirt Cheap football and Sunday cheaper at Sherman’s.” even when others can’t. Mark for my near-pathological morning services. Which is both bad and my words: When it all comes inability to pay full price for Then as now, you can find good. Bad because I’m crashing down, I’ll be among anything anymore, but, in all anything from pre-owned completely aware that I’m the few who come honesty, it probably started Tupperware and secondhand prone to wasting precious scrambling out of the rubble with Sherman. blankets to collectible pottery time and energy trying to like a cockroach, sustaining Sherman Johnson is our to a piano to a refrigerator. I save a few dollars here and myself with moldy-green neighbor who sells used and would conservatively estimate there. Bad because some rice and wearing a name- new furniture, household half the things in my house things don’t get accomplished brand $3 bra. n

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Business news from around the state

BY KATHY FINN

LOUISIANA’S economic PRESCRIPTION development incentive FOR GROWTH programs have operated at LAFAYETTE – A stalwart of top speed during the past local business has a blueprint year, generating the promise for creating 600 new direct of hundreds of jobs at jobs through a $19 million locations across the state. expansion. CEO William The action has kept Gov. “Kip” Schumacher says the Bobby Jindal scrambling Schumacher Group’s two- from one ribbon-cutting to year project will nearly another as he announced double the company’s new projects and corporate current local work force. The employment at Chennault expects to complete its new expansions from Shreveport third-largest emergency already tops 1,100, with 155,000-square-foot facility and Bastrop to Lake Charles, medicine staffing and an annual payroll above late next year but already has Lafayette and New Orleans. management company in the $67 million. begun hiring additional Here are some highlights. country, Schumacher Group employees. Ronpak owner was founded in 1994 and BATON ROUGE-AREA Ron Sedley says the $17 NAME OF THE GAME: serves 180 hospitals in 24 STARTUP ADDS million plant eventually will DIGITAL states. Grants and training ELBOW ROOM employ 175 workers at the NEW ORLEANS – Digital assistance provided by the DENHAM SPRINGS – An port’s Regional Commerce media technology took a big state of Louisiana helped $8 million investment by a Center, which the U.S. Green step ahead in the local area secure the company’s startup metal-coating Building Council has certified with the announcement that commitment to expand. company spells opportunity as meeting high standards one of the world’s largest for more than 40 people who for energy efficiency. publishers of digital and EMPLOYMENT LIFTS OFF will land jobs in the firm’s social games will open a LAKE CHARLES – A major local headquarters. CAP FROM LEMONS, LEMONADE major studio here soon. expansion of the bustling Technologies renovated a TALLULAH – The closure Gameloft S.A. chose New Chennault International 50,000-square-foot site where of a Northrop Grumman Orleans over several Airport is set for takeoff, it will use an electrical operation here late in 2010 recognized technology hubs carrying the promise of new process to clean and coat was bad news for local around the country as the jobs and increased aviation metals, eliminating employment, but it wasn’t home for a new video game activity. A $14 million hazardous acids. The long before better news development studio that will investment by the state will company developed its filled the void. Barge-builder enable work on a range of enable the expansion of concept at the Louisiana St. John Enterprises Inc. downloadable titles in mobile aircraft maintenance and Business and Technology announced plans to create formats and other media. repair activity that’s expected Center in Baton Rouge. more than 450 jobs during Recognized by a major U.K.- to generate at least 500 new Salaries at the new plant the next five years at based industry publication as jobs once construction is will average $52,000 per year, the local port facility by the 2011 Developer of the finished late next year. The the company says. investing $32 million in Year for mobile games, project includes a new cranes, machinery and Gameloft expects to 112,000-square-foot hangar RONPAK PACKAGES JOBS other upgrades. The eventually employ 150 people to complement maintenance SHREVEPORT – A leading company has hired about locally at an average salary of space already being maker of custom-printed 100 people with plans to $69,000. State performance- expanded by tenants paper bags, packages and employ about 450 workers based grants helped secure Aeroframe and Northrop food wraps plans a new plant by 2016. St. John will the company’s commitment Grumman. The new hangar at the Port of Shreveport- continue its barge fleeting, to New Orleans, which will be sized to handle wide- Bossier, marking the first repair and cleaning services corporate officials praised body airplanes such as the manufacturing expansion by at the company’s original for its “rich talent pool” and Boeing 747 and 777 and the Ronpak Inc. since 1985. The location in Garyville, north “world-class culture.” Airbus A340. Total New Jersey-based company of New Orleans. n

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HEALTH

BY EVE KIDD CRAWFORD

STATE HEALTH CARE NEW SERVICES FOR THOSE PLAN PUSHED BACK NEEDING HOME-BASED CARE BATON ROUGE – The launch BATON ROUGE – Adults with of a private sector-based disabilities and elderly adults health care system for who need home- or Louisiana’s low-income community-based care have residents has been pushed a new choice of services. back until February, Prior to this, the Elderly and according to Louisiana Disabled Adult, or EDA, Department of Health and Waiver relied heavily on Hospitals Secretary Bruce one-on-one care in an Greenstein. individual’s home, which is The Coordinated Care costly and can limit an Network, or CCN, was individual’s sense of inde- originally supposed to kick pendence. The new program, LSUHSC SHREVEPORT screening mammogram off in the Greater New the Community Choices VICE CHANCELLOR annually. With an early Orleans area in January, with Waiver, offers the same APPOINTED TO LERN diagnosis, five-year survival the rest of the state being services as the EDA Waiver SHREVEPORT – John Dailey, for breast cancer is close to gradually phased in until but also has options that vice chancellor for adminis- 98 percent. mid-2012. could lead eligible tration at LSU Health The latest technology in The delay, Greenstein told individuals to opt for Sciences Center Shreveport early breast cancer detection the Baton Rouge Advocate, therapies to learn how to and a former paramedic, was is a breast MRI, which allows was to give patients and care do more for themselves. appointed by Gov. Bobby radiologists to distinguish providers more time to better Under the EDA Waiver, Jindal to the Board of between benign and understand the new system recipients receive support Directors of the Louisiana malignant growths with and ensure a smoother coordination, personal Emergency Response noninvasive techniques. The transition. assistance service, adult Network, or LERN. LERN, a Invivo DynaCAD system at Under the new CCN day health care and state agency that began in Lakeview Regional Medical system, five private insurance environmental accessibility 2000, is charged with Center offers computer-aided companies will manage adaptations, among other creating and implementing a detection and MRI-guided health care for two-thirds of services. The Community statewide emergency medical breast biopsy and is the the state’s Medicaid Choices Waiver will include and trauma system. first and only such system recipients. Covered Medicaid all of the EDA Waiver “John’s experience as on the Northshore. recipients are responsible for services but will also let a paramedic and in health Dr. Steve Pflug, a picking their own networks, recipients tailor their care administration will radiologist at Lakeview and Greenstein said he hopes plans to include assistive uniquely enable him to serve Regional Medical Center, the delay will give the devices; nonmedical trans- the citizens of Louisiana said in a press release, “MRI Medicaid recipients more portation; home-delivered through this agency,” Robert of the breast is not a time to decide which meals; and physical, Barish, chancellor of replacement for network is best-suited for occupational, speech LSUHSC Shreveport, mammography or ultrasound them and their needs rather and respiratory therapy. said in a press release. imaging but rather a than the state just assigning To qualify, individuals supplemental tool proven recipients to a network. must be 21 years or older STATE-OF-THE-ART valuable in diagnosing The new phase-in plan and Medicaid-eligible BREAST MRI SYSTEM a broad range of conditions, calls for the CCN system to and meet nursing facility ON THE NORTHSHORE including detecting and launch in the Greater New level-of-care criteria. COVINGTON – October was staging breast cancer Orleans area on Feb. 1. It will For more information, National Breast Cancer and other breast abnormali- launch in the Capital area, call (877) 456-1146. Awareness Month, and it ties, particularly when Acadiana and south-central served as a great time to other imaging studies Louisiana on April 1 and will remind all women over 40 fail to provide adequate go statewide on June 1. that they should get a information.” n

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TRAVELING GOURMET SweetThoughts Including visions of satsumas and sweet potatoes

BY STANLEY DRY

THIS TIME OF YEAR we’re frozen treats. Mix the ingredients, besieged at every turn by mouth- chill them, place them in the watering images of elaborate machine, turn it on, walk away – desserts arrayed on holiday tables: and 30 minutes later you have multilayered cakes enrobed in homemade ice cream or sorbet. shiny icings, glazed fruit pastries, That’s all there is to it. tiny tarts glistening like precious I’m including recipes for two jewels, fanciful chocolate creations, very different frozen desserts – a pies topped with impossibly high satsuma sorbet and a sweet potato and fluffy meringues, platters ice cream. This is the season for heaped with scrumptious cookies. satsumas, and this simple recipe All those wonderful desserts are captures the very essence of the so tempting, so inviting that you fruit. The sweet potato ice cream is want all of them – and now. an unusual departure, but I wager Unfortunately, most of us aren’t that most sweet potato fans will like professional pastry chefs with the it. Both recipes contain some skill and the equipment that it takes alcohol, which improves the to produce them. texture. The vodka in the sorbet is Let’s face it, we only prepare not noticeable, while the rum in the desserts from scratch on an ice cream adds flavor. occasional basis, and when we do, Baked apples were once we limit ourselves to a few basic ubiquitous on menus and in recipes. Not that there’s anything cafeterias, but I can’t remember wrong with that; our families love when last I encountered them, familiar, homey desserts. The which is a shame, for it’s difficult to occasional splurge on a profession- imagine a dessert that is more ally prepared pastry in a restaurant perfect in its simplicity.You can or from a bakery is a wonderful add all sorts of ingredients and experience, but the truth is that spices to a baked apple, but I prefer fancy desserts are not what most of only light brown sugar, butter and us want on a regular basis. The cream, which accentuate the flavor appeal of homemade desserts is of the apple rather than disguise it. that, imperfect as they may be, they Turnovers are festive and fun, convey warmth and love. and the recipe for pear and Although many people claim almond turnovers is quick and they aren’t good with desserts, ridiculously easy to prepare there are a lot of simple and because it is made with phyllo satisfying sweets that anyone can dough, which is available in the make. This month I’d like to supermarket freezer. Pears and suggest a few that can be made almonds are but one possible quickly and don’t require any combination for these turnovers. special skills. Using the same method, you can Ice creams and sorbets are some substitute apples, for example, or of the easiest desserts of all. A fold the dough around a square of small, inexpensive electric ice chocolate. Use your imagination, cream freezer is all that’s required and you’ll develop an extensive repertoire of turnovers. to make an endless variety of © EUGENIA UHL PHOTOGRAPH www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 19 Baked Apples Satsuma Sorbet

A buttery baked apple, unparalleled in its simplicity, A favorite cocktail this time of year is fresh-squeezed makes a wonderful dessert, snack or breakfast. satsuma juice mixed with amber rum. If you’d like that flavor in a sorbet, substitute rum for vodka in this recipe. 4 apples, such as Macintosh, Cortland or Braeburn You can also save some satsuma halves after you’ve juiced 4 tablespoons light brown sugar them and serve the sorbet in those. 2 tablespoons butter 1/4 cup water 3 1/2 cups fresh-squeezed satsuma juice Heavy cream (optional) 3/4 cup sugar 1/4 cup vodka Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Using an apple corer, core the apples, removing about three-fourths of the core. Combine all ingredients, mixing until the sugar is dissolved. Leave the remainder of the core intact. Fill each apple Chill thoroughly. Process in an ice cream maker according with 1 tablespoon of sugar, and top each with a half- to the manufacturer’s instructions. Scoop into a container, tablespoon of butter. Place the apples in a baking dish, and freeze until firm. Remove from the freezer 5 or 10 and pour water in the bottom. Cover the dish, and bake minutes before serving so the sorbet will soften slightly. the apples in the preheated oven until they are tender, Makes about 1 quart. about 30 to 40 minutes. Serve them warm or room temperature with heavy cream if desired. Serves 4.

Pear-and-Almond Turnovers

Pears and almonds are a lovely combination that can be found in many fancy pastries produced by professional pastry chefs, but Sweet Potato-Rum Ice Cream these homespun turnovers are within the reach of anyone.

Either bake or boil the sweet potatoes. If you prefer a 2 firm, ripe Bosc pears perfectly smooth ice cream, process the mixture in a 2 teaspoons lemon juice blender before chilling. Thin ginger cookies are a nice 2 teaspoons sugar accompaniment. 1/4 cup sliced almonds 8 sheets of phyllo dough 1 1/2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potatoes 4 tablespoons melted butter 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons 80-proof dark rum Powdered sugar 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Peel and core the pears, and cut 1/8 teaspoon salt them into small chunks or cubes. In a small bowl, toss the pears 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract with lemon juice, sugar and almonds. 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons light brown sugar 1 cup whole milk Place a sheet of phyllo on a dry work surface. Brush it with melted 1 cup heavy cream butter. Place another sheet of phyllo on top of the first sheet, and brush it with melted butter. Spoon one-fourth of the pear mixture in Combine sweet potatoes, rum, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and the center of the phyllo. Fold the long sides over the filling, and vanilla. Using a fork, mash well so the potatoes are imbued then fold each of the short sides, in turn, until you have a packet with rum and spices. Add sugar, milk and cream, and mix about 3 inches square. Brush both sides of the packet with melted well. Chill thoroughly. Process in an ice cream maker butter, and place it, seam side down, on an ungreased baking according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Scoop into a sheet. Repeat with the remaining sheets of phyllo and filling. container, and freeze until firm. Remove from the freezer 5 or 10 minutes before serving so ice cream will soften Bake in the preheated oven until browned, about 10 minutes. slightly. Makes about 1 quart. Using a spatula, remove the turnovers to a cooling rack. Serve them hot, warm or room temperature, sprinkled with powdered sugar. Makes 4 turnovers.

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CaneCountry

A new addition enlivens a grand Natchitoches home.

BY BONNIE WARREN PHOTOGRAPHED BY CRAIG MACALUSO

THE ORIGINAL LAND for 800 Spanish piasters a part of the Historic District permanent settlement in the for the historic house that (pieces of eight). In 1830 a in Natchitoches. Today it Louisiana Purchase. fronts Rue Washington and four-room cottage was built remains a proud part of the The house began its life hugs the Cane River at its of solid pine and handmade historical town that is with two rooms downstairs back was purchased in 1810 brick on the land that is now considered the oldest and an additional two on the

22 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 second level. “There was a I purchased the property in from the 29-foot-by-29-foot porch across both the front 1999 from a member of the great room, with a peaked and back of the house but no Perini family that built the ceiling that reaches 23 feet kitchen or bathroom,” first cottage. Our idea was to high, providing a dramatic homeowner Cecilia Smith give new life to the historical view of the house from the says. “The kitchen was property with a rear addition river and a panoramic vista probably a separate building that would take full from the new structure of the in the rear yard. The two advantage of the view of the picturesque slopping lot that rooms downstairs were a river.” It was definitely a ends at the waterfront. “The parlor and a ‘stranger’s labor of love for Cecilia and great room is my favorite room,’ so called because in her late husband, James E. space in the addition, “ days before hotels or inns Smith, a prominent Smith says. “Sunlight floods were plentiful, it was not orthopedic surgeon from the room in the morning, unusual for a homeowner to Shreveport. “We loved the and the space completely take in a stranger for an idea of combining the old lights up when a full moon overnight stay.” The rule was with the new and taking full rises on a clear night.” that as long as the advantage of the 65-foot The 10-foot-wide deck room had an exterior door, waterfront lot.” across the rear of house is an it was considered proper The couple had distinct ideal spot for relaxing or to rent a room in a private ideas of what they wanted entertaining at the end of the home to a stranger. Access when they called in day. The couple carefully to the upstairs bedrooms Natchitoches architectural planned the lush grounds. was from the stairs on the designer James Hearron to “My husband and I planted ABOVE: Natchitoches architectural designer back porch, and each of work with them. “It was my every azalea, sweet olive and James Hearron created the four rooms in the house basic mission to respond to gardenia in the yard,” she the addition to the rear had its own exterior entry the challenge of designing says. “The many original iris of the historic cottage. door. Both rooms upstairs something exciting and bulbs in the garden came TOP RIGHT: Built in 1830, the original four-room were bedrooms. innovative that would from Briarwood, the home of cottage remains intact. “Today the significant respect the past while taking Caroline Dorman, who was a historical cottage doesn’t full advantage of the site to friend of Hilda Perini Heim, even hint to its rebirth when provide an addition that who sold us the house and is viewed from Rue would offer comfortable related to the original family Washington,” Smith living,” Hearron says. who built it. She was also a continues. “My husband and The new addition radiates close friend with Cammie ©

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 23 TOP LEFT: A wall of windows and French doors provides an unob- structed view of Cane River. ABOVE: A profusion of waterlilies surrounds the waterfront dock. TOP RIGHT: The peak of the ceiling in the great room is 23 feet high. RIGHT: The house faces east and takes full advantage of the morning sunlight, as well as capturing a perfect view of the full moon on a clear night.

24 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Henry of Melrose waking up to the sun Plantation.” coming up in my Inside the dramatic bedroom and the addition, Hearron nighttime view of a full designed a state-of-the- moon,” Smith says. art kitchen with granite “The house is filled with countertops and terra wonderful memories.” cotta tile floors. Master She says her favorite cabinet craftsman time is during the Jimmy Floyd built the Natchitoches Christmas handsome kitchen that Festival of Lights with is open to the great its unique colorful room. “I have always parade and festivities. enjoyed how you can “It’s wonderful to live in cook and never feel cut a historic Natchitoches off from visiting with house that also offers other folks in the the best of everything house,” Smith says. up-to-date.” The master suite is (See related story pg. tucked on one side of 100: The 2011 the addition, providing Natchitoches Christmas TOP: Master cabinet craftsman Jimmy Floyd is credited with building the cabinets in the open kitchen that adjoins the great room. complete privacy. Triple Festival of Lights begins ABOVE: Cecilia Smith on her rear porch overlooking Cane River windows overlook the Nov. 19 and ends Jan. porch and rear garden. 6, 2012, www.christ- “Here again I enjoy masfestival.com.) n

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PeaPatchGallery

More than politics in Winnfield | BY JOHN R. KEMP

26 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 “you do whatever you have to do.” Shelton, a Texan by birth, came to Winnfield in a roundabout but not unusual way. In the 1970s, she attended the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in studio art. She planned to paint and sell her work on street corners in Austin, but a skiing trip to Winter Park in Colorado with a girlfriend in January 1978 changed her plans and life. There she met a college boy from Winnfield. Obviously smitten, she transferred that summer to Louisiana Tech in Ruston, and in November, they married. She later transferred to what is now the University of Louisiana at Monroe where she majored in art education with a minor MOST PEOPLE would after Uncle Earl’s legendary the building in 1991,” she in English. She’s been here never associate the town of Pea Patch Farm, located just says. “I was teaching school ever since. Winnfield in north-central outside of town and once a and teaching art, but I had Rather than trying to hawk Louisiana with the visual political mecca for hopeful nowhere to show my paintings on the corners of arts. To many, the town’s politicians and supplicant students’ artwork. I always Winnfield, she took a job in name conjures ghosts of office-seekers. wanted a gallery, so we 1981 teaching art in the long-dead populist With a good head for bought it and spent a year Winn Parish public school politicians such as Huey business, Shelton has gutting it all. We took down system, a position she held Long and his brother designated one section of the drop ceiling, took down until she retired in 1991. “It “Uncle” Earl Long in baggy Pea Patch Gallery as a space all the old paneling and was wonderful,” she says, white linen suits who ruled to show her paintings and replaced everything with recalling her days going state politics for more than a photographs. She conducts lumber from the local mills.” from school to school. “I half-century. It’s no accident art lessons for schoolchildren The gallery opened in 1992 traveled throughout the the city is home to the and adults in another section with art and antique booths parish and got to touch a lot Louisiana Political Museum, and rents a portion of the rented by local and out-of- of kids’ lives and expose a shrine for past and floor space to locals who sell town dealers. She added the them to things they wouldn’t present Louisiana pols toys and children’s clothes. café in 1995 “to get people in ordinarily see.” across the state. Shelton also operates Uncle the door.” Gradually, the In recent years, Shelton’s But just a few blocks away Earl’s Pea Patch Café in the antiques booths closed as subject matter has changed at 109 S. Abel St., Gail back of the large open room consumer tastes changed. as she combined her passion Shelton – artist, teacher, where one can have lunch, “People our age,” she for painting and Texas transplant and entre- with daily specials, and hot explains, “are not buying photography with travel, preneur – or as she says, blackberry cobbler on ice antiques, and younger merchandising and teaching “artrepreneur” – has cream when the season is people aren’t interested in art. Initially, she concen- transformed an early-20th- right. Her husband, Steve, them.” This, of course, gave trated on popular subjects century brick hardware store a Winnfield native and her an opportunity to start such as local wildlife scenes that once sold everything pharmacist, owns a her own art school while with ducks and deer and from wagons to coffins into a nearby drugstore. pursuing her own art. pen-and-ink drawings of center of the visual arts. She Shelton becomes animated Over the years, the business local landmarks, including has fittingly named her when she talks about her Pea has evolved. “In a small Uncle Earl’s Pea Patch Farm, adventure Pea Patch Gallery, Patch Gallery. “We bought town,” she says with a laugh, the old Winnfield Hotel and ©

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 27 historic buildings in nearby pinwheels because I was Natchitoches. Although she is challenged by the patterns of continuing with this genre, light, shadow and reflections. more landscapes and I want my work to be cityscapes from her travels enjoyed by my viewers. I are broadening her portfolio. want them to perhaps see There is a business side to something in a new way and this, however. Over the past thus appreciate it more. I nine years, Shelton has taken believe this is a marvelous small groups of aspiring world that we live in, and if I artists on travel workshops to can capture even a small part Italy; Greece; Paris; Alaska; of it for others to appreciate, Key West, Fla.; the Grand I have accomplished part of Canyon; Charleston, S.C.; my purpose.” and Costa Rica. Another one In addition to painting and is planned for Machu Picchu, drawing, Shelton is making Peru, in April 2012. greater use of photography Shelton also has a little in her art. Although she had fun with her colored pencil always taken photographs to drawings called Riddle capture images for later Pictures. In essence, Riddle paintings in her studio, Pictures are visual puns. In photography has taken its Alligator Shoes, for example, place alongside painting and we see an alligator and a pile drawing as a primary art of shoes. Others, such as form. “Lately, I’ve gotten into Turtle Soup and Tiger Bait, digital photography and are wordless images, leaving printing photo images on viewers to get the joke. canvas,” she says. “Digital To Shelton, ordinary photography has so much objects can have expression, versatility.” Like many if one looks closely. “All Louisiana photographers, artists are intrigued by light she is drawn to the state’s and how it illuminates and marshlands and swamps. gives form to our subjects,” With her camera, she has Antonio, there’s no such she took a workshop in she wrote in her artist traveled to Sabine Lake west thing as a swamp,” she New York at the Surtex statement. “I like objects that of Winnfield and Blind River explains. “We had hill trade show for artists to reflect that light and have between Baton Rouge and country. But I was always learn how to present their intricate shadow patterns. I New Orleans. She has gone intrigued by swamps. work to manufacturers. She have done a series of such deep into the wilderness at They’re so timeless and plans to make presentations things as sunglasses, glass Lake Martin near Breaux primordial. I do love it.” at Surtex in May. “I have the door knobs and foil Bridge. “Growing up in San Passages from scripture or a art,” she says. “I just have to line from a favorite song or market it in different ways. old hymn often accompany I’m an artist interested in her photographs. “Scripture making money to keep my changes the meaning for doors open and to keep people,” she adds. four employees.” Shelton may riff on about But more important, her love of art and things Shelton says, “My faith in that inspire that art, but she God and wanting my art to has a definite practical side point to the beauty of His and bottom line – the art of creation is really central making money. She is to who I am.” working hard to license her To learn more about designs and drawings to Shelton and Pea Patch manufacturers that make Gallery, visit paper products. Last year, www.peapatchgallery.com n

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New Orleans to the Gulf BY PAUL F. STAHLS JR. TheRiverRoads PLAQUEMINES TOURISM PHOTO

NEXT TIME YOU’RE in Forking away from Louisiana but specializes in everything menu lunches and dinners daily New Orleans with a day to 23’s sharp right curve in Belle citric, right down to orange when B&B guests are about, spare, leave town. Yep. Drive to Chasse, Avenue G, which blossom honey, orange-pepper and passersby can call (504) 656- the bottom of the continent on leads to the ferry landing, jelly and a chance to buy 9990 in advance to check the the national parkway called the marks the old upriver border orange and lemon trees of your schedule or to arrange special Great River Road, down the of the plantation. A half-mile very own. seatings for groups of six or Mississippi west bank and back down 23, at the parish library, It’s another 8.7 miles to more. He “loves to spoil guests” up the east, spiced with ferry the plantation bell is set above the big Becnel Citrus Nursery with bounteous servings rides and side trips. You’ll a marble base (suggestive of and Orchard. (seconds encouraged) of dishes follow the levees though Belle Chasse manor), memori- It’s 14.5 miles farther to big such as his grandmother’s Plaquemines and St. Bernard alizing that chapter of the and beautiful Woodland distinctive étouffée. parishes, known as a paradise city’s history. Plantation, now a nine- It’s 2 miles to the ferry for easy-access fishing Just past the library, turn left guestroom bed-and-breakfast landing at West Pointe à la adventures but also as a land of to park at the parish tourist that you’ll recognize from the Hache and another 30 to old beauty and surprises for office (104 New Orleans St.) for 1871 Currier & Ives lithograph Fort Jackson, which, along sightseers. Take binoculars. tour literature and of the home that till recently with Fort St. Phillip (on the east From the downtown bridge marina/charter lists, and then graced the labels of the peach- bank), met the Union invasion and Westbank Expressway, head downriver through flavored bourbon called fleet on April 18, 1862, with a take the Lafayette Street exit Plaquemines’ famous orange Southern Comfort. You’re withering crossfire. Adm. and turn left for a 6-mile drive groves. Two miles down, a welcome to drive in as far as Farragut, hellbent on on Louisiana 23 to Belle Navy “Blue Angel” marks the “Spirits Hall” (an 1880s de- occupying New Orleans but Chasse, former site of Judah entrance of a Joint Reserve consecrated church that’s now failing to overpower the forts P. Benjamin’s Belle Chasse Base (Army, Marine, Navy, a casually stylish restaurant) for after seven days, left his mortar Plantation. Called “the brains Coast Guard Air and Louisiana a closer look at the 1830s boats to continue the barrage of the Confederacy,” Air National Guard units), and manor, soon-to-be-restored and surged through the Benjamin served as the CSA’s across 23 you’ll spy Becnel’s overseer’s house and tree- firestorm of shot and shell with attorney general, secretary of Farmers Market. “Becnel” has shaded grounds. 13 surviving ships. New war and secretary of state, come to be synonymous with Owner Foster Creppel, an Orleans fell on April 25. later becoming a distin- Louisiana citrus, and the aficionado of traditional Significant remnants of Fort guished barrister in England. market offers fruits and veggies Louisiana foods, plans fixed- St. Phillip still protrude above

30 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 silt and sawgrass alongside it was Louisiana’s first. Bayou Mardi Gras, so named Beautiful Mary Plantation when the explorer Iberville (private), 1.2 miles upriver – a encamped beside that little circa 1720 hip-roofed colonial tributary on Shrove Tuesday of with surrounding galleries (the 1699. Fort Jackson, 190 years side galleries were added a old, is open for tours 8 a.m. to 4 century ago) and 17-inch brick p.m. on weekdays and hosts the walls – is followed 1.3 miles Plaquemines Orange Festival upriver by the 19th-century on the first weekend of Doric-columned home named December: rides, crafts, food, Stella (private). Next comes the music and even helicopters to Belle Chasse Ferry’s east bank zip you over the river for landing, where Highway 39 Woodland Plantation by Currier & Ives glimpses of Fort St. Phillip. curves off to shortcut a bend in campers (call (504) 682-2101). preserve the traditions of the the river, but this is no ordinary Islenos, Spanish colonists from THE CROSSING bend, so follow it via Louisiana the Canary Islands resettled by Back upriver, enjoy the ferry 3137. Famous in our history and TERRE AUX BOEUFS A mile upriver, turn right on Louisiana’s Spanish Gov. ride to East Pointe à la Hache, lore, it was the setting of an Louisiana 46 in Poydras, and Galvez to populate several whose 1915 courthouse, gutted encounter in 1699 involving drive 1.1 miles to a little jewel villages – as a buffer to by fire in 2002, still stands tall Iberville’s little brother Bienville called Sebastopol Plantation at discourage British encroach- at the riverfront. Thus begins a who was row-row-rowing his 721 Bayou Road, open for tours ment – on the river, Lake casual upriver drive along the pirogue downstream when a by appointment (call (504) 494- Borgne and bayous Barataria, green and ever-curving levee, British man-o’-war suddenly 9350). This is a late example Lafourche and Teche. Their passing a surprising number of loomed above him. In a brief (about 1830) of a Creole-floor customs and archaic Spanish surviving landmarks of the palaver with British Capt. plan raised cottage – meaning language are examined in 18th and 19th centuries. The Lewis Banks, however, he no hall and two small rear volumes from LSU Press first of these, 7 miles up convinced the Redcoat that a rooms called cabinets flanking (Canary Islanders of Louisiana Highway 15, is an 1840 Creole veritable French armada was a loggia (often enclosed) – and by Gilbert Din and Language of cottage called Harlem (private) anchored upstream, and the its owner, Alberta Lewis, will the Islenos by John Lipski), and – unpainted but sturdy – listed ship departed, scared off by happily show you the arts and Isleno descendant Samantha on the National Register of that fierce “fleet” consisting of antiques of her home as well as Perez, in her new Islenos of Historic Places. two more canoes and five the peacocks, turkeys, chickens Louisiana from History Press, When Highway 15 ends 3.4 more Frenchmen. and indigenous herbs. recounts their adaptation here miles upriver, the Great River When 3137 rejoins 39, drive It’s a half-mile farther on to unfamiliar peoples, climate Road (Louisiana 39) will lead 2.3 miles to one of the region’s Bayou Road (passing the and terrain. “To understand you 11.7 miles to Promised monolithic new post-Katrina intersection where Louisiana them,” says parish historian Land (private), passing the floodwalls, then another half- 46 turns upriver) to the Old William Hyland, “we have to Phoenix community where mile to St. Bernard State Park Plaquemines Courthouse, understand the people of all Iberville established his Fort de (just above the St. Bernard line) built on Bayou Terre aux nationalities who influenced la Boulaye in 1700. That – perfect, with its pool and Boeufs (Land of Cattle) in them here, and thus we will settlement was short-lived, but bathhouse, for tent and RV 1915. It became a school in actually become a cultural 1939 and is now enjoying a center for them all.” thorough restoration. The Museo, with its old Next come the Ducros trapping and fishing displays genealogy library and Museo and traditional garments (many de los Islenos Museum, given by friends in the Canary inundated by Hurricane Islands), sells CDs of Isleno Katrina, but Ducros has been music, an Isleno cookbook and restored and the Museo rebuilt. curator Cecile Robin’s Remedies Ducros, built in 1800 of brick- and Lost Secrets of St. Bernard’s between-post construction, was Islenos. The complex, including once home of the region’s first a row of original and replica doctor, one of the nine Ducros Isleno dwellings and a siblings of Sebastopol marshland trapper’s cabin, is Sebastopol Plantation, jewel Plantation. Together the usually open daily from 11 a.m. of Bayou Terre aux Boeufs genealogy library and Museo to 4 p.m., but it’s best to call © www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 31 46), known here as St. Bernard House built on the old Highway. You’ll soon pass battlefield in 1832. through an arboreal tunnel One mile upriver, turn left on called the Docville Oaks, Aycock and drive through the planted in the 1930s by Louis Arabi Historic District to the St. Meraux, then continue through Bernard visitor center (409 the Meraux community to Aycock), located in a pavilion see Pecan Grove Plantation where a lively Saturday (private) at the intersection morning seafood and farmers of 46 and Archbishop market (closed mid-December Hannan Boulevard. to mid-January) offers okra and It’s now 2.3 miles to Paris such from “urban farm”

. BERNARD TOURISM PHOTO Islenos musician Road in Chalmette (where a left groups, yard eggs from ST turn leads to the Chalmette Sebastopol and giant shrimp. (504) 277-4681 in advance. Next Highway, where you can follow ferry). Immediately beyond The tourist office provides year’s annual Islenos Fiesta, Louisiana 300 to the remains of Paris, in rapid succession along advice and literature for highlighted by guest musicians the Isleno fishing village of 46, come the brick ruins and sightseers and fishermen, plus and dancers from the Canaries, Delacroix, or fork left on 46 great oak alley of De la Ronde maps of Old Arabi highlights is March 17-18. (Florrissant) to Yscloskey. If you Plantation (used as British like huge LeBeau Plantation Driving farther down Bayou cross the drawbridge at headquarters during the Battle (private) and, at the Domino Terre aux Boeufs, note the Yscloskey and drive to the dead of New Orleans), famed Rocky Sugar Refinery, architect James location of Creedmoor Drive, end of 46 at water’s edge, your & Carlo’s restaurant (most Dakin’s Greek Revival Cavaroc but continue till you see the reward will be a rare view of plates and poor boys big House (private, but for group one-story, eight-columned Fort Proctor, a masonry fort enough to share) and the “new” refinery tours, call Pete Maraia Creedmoor Plantation (1830s, built on dry land in 1856 but Plaquemines Courthouse (an at (504) 278-5109). private) on the far side of the now several football fields art deco treasure from 1936). Here our tour ends, with “St. bayou next to a barn built for offshore. Got those binoculars? A mile later, the entrance to Claude Ave.” and then the filming of The Last Return to four-lane 46, and the Chalmette Battlefield park “Rampart St.” signs replacing Exorcism in 2010. turn right to head a dozen leads to a towering limestone “St. Bernard Hwy.” along Due to road repairs ahead, miles back to four-lane national monument, a newly Louisiana 46, as it leads past double back here, and turn Louisiana 39. Turn right, and enlarged museum with film and the old Jackson Barracks and right on Creedmoor Drive, drive 2.8 miles to Colonial high-tech displays, a battlefield through the funky, jazzy right again on four-lane Drive, which leads left to the driving tour and the high- Bywater and Marigny districts Louisiana 46 and then right Great River Road (Louisiana columned Rene Beauregard to the French Quarter. n again on Leon Road (Louisiana 1245). Once back to Bayou Road, it’s 0.4 miles left to BEST BETS Magnolia Plantation (private), Best Fish Story: “Plaquemines and St. Bernard more clearly defined bay and bayou structure – while the single-story brick home of a are a maze of opportunity,” says one of my Gulf-bound boaters embarking farther downriver enjoy plantation established in 1794. fisherman sons, Paul III, and I immediately know a other advantages. They know that oil rigs, like reefs, Then turn right, 0.4 miles later, passionate description will follow. attract smaller feeder fish and result in high yields of for a drive through St. Bernard When east bank highways 46 and 39 meet at the trout, redfish, snapper, grouper and dolphin, and that Cemetery, with tombs dating to little river town of Poydras, the roads crisscross, each the deeper blue-water reaches of the Gulf are rich with, 1787. It’s then 0.2 miles to venturing into some of the most fertile fishing estuaries simply, all species of game fish. beautiful hip-roofed Kenilworth in the nation: 46 heads toward Lake Borgne at the west Inshore fishing in the bays and bayous gives you a (private), born as a single-story end of the Pontchartrain Basin (www.saveourlake.org) chance to hone your skill at following solunar tables and block house in 1759 and and the launch ramps of nationally known Delacroix, tides to angling success. Feeder fish and shrimp follow completed in its present form in Yscloskey and Hopedale; the east bank’s 39 is the ebb and flow of the tides, and trout and redfish 1818. The site of long-vanished bordered by the river and Gulf all the way to the sea- chase them up through smaller and smaller bodies of Contraras, birthplace of Gen. level Bohemia Wildlife Management Area; and the west water, providing action for fishermen with smaller vessels P.G.T. Beauregard, is 1.4 miles bank’s Highway 23, on its way to mile marker zero at and more inland launch-points. To add to the drama, the legendary sport-fishing port of Venice, passes 75 when the high tide that ushers boats into these areas down the bayou, marked by a miles of camps and launches as it skirts the lakes and goes out, fishermen can find themselves stuck in the distinctive monument. marshes of the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary rich decay and detritus of the marshland bottoms, facing A mile farther, jog left at the (www.btnep.org/BTNEP/home.aspx). the prospects of becoming, themselves, food sources for floodwall and right on That estuary now allows access to relatively open the mosquitoes and horseflies, not to mention that icy Louisiana 46, and drive 1.5 marshes – once markedly more full of marsh grass and “late again” reception they’ll face at home. miles to the Florrissant

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DINING AROUND OUR RESTAURANT WRITER REVEALS SOME OF HIS FAVORITE STOPS. Z BY ROBERT PEYTON | PHOTOGRAPHED BY CHERYL GERBER

LOUISIANA HAS ONE OF THE MOST DIVERSE POPULATIONS of all 50 when I visit a place is to ask as many people as I can about states, but one thing that ties us all together is our apprecia- the best restaurants or their favorite foods. A lawyer in tion for good food. Just about anywhere you travel in Shreveport might tip me off to a new hamburger joint; a Louisiana, you’ll find an eatery worth your time. This article friend outside of New Iberia alerted me once to a casino isn’t an attempt to create a comprehensive list of worthy restaurant that I’d never have found without his help. So restaurants; rather it’s a collection of a number of places even if this list is helpful to you while you ramble around that I have enjoyed during my travels around the state. the state, keep in mind that asking questions is almost Business often takes me away from my home base in always a good idea. If there’s a restaurant you feel should New Orleans, and over the years, I’ve gotten to know many have been mentioned, please write or e-mail excellent restaurants firsthand. But my general practice [email protected] to let us know.

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NORTH LOUISIANA Fertitta’s Delicatessen is Shreveport’s answer to the Central Grocery in New Orleans. The structure was originally a grocery but has been serving Muffy sandwiches since the 1960s. Made using Fertitta’s secret recipe for olive mix, ham, salami, pickle loaf and cheese, the Muffy is distinct from its New Orleans cousin but no less popular in Shreveport.

1124 Fairfield Ave., Shreveport, (318) 424-5508

34 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Chefs Gabriel Beard, Frank Brigtsen and Ronald Prevost

4801 Line Ave., Shreveport, (318) 629-9463 NORTH LOUISIANA CHARLIE’S SEAFOOD g Interstate 20 runs through the Chef Cory Bahr of Restaurant Sage in northern part of the state, and from Monroe was named the Louisiana NEW ORLEANS Shreveport to Monroe, there’s good Seafood King at the New Orleans Wine eating to be found if you take the & Food Experience back in May of this Charlie’s Seafood was a neighbor- time to look. year. Bahr first created a stir in the hood institution in River Ridge Strawn’s Eat Shop in Shreveport is a Monroe area during his time at before Katrina. When it didn’t classic diner-style restaurant that now Canard’s, and at Sage, he has continued reopen, local chef Frank Brigtsen sports three locations. The original is to hone his ambitious take on Southern picked up the baton. Brigtsen’s located at 125 King’s Highway, and it’s food with such dishes as braised short namesake restaurant in the rib ravioli with mushrooms and a sage- still our favorite for a full breakfast; Riverbend section of New Orleans lunches of fried chicken, meatloaf or brown butter sauce and pan-roasted sea is among the city’s most roast beef with sides; and dinner bass with chilled avocado and lump renowned, but he kept Charlie’s specials such as beef tips with rice or crabmeat salad, Thai sweet chili sauce chicken and dumplings. The pies, and crispy sweet potatoes. (“Charles Sea Foods,” according especially the strawberry icebox pie, are 1301 N. 19th St., Monroe, (318) 410-9400 to the sign) a casual place where a reason to visit in themselves. Bella Fresca’s Italian name belies the you can order a poor boy Multiple locations, (318) 868-0634 breadth of options on its menu. It’s a sandwich, fried or boiled seafood Wine Country Bistro & Bottle Shop is casual restaurant serving upscale food platters or specials that change more than a restaurant; it’s also a wine that owes as much to Asia as Italy. The with the availability of ingredients. shop and a location for local musicians. sesame tempura shrimp with a sweet- That’s not why it’s in this piece, though and-sour sauce flavored with rosemary 8311 Jefferson Highway, – it’s because chef Michael Brady’s food and the crab cakes with a chipotle Harahan, is a great example of the burgeoning rémoulade sauce are standouts on chef (504) 737-3700 food scene in Shreveport. The menu Weston McElwee’s menu. (Reservations is a mix of bistro standards and Brady’s recommended.) 6307 Line Ave., Shreveport, use of the best ingredients he can get. (318) 865-6307

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NEW ORLEANS Restaurant August is among the best restaurants in the country. Chef John Besh, a Louisiana native, has garnered a great deal of attention for his appearances in the media, and while he may not be in the kitchen cooking your meal at his flagship restaurant, you won’t miss him with chef de cuisine Michael Gulotta’s imaginative use of local ingredients and attention to every detail of your meal. Reservations recommended.

301 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, (504) 299-9777

St., Covington, (985) 875-1006 New Orleans is home to a large community of folks from Vietnam, and as a result there are excellent restaurants serving the cuisine of that country. 9 Roses is one of the best; its large menu The Blind Tiger Restaurant and Bar in Creole fare is also available, as are poor offers a survey of the classic cuisine of Shreveport is popular for burgers and boy sandwiches and ice-cold beers in Vietnam, using ingredients grown locally beer, and with a menu that stretches on huge frosted goblets. 3636 Bienville St., that most native Louisianians have never for pages, there’s something at the New Orleans, (504) 482-9120 seen. Try the grilled beef spring rolls or, casual restaurant for just about anyone. Del Porto was on the forefront of the when it’s available, the spicy beef soup Try the spicy Voodoo Shrimp appetizer movement in the New Orleans area called Bun Bo Hue. 1100 Stephens St., and the Seafood “Gumbeaux.” 120 Texas towards authentic regional Italian Gretna, (504) 366-7665 St., Shreveport, (318) 226-8747 cuisine. New Orleans has its own version There are dozens of outstanding poor of Italian food, a combination of the boy shops in New Orleans, but Parkway NEW ORLEANS cooking of Sicilian immigrants and the Bakery and Tavern in Mid-City is unique. New Orleans is one of the world’s Creole cuisine they found when they The menu features all the standards dining destinations. It’s hard to have arrived in the Crescent City. For decades, you’d expect, such as fried oyster, roast a bad meal in the Crescent City, and that version of Italian cooking was the beef with gravy and hot sausage, as well here are a few places that are only alternative worth eating. David and as the Surf & Turf, which combines fried guaranteed to please. Torre Solazzo opened Del Porto in shrimp and roast beef. With a location New Orleans has dozens of classic Covington, on the north shore of Lake overlooking Bayou St. John, Parkway is neighborhood restaurants, and Liuzza’s Pontchartrain in 2002, and they began a great place to visit during Jazz Fest, in Mid-City is one of the standouts. The receiving accolades almost immediately. though you should definitely call in restaurant’s strength is the kind of The menu changes seasonally, but the advance to check on the wait or place indigenous Italian food for which New antipasti plate is always a winner, and an order. 538 Hagan Ave., New Orleans, Orleans is known, but more standard seafood is typically excellent. 501 E. Boston (504) 482-3047 or (866) 755-9842

36 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 CAJUN COUNTRY The first thing you’ll notice about New Iberia, (337) 369-3772 Southwest Louisiana has a culture Landry’s Cajun Restaurant in New Iberia is In Lake Charles, La Truffe Sauvage has and cuisine all its own. Here are a few that it is quick to distinguish itself from long been the first choice for fine spots that are worth your while whether the chain of seafood restaurants with the dining. That’s due to a menu heavy on you’re visiting or a native. same name. As good as those other classic Continental cuisine that is consis- Darrell’s has what could generously be Landry’s restaurants may be, they can’t tently well-executed. The seafood “pot called a “limited” menu: eight sandwiches compete with the cooking of chef Alex au feu” with fennel, Gulf shrimp, in two sizes. But Darrell’s does those Patout, a New Iberia native and longtime scallops, clams, Maine lobster and fresh sandwiches well. That’s why it’s got a New Orleans restaurateur. The menu at fish is a winner, as is the veal osso devoted following in Lake Charles. The Landry’s features local seafood, gumbos, bucco. Chef Mohamed Chettouh is a brisket sandwich with jalapeño steaks and Cajun “camp” cooking such as native of Algeria whose training in the mayonnaise is particularly good, as is the shrimp-and-crab stew and rabbit sauce classic French culinary tradition began Surf & Turf, a combination of roast beef piquant. Patout has an excellent source at the age of 14. His cooking reflects and sauteed shrimp. 119 W. College St., Lake for frog legs, which have become a that background as well as his world- Charles, (337) 474-3651 specialty. Highway 90 at Jefferson Island Road, ranging travels and the bounty of ingredients available locally. 815 W. Bayou Pines Drive, Lake Charles, (337) 439-8364 Donald Link is a native of Cajun country, but until recently all of his restaurants were in New Orleans. In September, Link and partner Steven Stryjewski opened Cochon Lafayette, bringing Link’s robust Cajun and Southern food home. Cochon Lafayette, like Link’s restaurant of the same name in New Orleans, features house-made charcuterie and rustic dishes prepared with a sophisticated touch. 921 Camellia Blvd., Lafayette, (337) 993-9935

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CAJUN COUNTRY The Palace Cafe in Opelousas serves home-style food, including sandwiches, poor boys, plate lunches and fried or broiled seafood platters. You’ll know you’re in Cajun Country from the seven different gumbos on the menu. The place is generally pretty full of locals during lunchtime, so call ahead to see if there’s room for you.

135 W. Landry St., Opelousas, (337) 942-2142

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CENTRAL LOUISIANA Located on Lake Kincaid, Tunk’s Cypress Inn is a family restaurant whose setting is only a part of its charm. Snapper Sandy – fillets of snapper cooked in a brown paper bag with crawfish, crabmeat and shrimp in a cream sauce – is one of the highlights of the menu. The dish is emblematic of what they’re about at Tunk’s: fresh ingredients cooked well and presented simply in a comfortable atmosphere.

9507 Highway 21 W., Alexandria, (318) 487-4014

Owner Jimbo Theil

In Breaux Bridge, Café des Amis is known for its zydeco breakfasts on Saturday mornings featuring regional music and typically Cajun dishes such as cornmeal coush-coush and oreille de cochon, boudin-stuffed dough that’s style food since 1928. Located south of serves seafood, steaks and Creole fried and dusted with powdered sugar. Alexandria in tiny Lecompte, Lea’s specialties in a beautiful setting. Turtle The restaurant is also a great place for serves Southern food made from soup and crabmeat en croute are good crawfish étouffée, redfish court bouillon scratch. The fried chicken on Sunday choices, as is the 16-ounce bone-in rib- and oven-roasted rabbit. Give ‘em a call makes it a must-stop if you’re in the eye. 924 Third St., Alexandria, (318) 448-8989 to find out who’s playing and what’s on area, and be sure to try the pies – Natchitoches is one of the most the menu. 140 E. Bridge St., Breaux Bridge, they’re famous for a reason. beautiful towns in Louisiana, and The (337) 332-5273 1810 Highway 71, Lecompte, (318) 776-5178 Landing has contributed to the charm of Lasyone’s is one of the best places in the city’s National Historic Landmark CENTRAL LOUISIANA Louisiana to sample the famous District since opening in 1988. Meat pies Restaurants in the center of the state Natchitoches meat pie. The restaurant are on the menu, of course, along with are often influenced by the cooking of serves breakfast and lunch, including blackened alligator and fried green the Cajun parishes to the south and west, daily specials such as chicken-fried tomatoes, but grilled Ahi tuna and the Creole cooking of New Orleans and steak and grilled liver and onions with a salmon grilled with a peppercorn crust the more typically Southern food of the wide choice of sides, but the meat pies are among the most popular dishes. rest of Louisiana and the Deep South. are the real draw here. You can also buy 530 Front St., Natchitoches, (318) 352-1579 Regardless of influence, here are a few them frozen to cook at home. 622 Second For a casual meal in Natchitoches, spots to check out. St., Natchitoches, (318) 352-3353 Mama’s Oyster House is a good bet. Lea’s Lunchroom is renowned for its For fine dining in Alexandria, Diamond Adjacent to the similarly named and co- pies, but the “meat and three” lunch Grill is the place. Located in a historic owned Papa’s Bar & Grill, Mama’s does spot has been serving excellent home- building on Third Street, Diamond Grill seafood and cold beer in a comfortable

38 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 setting. Fried, raw and grilled oysters are 8740 Louisiana Highway 44, Convent, selection of beers. It’s a great place to the highlight here, but boiled crawfish (225) 562-9910 go before or after a game at Tiger are also available during the season. A Lebanese restaurant may not be Stadium. 3357 Highland Road, Baton Rouge, 608 Front St., Natchitoches, (318) 356-7874 what you would expect for a list of places (225) 383-1754 to try in Baton Rouge, but Serop’s does Stroube’s in Baton Rouge is more than BATON ROUGE/ the food of the Middle East better than just a steak restaurant. Chef Scott PLANTATION COUNTRY just about anywhere you’ll find. It’s a Varnedoe has a talent for seafood, and Louisiana’s capital city and the area more sophisticated experience than most while the steaks and chops are certainly surrounding it are home to some great restaurants of its kind, but it’s far from worth consideration, not least for the restaurants. From fine-dining to down- stuffy. 7474 Corporate Blvd., Suite 307, wide variety of sauces with which to home, you’ll find dozens of options. Here Baton Rouge, (225) 201-8100 accompany them, don’t ignore such are a few of our picks. Located just outside of the gates of house specialties as the Duck Duo or Middendorf’s is a longtime favorite for the LSU campus, The Chimes specializes lobster ravioli. 107 Third St., Baton Rouge, folks traveling between New Orleans in excellent casual food and a wide (225) 448-2830 n and Baton Rouge, as well as for residents of the area around Lake Maurepas. Known for thin-fried catfish, Middendorf’s does a great job with shrimp, oysters and any other seafood found in local waters. The fried chicken is less well-known but just as good. 30160 Highway 51, Akers, (985) 386-6666 Hymel’s Seafood Restaurant serves classic Louisiana seafood, boiled and fried. It’s a purely casual restaurant, where schooners of beer match the fare perfectly. Hymel’s location makes it perfect for a meal if you’re touring nearby Houmas House Plantation.

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BATON ROUGE Mansur’s on the Boulevard is one of Baton Rouge’s most highly rated restaurants. Mansur’s opened originally in 1989 and moved to its current location in 2003. The restaurant hasn’t missed a beat, and residents of Baton Rouge still rave over the Eggplant Camellia and the cream of brie and crabmeat soup. Reservations recommended.

5720 Corporate Blvd., Baton Rouge, (225) 923-3366.

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 39 CAN BOGALUSA SAVETHEWORLD? AN ENDANGERED HEART STUDY HAS TRIED TO DO JUST THAT. BY RICHARD MEEK | PHOTOGRAPHED BY THERESA CASSAGNE

40 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 ogalusa sits some 60 miles Quite simply, the money has run out. north of New Orleans, “It’s a financial issue,” says Berenson, tucked away in his expression failing to mask the fear northeast Washington of the end of the program that is Parish, its outer city the signature of his long and distin- limits flirting with the guished career. Mississippi state line. For the past several years, the National Perhaps best known Institute of Aging has funded the for an uncomfortable program, but that ended in August. smell emitting from the Nearly all of the program’s employees are Temple-Inland paper gone, and Berenson and a select few are mill, Bogalusa often left to archive the past to secure a can struggle with its healthier future. self-identity. In fact, He operates most of the week out of an during the dark days office in New Orleans, and the Bogalusa following Hurricane office is open a few hours a day. Katrina, when asked By taking a reduced salary, Berenson about the significant figures he and his small staff can last until damage the storm June, when some “money left over” will be unleashed in Bogalusa, then- fully spent, and the program will expire. Gov. Kathleen Blanco made the “We don’t have the funding,” he says. now-famous comment that the city was “Not everyone thinks the Bogalusa Heart located in Mississippi. Study is important.” Locals frequently recall that comment It was a study that almost didn’t with anguish, with time serving only as a happen. In the early 1970s, while doing mild salve to a festering wound. research on cardiovascular heart disease Dr. Gerald Berenson understands; at LSU, he unknowingly reached a after all, he’s a local boy who is a proud crossroads in his career when, with the graduate of Bogalusa High School and support of school officials, he applied who organized an annual reunion of for a lucrative government grant. former Lumberjacks athletes several Berenson, who received his medial years ago. degree from the Tulane School of “I’m so glad to have done that,” Medicine in 1945 and returned to his Berenson says of the event that is growing alma mater in 1948 after serving in the annually at a local restaurant. Navy, recalls there were 44 applicants Few would suspect Berenson has and the paperwork was burdensome. become a distinguished and internation- “I almost killed my secretary,” he says ally known contributor in the study of with a chuckle. “We worked Christmas, cardiovascular disease. At first glance, New Year’s. That was difficult.” the bespectacled Berenson, with his Berenson’s proposal was one of 23 fading white hair, mild manner and selected for site visits, with 25 people seersucker suit, appears to be a snapshot from Washington, D.C., coming down of days gone by. for evaluations. In another era he would have been Ultimately, Berenson’s proposal was regarded as a Southern gentleman. not approved. By his own admission, Berenson, 89, “What a lucky break,” he says. “I has been “lucky as the dickens.” was crushed. We’re still fighting Now it appears his luck may be the government.” running out. Berenson, who served on the faculty at From a tiny office in the shadows of the LSU School of Medicine from 1954 Bogalusa’s iconic smokestacks, Berenson until 1991 when he rejoined Tulane, expresses concern about the future of the quickly rebounded and seized the Bogalusa Heart Study program, which opportunity to apply for a grant from the he founded 39 years ago and nurtured National Institute of Child Health and into one of the world’s premier pediatric Development. It was then the initial heart studies. seeds of the Bogalusa Heart Study, an

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 41 ambitious study aimed at Berenson says he concen- originally recorded. The That era was also a time tracking black and white trated on young people from children were then given when the country witnessed participants from birth into Bogalusa because that was annual physical exams and the proliferation of fast-food adulthood, were planted. his hometown. such key data as blood restaurants, noted for their At the time, he also “The vascular study related pressure were recorded. They unhealthy fare. understood the need for to what causes obesity,” he were also given blood tests, The study further revealed outside help, so he enlisted says. “It started at an early EKGs and other noninvasive that children were being the aid of the local chapter age. Some people are worse tests, according to Berenson. served unhealthy food at of the NAACP, no small off, already showing signs “We can detect any school, which Berenson feat given the racial of heart disease [at an abnormality, and they will be recognized as an opportunity atmosphere prevalent in early age].” studied as a cardiac patient,” to branch off in a different Bogalusa at the time. According to Berenson, he says, adding that early direction and help reverse the In fact, the city was the multiracial component detection can lead to dietary alarming trend. He helped generally considered the was critical because of the and other lifestyle changes launch the Washington Parish epicenter of racial strife results yielded. that will help prevent potential Prevention Program for during the 1960s, but he was “I think the contrast makes future heart disease. Children, which originally was driven by his staunch belief a big difference,” he says, The results provided a a parish-wide program that that the study should be adding that results showed fascinating insight into the addressed “the often multiracial, which was hypertension is “more diets of young people and preventable and dangerous innovative at the time. rampant” among blacks and those eating habits that risk factors for heart disease.” contributed to potential health He says the goal of the risks in adulthood. It was model “is to prevent and offset THE LONG-TERM BIRACIAL STUDY LED discovered that children as childhood unhealthy lifestyles young as 2 were already on that lead to obesity and its TO SIGNIFICANT BREAKTHROUGHS the path to potential cardio- serious consequences.” ON HOW CARDIOVASCULAR RISK CAN vascular disease by virtue of The program relies on being fed a diet high in fat and volunteers to motivate BE AFFECTED BY LIFESTYLE TRENDS, sodium and low in fiber, program participation from SUCH AS OBESITY, THAT BEGAN which parallels what many various community groups NEARLY AT BIRTH. consider as today’s typical and provides some salary American diet. It is also those supplementation to teachers dietary habits that are being who take on leadership roles. labeled the villain in the BIRACIAL FAME “coronary heart disease is growing obesity problem FLOURISHING IN AUSTRALIA “The [NAACP president] greater in white men.” among Americans. The program reaches said anything good for the Berenson says he employed The pathology suggested children directly through the kids in Bogalusa, I’m for,” a multidisciplinary team of that signs of early coronary school system. He says it Berenson says. medical professionals – disease, such as fat buildup in provides elementary school The grant attracted 22 including anthropologists, the aortas of the heart, were teachers with an easily applicants; the Bogalusa Heart biochemists, cardiologists, evident in adolescents. It was adaptable curriculum that Study and the University of epidemiologists, nutritionists, also discovered that cardio meets national education and Chicago were the winners. psychologists and statisticians risk factors – smoking, obesity, science standards. Thirty-nine years, three – to study hereditary and envi- high blood pressure and He says the curriculum is textbooks, more than 400 ronmental aspects of early dangerous cholesterol levels – behavior-oriented and tailored publications and 16,000 partic- coronary artery disease. increased with age, thus for each individual grade. ipants later, the program has Berenson estimates more leading to Berenson’s crusade Lesson plans and activity garnered worldwide fame. At than 200 doctors have come to show that heart disease suggestions to help teachers one time it was the flagship through the program and prevention fundamentally integrate health promotion to study for the Tulane Center for those that he trained are begins at birth. students are also provided. Cardiovascular Health. “practicing all over the world.” Some results showed that Funds for physical activity The long-term biracial study He says three doctors he 10-year-old children in the equipment where none is led to significant break- trained are now cardiologists late 1980s were heavier than present are also available. throughs on how at Ochsner. their peers in the early 1970s. The program was sustained cardiovascular risk can be Each participant’s height, The study showed that through various federal and affected by lifestyle trends, weight, dietary habits, children consumed more state grants as well as such as obesity, that began physical activity, family history saturated fat and cholesterol through local government nearly at birth. and other vital statistics were than what was recommended. and school agencies.

42 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Although the program is For now though, flourishing in areas as far Berenson is left to reflect on away as Australia and a program that appears to Finland, funding for that be nearing its end. has also dried up in Disappointment drapes Washington Parish. every word, as he believes “It’s a shame when you there is much more work to can’t get [government be done. officials] to support it,” In fact, Berenson admits Berenson says, although he is research remains to be optimistic about the Bogalusa completed on serum samples City Schools picking it up frozen as recently as two after a meeting with new years ago. superintendent Louise Smith. “There’s still a lot to be Berenson is proud of published,” he says. “I can’t having had the opportunity analyze the data. I have to to introduce his hometown get somebody to analyze the to the world. He is interna- data and write it. I edit it.” tionally renowned for his He says approximately work and recalls one $500,000 is needed to incident when he was giving continue the long-term study a speech in Japan. with seven to eight people, “They didn’t know but he needs $200,000 “just anything about New to keep what we have.” Orleans, but they knew “It will be difficult, but I’ll about Bogalusa,” he get it done,” he says. recalls, beaming. Even the archiving of Berenson has also nearly 40 years of results has received several awards for proved to be difficult. his work, perhaps the most Originally, Berenson’s prestigious coming in 2008 attempts to have those when he was one of 13 results archived in LSU and researchers from throughout Tulane facilities were the country to be selected as rejected by each administra- a Distinguished Scientist by tion, citing a lack of space. the American Heart So he found a medical Association. That award is library in Texas to archive given to medical profes- the studies. But recently, sionals whose work has LSU and Tulane have both played a role in advancing approached Berenson about the understanding of cardio- keeping those results local. vascular disease. Although hopeful Even HBO has gotten into something can change the act: The entertainment financially, Berenson has giant spent two days filming become philosophical about in Bogalusa as part of its the status of the Bogalusa series on obesity. Heart Study. Camera crews spent time “We don’t want to give at Bogalusa schools focusing up,” he says. “We cannot on the Heart Smart Program prevent death. We can teach and the benefits to young young people from an early people. Past students age how to prevent heart were also interviewed, disease. We can help including school bus driver improve the quality of life Cindy Roach, who was for people with heart one of the heart study’s disease. Now you tell me, is early participants. that an impact?” n

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 43 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT METHODOLOGY who are doing the recommending. HOW WERE THE TOP DOCTORS SELECTED? We used the WHAT HAPPENS TO THE DATA? There is a continual refinement services of Best Doctors Inc. The Boston-based company is the of both the voting pool and the nominee pool. Each time a pre-eminent organization at gathering professional peer poll is conducted, the list is sifted, refined and improved for ratings. Through the years, the company has built a database better representation and more solid consensuses. of professionals who are highly regarded by their peers. Those HOW DOES THIS DIFFER FROM LOCAL SURVEYS? One major professionals are in turn interviewed for their recommenda- difference: Doctors are evaluated by their peers nationwide, tions. Listed here are the very latest survey results from Best not just by doctors in their communities. In many areas, Doctors. The results were completed in October 2011. doctors may be better known and evaluated by those within WHAT QUESTION IS ASKED OF THE DOCTORS WHO ARE their specialty groups, regardless of where they live, than by INTERVIEWED? Best Doctors contacts each doctor on the local doctors who may not be as knowledgeable in specific previous list and asks the same question: “If you or a loved specialty areas. one needed a doctor in your specialty and you couldn’t treat DO DOCTORS HAVE TO PAY TO BE ON THE LIST? NO! We would them yourself, to whom would you refer them?” Doctors also never use the list if that were the case. Here is the company’s confidentially evaluate doctors in related specialties and own statement on that issue: “Best Doctors never takes recommend those they feel excel in specific areas of medicine. compensation of any kind from doctors or hospitals in return DO DOCTORS GET A CHANCE TO RESPOND TO OTHER NAMES for listing doctors in its database, nor does Best Doctors pay RECOMMENDED? Every doctor has the opportunity both to doctors to participate in its survey process.” comment (confidentially) on the other doctors included in his WHAT ARE SOME OF THE RULES THAT THE COMPANY USES? or her specialty and to make additional nominations. As new • Doctors are allowed to vote on others in their hospital names are added to the pool, each undergoes the same peer- and medical practices. The feeling is that those doctors know evaluation process. The company claims to have developed their peers best – that is where the survey gets some of its special software to correct for some methodological biases – most outspoken evaluations, good and bad. for example, to detect and correct for suspect voting patterns • Doctors are never “automatically” re-included. In each and to weigh votes according to the ratings of the doctors biennial poll, current Best Doctors are re-evaluated along with

44 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 the new nominees. ADDICTION MEDICINE (337) 981-9495 • All of the voting is strictly confidential. Howard C. Wetsman • Doctors are not notified of their inclusion on the list until after the Townsend L. Ben Gaudin 3600 Prytania St., Suite 72 Allergy Clinic survey process is completed. Doctors are not required to pay a fee or New Orleans 7968 Goodwood Blvd. (504) 894-8322 Baton Rouge make a purchase to be included. (225) 923-3283 HOW MANY DOCTORS WERE SURVEYED? As part of its nationwide survey, ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY Richard Joseph Guillot the company interviewed more than 45,000 doctors. This is the most Sami L. Bahna North Shore Allergy and recent, credible survey of doctors. Louisiana State University Immunology Health Sciences Center 804 Heavens Drive, Suite 203 ARE THE SURVEYS ADMINISTERED RANDOMLY? No. To get opinions with Section of Pediatric Allergy and Mandeville (985) 792-4022 weight and professional credibility, Best Doctors tries to consult the very Immunology Women’s and Children’s Clinic, best. The company contacts all current physicians on the list, including First Floor Robert Douglas Haydel Jr. 1602 Kings Highway Haydel Asthma and Allergy many department heads at major teaching hospitals, and asks them to Shreveport Clinic rate specialists outside their own facilities. According to Best Doctors, (318) 675-8604 4752 Highway 311 Houma the medical community has been extremely supportive over the past 20- Peter B. Boggs (985) 857-8271 plus years it has administered the survey, providing a 56 percent The Asthma-Allergy Clinic and Research Center Bina Elizabeth Joseph response rate. Other polls such as Roper and Gallup routinely receive 1717 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Allergy and Asthma Clinic of Loop, Suite B Southwest Louisiana less than a 10 percent response rate in similar surveys. Shreveport 320 Settlers Trace Blvd. WHERE’S THE BIAS? There is no perfect, bias-free way to conduct a (318) 221-3584 Lafayette (337) 981-9495 ranking of any sort. Although Best Doctors has through the years Adrian Casillas refined its techniques to eliminate biases, any nomination process that Louisiana State University James Marion Kidd III Health Sciences Center 8017 Picardy Ave. relies on peer evaluations will naturally favor more senior doctors who Section of Pediatric Allergy and Baton Rouge Immunology (225) 769-4432 have had time to develop their reputations. Those who are new in their Women’s and Children’s Clinic, professions or those who have not had much peer interaction will First Floor Manuel Lopez 1602 Kings Highway Tulane Medical Center naturally get less recognition. The broadness and the depth of the voting Shreveport Division of Allergy and pool help eliminate biases and cronyism that might be reflected in (318) 675-8604 Immunology 1450 Tulane Ave., Seventh Floor smaller surveys. Benjamin Buell Close New Orleans Louisiana Allergy and Asthma (504) 988-5800 HOW CREDIBLE IS BEST DOCTORS? We know of no better company for Specialists providing this type of information. Best Doctors’ roots begin with the 201 Pecan Park Ave. Prem Kumar Menon Alexandria Allergy, Asthma and Immunology Woodward/White Co. of Aiken, S.C. That company was founded by a (318) 445-6221 Center person who was diagnosed with a terminal illness who discovered the 5217 Flanders Drive Carolyn Beach Daul Baton Rouge frustrations of facing serious illness but not having any source as a Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (225) 766-6931 Associates reference for medical help. 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www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |45 (318) 798-4544 Department of Anesthesiology Slidell New Orleans Joseph T. Crapanzano Jr. 4801 Ambassador Caffery (504) 842-3755 (504) 842-3755 Steven Claude Whited Parish Pain Specialists Parkway Highland Clinic 4500 Clearview Parkway, Suite Lafayette Patrick P. McCaslin Robert R. Theard Division of Allergy and 101 (337) 470-2966 St. Tammany Parish Hospital Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Immunology Metairie West St. Tammany Anesthesia Medical Center 1455 E. Bert Kouns Industrial (504) 779-5558 H. Jerrel Fontenot Associates Department of Anesthesiology Loop, Suite 101 Ouachita Community Hospital 1202 S. Tyler St. 611 St. Landry St. Shreveport Son M. Dang Department of Anesthesiology Covington Lafayette (318) 798-4573 Baton Rouge General Medical 1275 Glenwood Drive (985) 898-4421 (337) 289-2966 Center West Monroe Laurianne G. Wild Department of Anesthesiology (318) 322-1339 Winston E. Moore Jr. Leslie C. Thomas Tulane University Multispecialty 3600 Florida Blvd. Promise Hospital of Louisiana - Ochsner Health System Clinic Baton Rouge Donald Robert Ganier Jr. Shreveport Campus Ochsner Medical Center Department of Allergy and (225) 381-6104 Ochsner Health System Department of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology Immunology Ochsner Medical Center 1800 Irving Place 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1415 Tulane Ave., Seventh David C. Deas Department of Anesthesiology Shreveport Second Floor Floor Christus Schumpert St. Mary 1514 Jefferson Highway, (318) 797-1743 New Orleans New Orleans Place Second Floor (504) 842-3755 (504) 988-5800 Department of Anesthesiology New Orleans Ross B. Nelson III One St. Mary Place (504) 842-3755 Pain Care Consultants Mack Anthony Thomas Merlin Robert Wilson Jr. Shreveport 1500 Line Ave., Suite 202 Ochsner Health System 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite (318) 681-4440 Joseph (Ted) Gillespie Shreveport Ochsner Medical Center 530 Conservative Medical (318) 629-5505 Department of Anesthesiology New Orleans William Dedo Management 1514 Jefferson Highway, (504) 899-1120 Our Lady of Lourdes Regional 1103 Kaliste Saloom Road, Austin Guy Phillips Jr. Second Floor Medical Center Suite 202 Ochsner Health System New Orleans Michael Francis Zambie Department of Anesthesiology Lafayette Ochsner Medical Center (504) 842-3755 Allergy and Asthma Clinic 611 St. Landry St. (337) 269-6335 Department of Anesthesiology 909 N. Third St. Lafayette 1514 Jefferson Highway, Patrick Houstoun Waring Monroe (337) 289-2966 Richard J. Grisoli Second Floor The Pain Intervention Center (318) 322-5555 North Oaks Health System New Orleans 701 Metairie Road, Unit John L. DiLeo II Department of Anesthesiology (504) 842-3755 2A310 Southlake Surgery Center 15790 Paul Vega, MD, Drive Metairie ANESTHESIOLOGY 694 Belle Terre Blvd. Hammond James Riopelle (504) 455-2225 Thomas Anzalone La Place (985) 345-2700 Louisiana State University St. Tammany Parish Hospital (985) 359-6694 Health Sciences Center CARDIOVASCULAR Anesthesia and Pain Donald Eric Harmon Department of Anesthesiology DISEASE Management Emilie Donaldson Ochsner Health System 1542 Tulane Ave., Suite 659 Richard P. Abben 1202 S. Tyler St. Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans Cardiovascular Institute of the Covington Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology (504) 568-2319 South (985) 898-4412 Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 225 Dunn St. 1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor Francis X. Robichaux Houma Jorge J. Bravo Second Floor New Orleans Mid Louisiana Anesthesia (985) 876-0300 Thibodaux Regional Medical New Orleans (504) 842-3755 Consultants Center (504) 842-3755 1444 Peterman Drive Freddy Michel Abi-Samra Department of Anesthesiology John Frederick Heaton Alexandria Ochsner Health System 602 N. Acadia Road Jason B. Falterman Children’s Hospital of New (318) 442-5399 Ochsner Medical Center Thibodaux Ochsner Health System Orleans Department of Cardiology (985) 493-4750 Ochsner Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology Armin Schubert 1514 Jefferson Highway, Department of Anesthesiology 200 Henry Clay Ave. Ochsner Health System Atrium Tower, Third Floor David M. Broussard 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans Ochsner Health System Second Floor (504) 896-9456 Department of Anesthesiology (504) 842-4145 Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, Department of Anesthesiology (504) 842-3755 Alan David Kaye Second Floor Asif Anwar 1514 Jefferson Highway, Louisiana State University New Orleans Tulane University Second Floor Robert Faul Health Sciences Center (504) 842-3755 Heart and Vascular Institute New Orleans Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Department of Anesthesiology 1430 Tulane Ave. (504) 842-3755 Medical Center 1542 Tulane Ave., Sixth Floor Joseph Thomas Spalitta New Orleans Department of Anesthesiology New Orleans St. Tammany Parish Hospital (504) 988-6113 Eric H. Busch 4801 Ambassador Caffery (504) 568-2315 West St. Tammany Anesthesia Ochsner Health System Parkway Associates David Gregory Baker Ochsner Medical Center Lafayette Leopold De Blanc Landry Jr. 1202 S. Tyler St. Lafayette Heart Clinic Department of Anesthesiology (337) 470-2000 Surgery Center Covington Provence Building One 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1101 S. College Road, Suite (985) 898-4421 5000 Ambassador Caffery Second Floor Timothy David Faul 100 Parkway New Orleans Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Lafayette Peter Stedman Lafayette (504) 842-3755 Medical Center (337) 233-8603 Ochsner Health System (337) 261-0928 Ochsner Medical Center George Mampilly Department of Anesthesiology Jose Alberto Bernal-Ramirez Parish Anesthesia Of Lafayette 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ochsner Heart and Vascular 3510 N. Causeway Blvd. Second Floor Institute Metairie New Orleans 2005 Veterans Memorial Blvd., (504) 779-5515 (504) 842-3755 Eighth Floor Metairie Robert Joseph Marino Robin B. Stedman (504) 842-4168 Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center Stuart L. Blum Department of Anesthesiology Department of Anesthesiology Louisiana Heart Associates 1514 Jefferson Highway, 1516 Jefferson Highway 1801 Fairfield Ave., Suite 105 Second Floor New Orleans Shreveport New Orleans (504) 842-3755 (318) 424-2192 (504) 842-3755 W. David Sumrall III Roland J. Bourgeois Jr. Carl A. Mayeaux Ochsner Health System East Jefferson Cardiovascular Ochsner Medical Center - North Ochsner Medical Center Specialists Shore Department of Anesthesiology 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 500 Department of Anesthesiology 1514 Jefferson Highway, Metairie 100 Medical Center Drive Second Floor (504) 455-0842

46 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Tulane University Heart and Advanced Heart Failure Clinic Floor Patrick C. Breaux Vascular Institute 1415 Tulane Ave. New Orleans COLON AND RECTAL Ochsner Health System 1430 Tulane Ave. New Orleans (504) 842-3727 SURGERY Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans (504) 988-2096 Louis R. Barfield Department of Cardiology (504) 834-8668 Andrew Peter Rees Our Lady of the Lake Colon 1514 Jefferson Highway, Leslie Wayne Levenson Louisiana Cardiology Associates Rectal Associates Atrium Tower, Third Floor Yvonne E. Gilliland Heart Clinic of Louisiana Plaza Two, Suite 1000 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite New Orleans Ochsner Heart and Vascular 1111 Medical Center Blvd., 7777 Hennessy Blvd. 206 (504) 842-4135 Institute Suite N613 Baton Rouge Baton Rouge 2005 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Marrero (225) 767-3900 (225) 767-8997 Mark M. Cassidy Eighth Floor (504) 349-6800 Tulane-Lakeside Hospital Metairie Terry G. Rehn David E. Beck Cardiology Clinic (504) 842-4168 James Jude McKinnie Louisiana Cardiology Associates Ochsner Health System 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, Tulane Medical Center Plaza Two, Suite 1000 Ochsner Medical Center Suite 101 Richard Millard Gilmore Arrhythmia Clinic 7777 Hennessy Blvd. Department of Colon and Rectal Metairie Lake Charles Medical and 1415 Tulane Ave. Baton Rouge Surgery (504) 988-8090 Surgical Clinic New Orleans (225) 767-3900 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Department of Cardiology (504) 988-6143 Floor Tyrone Jean Collins 501 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive J. P. Reilly New Orleans Ochsner Health System Lake Charles Paul W. McMullan Ochsner Health System (504) 842-4060 Ochsner Medical Center (337) 312-8232 Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center John Ochsner Heart and Ochsner Medical Center Division of Interventional Jaime L. Bohl Vascular Institute David Lucas Glancy Division of Interventional Cardiology Ochsner Health System 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third Louisiana State University Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third Ochsner Medical Center Floor Health Sciences Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, Floor Department of Colon and Rectal New Orleans Section of Cardiology Atrium Tower, Third Floor New Orleans Surgery (504) 842-3786 1542 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor New Orleans (504) 842-3786 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans (504) 842-3727 Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor William R. Condos Jr. (504) 450-5530 Frank Wilson Smart New Orleans Lake Charles Heart and Richard Virgil Milani LSU Healthcare Network (504) 842-4060 Vascular Center Corey Goldman Ochsner Health System Baptist Memorial Multispecialty 1717 Oak Park Blvd., Second Tulane Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center Clinic Richard Byrd Floor The Cardiology Clinic Department of Cardiology Section of Cardiology Our Lady of the Lake Colon Lake Charles 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor 1514 Jefferson Highway, 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite 890 Rectal Associates (337) 494-3278 New Orleans Atrium Tower, Third Floor New Orleans 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite (504) 988-5800 New Orleans (504) 412-1366 206 Patrice Delafontaine (504) 842-5874 Baton Rouge Tulane University Heart and Mark Grise David Warren Snyder (225) 767-8997 Vascular Institute Ochsner Health System Mike Mounir East Jefferson General Hospital 4201 Woodland Drive, Second Ochsner Medical Center Cardiology Clinic East Jefferson Cardiology Kenneth John Champagne Floor Division of Interventional 443 Heymann Blvd., Suite B Consultants Colon and Rectal Clinic of New Orleans Cardiology Lafayette 4200 Houma Blvd., Second Acadiana (504) 378-5080 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third (337) 289-8429 Floor 1103 W. University Ave. Floor Metairie Lafayette N. Joseph Deumite New Orleans Lawrence O'Meallie (504) 454-4170 (337) 233-0219 Louisiana Cardiology Associates (504) 842-3727 Tulane University Medical Plaza Two, Suite 1000 Center Gregory D. Tilton Philip Anthony Cole 7777 Hennessy Blvd. Henry Gorman Hanley Division of Cardiology Cardiovascular Specialists Colon and Rectal Associates Baton Rouge Freedman Memorial Cardiology 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 500 1811 E. Bert Kouns Industrial (225) 767-3900 3311 Prescott Road, Suite 112 New Orleans Metairie Loop, Suite 430 Alexandria (504) 988-6113 (504) 455-0842 Shreveport Fortune Anthony Dugan (318) 767-0960 (318) 424-8373 East Jefferson General Hospital Nicholas D. Pappas Michael C. Turner East Jefferson Cardiology William Haynie Jr. East Jefferson Cardiovascular Cardiovascular Specialists of Jeffrey Farrow Griffin Consultants Cardiology Associates Specialists Southwest Louisiana Colon Rectal Associates 4200 Houma Blvd., Second 1811 E. Bert Kouns Industrial 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 500 600 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 540 Floor Loop, Suite 100 Metairie Lake Charles Metairie Metairie Shreveport (504) 455-0842 (337) 436-3813 (504) 456-5108 (504) 454-4170 (318) 222-3695 Hamang M. Patel Hector Osvaldo Ventura William Reid Grimes Clement C. Eiswirth Sanders F. Hearne Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System Colon and Rectal Associates East Jefferson Cardiovascular Cardiology Associates Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center 1811 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Specialists 1811 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Department of Cardiology Department of Cardiology Loop, Suite 430 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 500 Loop, Suite 100 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third Shreveport Metairie Shreveport Floor Floor (318) 424-8373 (504) 455-0842 (318) 222-3695 New Orleans New Orleans (504) 842-3925 (504) 842-3925 Terrell Cohlman Hicks Carl Patrick Fastabend James Stephen Jenkins Ochsner Health System Lake Charles Medical and Ochsner Health System A. Craig Pearce Christopher James White Ochsner Medical Center Surgical Clinic Ochsner Medical Center Cenla Heart Specialists Ochsner Health System Department of Colon and Rectal Department of Cardiology Division of Interventional 301 Fourth St., Suite 3A-1 Ochsner Medical Center Surgery 501 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive Cardiology Alexandria Department of Cardiology 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lake Charles 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third (318) 443-8090 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor (337) 312-8281 Floor Floor New Orleans New Orleans Lehman Kullman Preis Jr. New Orleans (504) 842-4060 Daniel T. Fontenot (504) 842-3786 East Jefferson General Hospital (504) 842-3717 Baton Rouge Cardiology Center East Jefferson Cardiology David A. Margolin 5231 Brittany Drive Carl Joseph Lavie Jr. Consultants Jean King White Ochsner Health System Baton Rouge Ochsner Health System 4200 Houma Blvd., Second Cardiovascular Specialists of Ochsner Medical Center (225) 769-0933 John Ochsner Heart and Floor Southwest Louisiana Department of Colon and Rectal Vascular Institute Metairie 600 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive Surgery Robert John Freedman Jr. 1514 Jefferson Highway, (504) 454-4170 Lake Charles 1514 Jefferson Highway, Freedman Memorial Cardiology Atrium Tower, Third Floor (337) 436-3813 Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor 3311 Prescott Road, Suite 112 New Orleans Stephen Robert Ramee New Orleans Alexandria (504) 842-4135 Ochsner Health System Alaa H. Younes (504) 842-4060 (318) 767-0960 Ochsner Medical Center Freedman Memorial Cardiology Thierry H. Le Jemtel Division of Interventional 3311 Prescott Road, Suite 112 Michael D. Stratton Thomas Davis Giles Tulane Medical Center Cardiology Alexandria Colon and Rectal Associates Tulane Medical Center Cardiac Transplant and 1514 Jefferson Highway, Third (318) 767-0960 1811 E. Bert Kouns Industrial

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |47 Loop, Suite 430 Ochsner Medical Center (225) 769-7546 Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Stuart J. Lebas Section of Pulmonology, Lung Department of Dermatology (318) 424-8373 Christus Schumpert St. Mary Transplant and Critical Care David John Clemons 2005 Veterans Memorial Blvd. Place 1514 Jefferson Highway Dermatology and Skin Surgery New Orleans Alan Edward Timmcke Intensive Care Unit New Orleans 9007 Ellerbe Road (504) 842-3940 Ochsner Health System One St. Mary Place (504) 842-4400 Shreveport Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport (318) 222-3278 Jack Selwyn Resneck Department of Colon and Rectal (318) 681-4500 Francesco Simeone Dermatology and Skin Surgery Surgery Tulane University Medical William Patrick Coleman III 9007 Ellerbe Road 1514 Jefferson Highway, Carol M. Mason Center 4425 Conlin St. Shreveport Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor LSU Healthcare Network Section of Pulmonary and Metairie (318) 222-3278 New Orleans Ochsner Kenner Multispecialty Critical Care Medicine (504) 455-3180 (504) 842-4060 Section of Pulmonary and 1415 Tulane Ave. Robert Winn Romero Critical Care Medicine New Orleans Michael Eddie Cormier Dermatology and Allergy Clinic Charles B. Whitlow 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite (504) 988-5800 Dermatology Associates of South Louisiana Ochsner Health System 205 2000 Tybee Lane 4212 W. Congress St., Suite Ochsner Medical Center Kenner James Garland Smith Jr. Lake Charles 2300 Department of Colon and Rectal (504) 412-1705 St. Francis Medical Center (337) 433-7272 Lafayette Surgery Hospitalist Group (337) 981-7546 1514 Jefferson Highway, Michael P. McCarthy 309 Jackson St. Daniel Gaines Dupree Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor The Baton Rouge Clinic Monroe 1101 S. College Road, Suite David Marshall Walsworth New Orleans Department of Pulmonology (318) 966-4541 202 Louisiana Dermatology Skin (504) 842-4060 Medicine Lafayette Cancer 7373 Perkins Road, First Floor Thomas Parks Smith (337) 235-6886 201 McMillan Road CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Baton Rouge Green Clinic West Monroe Gregory Jacob Ardoin (225) 246-9240 1200 S. Farmerville St. George Michael Kent (318) 387-6622 The Lung Center Ruston Overton Brooks VA Medical 201 Fourth St., Suite 1D Hugh E. Mighty (318) 255-3690 Center EMERGENCY MEDICINE Alexandria Louisiana State University Department of Dermatology Steven Allen Conrad (318) 769-5864 Health Sciences Center David E. Taylor 510 E. Stoner Ave. Louisiana State University Department of Obstetrics and Ochsner Health System Shreveport Health Sciences Center John Areno Gynecology Ochsner Medical Center (318) 221-8411 Department of Emergency Overton Brooks VA Medical 1501 Kings Highway Department of Pulmonary and Medicine Center Shreveport Critical Care Medicine Brian David Lee 1501 Kings Highway Department of Pulmonary and (318) 675-5379 1514 Jefferson Highway, Academic Dermatology Shreveport Critical Care Medicine Atrium Tower, Ninth Floor Associates (318) 675-6885 510 E. Stoner Ave. Shawn Arlen Milligan New Orleans 3421 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite Shreveport Overton Brooks VA Medical (504) 842-4055 202 Liza DiLeo Thomas (318) 221-8411 Center Metairie Ochsner Health System Department of Pulmonary and Mack Anthony Thomas (504) 832-6612 Ochsner Medical Center Stephen P. Brierre Critical Care Medicine Ochsner Health System Department of Emergency LSU Healthcare Network 510 E. Stoner Ave. Ochsner Medical Center Virginia P. Lewis Medicine Department of Pulmonary Shreveport Department of Anesthesiology Dermatology Associates 1516 Jefferson Highway Medicine (318) 221-8411 1514 Jefferson Highway, 324 Circle Drive New Orleans 3401 North Blvd., Suite 400 Second Floor West Monroe (504) 842-3460 Baton Rouge Steve Nelson New Orleans (318) 322-3535 (225) 381-2755 Louisiana State University (504) 842-3755 Joseph S. Guarisco Health Sciences Center William Trent Massengale Ochsner Health System Bennett Paul DeBoisblanc Section of Pulmonary and Ben Frank Thompson III Dermatology Clinic Ochsner Medical Center Louisiana State University Critical Care Medicine Pulmonary Associates of 5326 O’Donovan Drive Department of Emergency Health Sciences Center 2020 Gravier St., Room 505A Southwest Louisiana Baton Rouge Services Section of Pulmonary and New Orleans 2770 Third Ave., Suite 110 (225) 769-7546 1516 Jefferson Highway Critical Care Medicine (504) 568-4007 Lake Charles New Orleans 1901 Perdido St., Suite 3205 (337) 494-2750 Elizabeth Innes McBurney (504) 842-3460 New Orleans Bobby D. Nossaman Skin Care Specialists (504) 568-4634 Ochsner Health System Brad D. Vincent 1051 Gause Blvd., Suite 460 Richard Y. McConnell Ochsner Medical Center Our Lady of the Lake Regional Slidell Ochsner Health System Richard J. Grisoli Department of Anesthesiology Medical Center (985) 649-5880 Ochsner Medical Center North Oaks Health System 1514 Jefferson Highway, Critical Care Medicine Service Department of Emergency Department of Anesthesiology Second Floor 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Tom Joffre Meek Jr. Medicine 15790 Paul Vega, MD, Drive New Orleans 701 Dermatology Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway Hammond (504) 842-3755 Baton Rouge 5326 O’Donovan Drive New Orleans (985) 345-2700 (225) 765-5864 Baton Rouge (504) 842-3460 Thomas Gerard Nuttli (225) 769-7546 Ronald F. Hammett East Jefferson General Hospital Arvind Yertha Jay W. Smith Glenwood Pulmonary Specialist Jefferson Pulmonary Associates North Oaks Pulmonology Lee T. Nesbitt Jr. North Oaks Health System 102 Thomas Road, Suite 104 4200 Houma Blvd., Third Floor 15770 Paul Vega, MD, Drive, Louisiana State University Emergency Services West Monroe Metairie(504) 454-5205 Suite 104 Health Sciences Center 15790 Paul Vega, MD, Drive (318) 329-8485 Hammond Academic Dermatology Hammond Mohammad Zohair Pirzadah (985) 230-1580 Associates (985) 345-2700 Robert Cary Holladay Our Lady of the Lake Regional 3421 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite Louisiana State University Medical Center DERMATOLOGY 202 Erik Sundell Health Sciences Center Critical Care Medicine Service Erin E. Boh Metairie Ochsner Health System Ambulatory Care Center 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Tulane Medical Center (504) 832-6612 Ochsner Medical Center Medicine Specialty Clinic 701 Department of Dermatology Department of Emergency 1606 Kings Highway, Second Baton Rouge 1415 Tulane Ave. Stella Boustany Noel Medicine Floor (225) 765-5864 New Orleans 601 W. St. Mary Blvd., Suite 1516 Jefferson Highway Shreveport (504) 988-1700 506 New Orleans (318) 675-5920 L. Keith Scott Lafayette (504) 842-3460 Louisiana State University John B. Brantley (337) 235-9779 Stephen Phillips Kantrow Health Sciences Center Calais Dermatology Associates ENDOCRINOLOGY AND Ochsner Health System Department of Pulmonary and 5220 Flanders Drive Maureen Ann Olivier METABOLISM Ochsner Medical Center Critical Care Medicine Baton Rouge Building F, Suite Five Samuel Andrews Department of Pulmonary and 1501 Kings Highway (225) 766-5151 1920 W. Sale Road Ochsner Health System Critical Care Medicine Shreveport Lake Charles Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, (318) 675-5920 Harry A. Burglass Jr. (337) 474-1386 Department of Endocrinology, Atrium Tower, Ninth Floor Dermatology Clinic Diabetes and Metabolic New Orleans Leonardo Seoane 5326 O’Donovan Drive Marilyn Claire Ray Diseases (504) 842-4055 Ochsner Health System Baton Rouge Ochsner Health System 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ninth

48 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Floor Suite 201 Family Health Center Michael Bieller Harper 1525 Oak Park Blvd. New Orleans New Orleans 333 Lee Blvd. Louisiana State University Lake Charles (504) 842-4023 (504) 846-9646 Baton Rouge Health Sciences Center (337) 494-6767 (225) 490-3415 Department of Family Medicine Alan Lee Burshell Gerald Barber 1501 Kings Highway Kim Edward LeBlanc Ochsner Health System Family Practice Associates Elizabeth Curtis Shreveport LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Medical Center 12525 Perkins Road, Suite A Oak Grove Family Practice (318) 675-5183 Ochsner Kenner Multispecialty Department of Endocrinology, Baton Rouge 17520 Old Jefferson Highway, Department of Family Medicine Diabetes and Metabolic (225) 761-4256 Suite B Sarah W. Holt 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite Diseases Prairieville Ochsner Health System - 205 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby Wayne Barksdale (225) 673-8983 Lakeview Kenner Tower, Ninth Floor The Family Doctors Department of Family Medicine (504) 412-1700 New Orleans 8383 Millicent Way Mark Dawson 101 W. Robert E. Lee Blvd., (504) 842-2506 Shreveport Family Practice and Suite 201 Leanne L. LeBlanc (318) 797-6661 Pediatricians New Orleans LSU Family Medicine Jolene K. Johnson 717 Curtis Drive (504) 846-9646 420 Ave. F LSU Healthcare Network John G. Bernard Rayne Bogalusa Department of Endocrinology Acadiana Family Physicians (337) 334-7551 Jan Leenette Hood (985) 732-0058 and Metabolism 427 Heymann Blvd. Louisiana State University 3401 North Blvd., Suite 400 Lafayette Michael Ashley Dunn Health Sciences Center Francine Anne Manuel Baton Rouge (337) 234-1111 Ochsner Health System Department of Family Medicine Hamilton Medical Group (225) 381-2755 Ochsner Health Center 1501 Kings Highway 4809 Ambassador Caffery Walter Birdsall Tangipahoa Shreveport Parkway, Suite 200 Steven Neil Levine Ochsner Health Center - Luling Department of Family Medicine (318) 675-5183 Lafayette Louisiana State University Department of Family Medicine 41676 Veterans Ave. (337) 988-8810 Health Sciences Center 1057 Paul Maillard Road Hammond Ted Joseph Hudspeth Section of Endocrinology and Luling (985) 543-3600 Ochsner Health System Richard George Marek Jr. Metabolism (985) 785-3740 Ochsner Health Center Ochsner Health System 1501 Kings Highway Patricia Estrada Tangipahoa Ochsner Health Center Shreveport Roger M. Bradford 4701 Westbank Expressway, Department of Family Medicine Covington (318) 675-5960 Ochsner Health System Suite Seven 41676 Veterans Ave. Department of Family Medicine Ochsner Health Center Marrero Hammond 1000 Ochsner Blvd. Joseph Murray Covington (504) 341-0906 (985) 543-3600 Covington 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 360 Department of Family Medicine (985) 875-2828 Metairie 1000 Ochsner Blvd. Gregory F. Ferrara Daniel Keith Jens (504) 885-1409 Covington Shenandoah Medical Associates Ochsner Health System Paul Joseph Marquis (985) 875-2828 13828 Coursey Blvd. Ochsner Health Center Ochsner Health System David Scarborough Baton Rouge Mandeville Ochsner Health Center Lapalco LSU Health Shreveport Donald V. Brignac (225) 752-4530 Department of Family Medicine Department of Family Medicine Section of Endocrinology and Family Practice Associates 2810 E. Causeway Approach 4225 Lapalco Blvd., Second Metabolism 12525 Perkins Road, Suite A Thomas Glenn Fontenot Mandeville Floor 1501 Kings Highway Baton Rouge Family Practice (985) 875-2340 Marrero Shreveport (225) 761-4256 417 E. Lincoln Road (504) 371-9355 (318) 675-5960 Ville Platte Ricky Lane Jones David R. Carver (337) 363-7744 The Family Doctors E. Edward Martin Jr. Joel Silverberg Baton Rouge Family Medical 8383 Millicent Way Ochsner Health System The Baton Rouge Clinic Center Brad Joseph Gaspard Shreveport Ochsner Health Center Department of Endocrinology 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 100 Baton Rouge Family Medical (318) 797-6661 Covington 7373 Perkins Road, First Floor Baton Rouge Center Department of Family Medicine Baton Rouge (225) 763-4900 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 100 Thomas Edward Le Beau 1000 Ochsner Blvd. (225) 246-9240 Baton Rouge Lake Charles Medical and Covington Marion Cash (225) 763-4900 Surgical Clinic (985) 875-2828 FAMILY MEDICINE The Family Doctors Paul Guilbault 771 E. Bayou Pines Drive Leandro Area 8383 Millicent Way North Oaks Family Medicine Lake Charles Lana Metoyer Ochsner Health System Shreveport 1902 S. Morrison Blvd. (337) 433-1212 Metoyer Family Medical Center Ochsner Clinic - Lakeview (318) 797-6661 Hammond 204 W. North St. Department of Family Medicine (985) 230-5800 Alan Lynn LeBato Opelousas 101 W. Robert E. Lee Blvd., Robert Chasuk LSU Family Practice Center (337) 948-4445

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |49 (225) 638-7033 8888 Summa Ave. Acadiana Gastroenterology Lafayette Louis Reynold Minsky Baton Rouge Associates (337) 269-0963 Baton Rouge Family Medical Randy C. Richter (225) 819-1160 439 Heymann Blvd. Center Louisiana State University Lafayette Henry Hill Hinkle III 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 100 Health Sciences Center Linda Stewart (337) 269-0963 Gastroenterology Clinic Baton Rouge Department of Family Medicine Family Medicine Center 611 Grammont St. (225) 763-4900 1501 Kings Highway 604 Chevelle Court, Suite C Ronald Boudreaux Monroe Shreveport Baton Rouge The Baton Rouge Clinic (318) 325-2634 Herbert L. Muncie Jr. (318) 675-8032 (225) 926-1495 Department of Gastroenterology LSU Healthcare Network 7373 Perkins Road James C. Hobley Baptist Memorial Multispecialty Timothy Lacey Riddell Richard Harold Streiffer Baton Rouge GastroIntestinal Specialists Clinic Ochsner Health System Tulane Multispecialty Uptown (225) 246-9240 3217 Mabel St. Department of Family Medicine Ochsner Health Center Clinic Shreveport 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite Covington Department of Family and Gregory Arthur Boyce (318) 631-9121 409 Department of Family Medicine Community Medicine Gastroenterology Clinic Kenner 1000 Ochsner Blvd. 200 Broadway Ave., Suite 230 611 Grammont St. Joseph Drake Hollier (504) 471-2757 Covington New Orleans Monroe Alexandria Gastroenterology (985) 875-2828 (504) 988-9000 (318) 325-2634 Associates Karen Ann Muratore 301 Fourth St. Ochsner Health System Theresa Lynn Rinderle James A. Taylor Jr. Howard I. Brenner Alexandria Ochsner Health Center The Family Doctors Baton Rouge Family Medicine Metropolitan Gastroenterology (318) 473-8188 Jefferson Place 8383 Millicent Way Center in Livingston Associates Department of Family Medicine Shreveport 13960 Florida Blvd. 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 520 Virendra Joshi 8150 Jefferson Highway (318) 797-6661 Livingston Metairie Tulane-Lakeside Hospital Baton Rouge (225) 686-0158 (504) 456-8020 Section of Gastroenterology (225) 336-3100 Lynda Rice Roberts 4770 S. I-10 Service Road Outpatient Medical Centers James Taylor Tebbe Jr. Francis Xavier Bride Jr. Metairie James Howard Newcomb Jr. Department of Family Medicine Ochsner Health System Gastroenterology Associates (504) 988-8050 Ochsner Clinic 1640 Breazeale Springs St. Ochsner Health Center - Slidell 555 Dr. Michael DeBakey Department of Family Medicine Natchitoches Department of Family Medicine Drive, Suite 101 Shantiprakash Kedia 2104 Highway 190 W. (318) 352-9299 2750 E. Gause Blvd. Lake Charles Metropolitan Gastroenterology Slidell Slidell (337) 439-0762 Associates (985) 661-3550 Robert Combel Ryan (985) 639-3777 1111 Medical Center Blvd., East Jefferson Family Medicine Richard Kent Broussard Suite S450 Linda Oge Clinic James Theis Acadiana Gastroenterology Marrero University Medical Center 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 200 1111 Medical Blvd., Suite Associates (504) 349-6401 Department of Family Medicine Metairie N408 439 Heymann Blvd. Building Eight (504) 454-7878 Marrero Lafayette John A. Kirkikis 2390 W. Congress St. (504) 349-2908 (337) 269-0963 Alexandria Gastroenterology Lafayette Glenn David Schexnayder Associates (337) 261-6655 St. Elizabeth’s Physicians Pamela Wiseman Robert Stephen Bulat 301 Fourth St. 214 Clinic Drive Tulane Multispecialty Uptown Tulane Medical Center Alexandria Arthur Webster Primeaux Donaldsonville Clinic GI Clinic (318) 473-8188 Lake Charles Medical and (225) 473-8151 Department of Family and 1415 Tulane Ave. Surgical Clinic Community Medicine New Orleans James D. Lilly 771 E. Bayou Pines Drive Patrick Anthony Sonnier 200 Broadway Ave., Suite 230 (504) 988-3075 Metropolitan Gastroenterology Lake Charles Acadiana Family Physicians New Orleans Associates (337) 433-1212 427 Heymann Blvd. (504) 988-9000 Gerald Byrd 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite Lafayette Lake Charles Medical and 705 Paul Rachal (337) 234-1111 GASTROENTEROLOGY Surgical Clinic New Orleans Lake Primary Care Physicians Stephen Garner Abshire Department of Gastroenterology (504) 896-8670 230 Roberts Drive, Suite H Robert Parker St. Amant Gastroenterology Clinic of 501 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive New Roads The Lipid Center Acadiana Lake Charles William Elwyn Lyles Burdin Riehl Building, Suite (337) 312-8462 Alexandria Gastroenterology 303 Associates 1211 Coolidge St. George E. Catinis 301 Fourth St. Lafayette Metropolitan Gastroenterology Alexandria (337) 232-6697 Associates (318) 473-8188 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 520 William A. Anderson III Metairie Elizabeth Ann McDonald Digestive Health Center of (504) 456-8020 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 570 Louisiana Metairie 9103 Jefferson Highway Melvin Herman Gold Jr. (504) 456-5070 Baton Rouge Interim LSU Public Hospital (225) 927-1190 Division of Gastroenterology William Morrison Meyers Jr. 2021 Perdido St. Metropolitan Gastroenterology Mainor R. Antillon New Orleans Associates Ochsner Health System (504) 903-3000 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 520 Ochsner Medical Center Metairie Department of Gastroenterology Steven Anthony Guarisco (504) 456-8020 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ochsner Health System Fourth Floor Ochsner Health Center Charles J. Monier Jr. New Orleans Covington Digestive Health Center (504) 842-4015 Division of Gastroenterology 602 N. Acadia Road, Suite 1000 Ochsner Blvd. 101 Luis A. Balart Covington Thibodaux Tulane University Health (985) 875-2828 (985) 446-1958 Sciences Center Abdominal Transplant Institute Benjamin Alfred Guider Jr. Jacque Noel 1430 Tulane Ave. Metropolitan Gastroenterology 601 W. St. Mary Blvd., Suite New Orleans Associates 506 (504) 988-5344 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite Lafayette 705 (337) 235-9779 Christopher N. Barrilleaux New Orleans East Bank Gastroenterology (504) 896-8670 Nicholas John Persich 3800 Houma Blvd., Suite 220 Metairie Gastroenterology Metairie James Patrick Herrington 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 120 (504) 456-7484 Acadiana Gastroenterology Metairie Associates (504) 456-6701 James Carol Bienvenu 439 Heymann Blvd.

50 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Stephen Milikin Person Metropolitan Gastroenterology (504) 988-5344 Department of Infectious (504) 903-6959 Acadiana Gastroenterology Associates Diseases Associates 1111 Medical Center Blvd., INFECTIOUS DISEASE 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic Richard Stephan Witzig 439 Heymann Blvd. Suite S450 Tower, Seventh Floor East Jefferson General Hospital Lafayette Marrero Katherine Baumgarten New Orleans Infectious Diseases Associates (337) 269-0963 (504) 349-6401 Ochsner Health System (504) 842-4005 4315 Houma Blvd., Suite 201 Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans David Miller Philips Steve George Venturatos Department of Infectious John William King (504) 455-4622 GastroIntestinal Specialists Metropolitan Gastroenterology Diseases Louisiana State University 3217 Mabel St. Associates 1514 Jefferson Highway, Health Sciences Center INTERNAL MEDICINE Shreveport 1111 Medical Center Blvd., Seventh Floor Section of Infectious Disease Mary Moore Abell (318) 631-9121 Suite S450 New Orleans 1501 Kings Highway St. Thomas Community Health Marrero (504) 842-4005 Shreveport Center Arthur Lewis Poch (504) 349-6401 (318) 675-5900 Department of Internal GastroIntestinal Specialists Christopher M. Blais Medicine 3217 Mabel St. GERIATRIC MEDICINE Ochsner Health System F. Brobson Lutz Jr. 1020 St. Andrew St. Shreveport Susan Ellen Nelson Ochsner Medical Center 2622 Jena St. New Orleans (318) 631-9121 Lake Senior Care Center Department of Infectious New Orleans (504) 529-5558 5247 Didesse Drive Diseases (504) 895-0361 Steve Fagan Price Jr. Baton Rouge 1514 Jefferson Highway Michael S. Alexander Metropolitan Gastroenterology (225) 765-3076 New Orleans David H. Martin Internal Medicine Associates Associates (504) 842-4005 Louisiana State University 155 Hospital Drive, Suite 402 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 705 HAND SURGERY Health Sciences Center Lafayette New Orleans Rick I. Ahmad Rebecca Adair Clark Section of Infectious Diseases (337) 234-8018 (504) 896-8670 Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic Louisiana State University 1542 Tulane Ave. 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite Health Sciences Center New Orleans Alys Alper George Richard Puente 1000 HOP Clinic (HIV Outpatient (504) 568-5031 Tulane Metairie Multispecialty Metropolitan Gastroenterology Baton Rouge Program) Clinic Associates (225) 924-2424 2235 Poydras St. Susan Leslie Favrot McLellan Department of Internal 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 520 New Orleans Tulane Metairie Multispecialty Medicine Metairie Donald C. Faust (504) 903-6959 Clinic 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, (504) 456-8020 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 600 Section of Infectious Diseases Suite 110 New Orleans Jeffrey Wayne Coco 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, Metairie Felix Rabito (504) 899-1000 Internal Medicine Specialists Suite 101 (504) 988-8050 The Gastroenterology Group 3525 Prytania St., Suite 526 Metairie 131 Cherokee Rose Lane, Suite Eric R. George New Orleans (504) 988-8050 Deirdre Barfield B Hand Surgical Associates (504) 648-2500 Christus Schumpert St. Mary Covington 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite Thomas A. Moore Place (985) 871-1721 600B Joseph Raymond Dalovisio Ochsner Health System One St. Mary Place Metairie Ochsner Health System Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport David Reed Raines Jr. (504) 454-2191 Ochsner Medical Center Department of Infectious (318) 681-7241 Gastroenterology Clinic Department of Infectious Diseases 611 Grammont St. Jefferson James Kaye Diseases 1514 Jefferson Highway, Leo P. Blaize III Monroe Ochsner Health System 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic Seventh Floor Lake Internal Medicine at (318) 325-2634 Ochsner Medical Center Tower, Seventh Floor New Orleans Hennessy Department of Orthopaedics New Orleans (504) 842-4005 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Gary (Taavi) Reiss 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fifth (504) 842-4005 7000 Metropolitan Gastroenterology Floor Mary J. Murphy Baton Rouge Associates New Orleans Mary Louise Eschete NO/AIDS Task Force (225) 765-8829 1111 Medical Center Blvd., (504) 842-3970 Leonard J. Chabert Medical 2601 Tulane Ave., Suite 500 Suite S450 Center New Orleans Leslie Anne Blake Marrero Kenneth John Laborde Special Care Clinic (504) 212-2773 Ochsner Health System (504) 349-6401 1000 W. Pinhook Road, Suite 1978 Industrial Blvd. Ochsner Medical Center 302 Houma David Michael Mushatt Department of Internal Arthur E. Richert Lafayette (985) 873-1880 Tulane University Multispecialty Medicine Gastroenterology Clinic (337) 232-8230 Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway 611 Grammont St. Julia B. Garcia-Diaz Section of Infectious Diseases New Orleans Monroe Ronnie Edwin Mathews Ochsner Health System 275 LaSalle St. (504) 842-4747 (318) 325-2634 2335 Church St., Suite B Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans Zachary Department of Infectious (504) 988-5800 Pierre V. Blanchard Charles G. Schibler II (225) 654-6366 Diseases Tri-State Medical Clinic Metropolitan Gastroenterology 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium George A. Pankey 2551 Greenwood Road, Suite Associates Marion Ezra Milstead Tower, Seventh Floor Ochsner Health System 410 1111 Medical Center Blvd., Orthopedic Specialists of New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Suite S450 Louisiana (504) 842-4005 Department of Infectious (318) 621-2929 Marrero 1500 Line Ave., Suite 100 Diseases (504) 349-6401 Shreveport Michael Edward Hagensee 1514 Jefferson Highway Karen Blessey (318) 635-3052 Louisiana State University New Orleans Ochsner Baptist Medical Center David Ralph Silvers Health Sciences Center (504) 842-4006 Department of Internal Metairie Gastroenterology Joe Almond Morgan HOP Clinic (HIV Outpatient Medicine 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 120 Bone and Joint Clinic of Baton Program) Robert Lawrence Penn McFarland Building, Suite 500 Metairie Rouge 2235 Poydras St. Overton Brooks VA Medical 4429 Clara St. (504) 456-6701 7301 Hennessy Blvd., Suite New Orleans Center New Orleans 200 (504) 826-2179 Section of Infectious Disease (504) 897-4250 John Sanley Smiarowski Baton Rouge 510 E. Stoner Ave. Gastroenterology Clinic (225) 766-0050 Michael Kevin Hill Shreveport Alan John Borne 611 Grammont St. IMG Physicians (318) 990-6589 1811 E. Bert Kouns, Suite440 Monroe Robert Louis Morrow Jr. 56 Starbrush Circle Shreveport (318) 325-2634 501 W. St. Mary Blvd., Suite Covington John Todd (318) 222-9205 404 (985) 871-0095 Louisiana State University David M. Borne James William Smith Lafayette Health Sciences Center LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Health System (337) 233-5167 Mary Faith Joubert Section of Infectious Disease St. Charles Multispecialty Clinic Ochsner Medical Center IMG Physicians 1501 Kings Highway Department of Internal Department of Gastroenterology HEPATOLOGY 1051 Gause Blvd., Suite 280 Shreveport Medicine 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Luis A. Balart Slidell (318) 862-9977 3700 St. Charles Ave. Tower, Fourth Floor Tulane University Health (985) 641-5523 New Orleans New Orleans Sciences Center Ronald D. Wilcox (504) 412-1366 (504) 842-4015 Abdominal Transplant Institute Sandra Abadie Kemmerly The HOP Clinic 1430 Tulane Ave. Ochsner Health System 2235 Poydras St. James W. Bragg Rian Moss Tanenbaum New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans Ochsner Health System

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |51 Ochsner Medical Center The Baton Rouge Clinic Nona Epstein 7373 Perkins Road Robert Ira Hart Department of Internal Department of Internal Ochsner Health System Baton Rouge Ochsner Health Center Medicine Medicine Ochsner Medical Center (225) 246-9240 Prairieville 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7373 Perkins Road Department of Internal Department of Internal Atrium Tower, Second Floor Baton Rouge Medicine Barry C. Goldman Medicine New Orleans (225) 246-9240 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ochsner Health System 16220 Airline Highway, Suite A (504) 842-4747 Atrium Tower, Second Floor Elmwood Medical Center Prairieville James Donald Conway New Orleans Department of Internal (225) 744-1111 David Carmouche Ochsner Health Center - (504) 842-4747 Medicine The Baton Rouge Clinic Metairie 1221 S. Clearview Parkway, William Gerard Hebert Department of Internal Department of Internal Lara M. Falcon First Floor Internal Medicine Clinic of Medicine Medicine The Baton Rouge Clinic New Orleans Lake Charles 7373 Perkins Road, First Floor 2005 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Department of Internal (504) 736-4860 2770 Third Ave., Suite 350 Baton Rouge Seventh Floor Medicine Lake Charles (225) 246-9240 Metairie 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth Steven J. Granier (337) 494-6800 (504) 836-9820 Floor Ochsner Health System S. Germain Cassiere Baton Rouge Ochsner Medical Center Robert C. Hernandez Willis-Knighton Pierremont Todd Cooley (225) 246-9240 Department of Internal Willis-Knighton Pierremont Health Center The Baton Rouge Clinic Medicine Health Center Department of Internal Department of Internal Sara Fernandez 1514 Jefferson Highway, Department of Internal Medicine Medicine Ochsner Health System Second Floor Medicine 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 400 7373 Perkins Road, Second Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 400 Shreveport Floor Department of Internal (504) 842-4747 Shreveport (318) 212-3456 Baton Rouge Medicine (318) 212-3456 (225) 246-9240 1514 Jefferson Highway, Christopher Guarisco Pedro Cazabon Atrium Tower, Second Floor Ochsner Health System Mark Kenneth Hodges Ochsner Health System Terry L. Cummings New Orleans Ochsner Health Center The Baton Rouge Clinic Ochsner Medical Center Tulane Multispecialty Uptown (504) 842-4747 Jefferson Place Department of Pulmonology Department of Internal Clinic Department of Internal Medicine Medicine 200 Broadway Ave., Suite 230 Caroline F. Flint Medicine 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans Ochsner Health Center - Baton 8150 Jefferson Highway Floor Second Floor (504) 988-9000 Rouge Baton Rouge Baton Rouge New Orleans Department of Internal (225) 336-3100 (225) 246-9240 (504) 842-3880 Richard Edward Deichmann Jr. Medicine Ochsner Health System 16777 Medical Center Drive, Timothy S. Harlan Susan B. Ieyoub Brian D. Clements Ochsner Medical Center Suite 100 Tulane Medical Center Internal Medicine Clinic of Internal Medicine Clinic of Department of Internal Baton Rouge Tulane Multispecialty Clinic Lake Charles Lake Charles Medicine (225) 754-3278 Section of General Internal 2770 Third Ave., Suite 350 2770 Third Ave., Suite 350 1514 Jefferson Highway, Medicine and Geriatrics Lake Charles Lake Charles Second Floor David W. Fontenot 275 LaSalle St., First Floor (337) 494-6800 (337) 494-6800 New Orleans The Baton Rouge Clinic New Orleans (504) 842-4747 Department of Internal (504) 988-5830 Roy Giles Kadair Kenny James Cole Medicine The Baton Rouge Clinic

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Department of Internal Daniel John Moller Jr. New Orleans Section of General Internal Feist Weiller Cancer Center Medicine Willis-Knighton Pierremont (504) 842-4747 Medicine and Geriatrics 1501 Kings Highway 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth Health Center 1430 Tulane Ave. Shreveport Floor Department of Internal James D. Stoll New Orleans (318) 813-5972 Baton Rouge Medicine Ochsner Health System (504) 988-7518 (225) 769-4044 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 400 Ochsner Medical Center Laura Casteel Campbell Shreveport Department of Internal Susan Leala Vogel Cancer Center of Thibodaux Peter Karam (318) 212-3456 Medicine Ochsner Health System Regional Medical Center Internal Medicine Clinic of Lake 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ochsner Medical Center Division of Hematology and Charles Susan Ellen Nelson Atrium Tower, Second Floor Department of Hospital Oncology 2770 Third Ave., Suite 350 Lake Senior Care Center New Orleans Medicine 608 N. Acadia Road Lake Charles 5247 Didesse Drive (504) 842-4747 1514 Jefferson Highway Thibodaux (337) 494-6800 Baton Rouge New Orleans (985) 493-4346 (225) 765-3076 Joseph R. Tynes (504) 842-7518 Guler L. Karcioglu Bossier Internal Medicine Salvador Caputto Southeast Louisiana Veterans Timothy Nicholls 2539 Viking Drive MEDICAL GENETICS Cancer Care of Louisiana Health Care System Tri-State Medical Clinic Bossier City Hans Christoph Andersson 3525 Prytania St., Suite 302 Department of Medicine Department of Internal (318) 747-8100 Tulane Hospital for Children New Orleans 1601 Perdido St. Medicine Hayward Genetics Center (504) 897-8970 New Orleans 2551 Greenwood Road, Suite Edmund Bruce Vinci 1430 Tulane Ave. (504) 558-3637 410 The Baton Rouge Clinic New Orleans Michael J. Castine III Shreveport Department of Internal (504) 988-5229 Hematology and Oncology Gloria Leary (318) 621-2929 Medicine Clinic Ochsner Health System 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth MEDICAL ONCOLOGY 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 400 Ochsner Medical Center Katherine F. Pearce Floor AND HEMATOLOGY Baton Rouge Department of Internal Lake Internal Medicine at Baton Rouge Deborah A. Abernathy (225) 767-0822 Medicine Hennessy (225) 769-4044 Hematology and Oncology 1514 Jefferson Highway, 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Clinic John Thomas Cole Atrium Tower, Second Floor 7000 Scott Wharton 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 400 Ochsner Health System New Orleans Baton Rouge The Baton Rouge Clinic Baton Rouge Ochsner Medical Center (504) 842-4747 (225) 765-8829 Department of Internal (225) 767-0822 Department of Hematology and Medicine Oncology Ronald M. Lewis Jr. Robert Louis Pollock 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth Lowell Anthony 1514 Jefferson Highway, First Lake Charles Memorial Hospital East Jefferson Internal Floor LSU Healthcare Network Floor Department of Internal Medicine Baton Rouge Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans Medicine 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 400 (225) 246-9240 Kenner (504) 842-3910 2770 Third Ave., Suite 350 Metairie Neuroendocrine Clinic Lake Charles (504) 456-5123 Jeffrey Wiese 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite James K. Ellis (337) 494-6800 Tulane University Health 200 Cancer Center of Thibodaux Eboni G. Price Sciences Center Kenner Regional Medical Center Theodore Richard Lieux Jr. Tulane Community Health Section of General Internal (504) 464-8500 Division of Hematology and The Baton Rouge Clinic Center at Covenant House Medicine and Geriatrics Oncology Department of Internal 611 N. Rampart St. 1430 Tulane Ave. Bryan Bienvenu 608 N. Acadia Road Medicine New Orleans New Orleans Louisiana Hematology and Thibodaux 7373 Perkins Road, Second (504) 988-3000 (504) 988-7809 Oncology Associates (985) 493-4346 Floor 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Baton Rouge Michael Rolfsen INTERNAL MEDICINE/ Baton Rouge Ruben Dario Fabrega (225) 769-4044 The Baton Rouge Clinic HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE (225) 767-1311 Ochsner Health System Department of Internal MEDICINE Ochsner Health Center Rene Albert Louapre III Medicine Kenneth B. Smith Frederic T. Billings III Bluebonnet 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 7373 Perkins Road East Jefferson General Hospital Louisiana Hematology and Department of Hematology and 400 Baton Rouge Department of Respiratory Care Oncology Associates Oncology New Orleans (225) 246-9240 4200 Houma Blvd., Third Floor 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 9001 Summa Ave. (504) 897-3305 Metairie Baton Rouge Baton Rouge Susan Seiler-Smith (504) 454-5205 (225) 767-1311 (225) 761-5410 Kenneth Edward McCarron South Shreveport Internal 1211 Coolidge Blvd., Suite Medicine INTERNAL MEDICINE/ Marcelo Blaya Jyotsna Fuloria 301 2508 E. Bert Kouns Industrial HOSPITAL MEDICINE Tulane Cancer Center Ochsner Health System Lafayette Loop, Suite 301 John R. Amoss 150 S. Liberty St. Ochsner Medical Center (337) 261-1919 Shreveport LSU Healthcare Network New Orleans Department of Hematology and (318) 212-5992 Baptist Memorial Multispecialty (504) 988-6300 Oncology Angela M. McLean Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway, First LSU Healthcare Network Michael R. Sewell Department of Internal J. Eugene (Gene) Brierre Floor Baptist Memorial Multispecialty North Bossier Internal Medicine Medicine Louisiana Oncology Associates New Orleans Clinic 2400 Hospital Drive, Suite 350 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite 4809 Ambassador Caffery (504) 842-3910 Department of Internal Bossier City 890 Parkway, Suite 110 Medicine (318) 212-7930 New Orleans Lafayette James Phillip Gaharan 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite (504) 412-1366 (337) 235-7898 Hematology and Oncology 890 Edward David Sledge Jr. Clinic New Orleans Ochsner Health System Dayton William Daberkow II Burke J. Brooks Jr. 2770 Third Ave., Suite 220 (504) 412-1366 Ochsner Health Center Leonard J. Chabert Medical Ochsner Health System Lake Charles Bluebonnet Center Ochsner Health Center (337) 494-6888 Bradley L. Meek Department of Pediatrics Department of Internal Bluebonnet Lake Internal Medicine at 9001 Summa Ave., First Floor Medicine Department of Hematology and Jayne Schlosser Gurtler Hennessy Baton Rouge 1978 Industrial Blvd. Oncology Building Two, Suite Six 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite (225) 761-5200 Houma 9001 Summa Ave. 3939 Houma Blvd. 7000 (985) 873-2200 Baton Rouge Metairie Baton Rouge Charles Clarence Smith III (225) 761-5410 (504) 885-0577 (225) 765-8829 Internal Medicine Specialists Steven Deitelzweig 3525 Prytania St., Suite 526 Ochsner Health System Archie Watt Brown Jr. David Sam Hanson Joseph A. Miceli III New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Health System Louisiana Hematology and Ochsner Health System (504) 648-2500 Department of Hospital Ochsner Medical Center Oncology Associates Ochsner Medical Center Medicine Department of Hematology and 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Department of Internal Fayne St. John 1514 Jefferson Highway Oncology Baton Rouge Medicine Ochsner Health System New Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, First (225) 767-1311 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ochsner Medical Center (504) 842-5766 Floor Atrium Tower, Second Floor Department of Internal New Orleans Charles G. Hargon Jr. New Orleans Medicine Geraldine E. Menard (504) 842-3910 Hematology and Oncology (504) 842-4747 1514 Jefferson Highway, Tulane University School of Associates Atrium Tower, Second Floor Medicine Gary V. Burton 2600 Kings Highway, Suite

54 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 340 (504) 842-3910 Louisiana Hematology and Tulane Medical Center Department of Medicine Shreveport Oncology Associates Tulane Cancer Center 1430 Tulane Ave. (318) 212-8620 David Oubre 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Comprehensive Clinic New Orleans Pontchartrain Hematology Baton Rouge 150 S. Liberty St. (504) 988-5800 Cindy Anne Leissinger Oncology (225) 767-1311 New Orleans Tulane Medical Center 15752 Medical Arts Plaza, (504) 988-6300 Michael Hand Louisiana Center for Bleeding Suite 101 Milton Walsh Seiler Jr. Northeast Louisiana Kidney and Clotting Disorders Hammond Cancer Care of Louisiana Howard Gilbert Wold Specialists 1430 Tulane Ave. (985) 419-0025 3525 Prytania St., Suite 302 Hematology Oncology Life 711 Wood St., Suite A New Orleans New Orleans Center Monroe (504) 988-5433 Judd E. Patten (504) 897-8970 605 B Medical Center Drive (318) 323-8847 Louisiana Hematology and Alexandria Robert J. Massingill Oncology Associates Scott Anthony Sonnier (318) 442-2232 Friedrichs Henry Harris Jr. Christus Schumpert St. Mary 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 Cancer Care of Louisiana New Orleans Nephrology Place Baton Rouge 3525 Prytania St., Suite 302 NEPHROLOGY Associates Hematology and Oncology (225) 767-1311 New Orleans Kenneth D. Abreo 4409 Utica St., Suite 100 Clinic (504) 897-8970 Louisiana State University Metairie One St. Mary Place Georgia Ann Reine Health Sciences Center (504) 457-3687 Shreveport Hematology and Oncology Derrick W. Spell Department of Nephrology (318) 681-4565 Clinic Louisiana Hematology and 1501 Kings Highway Herschel Richard Harter 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 400 Oncology Associates Shreveport Northeast Louisiana Kidney Harry John McGaw Baton Rouge 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 500 (318) 675-7402 Specialists Cancer Care Specialists (225) 767-0822 Baton Rouge 711 Wood St., Suite A 8166 Main St., Suite 201 (225) 767-1311 A. Brent Alper Jr. Monroe Houma Steven J. Saccaro Tulane University Multispecialty (318) 323-8847 (985) 857-8093 Christus St. Frances Cabrini Chris Theodossiou Clinic Hospital Ochsner Health System Department of Nephrology Mitchell Jude Hebert Luis Alberto Meza Christus Cabrini Cancer Center Ochsner Medical Center 275 LaSalle St. Renal Associates of Baton Cancer Center of Acadiana Division of Oncology and Department of Hematology and New Orleans Rouge 1211 Coolidge Blvd., Suite Hematology Oncology (504) 988-5800 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 400 100 3330 Masonic Drive 1514 Jefferson Highway, First Baton Rouge Lafayette Alexandria Floor Michael Archie (225) 767-4893 (337) 289-8400 (318) 448-6522 New Orleans Northeast Louisiana Kidney (504) 842-3910 Specialists Fred Eugenio Husserl Gerald Patrick Miletello Hana F. Safah 711 Wood St., Suite A Ochsner Health System Hematology and Oncology Tulane Medical Center Ulla Jo Ule Monroe Ochsner Medical Center Clinic Tulane Cancer Center Christus St. Frances Cabrini (318) 323-8847 Department of Nephrology 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 400 Comprehensive Clinic Hospital 1514 Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge 150 S. Liberty St. Christus Cabrini Cancer Center Vecihi Batuman Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor (225) 767-0822 New Orleans 3330 Masonic Drive Tulane Medical Center New Orleans (504) 988-6300 Alexandria Section of Nephrology and (504) 842-3930 Michael Rawls Moore (318) 448-6917 Hypertension Hematology and Oncology Oliver Sartor 1415 Tulane Ave. N. Kevin Krane Associates Tulane Medical Center Robert Woody Veith New Orleans Tulane Medical Center 2600 Kings Highway, Suite Department of Hematology and 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 330 (504) 988-5800 Section of Nephrology and 340 Oncology Metairie Hypertension Shreveport 1415 Tulane Ave. (504) 455-0600 Joan Blondin 1415 Tulane Ave. (318) 212-8620 New Orleans Louisiana State University New Orleans (504) 988-7869 Alexander W.Washington Jr. Health Sciences Center (504) 988-9800 Frank Mott Tulane Medical Center Section of Nephrology and Ochsner Health System Jack Emile Saux III Tulane Cancer Center Hypertension Jill Suzanne Lindberg Ochsner Medical Center Cancer Care of Louisiana Comprehensive Clinic 1501 Kings Highway New Orleans Nephrology Department of Hematology and 1006 S. Harrison St. 150 S. Liberty St. Shreveport Associates Oncology Covington New Orleans (318) 675-7576 4409 Utica St., Suite 100 1514 Jefferson Highway, First (985) 892-9090 (504) 988-6300 Metairie Floor L. Lee Hamm (504) 457-3687 New Orleans Kellie Schmeeckle Roy Samuel Weiner Tulane Medical Center

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |55 Daniel E. Marsh (225) 769-2200 (504) 412-1517 Department of Neurology Renal Associates of Baton NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY Ambulatory Care Center, Rouge Alan J. Appley Roger Douglas Smith Roy Hugh Fleming Jr. Second Floor 4950 Essen Lane, Suite 400 Acadiana NeuroSurgery Ochsner Health System Neurological Services 1606 Kings Highway Baton Rouge 155 Hospital Drive, Suite 100 Ochsner Medical Center 3939 Houma Blvd., Suite 217 Shreveport (225) 767-4893 Lafayette (337) 235-7743 Department of Neurosurgery Metairie (318) 675-7760 1514 Jefferson Highway, (504) 885-7621 Melanie J. McKnight Thomas V. Bertuccini Seventh Floor Steven James Snatic Hospital Medicine Group 601 W. St. Mary Blvd., Suite New Orleans Anne L. Foundas Our Lady of Lourdes Regional 3600 Florida Blvd., Fourth 306 (504) 842-4033 Louisiana State University Medical Center Floor Lafayette School of Medicine Neurology Center Baton Rouge (337) 235-0933 Najeeb M. Thomas Department of Neurology 611 St. Landry St., Third Floor (225) 387-7070 Southern Brain and Spine Brain and Behavior Program Lafayette David Albert Cavanaugh 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 510 1542 Tulane Ave. (337) 289-4978 Richard M. O’Donovan Spine Institute of Louisiana Metairie New Orleans Northeast Louisiana Kidney 1500 Line Ave., Second Floor, (504) 454-0141 (504) 842-3980 Austin John Sumner Specialists Suite 200 LSU Healthcare Network 711 Wood St., Suite A Shreveport Rand Marcel Voorhies Amparo (Amy) Gutierrez Multiple Sclerosis Clinic Monroe (318) 629-5555 Southern Brain and Spine LSU Healthcare Network Department of Neurology (318) 323-8847 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 510 St. Charles Multispecialty Clinic 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite Luke A. Corsten Metairie Department of Neurology 700 S. Tahseen Rab The NeuroMedical Center Clinic (504) 454-0141 3700 St. Charles Ave. New Orleans 16026 Doctors Blvd. 10101 Park Rowe Ave., Suite New Orleans (504) 412-1517 Hammond 200 Brian Keith Willis (504) 412-1517 (985) 340-7868 Baton Rouge University Neurosurgery Steven Jeffrey Zuckerman (225) 769-2200 2300 Hospital Drive, Suite 350 Roger Everett Kelley Jr. 7922 Summa Ave., Suite A4 Bharat Sachdeva Bossier City Tulane Medical School Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Donald Dietze Jr. (318) 742-8666 Department of Neurology (225) 341-8311 Health Sciences Center The NORTH Institute 1430 Tulane Ave. Section of Nephrology 29301 N. Dixie Ranch Road NEUROLOGY New Orleans Richard M. Zweig Ambulatory Care Center, Lacombe Randall P. Brewer (504) 988-9190 Louisiana State University Second Floor (985) 871-4114 River Cities Interventional Pain Health Sciences Center 1606 Kings Highway Specialists Sheryl Martin-Schild Department of Neurology Shreveport Stephen Ira Goldware 1811 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Tulane Medical Center - Stroke 1501 Kings Highway (318) 675-7402 155 Hospital Drive, Suite 203 Loop, Suite 300 Center Shreveport Lafayette Shreveport Department of Neurology (318) 675-4613 Eric Edward Simon (337) 289-8636 (318) 212-3636 1415 Tulane Ave. Tulane University Multispecialty New Orleans NUCLEAR MEDICINE Clinic Fraser Landreneau Andrew Long Chesson Jr. (504) 988-5800 Richard J. Campeau Jr. Section of Nephrology The NeuroMedical Center Clinic Louisiana State University LSU Healthcare Network 275 LaSalle St. 10101 Park Rowe Ave., Suite Health Sciences Center Archibald L. Melcher III Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans 200 Sleep Disorders Center Jefferson Neurological Kenner (504) 988-5838 Baton Rouge Department of Neurology Associates Neuroendocrine Clinic (225) 768-2068 1501 Kings Highway 3800 Houma Blvd., Suite 205 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite Allen W. Vander Shreveport Metairie 200 Thibodaux Regional Medical Horace Mitchell (318) 675-5365 (504) 885-7337 Kenner Center The NeuroMedical Center Clinic (504) 464-8500 604 N. Acadia Road, Suite 10101 Park Rowe Ave., Suite Patricia Smith Cook Alireza Minagar 405 200 110 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Louisiana State University Oussama Nachar Thibodaux Baton Rouge Suite 105 Health Sciences Center Ochsner Medical Center (985) 446-0871 (225) 768-2050 Metairie Neurology Clinic Department of Nuclear (504) 831-6760 1606 Kings Highway Medicine Mark M. Wilson Anil Nanda Shreveport 1514 Jefferson Highway Freedman Clinic Louisiana State University Leopoldo DeAlvare (318) 675-4679 New Orleans Department of Internal Health Sciences Center Our Lady of Lourdes Neurology (504) 842-3470 Medicine Department of Neurosurgery Center Jeffrey Nicholl 1337 Centre Court 1501 Kings Highway 611 St. Landry St., Suite 500 Tulane Medical Center OBSTETRICS AND Alexandria Shreveport Lafayette Department of Neurology GYNECOLOGY (318) 445-9331 (318) 813-1555 (337) 289-4978 275 LaSalle St. Phillip A. Barksdale New Orleans Woman’s Hospital Juan Carlos Zeik Kelly J. Scrantz James N. Domingue (504) 988-9190 Louisiana Incontinence Center Acadiana Renal Physicians The NeuroMedical Center Clinic 1245 S. College Road, Suite Physician’s Tower, Suite 650 300 W. Saint Mary Blvd. 10101 Park Rowe Ave., Suite 100 Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak 9000 Airline Highway Lafayette 200 Lafayette LSU Healthcare Network Baton Rouge (337) 233-6593 Baton Rouge (337) 269-5840 St. Charles Multispecialty Clinic (225) 928-9881 Department of Neurology Gerard Dynes 3700 St. Charles Ave. Perry Scott Barrilleaux The Baton Rouge Clinic New Orleans Acadiana Maternal Fetal Department of Adult Neurology (504) 412-1517 Medicine 7373 Perkins Road Building A, Suite 204 Baton Rouge Allen Proctor 4630 Ambassador Caffery (225) 246-9240 The NeuroMedical Center Clinic Parkway 10101 Park Rowe Ave., Suite Lafayette Debra G. Elliott 200 (337) 989-9826 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Health Sciences Center (225) 769-2200 Lisa B. Bazzett Department of Neurology Ochsner Health System 1501 Kings Highway R. Eugene Ramsay Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Ochsner Health System Division of Gynecologic (318) 675-4941 Ochsner Medical Center Oncology Department of Neurology 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic John D. England 1514 Jefferson Highway, Tower, Fifth Floor LSU Healthcare Network Seventh Floor New Orleans Baptist Memorial Multispecialty New Orleans (504) 842-4165 Clinic (504) 842-3980 Department of Neurology William F. Beacham 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite Robert Newton Schwendimann North Oaks Obstetrics and 700 Louisiana State University Gynecology New Orleans Health Sciences Center 15748 Medical Arts Plaza

56 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Hammond Shreveport (318) 487-1289 (504) 988-8070 (985) 542-0663 Paul G. Crawford (318) 675-5372 Willis-Knighton Pierremont Robert T. Maupin Jr. Carol Ridenour William W. Bethea Health Center Peyton Randolph Hall III Touro Infirmary Louisiana Women’s Healthcare Crescent City Physicians Pierremont Women’s Clinic The Woman’s Clinic Perinatal Services Division Associates 3434 Prytania St., Suite 130 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 300 417 McMillan Road LSU Health Sciences Center 9000 Airline Highway, Suite New Orleans Shreveport West Monroe MFM Section 500 (504) 897-7676 (318) 212-3800 (318) 322-7119 1401 Foucher St. Baton Rouge New Orleans (225) 201-2000 Destin Black Francis Ralph Dauterive Truman Post Hawes Jr. (504) 897-8213 Gynecologic Oncology Services Ochsner Health System Acadiana Women’s Health Alfred Godfrey Robichaux III Willis Knighton Cancer Center Ochsner Health Center Group Donald Edmond Mickal Ochsner Health System 2600 Kings Highway Bluebonnet 4640 Ambassador Caffery Acadiana Women’s Health Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Department of Obstetrics and Parkway Group Division of Maternal and Fetal (318) 212-8727 Gynecology Lafayette 4640 Ambassador Caffery Medicine 9001 Summa Ave. (337) 984-1050 Parkway 1514 Jefferson Highway William G. Black Baton Rouge Lafayette New Orleans North Oaks Obstetrics and (225) 761-5239 Philip Hindelang (337) 984-1050 (504) 842-3000 Gynecology LSU Student Health Center 15748 Medical Arts Plaza Ryan David Dickerson Women’s Clinic Hugh E. Mighty Belinda Sartor Hammond Louisiana Women’s Healthcare Infirmary Road Louisiana State University The Fertility Institute of New (985) 542-0663 Associates Baton Rouge Health Sciences Center Orleans 9000 Airline Highway, Suite (225) 578-6271 Department of Obstetrics and 4770 S. I-10 Service Road W., Robin B. Bone 500 Gynecology Suite 201 Lakeside Women’s Specialty Baton Rouge Gwenn V. Jackson 1501 Kings Highway Metairie Center (225) 201-2000 The Woman’s Clinic Shreveport (504) 454-2165 East Jefferson Professional 417 McMillan Road (318) 675-5379 Building, Suite 500 Richard P. Dickey West Monroe Ellis J. Schwartzenburg 4315 Houma Blvd. Fertility Institute of New (318) 322-7119 Joseph Matthew Miller Jr. Woman’s Hospital Metairie Orleans Touro Infirmary Department of Obstetrics and (504) 885-8563 800 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite Susan Jeanfreau Perinatal Services Division Gynecology 2C Fleur de Lis Obstetrics and 1401 Foucher St. Physician’s Tower, Suite 230 Patricia S. Braly Mandeville Gynecology New Orleans 9000 Airline Highway Women’s Cancer Care (985) 892-7621 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite (504) 897-8213 Baton Rouge 606 W. 12th Ave. 340 (225) 928-5951 Covington Albert L. Diket New Orleans Lee Joseph Monlezun Jr. (985) 892-2252 Woman’s Hospital (504) 897-4287 801 W. Bayou Pines Drive Cynthia Jean Scott Department of Maternal and Lake Charles Building B, Suite Seven Rose Marie Brouillette Fetal Medicine Richard Carl Kline (337) 439-3205 4150 Nelson Road Louisiana State University Physician’s Tower, Suite 370 Ochsner Health System Lake Charles Health Sciences Center 9000 Airline Highway Ochsner Medical Center Timothy Joseph Mooney (337) 474-3307 Department of Obstetrics and Baton Rouge Division of Gynecologic 42333 Deluxe Plaza, Suite Gynecology (225) 924-8338 Oncology Seven Susan Shattuck 1501 Kings Highway 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic Hammond Willis-Knighton Pierremont Shreveport Chi P. Dola Tower, Fifth Floor (985) 345-2555 Health Center (318) 675-5370 Tulane Center for Women’s New Orleans Department of Obstetrics and Health (504) 842-4165 George Brazil Morris III Gynecology Randall L. Brown Section of Maternal-Fetal Ochsner Health System 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 350 Louisiana Women’s Healthcare Medicine Stanley Ray Kordisch Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Associates 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, Building C, Suite 10 Department of Obstetrics and (318) 524-0114 9000 Airline Highway, Suite Suite 300 4150 Nelson Road Gynecology 500 Metairie Lake Charles 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic Tonya Sheppard Baton Rouge (504) 988-8070 (337) 474-0653 Tower, Fifth Floor The Woman’s Clinic (225) 201-2010 New Orleans 312 Grammont St., Suite 300 Michael Stephen Durel Steve Norman London (504) 842-4155 Monroe David Garland Bryan Ochsner Health System Center for Fertility and (318) 388-4030 The Woman’s Clinic Ochsner Health Center Reproductive Health Mark Newman 312 Grammont St., Suite 300 Bluebonnet 2401 Greenwood Road Woman’s Hospital Marshall Scarle St. Amant Monroe Department of Obstetrics and Shreveport Department of Maternal and Woman’s Hospital (318) 388-4030 Gynecology (318) 212-8270 Fetal Medicine Department of Maternal and 9001 Summa Ave. Physician’s Tower, Suite 370 Fetal Medicine Ann Catherine Chau Baton Rouge Sherri Anne Longo 9000 Airline Highway Physician’s Tower, Suite 370 LSU Healthcare Network (225) 761-5239 Ochsner Health System Baton Rouge 9000 Airline Highway East Jefferson General Hospital Ochsner Medical Center (225) 924-8338 Baton Rouge Woman and Child Clinic William James Farrell Division of Maternal and Fetal (225) 924-8338 4200 Houma Blvd., Fourth The Fertility Institute of New Medicine Thomas Neal Payne Floor Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway Ochsner Health System Jerry Joseph St. Pierre Metairie 4770 S. I-10 Service Road W., New Orleans Ochsner Health Center Ochsner Health System (504) 456-5446 Suite 201 (504) 842-6290 Bluebonnet Ochsner Medical Center Metairie Department of Obstetrics and Department of Obstetrics and Pui (Joan) Cheng (504) 454-2165 Roberta G. Lottinger Gynecology Gynecology Crescent City Physicians Tulane Center for Women’s 9001 Summa Ave. 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic 3434 Prytania St., Suite 320 Eugene M. Fontenot Health Baton Rouge Tower, Fifth Floor New Orleans Building A, Suite One 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, (225) 761-5200 New Orleans (504) 897-7142 4150 Nelson Road Suite 300 (504) 842-4155 Lake Charles Metairie William David Pelletier Ralph R. Chesson Jr. (337) 474-2056 (504) 988-8070 Fertility and Women’s Health Charles Mallon Stedman LSU Healthcare Network Center of Louisiana Woman’s Hospital East Jefferson General Hospital Milton G. (Giles) Fort III Peter Lu 206 E. Farrel Road Department of Maternal and Division of Urogynecology 9000 Airline Highway, Suite The Fertility Institute of New Lafayette Fetal Medicine 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 210 Orleans (337) 989-8795 Physician’s Tower, Suite 370 600A Baton Rouge 4770 S. I-10 Service Road W., 9000 Airline Highway Metairie (225) 216-3006 Suite 201 Gabriella Pridjian Baton Rouge (504) 412-1600 Metairie Tulane Center for Women’s (225) 924-8338 Lynn J. Groome (504) 454-2165 Health Dellie Howard Clark Jr. Louisiana State University Section of Maternal-Fetal James R. Stenhouse The Woman’s Clinic Health Sciences Center Gary P. Manuel Medicine Louisiana Women’s Healthcare 417 McMillan Road Department of Obstetrics and Women’s Health Center 4720 S. I-10 Service Road W., Associates West Monroe Gynecology 501 Medical Center Drive Suite 302 9000 Airline Highway, Suite (318) 322-7119 1501 Kings Highway Alexandria Metairie 500

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |57 Baton Rouge Ochsner Health System Lake Charles (225) 201-2000 Ramesh S. Ayyala Ochsner Medical Center John B. Cazale (337) 477-5252 Tulane Medical Center Department of Ophthalmology Bone and Joint Center of Steven Noel Taylor Tulane Ophthalmology Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway, 10th Metairie Mark J. Hontas Fertility Institute of New 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor Floor 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, Tulane University Medical Orleans New Orleans New Orleans Suite 301 Group - Covington Clinic 800 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite (504) 988-5804 (504) 842-3995 Metairie Department of Orthopaedic 2C (504) 885-8225 Surgery Mandeville Richard Bessent Jon Anthony Yokubaitis 71211 Highway 21, Suite A (985) 892-7621 Surgical Eye Associates The Eye Clinic George Chimento Covington 1120 N. Highway 190 1717 Oak Park Blvd., Suite Ochsner Health System (985) 893-9922 Kerry Tynes Covington One Ochsner Medical Center Highland Clinic (985) 893-5777 Lake Charles Department of Orthopaedics Mark Juneau Jr. Department of Obstetrics and (337) 478-3810 1514 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson Orthopaedic Clinic Gynecology Stephen F. Brint Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor 920 Ave. B 1455 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Singer Brint Custom Vision ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY New Orleans Marrero Loop, Third Floor 4704 Veterans Blvd. Michael T. Acurio (504) 842-3970 (504) 349-6804 Shreveport Metairie Orthopedic Specialists of (318) 798-4400 (504) 888-2020 Louisiana Nathan Phillip Cohen Jefferson James Kaye 2005 Landry Drive Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Ochsner Health System Catherine Vanderloos Thomas Henry Casanova Bossier City Orthopaedic Specialists Ochsner Medical Center 2508 Bert Kouns Industrial Casanova Eye Surgery, Ear, (318) 752-7850 1717 Oak Park Blvd., Third Department of Orthopaedics Loop, Suite 400 Nose and Throat Clinic Floor 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fifth Shreveport 515 E. Sixth St. David W. Aiken Lake Charles Floor (318) 687-1991 Crowley 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 650 (337) 494-4900 New Orleans (337) 783-3073 Metairie (504) 842-3970 William F. von Almen II (504) 456-5152 Kevin Darr Crescent City Physicians John Charles Cooksey Covington Orthopaedic and Euby J. 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Diamond Louisiana 200 Henry Clay Ave. 3434 Prytania St., Suite 320 Southeast Louisiana Veterans 1500 Line Ave., Suite 100 Michael J. Duval New Orleans New Orleans Health Care System Shreveport Acadiana Orthopaedic Group (504) 896-9569 (504) 897-7142 New Orleans VA Outpatient (318) 635-3052 1448 S. College Road Clinic Lafayette James Lalonde Warren C. West Jr. Department of Ophthalmology Myron B. Bailey Jr. (337) 233-5300 Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic ObGyn Associates of Shreveport 1601 Perdido St. North Louisiana Orthopaedic 8000 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite 7941 Youree Drive New Orleans and Sports Medicine Clinic Luis M. Espinoza 1000 Shreveport (504) 553-2135 1501 Louisville Ave. Orthopaedic Center for Sports Baton Rouge (318) 797-7941 Monroe Medicine (225) 924-2424 Rudolph Michael Franklin (318) 323-8451 671 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite Adrienne McKnight Williams 1538 Front St. 100 Michael J. Leddy III The Woman’s Clinic Slidell Sidney L. Bailey Kenner Mid State Orthopaedic and 3424 Medical Park Drive, Suite (985) 641-9900 North Louisiana Orthopaedic (504) 467-5900 Sports Medicine Center One and Sports Medicine Clinic 3351 Masonic Drive Monroe Richard Jenness Hesse 1501 Louisville Ave. Donald C. Faust Alexandria (318) 361-9299 Ochsner Health System Monroe 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite (318) 473-9556 Ochsner Medical Center (318) 323-8451 600 Felton L. Winfield Jr. Department of Ophthalmology New Orleans James Scott Lillich LSU Healthcare Network 1514 Jefferson Highway, 10th R. Shane Barton (504) 899-1000 Orthopedic Specialists of St. Charles Multispecialty Clinic Floor The Orthopedic Clinic Louisiana Department of Obstetrics and New Orleans 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 200 Thomas Bryan Ford 1500 Line Ave., Suite 101 Gynecology (504) 842-3995 Shreveport Lake Area Orthopedic Shreveport 3700 St. Charles Ave. (318) 798-6700 Building G, Suite One (318) 635-3052 New Orleans Jonathan Michael Joseph 4150 Nelson Road (504) 412-1520 Bohn and Joseph Eye Center H. Ryan Bicknell Jr. Lake Charles Neil James Maki 609 Guilbeau Road The Orthopedic Clinic (337) 310-0440 Thibodaux Orthopaedic and James Louis Zehnder Lafayette 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 200 Sports Medicine Clinic Fertility and Women’s Health (337) 981-6430 Shreveport Walter Stanley Foster 525 St. Mary St. Center of Louisiana (318) 798-6700 Acadiana Orthopaedic Group Thibodaux 206 E. Farrel Road Alan Daniel Lacoste 1448 S. College Road (985) 446-6284 Lafayette The Eye Clinic Michael Elden Brunet Lafayette (337) 989-8795 1717 Oak Park Blvd., Suite Mid State Orthopaedic and (337) 233-5300 John V. Marymont One Sports Medicine Center Louisiana State University OPHTHALMOLOGY Lake Charles 3351 Masonic Drive R. Bryan Griffith Jr. Health Sciences Center Kyle Valentino Acosta (337) 478-3810 Alexandria Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Eyelid Plastic Surgery and (318) 473-9556 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite Surgery Reconstructive Center Ronald Andrew Landry 1000 1501 Kings Highway 185 Greenbrier Blvd. Eye Care Associates James C. Butler Baton Rouge Shreveport Covington 4324 Veterans Blvd., Suite 102 Southern Spine Care (225) 924-2424 (318) 813-2280 (985) 898-2001 Metairie 1570 Lindburg Drive, Suite (504) 455-9825 Four Gary Michael Haynie Mark S. Meyer Laurence W. Arend Slidell Orthopedic Specialists of Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System Charles Eliot Lyon (985) 661-2170 Louisiana Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center Vitreo-Retinal Associates 1500 Line Ave., Suite 100 Department of Orthopaedics Department of Ophthalmology 836 Olive St. Lucas Thomas Cashio Shreveport 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fifth 1514 Jefferson Highway, 10th Shreveport Jefferson Orthopaedic Clinic (318) 635-3052 Floor Floor (318) 222-8421 920 Ave. B New Orleans New Orleans Marrero Michael Alan Hinton (504) 842-3970 (504) 842-3995 Jonathan Nussdorf (504) 349-6804 230 W. Sale Road

58 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Marion Ezra Milstead Sports Medicine Center 3351 Masonic Drive Acadiana Otolaryngology, Head Louis Cucinotta Orthopedic Specialists of 3351 Masonic Drive Alexandria and Neck Surgery 111 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite Louisiana Alexandria (318) 473-9556 225 Bendel Road 100 1500 Line Ave., Suite 100 (318) 473-9556 Lafayette Mandeville Shreveport John Armstead Thomas (337) 232-2330 (985) 626-3021 (318) 635-3052 Kevin Riche Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic Baton Rouge Orthopaedic Clinic 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite Ronald G. Amedee Keith Francis De Sonier Scott C. Montgomery 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite 1000 Ochsner Health System Ear, Nose and Throat Associates Ochsner Hospital - Elmwood 1000 Baton Rouge Ochsner Medical Center 555 Dr. Michael DeBakey Ochsner Sports Medicine Baton Rouge (225) 924-2424 Department of Otolaryngology, Drive, Suite 103 Building B (225) 924-2424 Head and Neck Surgery Lake Charles 1201 S. Clearview Parkway Robert Treuting 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic (337) 439-0555 Jefferson Jason L. Rolling Ochsner Health System Tower, Fourth Floor (504) 736-4800 Covington Orthopaedic and Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans J. Kevin Duplechain Sports Medicine Clinic Department of Orthopaedics (504) 842-4080 1103 Kaliste Saloom Road, Thomas J. Montgomery 19343 Sunshine Ave. 1514 Jefferson Highway, Suite 300 449 Heymann Blvd. Covington Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor Moises Arriaga Lafayette Lafayette (985) 892-5117 New Orleans Our Lady of the Lake Regional (337) 456-3282 (337) 235-2264 (504) 842-3970 Medical Center Felix H. Savoie III Hearing and Balance Center Michael Sydney Ellis Edward Lawrence Morgan Tulane Institute of Sports David D. Waddell 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Tulane Medical Center Mid-South Orthopaedics Medicine Orthopedic Specialists of 709 Department of Otolaryngology, 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 220 202 McAlister Extension Louisiana Baton Rouge Head and Neck Surgery Shreveport New Orleans 1500 Line Ave., Suite 100 (225) 765-7735 1415 Tulane Ave., Third Floor (318) 424-3400 (504) 864-1476 Shreveport New Orleans (318) 635-3052 R. Graham Boyce (504) 988-5800 Pierce D. Nunley John P. Schutte Associated Surgical Specialists Spine Institute of Louisiana Acadiana Orthopaedic Group Dennis Martin Walker 804 Heavens Drive, Suite 105 David J. Foreman 1500 Line Ave., Second Floor, 1448 S. College Road Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Mandeville Acadiana Otolaryngology Suite 200 Lafayette Orthopaedic Specialists (985) 845-2677 Associates Shreveport (337) 233-5300 1717 Oak Park Blvd., Third 1039 Camellia Blvd. (318) 629-5555 Floor James Vance Broussard Lafayette Cambize Shahrdar Lake Charles Southern ENT Associates (337) 993-1335 J. Lockwood Ochsner Jr. The Orthopedic Clinic (337) 494-4900 Medical Office Building, Suite Ochsner Health System 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 200 101 Paul L. Friedlander Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Fredric Harvey Warren 604 N. Acadia Road Tulane Medical Center Department of Orthopaedics (318) 798-6700 Ochsner Health System Thibodaux Downtown ENT Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway Ochsner Medical Center (985) 446-5079 1415 Tulane Ave., Third Floor New Orleans Craig Rowan Springmeyer Department of Orthopaedics New Orleans (504) 842-3970 Highland Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fifth Robert Brent Butcher II (504) 988-5451 Department of Orthopaedics Floor Ochsner Health System William Lloyd Overdyke 1455 E. Bert Kouns Industrial New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center Paul Thomas Gaudet Orthopedic Specialists of Loop (504) 842-3970 Department of Otolaryngology, Southern ENT Associates Louisiana Shreveport Head and Neck Surgery Medical Office Building, Suite 1500 Line Ave. (318) 798-4623 William F. Webb 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby 101 Shreveport Mid South Orthopaedics Tower, Fourth Floor 604 N. Acadia Road (318) 635-3052 Misty Suri 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 220 New Orleans Thibodaux Ochsner Hospital - Elmwood Shreveport (504) 842-4080 (985) 446-5079 H. Reiss Plauche Ochsner Sports Medicine (318) 424-3400 Covington Orthopaedic and Building B Bradley J. Chastant H. Devon Graham III Sports Medicine Clinic 1221 S. Clearview Parkway OTOLARYNGOLOGY Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat and Ochsner Health System 19343 Sunshine Ave. Harahan C. Barrett Alldredge Facial Plastic Surgery Ochsner Medical Center Covington (504) 736-4800 225 Bendel Road 1000 W. Pinhook Road, Suite Department of Otolaryngology, (985) 892-5117 Lafayette 201 Head and Neck Surgery C. Terry Texada (337) 232-2330 Lafayette 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby Christopher John Rich Mid State Orthopaedic and (337) 237-0650 Tower, Fourth Floor Mid State Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center John W. Alldredge New Orleans

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Pinhook Road, Suite (225) 246-9240 Ochsner Health System Thibodaux Baton Rouge 201 Ochsner Medical Center (985) 493-4747 (225) 766-6931 Lafayette Anna Maria Pou Department of Pathology (337) 237-0650 Our Lady of the Lake Head and 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Francis Rodwig Ricardo U. Sorensen Neck Center Floor Ochsner Health System Children’s Hospital of New Keith Kreutziger 4950 Essen Lane, Suite A New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center Orleans Ochsner Health System Baton Rouge (504) 842-3330 Department of Pathology Department of Allergy and Ochsner Medical Center (225) 765-1765 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Immunology Department of Otolaryngology, Carl G. Bowling Floor 200 Henry Clay Ave. Head and Neck Surgery David Grehan Pou Lake Charles Memorial Hospital New Orleans New Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby Ear, Nose and Throat Center Department of Pathology (504) 842-3208 (504) 896-4589 Tower, Fourth Floor 2121 Line Ave. 1701 Oak Park Blvd. New Orleans Shreveport Lake Charles Robert L. Rumsey PEDIATRIC (504) 842-4080 (318) 226-9441 (337) 494-3189 The Pathology Laboratory ANESTHESIOLOGY 830 Bayou Pines Drive Stanley Martin Hall James J. LaNasa Jr. Michael Robichaux Sr. James E. Brown Lake Charles Children’s Hospital of New 2223 Quail Run Drive, Suite E Southern ENT Associates West Jefferson Medical Center (337) 436-9557 Orleans Baton Rouge 4425 Highway One Department of Pathology Department of Anesthesiology (225) 769-7560 Raceland 1101 Medical Center Blvd. Harold E. Sightler 200 Henry Clay Ave. (985) 537-7546 Marrero Ochsner Health System New Orleans Timothy S. Lian (504) 647-5511 Ochsner Medical Center (504) 896-9456 Louisiana State University James Sherman Soileau Department of Pathology Health Sciences Center 17050 Medical Center Drive, Edgar Shannon Cooper 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth John Frederick Heaton Department of Otolaryngology Suite 315 Pathology Group of Louisiana Floor Children’s Hospital of New 1501 Kings Highway Baton Rouge 5339 O’Donovan Drive New Orleans Orleans Shreveport (225) 293-6973 Baton Rouge (504) 842-3330 Department of Anesthesiology (318) 675-6262 (225) 766-4999 200 Henry Clay Ave. Paul M. Spring Thom Smilari New Orleans Paige Lindberg ENT Specialists of Metairie Randall Douglas Craver Ochsner Health System (504) 896-9456 Ochsner Health System 4315 Houma Blvd., Suite 401 Children’s Hospital of New Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center Metairie Orleans Department of Pathology Vilasini Satish Karnik Department of Otolaryngology, (504) 889-5335 Department of Pathology 1514 Jefferson Highway Ochsner Health System Head and Neck Surgery 200 Henry Clay Ave. New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby Robert F. Tarpy New Orleans (504) 842-3330 Department of Pediatric Tower, Fourth Floor Acadiana Otolaryngology (504) 896-9873 Anesthesiology New Orleans 1103 Kaliste Saloom Road, Frederick Wayne Stromeyer 1514 Jefferson Highway, (504) 842-4080 Suite 308 Philip J. Daroca Jr. Pathology Group of Louisiana Second Floor Lafayette Tulane University Health 5339 O’Donovan Drive New Orleans Herbert Wendt Marks Jr. (337) 233-7016 Sciences Center Baton Rouge (504) 842-3755 Medical Plaza ENT Physicians Department of Pathology and (225) 766-4999 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 110 Justin M. Tenney Laboratory Medicine George P. Koclanes Metairie Southern ENT Associates 1430 Tulane Ave. Gault Henry Townsend Children’s Hospital of New (504) 455-3434 Medical Office Building, First New Orleans The Pathology Laboratory Orleans Floor, Suite 101 (504) 988-5224 830 W. Bayou Pines Drive Department of Anesthesiology Timothy Blake Molony 604 N. Acadia Road Lake Charles 200 Henry Clay Ave. Ochsner Health System Thibodaux Nancy K. Davis (337) 436-9557 New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center (985) 446-5078 Ochsner Health System (504) 896-9456 Department of Otolaryngology, Ochsner Medical Center John S. Van Hoose Head and Neck Surgery Robert Strong Thornton Department of Pathology The Pathology Laboratory Sheryl Lynn Sawatsky 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby Ear, Nose and Throat Center 1514 Jefferson Highway 830 Bayou Pines Drive Children’s Hospital of New Tower, Fourth Floor 2121 Line Ave. New Orleans Lake Charles Orleans New Orleans Shreveport (504) 842-3330 (337) 436-9557 Department of Anesthesiology (504) 842-4080 (318) 226-9441 200 Henry Clay Ave. Sidney Bruce Gray PEDIATRIC ALLERGY New Orleans Denbo Herbert Montgomery Jr. Rohan R. Walvekar Our Lady of Lourdes Regional AND IMMUNOLOGY (504) 896-9456 Acadiana Otolaryngology, Head Our Lady of the Lake Head and Medical Center Sami L. Bahna and Neck Surgery Neck Center Department of Pathology Louisiana State University PEDIATRIC CARDIAC 225 Bendel Road 4950 Essen Lane, Suite A 611 St. Landry St. Health Sciences Center SURGERY Lafayette Baton Rouge Lafayette Section of Pediatric Allergy and Joseph Caspi (337) 232-2330 (225) 765-1765 (337) 289-4383 Immunology Children’s Hospital of New Women’s and Children’s Clinic, Orleans Brian A. Moore Roger Mark Williams Li Huang First Floor The Heart Center Ochsner Health System Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic Ochsner Health System 1602 Kings Highway Section of Cardiothoracic Ochsner Medical Center 501 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive Ochsner Medical Center Shreveport Surgery Department of Otolaryngology, Lake Charles Department of Anatomic (318) 675-8604 200 Henry Clay Ave. Head and Neck Surgery (337) 477-6172 Pathology New Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Jane M. S. El-Dahr (504) 896-3928 New Orleans Newland Knight Worley Floor Tulane Hospital for Children (504) 842-4080 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 640 New Orleans Section of Pediatric Allergy, Dennis M. Mello Metairie (504) 842-3330 Immunology, and Rheumatology Ochsner Health System Daniel Wehrmann Nuss (504) 456-5120 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor Ochsner Medical Center Our Lady of the Lake Head and Herbert Ichinose New Orleans Pediatric Center Neck Center Guy Paul Zeringue Jr. Millennium Diagnostics (504) 988-5800 1516 Jefferson Highway 4950 Essen Lane, Suite A Southern ENT Associates 1365 Englewood Drive New Orleans Baton Rouge Medical Office Building, Suite Slidell Bina Elizabeth Joseph (504) 842-3966 (225) 765-1765 101 (985) 781-9005 Allergy and Asthma Clinic of 604 N. Acadia Road Southwest Louisiana Thomas Yeh Jr. Stanley Peters Thibodaux William Proctor Newman III 320 Settlers Trace Blvd. Tulane Pediatrics Downtown Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic (985) 446-5079 Louisiana State University Lafayette Clinic

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Department of Cardiology New Orleans 1602 Kings Highway Margarita Silio Orleans 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor (504) 899-9511 Shreveport Tulane Hospital for Children Department of Nephrology New Orleans (318) 675-6070 Division of Pediatric Infectious 200 Henry Clay Ave. (504) 988-6253 Gary L. Duhon Disease New Orleans Children’s Hospital of New PEDIATRIC 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor (504) 896-9238 PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY Orleans GASTROENTEROLOGY New Orleans Robert Joseph Ascuitto Department of Pediatric Critical Raynorda F. Brown (504) 988-5800 Ihor V. Yosypiv Children’s Hospital of New Care Children’s Hospital of New Tulane Medical Center Orleans 200 Henry Clay Ave. Orleans Russell Wesley Steele Division of Pediatric Nephrology Department of Cardiology New Orleans Department of Gastroenterology, Ochsner Health System 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor 200 Henry Clay Ave. (504) 896-3924 Hepatology and Nutrition Ochsner for Children Health New Orleans New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Ave. Center (504) 988-2544 (504) 896-9751 Edwin Michael Frieberg New Orleans Department of Infectious Tulane Medical Center (504) 896-9534 Disease PEDIATRIC Terry Dean King Section of Pediatric Critical Care 1315 Jefferson Highway, First NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY 300 Pavilion Road 1430 Tulane Ave. Ilana S. Fortgang Floor Joseph Mortimer Dean Nadell West Monroe New Orleans Tulane Hospital for Children New Orleans Children’s Hospital of New (318) 323-1100 (504) 988-2339 Division of Gastroenterology (504) 842-3900 Orleans 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor Department of Neurosurgery Victor William Lucas Jr. Robert Lee Hopkins New Orleans Russell Barrett Van Dyke Ambulatory Care Center Ochsner Health System Tulane Medical Center (504) 988-5800 Tulane Hospital for Children 200 Henry Clay Ave. Ochsner for Children Health Section of Pediatric Division of Pediatric Infectious New Orleans Center Pulmonology PEDIATRIC Diseases (504) 896-9568 Department of Pediatric 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor HEMATOLOGY-ONCOLOGY 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor Cardiology New Orleans Renee V. Gardner New Orleans PEDIATRIC 1315 Jefferson Highway (504) 988-5800 Children’s Hospital of New (504) 988-5800 OPHTHALMOLOGY New Orleans Orleans George S. Ellis Jr. (504) 842-2500 L. Keith Scott Department of Hematology and Ronald D. Wilcox Children’s Hospital of New Louisiana State University Oncology The HOP Clinic Orleans Theodorus Johannes Mulder Health Sciences Center 200 Henry Clay Ave., First Floor 2235 Poydras St. Department of Ophthalmology Ochsner Health System Department of Pulmonary and New Orleans New Orleans Ambulatory Care Center, Suite Ochsner for Children Health Critical Care Medicine (504) 896-9740 (504) 903-6959 3104 Center 1501 Kings Highway 200 Henry Clay Ave. Department of Cardiology Shreveport Ammar B. Morad PEDIATRIC MEDICAL New Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway (318) 675-5920 Women’s and Children’s GENETICS (504) 896-9426 New Orleans Hospital Hans Christoph Andersson (504) 842-5200 PEDIATRIC DERMATOLOGY Kid’s Specialty Center Tulane Hospital for Children Horatio Sprague Eustis Jeffrey C. Poole 4704 Ambassador Caffery Hayward Genetics Center Ochsner Health System Michael Ramon Recto 111 Veterans Blvd., Suite 406 Parkway 1430 Tulane Ave. Ochsner Medical Center Tulane Hospital for Children Metairie Lafayette New Orleans Department of Ophthalmology Division of Pediatric Cardiology (504) 838-8225 (337) 521-9250 (504) 988-5229 1514 Jefferson Highway, 10th 1415 Tulane Ave. Floor New Orleans PEDIATRIC Tammuella E. Singleton Dmitriy Niyazov New Orleans (504) 988-2273 DEVELOPMENTAL AND Tulane Medical Center Ochsner Health System (504) 842-3995 BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS Louisiana Center for Bleeding Ochsner for Children Health Nancy Tamara Ross-Ascuitto Susan Fielkow and Clotting Disorders Center Robert Allen Gordon Children’s Hospital of New Ochsner Health System 1430 Tulane Ave. Division of Medical Genetics Tulane Medical Center Orleans Ochsner for Children Health New Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway, Department of Ophthalmology Department of Cardiology Center (504) 988-5433 Second Floor 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor 200 Henry Clay Ave. Department of Child New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans Development Maria C. Velez (504) 842-3900 (504) 988-5804 (504) 896-9751 1315 Jefferson Highway Children’s Hospital of New New Orleans Orleans PEDIATRIC NEPHROLOGY PEDIATRIC ORTHOPAEDIC Aluizio Roberto Stopa (504) 842-3900 Department of Hematology and Diego H. Aviles SURGERY Children’s Hospital of New Oncology Children’s Hospital of New Stephen Douglas Heinrich Orleans PEDIATRIC 200 Henry Clay Ave., First Floor Orleans Children’s Hospital of New Department of Cardiology ENDOCRINOLOGY New Orleans Department of Nephrology Orleans 200 Henry Clay Ave. Stuart A. Chalew (504) 896-9740 200 Henry Clay Ave. Department of Orthopaedic New Orleans Children’s Hospital of New New Orleans Surgery (504) 896-9751 Orleans Lolie Chua Yu (504) 896-9238 200 Henry Clay Ave. Department of Endocrinology Children’s Hospital of New New Orleans Thomas Young and Diabetes Orleans Robert J. Cunningham III (504) 896-9569 Ochsner Health System 200 Henry Clay Ave. Department of Hematology and Ochsner Health System Ochsner for Children Health New Orleans Oncology Ochsner for Children Health Andrew G. King Center (504) 896-9441 200 Henry Clay Ave. Center Children’s Hospital of New Department of Cardiology New Orleans Department of Nephrology Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway, First Ricardo Gomez (504) 896-9740 1315 Jefferson Highway, Department of Orthopaedic Floor Children’s Hospital of New Second Floor Surgery New Orleans Orleans PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Ave. (504) 842-5200 Department of Endocrinology DISEASE (504) 842-3900 New Orleans and Diabetes Thomas Alchediak (504) 896-9569 PEDIATRIC 200 Henry Clay Ave. Tulane-Lakeside Hospital Samir S. El-Dahr CARDIOVASCULAR New Orleans Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Tulane Hospital for Children Richard McCall ANESTHESIA (504) 896-9441 Clinic Section of Nephrology Shriners Hospital for Children Donald Eric Harmon 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, 1415 Tulane Ave. Department of Pediatric Ochsner Health System Neslihan K. Gungor Suite 501 New Orleans Orthopaedic Surgery Ochsner Medical Center Louisiana State University Metairie (504) 988-5800 3100 Samford Ave. Department of Anesthesiology Health Sciences Center (504) 988-8000 Shreveport 1514 Jefferson Highway, Division of Endocrinology Lewis Reisman (318) 222-5704 Second Floor 1501 Kings Highway Joseph A. Bocchini Jr. Louisiana State University New Orleans Shreveport Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Fredric Harvey Warren (504) 842-3755 (318) 675-6070 Health Sciences Center Section of Pediatric Nephrology Ochsner Health System Section of Pediatric Infectious Women’s and Children’s Clinic, Ochsner Medical Center PEDIATRIC Robert McVie Disease First Floor Department of Orthopaedics CRITICAL CARE Louisiana State University Women’s and Children’s 1602 Kings Highway 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fifth Bonnie Desselle Health Sciences Center Building, First Floor Shreveport Floor Children’s Hospital of New Department of Pediatric 1602 Kings Highway (318) 675-8631 New Orleans Orleans Endocrinology Shreveport (504) 842-3970 Division of Critical Care Women’s and Children’s (318) 675-6081 V. Matti Vehaskari 200 Henry Clay Ave. Building, First Floor Children’s Hospital of New

62 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 63 PEDIATRIC Oncology Children’s Hospital of New Medicine (504) 988-4794 OTOLARYNGOLOGY 1514 Jefferson Highway, First Orleans Section of Child and Adolescent C. Barrett Alldredge Floor Department of Endocrinology Psychiatry PEDIATRIC 225 Bendel Road New Orleans and Diabetes 1440 Canal St. SPECIALIST/NEONATAL- Lafayette (504) 842-3440 200 Henry Clay Ave. New Orleans PERINATAL MEDICINE (337) 232-2330 New Orleans (504) 988-4794 Brian Barkemeyer Ellen (Elly) Zakris (504) 896-9441 Children’s Hospital of New John Lindhe Guarisco Touro Infirmary Daphne Ann Glindmeyer Orleans Ochsner Health System Department of Radiation PEDIATRIC 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Suite Department of Neonatology Ochsner Medical Center Oncology SPECIALIST/CHILD 420 200 Henry Clay Ave. Department of Otolaryngology, 1401 Foucher St., First Floor AND ADOLESCENT Gretna New Orleans Head and Neck Surgery New Orleans PSYCHIATRY (504) 392-8348 (504) 896-9418 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby (504) 897-8387 Milton Webster Anderson Tower, Fourth Floor Ochsner Health System Rick Henderson Rosaire Josseline L. Belizaire New Orleans PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY Ochsner Medical Center The Center for Individual and Pediatrix Medical Group of (504) 842-4080 Jane D. Congeni Division of Child and Adolescent Family Counseling Louisiana Children’s Hospital of New Psychiatry 3500 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 107 Montrose Ave., Suite D Kimsey Rodriguez Orleans 1514 Jefferson Highway, Brent 1410 Lafayette Ochsner Health System Department of Radiology House, Fourth Floor Metairie (337) 981-9316 Ochsner Medical Center 200 Henry Clay Ave. New Orleans (504) 838-9919 Department of Otolaryngology, New Orleans (504) 842-4025 Juan M. Bossano Head and Neck Surgery (504) 896-9565 Rita Y. Horton Children’s Clinic of Southwest 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Ted Bloch III Louisiana State University Louisiana Floor PEDIATRIC 3525 Prytania St., Suite 211 Health Sciences Center- 2903 First Ave. New Orleans RHEUMATOLOGY New Orleans Shreveport Lake Charles (504) 842-4080 Jane M. S. El-Dahr (504) 897-7939 Child Psychiatry Faculty Clinic (337) 478-6480 Tulane Hospital for Children Gordon Lane Blundell Jr. 820 Jordan St., Suite 104 PEDIATRIC PATHOLOGY Section of Pediatric Allergy, 179 Highway 22 E., Suite 100 Shreveport Marc de Soler Randall Douglas Craver Immunology, and Rheumatology Madisonville (318) 676-5002 St. Francis Medical Center Children’s Hospital of New 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor (985) 845-8101 Division of Neonatology Orleans New Orleans Kristopher Edward Kaliebe 309 Jackson St., Fourth Floor Department of Pathology (504) 988-5800 Neil W. Boris St. Charles Community Health Monroe 200 Henry Clay Ave. Tulane University Health Center (318) 966-4159 New Orleans Abraham Gedalia Sciences Center Division of Behavioral Health (504) 896-9873 Children’s Hospital of New Department of Psychiatry and 853 Milling Ave. William Larry Gill Orleans Behavioral Sciences Luling Tulane-Lakeside Hospital PEDIATRIC Department of Rheumatology 1440 Canal St. (985) 785-5881 Section of Neonatology PULMONOLOGY Ambulatory Care Center, Suite New Orleans 4700 S. I-10 Service Road, Scott H. Davis 3020 (504) 988-5405 Cecile L. Many Second Floor Tulane Medical Center 200 Henry Clay Ave. Tulane Medical Center Metairie Section of Pediatric New Orleans Stephen R. Cochran Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic (504) 780-4583 Pulmonology (504) 896-9385 1426 Amelia St. Section of Child and Adolescent 1415 Tulane Ave. New Orleans Psychiatry Jay Paul Goldsmith New Orleans PEDIATRIC (504) 891-6020 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor Women’s and Children’s Hospital (504) 988-5800 SPECIALIST/ADOLESCENT New Orleans Department of Neonatology AND YOUNG ADULT Charles Calvin Coleman (504) 988-4794 4600 Ambassador Caffery Robert Lee Hopkins MEDICINE Louisiana State University Parkway Tulane Medical Center Sue Ellen Abdalian Health Sciences Center Pamela McPherson Lafayette Section of Pediatric Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent Department of Psychiatry Shreveport Mental Health Center (504) 236-3566 Pulmonology Medicine Clinic 1542 Tulane Ave. Building Three, Suite 350 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor Tulane-Lakeside Clinic Building, New Orleans 2924 Knight St. Phillip V. Gordon New Orleans Suite 501 (504) 568-6001 Shreveport Tulane Lakeside Hospital (504) 988-5800 4720 S. I-10 Service Road (318) 862-3053 Section of Neonatology Metairie Robert Dahmes 4700 S. I-10 Service Road W. Michael Philip Kiernan (504) 988-8000 New Orleans Psychotherapy Richard Howard Morse Metairie Tulane Medical Center Associates 4417 Danneel St. (504) 988-5795 Tulane Hospital for Children Robert J. Cunningham III 3520 General DeGaulle Drive, New Orleans 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor Ochsner Health System Suite 4098 (504) 891-2354 Chih-Hao Lin New Orleans Ochsner for Children Health New Orleans Women and Children’s Hospital (504) 988-5800 Center (504) 362-4122 Paul G. Pelts Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Department of Nephrology 1539 Jackson Ave., Suite 300 4200 Nelson Road PEDIATRIC RADIATION 1315 Jefferson Highway, Richard F. Dalton Jr. New Orleans Lake Charles ONCOLOGY Second Floor Tulane University Health (504) 581-3933 (337) 475-4181 Troy Gene Scroggins Jr. New Orleans Sciences Center Ochsner Health System (504) 842-3900 Department of Psychiatry and Judy Marianne Roheim Bedford Nieves-Cruz Ochsner Medical Center Behavioral Sciences Ochsner Health System Terrebonne General Medical Department of Radiation Sarah R.S. Stender 1440 Tulane Ave. Ochsner Health Center Center New Orleans Bluebonnet Division of Neonatology (504) 988-5401 Department of Psychiatry 8166 Main St. 9001 Summa Ave., Fourth Floor Houma Martin J. Drell Baton Rouge (985) 858-7300 Louisiana State University (225) 761-5820 Health Sciences Center Amarjit Singh Nijjar Division of Infant, Child and Mark Allen Sands Christus St. Frances Cabrini Adolescent Psychiatry Mercy Family Center Hospital 1542 Tulane Ave., Room 236 110 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Department of Neonatology New Orleans Suite 425 3330 Masonic Drive (504) 568-6001 Metairie Alexandria (504) 838-8283 (318) 448-6827 Stacy Drury Tulane Medical Center Jason Murphy Wuttke Staci Marie Olister Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic 1539 Jackson Ave., Suite 300 Children’s Hospital of New Section of Child and Adolescent New Orleans Orleans Psychiatry (504) 581-3933 Department of Neonatology 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor 200 Henry Clay Ave. New Orleans Charles Henry Zeanah New Orleans (504) 988-4794 Tulane Medical Center (504) 896-9418 Department of Psychiatry Mary Margaret Gleason 1415 Tulane Ave. Carmen Sanudo Payne Tulane University School of New Orleans St. Francis Medical Center

64 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Division of Neonatology Baton Rouge (504) 842-3907 Bayou Pediatrics Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent 309 Jackson St., Fourth Floor (225) 769-4044 8120 Main St., Suite 300 Clinic Monroe Kenneth Wayne Falterman Houma 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, (318) 966-4917 Ann Henderson Tilton Women’s and Children’s (985) 868-5440 Suite 501 Children’s Hospital of New Hospital Metairie Duna Penn Orleans Kid’s Specialty Center Darrell Stone Barnett (504) 998-8000 Children’s Hospital of New Department of Neurology 4704 Ambassador Caffery Pediatric Associates Orleans Ambulatory Care Center, Suite Parkway 950 Olive St. Robert Eldred Drumm Department of Neonatology 3314 Lafayette Shreveport The Baton Rouge Clinic 200 Henry Clay Ave. 200 Henry Clay Ave. (337) 521-9250 (318) 681-4896 Department of Pediatrics New Orleans, New Orleans 7373 Perkins Road, Ground (504) 896-9418 (504) 896-9283 Faith Hansbrough Ronald L. Bombet Floor Pediatric Surgery of Louisiana The Baton Rouge Clinic Baton Rouge Arun Kumar Pramanik Maria Weimer 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Department of Pediatrics (225) 246-9290 Louisiana State University Children’s Hospital of New 212 7373 Perkins Road, Second Health Sciences Center Orleans Baton Rouge Floor Adela Pratt Dupont Section of Neonatology Department of Neurology (225) 769-2295 Baton Rouge Leonard J. Chabert Medical 1501 Kings Highway Ambulatory Care Center, Suite (225) 246-9290 Center Shreveport 3040 Charles Baker Hill Jr. Pediatric Clinic (318) 675-7276 200 Henry Clay Ave. Children’s Hospital of New Jennifer Alane Boustany 1978 Industrial Blvd. Jane Ellen Reynolds New Orleans Orleans 4630 Ambassador Caffery Houma Tulane-Lakeside Hospital (504) 896-9283 Department of Surgery Parkway, Suite 102 (985) 873-1730 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit 200 Henry Clay Ave. Lafayette 4700 S. I-10 Service Road John Kelver Willis II New Orleans (337) 989-2322 Bonita H. Dyess Metairie Ochsner Health System (504) 896-3977 Pediatrics Plus (504) 988-2339 Ochsner for Children Health Daniel Richard Bronfin 3401 Magnolia Cove Center Rodney B. Steiner Ochsner Health System Monroe Dana L. Rivera Department of Neurology Children’s Hospital of New Ochsner for Children Health (318) 325-6311 Children’s Hospital of New 1315 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Orleans Center Orleans Tower, Second Floor Department of Surgery Department of General David Anderson Estes Jr. Department of Neonatology New Orleans 200 Henry Clay Ave. Pediatrics Napoleon Pediatrics 200 Henry Clay Ave. (504) 842-3900 New Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway, First 3040 33rd St. New Orleans (504) 896-9756 Floor Metairie (504) 896-9418 PEDIATRIC New Orleans (504) 219-0880 SPECIALIST/NEUROLOGY, John Willson Walsh (504) 842-3900 Steven Brian Spedale MOVEMENT DISORDERS Tulane Downtown Pediatric Patrice Evers Woman’s Hospital Ann Henderson Tilton Clinic Traci Brumund Tulane-Lakeside Pediatric Clinic Department of Neonatology Children’s Hospital of New Section of Pediatric The Baton Rouge Clinic 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, 9050 Airline Highway Orleans Neurosurgery Department of Pediatrics Suite 501 Baton Rouge Department of Neurology 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor 7373 Perkins Road Metairie (225) 928-2555 Ambulatory Care Center, Suite New Orleans Baton Rouge (504) 988-5800 3314 (504) 988-5800 (225) 246-9290 Cong Thanh Vo 200 Henry Clay Ave. Bernard Ferrer Pediatrix Medical Group of New Orleans PEDIATRIC UROLOGY Keith J. Capone Bayou Pediatrics Louisiana (504) 896-9283 John Alexander Mata Lake Vista Pediatrics 8120 Main St., Suite 300 107 Montrose Ave., Suite D Louisiana State University 6517 Spanish Fort Blvd. Houma Lafayette PEDIATRIC Health Sciences Center New Orleans (985) 868-5440 (337) 981-9316 SPECIALIST/NEUROLOGY, Department of Urology (504) 283-7306 NEONATAL NEUROLOGY 1501 Kings Highway Marc A. Fisher PEDIATRIC Charlotte Marie Anderson Shreveport Robert W. Clarke Jr. 12A Westbank Expressway, SPECIALIST/NEUROLOGY, Hollman (318) 675-5600 Bayou Pediatrics Suite 100 EPILEPSY The Baton Rouge Clinic 8120 Main St., Suite 300 Gretna Shannon McGuire Department of Pediatric Joseph Ortenberg Houma (504) 361-0234 Children’s Hospital of New Neurology Children’s Hospital of New (985) 868-5440 Orleans 7373 Perkins Road Orleans Ruthanne R. Gallagher Department of Neurology Baton Rouge Department of Urology Tracy Conrad Bayou Pediatrics Ambulatory Care Center, Suite (225) 246-9240 Ambulatory Care Center Tulane Metairie Multispecialty 8120 Main St., Suite 300 3040 200 Henry Clay Ave. Clinic Houma 200 Henry Clay Ave. PEDIATRIC New Orleans 4720 I-10 Service Road, Suite (985) 868-5440 New Orleans SPECIALIST/NEUROLOGY, (504) 896-9233 101 (504) 896-9283 NEUROMUSCULAR Metairie Gregory John Gelpi DISEASE PEDIATRICS/GENERAL (504) 988-5800 Pediatric Clinic PEDIATRIC Ann Henderson Tilton Thomas Alchediak 888 Tara Blvd., Suite F SPECIALIST/NEUROLOGY, Children’s Hospital of New Tulane-Lakeside Hospital Michael James Coogan Baton Rouge GENERAL Orleans Tulane Pediatric and Adolescent 541 Shadows Lane, Suite C (225) 926-4400 Diane K. Africk Department of Neurology Clinic Baton Rouge Ochsner Health System Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 4720 S. I-10 Service Road, (225) 925-2000 Lois Herd Gesn Ochsner for Children Health 3314 Suite 501 Ochsner Health Center - Baton Center 200 Henry Clay Ave. Metairie Cary A. Culbertson Rouge Section of Neurology New Orleans (504) 988-8000 Metairie Pediatrics Department of Pediatrics 1315 Jefferson Highway, (504) 896-9283 2201 Veterans Blvd., Suite 300 16777 Medical Center Drive, Second Floor Thomas Babin Metairie Suite 100 New Orleans PEDIATRIC Ormond Pediatric Group (504) 833-7374 Baton Rouge (504) 842-3900 SPECIALIST/PEDIATRIC 141 Ormond Center Court (225) 754-3278 METABOLIC DISEASES Destrehan Terry L. Cummings Stephen Russell Deputy Hans Christoph Andersson (985) 764-7337 Tulane Multispecialty Uptown Amy Glick Children’s Hospital of New Tulane Hospital for Children Clinic Ochsner Health System Orleans Hayward Genetics Center Susan M. Bankston 200 Broadway Ave., Suite 230 Ochsner Children’s Health Department of Neurology 1430 Tulane Ave. The Baton Rouge Clinic New Orleans Center Metairie Ambulatory Care Center, Suite New Orleans 7373 Perkins Road (504) 988-9000 Department of Pediatrics 3040 (504) 988-5229 Baton Rouge 4901 Veterans Memorial Blvd. 200 Henry Clay Ave. (225) 767-2827 Theresa Lynn Dise Metairie New Orleans PEDIATRIC SURGERY Tulane Multispecialty Uptown (504) 887-1133 (504) 896-9319 Vincent Robert Adolph John S. Barbara Clinic Ochsner Health System Metairie Pediatrics 200 Broadway Ave., Suite 230 Patricia Granier Barbara Jean Golden Ochsner Medical Center 2201 Veterans Blvd., Suite 300 New Orleans Ochsner Health System The Baton Rouge Clinic Department of Pediatric Surgery Metairie (504) 988-9000 Ochsner Children’s Health Department of Pediatric 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby (504) 833-7374 Center Metairie Neurology Tower, Fifth Floor Hosea Joseph Doucet III Department of Pediatrics 7373 Perkins Road, Third Floor New Orleans Kimberley Barner Tulane-Lakeside Hospital 4901 Veterans Memorial Blvd.

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |65 Metairie 4225 Lapalco Blvd., Second Albert Warren Richert Stephen M. Weimer Stephen Kishner (504) 887-1133 Floor Pediatric Center of Southwest Tulane Medical Center LSU Physical Medicine and Marrero Louisiana Tulane Pediatric Clinic Rehabilitation Stephen Wilson Hales (504) 371-9355 600 Cypress St. 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor 1401 Foucher St., Suite 10012 Hales Pediatrics Sulphur New Orleans New Orleans 3525 Prytania St., Suite 602 Shelley M. Martin (337) 527-6371 (504) 988-5800 (504) 897-8948 New Orleans The Baton Rouge Clinic (504) 897-0744 Department of Pediatrics Kenyatta D. Shamlin Danny Scott Wood Thomas Charles Laborde 7373 Perkins Road, Second Baton Rouge Family Medical The Baton Rouge Clinic Rehabilitation Services Robert Davis Haynie Floor Center Department of Pediatrics 1605 Foster St. Mid City Pediatrics Baton Rouge 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 100 7373 Perkins Road Lake Charles 2225 Line Ave. (225) 246-9290 Baton Rouge Baton Rouge (337) 730-3270 Shreveport (225) 763-4900 (225) 767-2827 (318) 221-2225 Ellen Blownstine McLean Gregory W. Stewart Carousel Pediatrics Tasha C. Shamlin Denise Woodall-Ruff Tulane Institute of Sports Michael G. Heller Jr. 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 240 Baton Rouge Family Medical Daughters of Charity Health Medicine Napoleon Pediatrics Metairie Center Center 202 McAlister Extension 3040 33rd St. (504) 885-4141 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 100 Department of Pediatrics New Orleans Metairie Baton Rouge 3201 S. Carrollton Ave. (504) 864-1476 (504) 219-0880 Jamar A. Melton (225) 763-4900 New Orleans 7373 Perkins Road (504) 207-3060 Stephen W. Wheat David Garrett Hill Baton Rouge Naglaa A. Shourbaji Wheat Medical Center The Baton Rouge Clinic (225) 925-2446 Ochsner Health System Harold R. York 138 E. Fifth St. Department of Pediatrics Ochsner for Children Health Tri-Parish Pediatrics Natchitoches 7373 Perkins Road Elizabeth Swanson Milvid Center 4937 Hearst St., Suite 2A (318) 352-4477 Baton Rouge Hales Pediatrics Department of General Metairie (225) 246-9290 3525 Prytania St., Suite 602 Pediatrics (504) 885-9957 PLASTIC SURGERY New Orleans 1315 Jefferson Highway, First Elliott B. Black III Jennifer V. Hogan (504) 897-0744 Floor Scott Rory Zander 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 100 Ochsner Health System New Orleans Lakeside Children’s Clinic Metairie Ochsner Health Center Mark Vincent Morici (504) 842-3900 Department of Pediatrics (504) 883-8900 Bluebonnet Metairie Pediatrics 4740 S. I-10 Service Road W., Department of Pediatrics 2201 Veterans Blvd., Suite 300 David Sledge Jr. Second Floor R. Graham Boyce 9001 Summa Ave. Metairie Ochsner Health System Metairie Associated Surgical Specialists Baton Rouge (504) 833-7374 Ochsner Health Center (504) 883-3703 804 Heavens Drive, Suite 105 (225) 761-5200 Bluebonnet Mandeville Vasanth Kumar Nalam Department of Pediatrics PEDIATRICS/HOSPITAL (985) 845-2677 Lynne Frances Holladay 4540 Ambassador Caffery 9001 Summa Ave., First Floor MEDICINE Pediatric Associates Parkway, Suite B150 Baton Rouge Vanessa G. Carroll Holly Dawn Casey Wall 1717 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Lafayette (225) 761-5200 Ochsner Health System The Wall Center for Plastic Loop (337) 981-6383 Ochsner Medical Center Surgery Shreveport Sam Jude Solis Department of Pediatrics 8600 Fern Ave. (318) 212-2920 M. Nora Oates Napoleon Pediatrics 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Shreveport Hales Pediatrics 3040 33rd St. Floor (318) 795-0801 Amanda Brown Jackson 3525 Prytania St., Suite 602 Metairie New Orleans Ochsner Health System New Orleans (504) 219-0880 (504) 842-3088 Bradley J. Chastant Ochsner for Children Health (504) 897-0744 Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat and Center Bruce Michael Thompson Shaun McCrossen Kemmerly Facial Plastic Surgery Department of General Jennifer M. Parkerson Children’s Clinic of Southwest Pediatric Hospitalists of 1000 W. Pinhook Road, Suite Pediatrics Ochsner Health System Louisiana Louisiana 201 1315 Jefferson Highway, First Ochsner for Children Health 2903 First Ave. 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Lafayette Floor Center Lake Charles 103 (337) 237-0650 New Orleans Department of General (337) 478-6480 Baton Rouge (504) 842-3900 Pediatrics (225) 767-6700 John Mark Church Jr. 1315 Jefferson Highway, First Albert John Totina 3525 Prytania St., Suite 230 Michael Keith Judice Floor Bayou Pediatrics PHYSICAL MEDICINE New Orleans 4630 Ambassador Caffery New Orleans 8120 Main St., Suite 300 AND REHABILITATION (504) 895-4561 Parkway, Suite 102 (504) 842-3900 Houma David N. Adams Lafayette (985) 868-5440 Spine Institute of Louisiana Gustavo A. Colon (337) 989-2322 Henry M. Peltier 1500 Line Ave., Second Floor, 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 120 Center For Pediatric and Arthur Gerard Tribou Suite 200 Metairie Charles Maurice Kantrow III Adolescent Medicine The Baton Rouge Clinic Shreveport (504) 888-4297 Ochsner Health System 604 N. Acadia Road, Suite 200 Department of Pediatrics (318) 629-5555 Ochsner for Children Health Thibodaux 7373 Perkins Road Ralph William Colpitts Center (985) 448-3700 Baton Rouge Norman E. Anseman Jr. Plastic Surgery Associates Department of General (225) 246-9290 913 S. College Road, Suite 104 2000 S. Woods Drive, Suite B Pediatrics Keith Perrin Lafayette Lake Charles 1315 Jefferson Highway, First Napoleon Pediatrics Carlos Alberto Trujillo (337) 237-3637 (337) 497-1958 Floor 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite 950 Jefferson Pediatric Clinic New Orleans New Orleans 1111 Medical Center Blvd., John Eric Bicknell Frank J. DellaCroce (504) 842-3900 (504) 897-4242 Suite N813 7925 Youree Drive, Suite 280A Center for Restorative Breast Marrero Shreveport Surgery Katherine M. Knight Kathryn Quarls (504) 349-6813 (318) 798-6833 1717 St. Charles Ave. General Academic Pediatrics Fairway Pediatrics New Orleans 1415 Tulane Ave., Fifth Floor 7020 Highway 190, Suite C Mark Joseph Waggenspack Joseph J. Biundo Jr. (504) 899-2800 New Orleans Covington The Baton Rouge Clinic 4315 Houma Blvd., Suite 303 (504) 988-5800 (985) 871-7337 Department of Pediatrics Metairie J. Kevin Duplechain 7373 Perkins Road, Second (504) 889-5242 1103 Kaliste Saloom Road, Stuart Landry Renee F. Reymond Floor Suite 300 Children’s Clinic of Southwest Ochsner Health System Baton Rouge Gary Raymond Glynn Lafayette Louisiana Ochsner for Children Health (225) 246-9290 Louisiana State University (337) 456-3282 2903 First Ave. Center Health Sciences Center Lake Charles Department of General David Richard Wallace Touro Infirmary H. Devon Graham III (337) 478-6480 Pediatrics Children’s Clinic of Southwest Department of Physical Ochsner Health System 1315 Jefferson Highway, First Louisiana Medicine and Rehabilitation Ochsner Medical Center Paul Joseph Marquis Floor 2903 First Ave. 1401 Foucher St. Department of Otolaryngology, Ochsner Health System New Orleans Lake Charles New Orleans Head and Neck Surgery Ochsner Health Center Lapalco (504) 842-3900 (337) 478-6480 (504) 897-8543 1514 Jefferson Highway, Lobby Department of Family Medicine Tower, Fourth Floor

66 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 New Orleans Monroe Surgery (504) 897-7939 604 N. Acadia Road, Suite 201 (504) 842-4080 (318) 388-2050 1717 St. Charles Ave. Thibodaux New Orleans Renee Bruno (985) 493-9304 Charles Gruenwald Jr. Michael H. Moses (504) 899-2800 Tulane University Health Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 1603 Second St. Sciences Center Robert Dahmes 4309 Bluebonnet Blvd. New Orleans Simeon H. Wall Sr. Department of Psychiatry and New Orleans Psychotherapy Baton Rouge (504) 895-7200 The Wall Center for Plastic Behavioral Sciences Associates (225) 925-3140 Surgery 1440 Canal St. 3520 General DeGaulle Drive, Barron Johns O'Neal 8600 Fern Ave. New Orleans Suite 4098 David Albert Jansen 2210 Line Ave., Suite 204 Shreveport (504) 988-4794 New Orleans Face and Body Institute Shreveport (318) 426-9255 (504) 362-4122 3900 Veterans Blvd., Suite 200 (318) 221-9671 Jose Calderon-Abbo Metairie Simeon H. Wall Jr. 3439 Magazine St. George Cecil Daul Jr. (504) 455-1000 Kenneth L. Odinet The Wall Center for Plastic New Orleans Professional Psychotherapy Acadiana Institute of Cosmetic Surgery (504) 891-8808 Network Calvin Morris Johnson Jr. and Plastic Surgery 8600 Fern Ave. 1529 River Oaks Road W., Suite Hedgewood Surgical Center Building Six Shreveport Charles Chester 123 2427 St. Charles Ave. 200 Beaullieu Drive (318) 795-0801 3500 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite New Orleans New Orleans Lafayette 1410 (504) 729-4414 (504) 895-7642 (337) 234-8648 PSYCHIATRY Metairie James G. Barbee (504) 838-9919 Denise L. Dorsey Jeffrey J. Joseph Russell Charles Romero 3439 Magazine St. 1519 Fern St. Acadian Ear, Nose, Throat and Plastic Surgery Associates New Orleans Stephen R. Cochran New Orleans Facial Plastic Surgery 1101 S. College Road, Suite (504) 891-8808 1426 Amelia St. (504) 865-1723 1000 W. Pinhook Road, Suite 400 New Orleans 201 Lafayette J. Robert Barnes (504) 891-6020 Burl E. Forgey Lafayette (337) 233-5025 1301 Amelia St., Suite A Psychiatry Associates (337) 237-0650 New Orleans Charles Calvin Coleman 9229 Bluebonnet Blvd. Scott Sullivan (504) 891-7000 Louisiana State University Baton Rouge James J. LaNasa Jr. Center for Restorative Breast Health Sciences Center (225) 769-7575 2223 Quail Run Drive, Suite E Surgery John William Bick III Department of Psychiatry Baton Rouge 1717 St. Charles Ave. 3705 Coliseum St. 1542 Tulane Ave. Edward F. Foulks (225) 769-7560 New Orleans New Orleans New Orleans East Jefferson Mental Health (504) 899-2800 (504) 891-0094 (504) 568-6001 Center Louis Gerrit Bryant Mes 2400 Edenborn Ave. Plastic Surgery Associates Michael Albert Teague Charles Kelso Billings Jr. Erich J. Conrad Metairie 1101 S. College Road, Suite Associates in Plastic Surgery 720 Lafayette St. Louisiana State University (504) 838-5257 400 8425 Cumberland Place Gretna Behavioral Sciences Center Lafayette Baton Rouge (504) 366-9707 3450 Chestnut St., Third Floor Ross A. Gallo (337) 233-5025 (225) 924-7514 New Orleans 1539 Jackson Ave., Suite 220 Ted Bloch III (504) 412-1580 New Orleans Timothy Joseph Mickel Chris Trahan 3525 Prytania St., Suite 211 (504) 552-9015 903 N. Second St. Center for Restorative Breast New Orleans Maria Cruse

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life |67 Daphne Ann Glindmeyer Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic Alvin Martin Rouchell John Areno Lafayette 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Suite Section of Child and Adolescent Ochsner Health System Overton Brooks VA Medical (337) 234-3204 420 Psychiatry Ochsner Medical Center Center Gretna 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor Department of General Department of Pulmonary and Thomas James Gullatt (504) 392-8348 New Orleans Psychiatry Critical Care Medicine St. Francis Medical Center (504) 988-4794 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth 510 E. Stoner Ave. Hospitalist Group Douglas William Greve Floor Shreveport 309 Jackson St. 931 Rue Saint Louis St. Craig W. Maumus New Orleans (318) 221-8411 Monroe New Orleans St. John VA Outpatient Clinic (504) 842-4025 (318) 966-4541 (504) 236-5532 Department of Psychiatry Joseph Yves Bordelon Jr. 247 Veterans Blvd. Alphonse Kenison Roy III Acadiana Medicine Clinic Ronald F. Hammett W. Scott Griffies Reserve Addiction Recovery Resources Department of Pulmonary Glenwood Pulmonary Specialist New Orleans Center for Mind- (985) 479-6770 4836 Wabash St. Medicine 102 Thomas Road, Suite 104 Body Health Metairie 1200 Hospital Drive, Suite Four West Monroe 536 Bienville St. Pamela McPherson (504) 780-2766 Opelousas (318) 329-8485 New Orleans Shreveport Mental Health Center (337) 948-7090 (504) 355-0509 Building Three, Suite 350 Janet Seligson-Dowie Cullen Andrew Hebert 2924 Knight St. 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Suite Stephen P. Brierre Our Lady of the Lake Regional Milton L. Harris Jr. Shreveport 420 LSU Healthcare Network Medical Center 3500 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite (318) 862-3053 Gretna Department of Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Service 1410 (504) 392-8348 Medicine 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Metairie Jody Keith Meek 3401 North Blvd., Suite 400 701 (504) 833-1442 Shreveport Mental Health Center Marilyn M. Skinner Baton Rouge Baton Rouge 1310 N. Hearne Ave. 1303 Antonine St. (225) 381-2755 (225) 765-5864 Gerald Heintz Shreveport New Orleans Baton Rouge Mental Health (318) 676-5111 (504) 891-3001 Robert Craig Broussard William H. Hines Sr. Center Pulmonary Associates of The Baton Rouge Clinic Building Two Christopher D. Meyers John Martin Smith Southwest Louisiana Department of Pulmonology 4615 Government St. 3525 Prytania St., Suite 518 Mental Health Center of Central 2770 Third Ave., Suite 110 Medicine Baton Rouge New Orleans Louisiana Lake Charles 7373 Perkins Road, First Floor (225) 925-1906 (504) 895-5533 Behavioral Health (337) 494-2750 Baton Rouge 242 W. Shamrock St., Unit One (225) 246-9240 Dean Anthony Hickman Brian D. Monette Pineville Walter Dwayne Brown Ochsner Health System Gonzales Mental Health Clinic (318) 484-6850 Professional Office Building, Mark Kenneth Hodges Ochsner Medical Center 1112 E. Ascension Complex Suite 206 The Baton Rouge Clinic Department of General Blvd. John Walter Thompson Jr. 155 Hospital Drive Department of Pulmonology Psychiatry Baton Rouge Tulane University School of Lafayette Medicine 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth (225) 621-5770 Medicine (337) 234-3204 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth Floor Department of Psychiatry and Floor New Orleans Richard Howard Morse Behavioral Science Randy D. Bryn Baton Rouge (504) 842-4025 4417 Danneel St. 1440 Canal St. 2551 Greenwood Road, Suite (225) 246-9240 New Orleans New Orleans 210 Janet Elaine Johnson (504) 891-2354 (504) 988-0847 Shreveport Robert Cary Holladay Tulane Medical Center (318) 635-0834 Louisiana State University Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic Andrew E. Morson Mark Harold Townsend Health Sciences Center 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor Integrated Behavioral Health Louisiana State University Clifford Braddock Burns Ambulatory Care Center New Orleans 400 Poydras St., Suite 1780 Behavioral Sciences Center Ochsner Health System Medicine Specialty Clinic (504) 988-4794 New Orleans 3450 Chestnut St., Third Floor Ochsner Medical Center 1606 Kings Highway, Second (504) 322-3837 New Orleans Department of Pulmonary and Floor Kristopher Edward Kaliebe (504) 412-1580 Critical Care Medicine Shreveport St. Charles Community Health P. Keith Nabours 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ninth (318) 675-5920 Center 3700 Fifth Ave. S. L. Lee Tynes Jr. Floor Division of Behavioral Health Lake Charles Our Lady of the Lake Regional New Orleans Surma Jain 853 Milling Ave. (337) 474-1010 Medical Center (504) 842-4055 Ochsner Health System Luling Department of Psychiatry Ochsner Medical Center (985) 785-5881 Patrick Terrence O'Neill 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Bennett Paul DeBoisblanc Department of Pulmonary and Tulane Medical Center 6000 Louisiana State University Critical Care Medicine Keith Bradford Kessel Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic Baton Rouge Health Sciences Center 1514 Jefferson Highway, Ninth 745 Olive St., Suite 109 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor (225) 765-8941 Section of Pulmonary and Floor Shreveport New Orleans Critical Care Medicine New Orleans (318) 221-6070 (504) 988-4794 Daniel Keith Winstead 1901 Perdido St., Suite 3205 (504) 842-4400 Tulane Medical Center New Orleans Schoener Michele LaPrairie Howard Joseph Osofsky Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic (504) 568-4634 Robert N. Jones Southeast Louisiana Hospital Louisiana State University Department of Psychiatry Tulane University School of 23515 Highway 190 Behavioral Sciences Center 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor Dean B. Ellithorpe Medicine Mandeville 3450 Chestnut St. New Orleans Tulane University School of Section of Pulmonary Diseases, (985) 626-6300 New Orleans (504) 988-4794 Medicine Critical Care and Environmental (504) 412-1580 Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program Medicine John Robert Macgregor Jr. Mark Henry Zielinski 1415 Tulane Ave. 1415 Tulane Ave. 1305 W. Causeway Approach, Jayendra K. Patel 9456 Jefferson Highway, Suite New Orleans New Orleans Suite 106 333 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive B (504) 988-5800 (504) 988-2300 Mandeville Lake Charles Baton Rouge (985) 626-3400 (337) 478-9331 (225) 292-1800 William Brooks Emory Stephen Phillips Kantrow Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System Harminder Singh Mallik Jose Manuel Pena PULMONARY MEDICINE Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center Tulane Medical Center Tulane Medical Center Juzar Ali Department of Pulmonary and Department of Pulmonary and Division of Forensic Tulane Behavioral Health Clinic LSU Healthcare Network Critical Care Medicine Critical Care Medicine Neuropsychiatry Department of Psychiatry Wetmore TB Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium 1440 Canal St. 1415 Tulane Ave., Fourth Floor Section of Pulmonary and Tower, Ninth Floor Tower, Ninth Floor New Orleans New Orleans Critical Care Medicine New Orleans New Orleans (504) 988-2201 (504) 988-4794 3308 Tulane Ave., Sixth Floor (504) 842-4055 (504) 842-4055 New Orleans Donna M. Mancuso Dean Edward Robinson (504) 903-4917 George Gary Guidry Gary Jules Kohler 229 Bellemeade Blvd., Suite Southeast Louisiana Veterans Lafayette General Medical Pulmonary Associates of 420 Health Care System Gregory Jacob Ardoin Center Southwest Louisiana Gretna Mental Health Service The Lung Center Department of Pulmonary 2770 Third Ave., Suite 110 (504) 392-8348 1601 Perdido St. 201 Fourth St., Suite 1D Medicine Lake Charles New Orleans Alexandria Professional Office Building, (337) 494-2750 Cecile L. Many (504) 412-3700 (318) 769-5864 Suite 206 Tulane Medical Center 155 Hospital Drive Joseph Alexander Lasky

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Tulane Medical Center Billy Joe Rosson Jr. David Allen Welsh Department of Radiation 1000 Ochsner Blvd. Section of Pulmonary Disease Lafayette General Medical Louisiana State University Oncology Covington and Critical Care Medicine Center Health Sciences Center 4204 Houma Blvd., Suite 100 (985) 875-2828 1415 Tulane Ave. Department of Pulmonary Section of Pulmonary and Metairie New Orleans Medicine Critical Care Medicine (504) 454-1724 Robert David Halsell (504) 988-8600 Professional Office Building, 1901 Perdido St., Suite 3205 St. Francis Medical Center Suite 206 New Orleans Lane Rosen Department of Radiology Stuart J. Lebas 155 Hospital Drive (504) 568-4634 Willis-Knighton Cancer Center 309 Jackson St. Christus Schumpert St. Mary Lafayette Department of Radiation Monroe Place (337) 234-3204 RADIATION ONCOLOGY Oncology (318) 966-4161 Intensive Care Unit Michael Leonard Durci 2600 Kings Highway One St. Mary Place Leonardo Seoane Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Shreveport Maureen Heldmann Shreveport Ochsner Health System Department of Radiation (318) 212-4639 Louisiana State University (318) 681-4500 Ochsner Medical Center Oncology Health Sciences Center Section of Pulmonology, Lung 2600 Kings Highway William E. Russell Department of Radiology Antti Gustavi Maran Transplant and Critical Care Shreveport Baton Rouge General Medical 1501 Kings Highway St. Francis Pulmonary Clinic 1514 Jefferson Highway (318) 212-4639 Center Shreveport 411 Calypso St., Suite 210 New Orleans Pennington Cancer Center (318) 675-6240 Monroe (504) 842-4400 Robert Sidney Fields 3401 North Blvd. (318) 966-6500 Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Baton Rouge Dennis Kay Judd Ernest Shellito Department of Radiation (225) 387-7280 Ochsner Health System Carol M. Mason LSU Healthcare Network Oncology Ochsner Medical Center LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Kenner Multispecialty 4950 Essen Lane Sanatkumar Valji Sanghani Department of Radiology Ochsner Kenner Multispecialty Section of Pulmonary and Baton Rouge Rapides Cancer Center 1514 Jefferson Highway Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (225) 767-0847 605-A Medical Center Drive New Orleans Critical Care Medicine 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite Alexandria (504) 842-3470 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite 205 Andrew Ralph Harwood (318) 769-7200 205 Kenner OncoLogics Troy Gene Scroggins Jr. Gary B. Lum Kenner (504) 412-1705 917 General Mouton Ave. Ochsner Health System Imaging Center of Louisiana (504) 412-1705 Lafayette Ochsner Medical Center 8338 Summa Ave., Suite 100 Francesco Simeone (337) 237-2057 Department of Radiation Baton Rouge William Henry Matthews Tulane University Medical Center Oncology (225) 761-8988 St. Francis Pulmonary Clinic Section of Pulmonary and Larry Allen Hauskins 1514 Jefferson Highway, First 411 Calypso St., Suite 210 Critical Care Medicine Christus St. Patrick Hospital Floor Charles Claiborne Matthews Monroe 1415 Tulane Ave. Regional Cancer Center New Orleans Ochsner Health System (318) 966-6500 New Orleans 524 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive (504) 842-3440 Ochsner Medical Center (504) 988-5800 Lake Charles Department of Radiology Shawn Arlen Milligan (337) 494-0032 Ellen (Elly) Zakris 1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Overton Brooks VA Medical Charles Clarence Smith III Touro Infirmary Floor Center Internal Medicine Specialists Roland Benton Hawkins Department of Radiation New Orleans Department of Pulmonary and 3525 Prytania St., Suite 526 Ochsner Health System Oncology (504) 842-3470 Critical Care Medicine New Orleans Ochsner Medical Center 1401 Foucher St., First Floor 510 E. Stoner Ave. (504) 648-2500 Department of Radiation New Orleans Donald Barrie McBurney Shreveport Oncology (504) 897-8387 Ochsner Health System (318) 221-8411 James Garland Smith Jr. 1514 Jefferson Highway, First Ochsner Health Center St. Francis Medical Center Floor RADIOLOGY Covington Steve Nelson Hospitalist Group New Orleans Charles Aprill Department of Radiology Louisiana State University 309 Jackson St. (504) 842-3440 Interventional Spine Specialists 1000 Ochsner Blvd. Health Sciences Center Monroe 1919 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Covington Section of Pulmonary and (318) 966-4541 Gregory Charles Henkelmann Suite 101 (985) 875-2828 Critical Care Medicine Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Kenner 2020 Gravier St., Room 505A Kenneth B. Smith Department of Radiation (504) 469-9641 James Milburn New Orleans East Jefferson General Hospital Oncology Ochsner Health System (504) 568-4007 Department of Respiratory Care 4950 Essen Lane Edward Bluth Ochsner Medical Center 4200 Houma Blvd., Third Floor Baton Rouge Ochsner Health System Division of Interventional Thomas Gerard Nuttli Metairie (225) 767-0847 Ochsner Medical Center Neuroradiology East Jefferson General Hospital (504) 454-5205 Department of Radiology 1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Jefferson Pulmonary Associates Steven I. Hightower 1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Floor 4200 Houma Blvd., Third Floor Thomas Parks Smith Slidell Regional Cancer Center Floor New Orleans Metairie Green Clinic Department of Radiation New Orleans (504) 842-3470 (504) 454-5205 1200 S. Farmerville St. Oncology (504) 842-3470 Ruston 1120 Robert Blvd., Suite 100 Robert Restrepo Michael Wayne Owens (318) 255-3690 Slidell Charles Joseph Brdlik Ochsner Health System Overton Brooks VA Medical (985) 649-8688 Southwest Imaging Ochsner Health Center Center David E. Taylor 650 Dr. Michael DeBakey Drive Covington Medical Service Ochsner Health System Sheldon Ashley Johnson Lake Charles Department of Radiology 510 E. Stoner Ave., Suite 111 Ochsner Medical Center Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center (337) 439-7778 1000 Ochsner Blvd. Shreveport Department of Pulmonary and Department of Radiation Covington (318) 990-5366 Critical Care Medicine Oncology Daniel A. Devun (985) 875-2828 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium 4950 Essen Lane Ochsner Health System Nereida Alicia Parada Tower, Ninth Floor Baton Rouge Ochsner Medical Center Puneet Singha Tulane Lung Center New Orleans (225) 215-1515 Division of Interventional East Jefferson General Hospital 1415 Tulane Ave., Seventh Floor (504) 842-4055 Radiology Department of Radiology New Orleans Maurice Leon King 1514 Jefferson Highway, Second 4200 Houma Blvd. (504) 988-8600 Ben Frank Thompson III Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Floor Metairie Pulmonary Associates of Center New Orleans (504) 454-4314 Donald Keith Payne Southwest Louisiana Department of Radiation (504) 842-3470 Louisiana State University 2770 Third Ave., Suite 110 Oncology Dana Hampton Smetherman Health Sciences Center Lake Charles 4950 Essen Lane William H. Gallmann Ochsner Health System Department of Pulmonary and (337) 494-2750 Baton Rouge Advanced Diagnostics Ochsner Medical Center Critical Care Medicine (225) 215-1515 855 Pierremont Road, Suite Department of Radiology 1501 Kings Highway Brad D. Vincent 105 1514 Jefferson Highway, Second Shreveport Our Lady of the Lake Regional Julian Krawczyk Shreveport Floor (318) 675-5920 Medical Center OncoLogics (318) 861-7413 New Orleans Critical Care Medicine Service 917 General Mouton Ave. (504) 842-3470 Javier F. Pere 7777 Hennessy Blvd., Suite Lafayette Joseph Daniel Hajjar 431 Jefferson St. 701 (337) 237-2057 Ochsner Health System Mark Tyler Stephan Natchitoches Baton Rouge Ochsner Health Center Our Lady of Lourdes Regional (318) 354-0003 (225) 765-5864 Paul David Monsour Covington Medical Center East Jefferson General Hospital Department of Radiology Acadiana Radiology Group

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4801 Ambassador Caffery Associates Division of Surgical Oncology Michael W. Hailey Department of Surgery Parkway 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 610 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic Louisiana Breast Specialists 2525 Severn Ave., Fourth Floor Lafayette Metairie Tower, Eighth Floor 9000 Airline Highway, Suite Metairie (337) 470-2000 (504) 456-5130 New Orleans 250 (504) 832-4200 (504) 842-4070 Baton Rouge Richard Tupler Robert James Quinet (225) 216-1118 Charles W. Thomas Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System J. Philip Boudreaux Southern Surgical Specialists Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Medical Center LSU Healthcare Network John Patrick Hunt III 1200 Ave. G Department of Radiology Department of Rheumatology Ochsner Medical Center - Louisiana State University Marrero 1514 Jefferson Highway 1514 Jefferson Highway, North Kenner Health Sciences Center (504) 349-6713 New Orleans Atrium Tower, Fifth Floor Neuroendocrine Clinic Department of Surgery (504) 842-3470 New Orleans 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite 2025 Gravier St. Joseph Frank Uddo Jr. (504) 842-3920 200 New Orleans 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 450 Joan Wojak Kenner (504) 903-5700 Metairie Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Eve Scopelitis (504) 464-8500 (504) 454-4441 Medical Center Ochsner Health System Lester Wayne Johnson Department of Radiology Ochsner Medical Center E. Paul Breaux III Louisiana State University SURGICAL ONCOLOGY 611 St. Landry St. Department of Rheumatology 457 Heymann Blvd. Health Sciences Center John S. Bolton Lafayette 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium Lafayette Department of Surgery Ochsner Health System (337) 289-2180 Tower, Fifth Floor (337) 237-5774 4864 Jackson St. Ochsner Medical Center New Orleans Monroe Division of Surgical Oncology RHEUMATOLOGY (504) 842-3920 Joseph Frederick Buell (318) 330-7167 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic Seth Berney Tulane Medical Center Tower, Eighth Floor Louisiana State University Sean E. Shannon Tulane Abdominal Transplant Charles Daniel Knight Jr. New Orleans Health Sciences Center Rheumatology Services Institute Highland Clinic (504) 842-4070 Section of Rheumatology 5247 Didesse Drive 1415 Tulane Ave. Department of Surgery 1501 Kings Highway Baton Rouge New Orleans 1455 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Ralph Corsetti Shreveport (225) 765-6505 (504) 988-7867 Loop Ochsner Health System (318) 675-5935 Shreveport Ochsner Medical Center Tamika A. Webb-Detiege Daniel J. Carroll (318) 798-4691 Division of Surgical Oncology Joseph J. Biundo Jr. Ochsner Health System 1000 W. Pinhook Road, Suite 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic 4315 Houma Blvd., Suite 303 Ochsner Medical Center 200 Kenneth John Laborde Tower, Eighth Floor Metairie Department of Rheumatology Lafayette 1000 W. Pinhook Road, Suite New Orleans (504) 889-5242 1514 Jefferson Highway, First (337) 233-6684 302 (504) 842-4070 Floor Lafayette Nicole Mes Cotter New Orleans Bruce Palmer Cleland (337) 232-8230 Joseph Benton Dupont Jr. Rheumatology and Osteoporosis (504) 842-3920 Ochsner Health System LSU Healthcare Network Specialists Ochsner Health Center Walter Pierre Ledet Department of Surgery 820 Jordan St., Suite 201 Merlin Robert Wilson Jr. Bluebonnet Sulphur Surgical Clinic 3401 North Blvd., Suite 400 Shreveport 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 530 Department of Surgery 914 Cypress St. Baton Rouge (318) 221-0399 New Orleans 9001 Summa Ave., Third Floor Sulphur (225) 381-2755 (504) 899-1120 Baton Rouge (337) 527-6363 William Eugene Davis (225) 761-5200 Henry J. Kaufman IV Ochsner Health System Jerald Marc Zakem Russell T. Lolley 457 Heymann Blvd. Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Clinic Foundation John L. Cocchiara Surgery Associates Lafayette Department of Rheumatology Division of Rheumatology 1739 Ryan St. 102 Thomas Road, Suite 203 (337) 237-5774 1514 Jefferson Highway, Atrium 1514 Jefferson Highway, Fourth Lake Charles West Monroe Tower, Fifth Floor Floor (337) 439-9419 (318) 387-1811 Kevin C. Marler New Orleans New Orleans 8001 Youree Drive, Suite 840 (504) 842-3920 (504) 842-3920 Kelvin Contreary Thomas Howard McCalla Shreveport 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 310 816 W. Bayou Pines Drive (318) 795-9100 Luis R. Espinoza SLEEP MEDICINE Metairie Lake Charles LSU Healthcare Network Andrew Long Chesson Jr. (504) 454-6338 (337) 439-5588 Alan Jerry Stolier Baptist Memorial Multispecialty Louisiana State University Omega Hospital Clinic Health Sciences Center Brian Creely Weston Peter Miller III Department of Surgery Section of Rheumatology Sleep Disorders Center East Jefferson General Surgery 2620 North Drive 2525 Severn Ave., Fourth Floor 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite 890 Department of Neurology 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 220 Abbeville Metairie New Orleans 1501 Kings Highway Metairie (337) 898-1520 (504) 832-4200 (504) 412-1366 Shreveport (504) 264-9353 (318) 675-5365 William Lewis Norwood Eugene A. Woltering Madelaine T. Feldman Brian Dockendorf Norwood Surgical Specialists LSU Healthcare Network 2633 Napoleon Ave., Suite 530 Robert C. Hinkle Highland Clinic 2751 Albert Bicknell Drive, Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans The Baton Rouge Clinic Department of Surgery Suite 3A Kenner (504) 899-1120 Department of Pulmonology 1455 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Shreveport Neuroendocrine Clinic Medicine Loop, Second Floor (318) 212-4456 200 W. Esplanade Ave., Suite John E. Hull 7373 Perkins Road Shreveport 200 Arthritis and Diabetes Clinic Baton Rouge (318) 798-4600 Kathryn Richardson Kenner 3402 Magnolia Cove Drive (225) 246-9240 Louisiana State University (504) 464-8500 Monroe Joseph Benton Dupont Jr. Health Sciences Center (318) 388-5830 Piotr Wladyslaw Olejniczak LSU Healthcare Network Department of Surgery THORACIC SURGERY LSU Healthcare Network Department of Surgery 1501 Kings Highway, Suite Abbas E. Abbas Stephen Michael Lindsey St. Charles Multispecialty Clinic 3401 North Blvd., Suite 400 5237 Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System Department of Neurology Baton Rouge Shreveport Ochsner Medical Center Ochsner Health Center 3700 St. Charles Ave. (225) 381-2755 (318) 675-6136 Division of Thoracic and Bluebonnet New Orleans Daniel Joseph Frey Cardiovascular Surgery Department of Rheumatology (504) 412-1517 University Medical Center Douglas P. Slakey 1514 Jefferson Highway, Clinic 9001 Summa Ave., Second Division of Renal Transplantation Tulane University Health Tower, Eighth Floor Floor Supat Thammasitboon and Pancreaticobiliary Surgery Sciences Center New Orleans Baton Rouge Tulane Medical Center 2390 W. Congress St. Department of Surgery (504) 842-3966 (225) 761-5200 The Lung Center Lafayette 1430 Tulane Ave. Tulane Comprehensive Sleep (337) 261-8500 New Orleans Robert C. DeWitt John Edward Marshall Center (504) 988-2317 Louisiana Cardiovascular and The Baton Rouge Clinic 1415 Tulane Ave. Forrest Dean Griffen Thoracic Institute Division of Rheumatology New Orleans Louisiana State University Edward Ballou Staudinger 3311 Prescott Road, Suite 202 7373 Perkins Road, Fourth Floor (504) 988-1657 Health Sciences Center 2820 Napoleon Ave., Suite 640 Alexandria Baton Rouge Department of Surgery New Orleans (318) 442-0106 (225) 246-9240 SURGERY 1501 Kings Highway (504) 897-1327 John S. Bolton Shreveport Tommy L. Fudge John Francis Nitsche Ochsner Health System (318) 675-6126 Alan Jerry Stolier Heart and Vascular Center Arthritis and Immunology Ochsner Medical Center Omega Hospital 604 N. Acadia Road, Suite 409

72 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Thibodaux Metairie 711 St. John St. Tulane Medical Center Larry Harold Hollier (985) 449-4670 (504) 456-1746 Monroe Tulane Urology Clinic Louisiana State University (318) 387-9420 1415 Tulane Ave. Health Sciences Center John Davidson Gladney Sean Collins New Orleans Department of Vascular Surgery Overton Brooks VA Medical East Jefferson Center for Leo L. Lowentritt Jr. (504) 988-5271 433 Bolivar St., Suite 815 Center Urology The Urology Clinic New Orleans Department of Surgery 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite 330 3311 Prescott Road, Suite 100 Richard M. Vanlangendonck (504) 568-4800 510 E. Stoner Ave. Metairie Alexandria Crescent City Physicians Shreveport (504) 454-5505 (318) 442-3384 3434 Prytania St., Suite 450 Charles Daniel Knight Jr. (318) 221-8411 New Orleans Highland Clinic Chris Fontenot Melissa M. Montgomery (504) 897-7196 Department of Surgery UROLOGY Southern Urology Ochsner Health System 1455 E. Bert Kouns Industrial Robert M. Alexander Building Seven Ochsner Medical Center Dennis Dale Venable Loop Houma SurgiCenter 200 Beaullieu Drive Department of Urology Louisiana State University Shreveport 1020 School St. Lafayette 1514 Jefferson Highway, Health Sciences Center (318) 798-4691 Houma (337) 232-4555 Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor Department of Urology (985) 868-7091 New Orleans 1501 Kings Highway William C. Moss Harold Anthony Fuselier Jr. (504) 842-4083 Shreveport Surgical Associates of David Louis Autin LSU Healthcare Network (318) 675-5600 Southwest Louisiana Southern Neurology Department of Urology Lester J. Prats Jr. 2770 Third Ave., Suite 120 4809 Ambassador Caffery 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite Ochsner Health System Chester Frank Weimer Lake Charles Parkway 600A Ochsner Medical Center Thibodaux Urological (337) 494-4868 Lafayette Metairie Department of Urology Specialists (337) 988-3104 (504) 412-1600 1514 Jefferson Highway, 504 N. Acadia Road Andrew J. Olinde Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor Thibodaux Baton Rouge General Health Stephen F. Bardot Wayne John G. Hellstrom New Orleans (985) 447-5667 Center Ochsner Health System Tulane Medical Center (504) 842-4083 Vascular Specialty Center Ochsner Medical Center Urology Fertility Clinic Jack Christian Winters 8595 Picardy Ave., Suite 320 Department of Urology 1415 Tulane Ave., Third Floor Paul Truett Ray Jr. LSU Healthcare Network Baton Rouge 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans Thibodaux Urological Department of Urology (225) 769-4493 Atrium Tower, Fourth Floor (504) 988-5271 Specialists 4228 Houma Blvd., Suite New Orleans 504 N. Acadia Road 600A Frank Balfour Sartor (504) 842-4083 Benjamin R. Lee Thibodaux Metairie 500 Hart St. Tulane University Hospital and (985) 447-5667 (504) 412-1600 Monroe Edward F. Breaux Clinic (318) 322-0790 Southern Urology Department of Urology Robert S. Taylor VASCULAR SURGERY 1016 Coolidge Blvd. 1430 Tulane Ave., Third Floor, Louisiana Urology Robert Craig Batson W. Charles Sternbergh III Lafayette Room 3522 8080 Bluebonnet Blvd., Suite LSU Healthcare Network Ochsner Health System (337) 233-6665 New Orleans 3000 Multispecialty Clinic Ochsner Medical Center (504) 988-2985 Baton Rouge Department of Vascular Surgery Section of Vascular Surgery Alfred J. Colfry Jr. (225) 766-8100 4500 Tenth St. 1514 Jefferson Highway Urology Medical and Surgical Arthur Emrey Liles Marrero New Orleans 4224 Houma Blvd., Suite 620 Urology Clinic Raju Thomas (504) 412-1960 (504) 842-4070 n

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hanges in medicine occur across Louisiana having to travel hundreds of miles away. From on a daily basis, with physicians, hospitals brand new state-of-the-art cancer centers to Cand services expanding offerings, specialized clinics and internationally renowned upgrading technology and developing new surgeons, Louisiana is fast becoming a world-class treatment options. The region’s growing “State of Medicine.” Know what medical resources healthcare industry makes it possible for people and treatment options are available for you and across the state to receive top quality care without your family. Here are some of the area’s best.

NORTHWEST LOUISIANA / NORTHEAST TEXAS Baylor Sammons Cancer Center has made remarkable progress In March 2011, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas in their quest for a cure. One thing remains constant: their opened its doors to its new outpatient cancer center. The new 10- commitment to providing you with innovative, effective and story 467,000 square foot cancer center is the largest outpatient personalized cancer care. For more info, visit facility of its kind in North Texas. BaylorHealth.com/Sammons or call 1-800-4BAYLOR. The center features advanced technology combined with Baylor Willis-Knighton Health System is a nationally-recognized Dallas’ highly trained medical staff to meet the needs of patients provider of healthcare in Northwest Louisiana. With four and their families in a supportive, compassionate environment. hospitals and a large physician network, it offers sophisticated Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas also high-tech healthcare but with a patient-focused philosophy. The celebrates 35 years of providing cancer care services to North leading-edge technology at the Willis-Knighton Cancer Center Texas and beyond. For those whose lives have been affected by draws patients from throughout the region. The Willis-Knighton cancer, Baylor Sammons Heart & Vascular Institute makes Willis-Knighton the region’s Cancer Center is high-volume choice for interventional heart and vascular dedicated to giving procedures, including minimally invasive cardiac surgery. The reasons for hope. high-tech reputation is reinforced by robotics, low-dose 128 slice CT scanner, and the Proton Beam Therapy Center soon to be added to the Cancer Center. Complementing the hospitals is The Oaks of Louisiana, a 310-acre retirement community that nurtures an engaging and healthy lifestyle.From welcoming babies to focusing on wellness for seniors, Willis- Knighton Health System has truly become part of the fabric of health and wellness for residents of Northwest Louisiana and beyond. Visit www.wkhs.com for more information.

NORTHEAST LOUISIANA For superior eye and cosmetic care in Northeast Louisiana, look to John Cooksey, MD, at the Cooksey Vision and Cosmetic Center in Monroe. Dr. Cooksey is a highly experienced board certified ophthalmologist who has been practicing in Monroe since 1972. Having attained a medical degree from LSU School of Medicine, Dr. Cooksey also served as a flight surgeon during the Viet Nam War. One of the first to perform the phacoemulsifaction technique of cataract SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION surgery in Louisiana, he has also taught and performed the assured of admittance into Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing if procedure around the world. In addition to eye procedures, Dr. that becomes necessary – at discounted rates! Not only does Cooksey has decades of experience performing successful moving to Christwood while Independent free residents from cosmetic surgeries. home maintenance, it also gives the security of knowing help is For further information on the center, visit CookseyMD.com or there when it is needed. call 800-368-3937 for an appointment. With 119 Independent apartments, 18 free-standing cottages, and an expansion of 24 apartments surrounding an enclosed CENTRAL LOUISIANA atrium on 66 acres between Covington and Madisonville, Located in Alexandria, Louisiana Cardiovascular & Thoracic Christwood is strategically located for access to numerous Institute (LA CVT), displays a proud commitment to providing activities as well as medical services. A resident-centered top quality cardiovascular and thoracic surgical care. With years community, Christwood helps seniors live with dignity, independ- of experience and a passion for healthy heartbeats, Drs. Jones ence and the assurance of needed physical, spiritual and medical and DeWitt utilize the latest in cutting edge technologies and care. Visit Christwoodrc.com or call 985-898-0515. medical breakthroughs. The NORTH Institute, Neurological Orthopedic Rehabilitation They also encourage education and early detection. Taking Total Health, offers a multidisciplinary practice with experts in the patient care one step further, LA CVT has created a health fields of neurosurgery and spinal surgery for musculoskeletal and initiatives program, “Get Fit Louisiana,” which is supported by LA cranial disorders, rehabilitative medicine, orthopedic surgery and CVT’s in-house, certified, vascular screening lab. Christus St. sports medicine. Their experts treat diseases and injuries of the Frances Cabrini Hospital’s Cardiac Surgery program was recently muscles, bones, joints and spine while striving to maintain the recognized as the “#1 Cardiac Surgery Provider in Louisiana.” As most technologically advanced and safest treatment options. In the only cardiovascular surgical providers, LA CVT is largely ten years, the institute has grown to include two neurosurgeons, responsible for this designation. an orthopedic spine surgeon, a general orthopedic surgeon, two Drs. Jones and DeWitt specialize in surgical procedures such as physiatrists and a state-of-the-art, on-site Physical Therapy facility CABG, robotic and open, AAA stents and lower extremity stents. with two Certified Manual Therapists on staff. With the addition of LA CVT has also dedicated endless efforts to ESRD Network 13, a C-Arm, spinal/orthopedic injections can be performed on site, gaining recognition for outstanding achievements that designated rather than in the hospital. LA CVT as #1 in Louisiana with the Fistula First program. Many advances have been made recently, eliminating patient For more information, visit LACVT.com and “Like” them on fear of surgery and diminishing disruption of lifestyle. The Facebook for news and updates. NORTH Institute has incorporated Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery into its practice, giving patients a much quicker return to SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA normalcy, even walking back into their own homes within 24 If you have family history of heart disease, smoke, or have hours. They are now able to serve the entire Northshore and diabetes, you may be at risk for cardiovascular disease. For more Southshore with locations in Lacombe, Metairie, Hammond and than 28 years, Cardiovascular Institute of the South has Bogalusa. Visit NorthInstitute.com. provided a full range of personalized, cardiovascular care to For treatment that goes beyond the ordinary, Omega Hospital, communities in South Louisiana. located in Metairie offers some of the nation’s top surgical The institute has earned an international reputation for specialists in a leading-edge medical facility. More than 50 providing state-of-the-art cardiovascular care and is known as a physicians, representing 19 medical and surgical specialties, world-leader in preventing and treating both cardiovascular and provide the highest quality care for patients. Associates are all peripheral vascular disease. Beginning as a one-man practice Board Certified in one or more fields, and work as a team to assure under the leadership of Dr. Craig Walker in Houma, LA, in 1983, patients a complete, accurate diagnosis and treatment plan for the CIS has grown to become a world-renowned practice with about unique needs of each individual. All testing is done on-site, and 35 physicians and nearly 500 employees in 13 cities throughout physicians focus on holistic patient care and individualized plans South Louisiana. for treatment. Omega prides itself on superior care, and all preop- CIS consistently positions itself at the forefront of technology by erative diagnostic requirements equal or exceed local, state, and providing the most up-to-date technology coupled with compas- national standards. sionate care. This mission has guided the institute for more than In addition to the newest technology and procedures available, 28 years of service to South Louisiana. Omega Hospital offers a full range of diagnostic and laboratory For more information about CIS, call 1-800-425-2565 or visit testing services. Highly-qualified professionals with decades of www.cardio.com. experience are a devoted resource for patients seeking the most Good nutrition and exercise are crucial to maintaining a advanced medical techniques, with a commitment to comfort healthy, active lifestyle. Christwood Retirement Community in during recovery. Hospital facilities are designed for patient Covington recognizes this with healthy menu alternatives and comfort as well, and include guest suites, outpatient recovery numerous exercise opportunities. In addition, Christwood suites, outpatient surgery suites, and operating room suites. For Retirement Community offers residents unparalleled further information visit www.omegahospital.com or call 800- Independent Living accommodations and services with beautiful 535-4177. amenities, as well as Five-Star Rated healthcare and service For treatment that goes beyond the ordinary, Omega Hospital, professionals. located in Metairie, offers some of the nation's top surgical By moving into Christwood while Independent, residents are specialists in a leading-edge medical facility. More than 50

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 75 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION physicians, representing 19 medical and surgical specialties, Mississippi, Ochsner’s 55+ cancer clinical trials are benefitting provide the highest quality care for patients. Associates are all thousands of patients while helping find cures. For more than 80 Board Certified in one or more fields, and work as a team to years, Ochsner physicians have been leading researchers in the ensure patients a complete, accurate diagnosis and treatment fight against cancer and have developed 34 nationally recognized plan for the unique needs of each individual. All testing is done cures and protocols. Being affiliated with numerous leading on-site, and physicians focus on holistic patient care and individ- treatment groups has enabled them to deliver the most current, ualized plans for treatment. Omega prides itself on superior care, effective cancer therapies. and all preoperative diagnostic requirements equal or exceed Additionally, Ochsner is expanding services and treatment local, state and national standards. options to meet the needs of cancer patients throughout the In addition to the newest technology and procedures available, Gulf South with the creation of The Gayle and Tom Benson Omega Hospital offers a full range of diagnostic and laboratory Cancer Center. testing services. Highly-qualified professionals with decades of For more information on women's services at Ochsner, such as experience are a devoted resource for patients seeking the most the Lieselotte Tansey Breast Center, call 504-842-3910 or visit advanced medical techniques, with a commitment to comfort www.ochsner.org/services/cancer/ or www.ochsner.org/pink. during recovery. Hospital facilities are designed for patient providers of Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group form one comfort as well, and include guest suites, outpatient recovery of the area’s largest physician networks in 40 locations. In addition suites, outpatient surgery suites and operating room suites. For to primary care, this experienced group of doctors specializes in further information visit www.omegahospital.com or call 800- the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of illnesses and 535-4177. complex medical problems. Together, the nearly 250 healthcare OLOL Physician Group specialists are highly in trained in Ochsner Health System delivers advanced cancer treatment allergy and immunology; cardiology; colon rectal surgery; critical close to home, with access to regional state-of-the-art specialized care medicine; dermatology; general surgery; genetic services; services, innovative treatment options, research and cutting-edge head and neck surgery; hearing and balance; hernia repair; clinical trials. Patients at Ochsner receive care from a multidisci- plastic/cosmetic surgery; psychiatry; rheumatology; trauma plinary team of leading experts, who, with a patient-centered surgery; voice; and weight loss. Pediatric specialties include approach, deliver advanced and compassionate cancer care in an allergy/immunology; endocrinology; gastroenterology; environment comfortable for both patients and their families. hematology/oncology; infectious disease; nephrology; pediatric Representing the largest clinical trials network in Louisiana and behavioral development; plastic/cosmetic surgery for cleft palette

76 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION and accident trauma; and psychiatry. have access to leading-edge clinical trials and potentially life-saving Patients can now easily search for any OLOL Physician Group new therapies. They demonstrate commitment to the community provider by using a free iPhone and Android app. The app provides through various health care services and free educational outreach a dynamic listing of services, locations and providers. For more programs and health screenings. Find your Tulane doctor by calling information and to meet their doctors through video introductions, 800-988-5800 or 504-988-5800 or visit tulanedoctors.com. visit www.ololphysiciangroup.com. The first years of a child’s life are instrumental in mental, The Tri-Parish community celebrated the grand opening of Mary physical and emotional development. At Tulane University School Bird Perkins Cancer Center at Terrebonne General Medical Center of Medicine, pediatricians and pediatric specialists combine (TGMC) facility in October. The cancer fighting facility will be the technology and innovation with a human touch to give young center of all cancer related services for the region, offering patients the best start in life. They provide quality clinical services convenient access for patients and their family members at one in general and specialty pediatrics, helping you care for your location, close to home. children and nurture their growth and health at this important time Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at TGMC is much more than a in their lives. state-of-the-art facility. It represents a more than three year relation- Tulane pediatricians specialize in diagnosing and managing a ship between Terrebonne General Medical Center, Mary Bird wide range of health issues and will teach you and your child about Perkins and the Cancer Center Specialists Physicians to provide an prevention and wellness. In addition, their doctors conduct cutting- entire continuum of cancer care, from prevention and early edge research in multiple areas such as human genetics, cancer, detection to diagnosis, treatment, recovery and survivorship. The infectious disease, asthma and growth and development. For an Center optimizes comprehensive cancer care through outreach, appointment with a Tulane pediatrician or pediatric specialist, call diagnostic capabilities, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, clinical 800-988-5800 or 504-988-5800. research trials, surgical interventions and an inpatient cancer unit. The new Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center at TGMC will be STATEWIDE located on TGMC’s main campus. For more information, visit Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is committed to www.marybird.org/TGMC. improving the lives of all Louisianians. As an advocate for quality Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, located in Lafourche care, their in-house team of doctors, nurses and pharmacists is Parish, is the preferred healthcare provider in the Bayou Region. available to help in all stages of life. The company offers preventive The hospital announced plans to construct a health and wellness and wellness programs, as well as care management for serious center that will be more than 70,000 square feet in size. The first of illnesses, such as cancer. its kind in the Bayou Region, the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Support can be especially important when you’re coping with a Regional will be anchored by medically directed wellness and fitness difficult diagnosis. Blue Cross is proud to offer their customers plans, which will be designed to improve the health and well-being exclusive access to My Blue Community – an online forum for of the region through prevention, education, rehabilitation, and advice and encouragement. Blue Cross customers from across the focused sports and wellness services. country can exchange tips, support and suggestions with others Thibodaux Regional currently offers state-of-the-art diagnostic whose lives are touched by cancer or other chronic illnesses. tools to detect disease faster and more safely than other facilities in My Blue Community is a vibrant online space with thousands of the area, and physicians perform leading-edge procedures to people talking about all aspects of health and wellness. Log in to provide the highest quality outcomes to patients. As a preferred your member account at www.bcbsla.com today to add your leader in cardiovascular, neurosurgical, orthopedic and cancer wisdom and experience to the conversation. • services, the addition of the Wellness Center to Thibodaux Regional’s campus further enhances the hospital’s ability to provide high quality and cost effective care. To learn about Thibodaux Regional’s many specialized services, visit thibodaux.com. For more than half a century, Tulane doctors have provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Louisiana. In addition to providing quality primary care, Tulane doctors are leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, resulting in numerous advances in clinical outcomes and patient health. They practice medicine across a wide range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment. Tulane doctors

Why Retirein Louisiana? BY JUDI RUSSELL

oday, people who retire can expect to enjoy If you like to party, our friendly people, fine resorts and many healthy years, so deciding where to retire restaurants make living it up a cinch. If you’re more into has become more important than ever. Climate, relaxing, we have plenty of friendly rural communities Tcost of living, housing choices, outdoor activities where sitting on the front porch sharing coffee with – all are important parts of the equation when it comes to neighbors is a popular way to spend the afternoon. selecting just the right spot to spend those years. The state’s array of two- and four-year institutions of For lots of people, Louisiana meets their needs and learning make going back to school convenient, and the then some. Its nickname, Sportsman’s Paradise, alludes medical facilities you may need during retirement are to the many places there are to swim, fish, hike, watch available in all regions of the state. birds, golf, go boating or camp out. If history is your You can learn more about why retirement in Louisiana thing, you can spend days visiting the many state is great at the Web site www.LouisianaTravel.com. Use historical sites and learning about Louisiana’s the site to help you plan a trip so you can see for yourself fascinating political history. why we say retirement in Louisiana really is the good life.

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Biedenharn Museum & Gardens Louisiana Tech University

orth Louisiana people who’ve spent Here you can read about about the region’s offers a their pre-retirement the state’s parks and historic sites, which mixture of years in states where historic sites, including range from Civil War NLouisiana and cold weather drives folks information on which sites to plantations. Texas culture and cuisine, indoors. ones permit camping, For those who like to along with the outdoors A good place to begin boat rental and fishing, hit 18 holes every day, life you’d expect of a your exploration of along with a list of parks Black Bear Golf Course, region called Sportsman’s Paradise is that have beaches, part of the Audubon Sportsman’s Paradise. It’s the Web site swimming pools and Golf Trail, offers plenty especially enjoyable for www.LaStateParks.com. playgrounds. Learn, too, of challenges.

82 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Ruston Peach Festival Downtown Shreveport

The neighbor towns Southern universities. Sportsman’s Paradise’s Paradise is home to of Shreveport and Grandchildren will love premier cities, has lots lots of small towns, as Bossier City, separated to visit Sci-Port: of interesting sights, well. Ruston, famed by the Red River, offer Louisiana’s Science including Biedenharn for its delicious peaches lots to do for those who Center. Retirees who Museum & Gardens, and peach festival, prefer city life. like to shop and dine created by Joe has the campus of Shreveport is home to can spend hours at the Biedenharn, who came Louisiana Tech, and Centenary College along Louisiana Boardwalk, a up with a method of nearby Grambling is with branches of highlight of Bossier City. bottling Coca-Cola. home to Grambling Louisiana State and Monroe, another of But Sportsman’s State University. n

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Toledo Bend Reservoir Vidalia Riverwalk MICAH TOUCHET PHOTO

hether your exploring the Crossroads mixture. At Christmas, the heritage is your thing, retirement region is the town of town comes alive with check out the Delta Music dreams include Natchitoches (pronounced thousands of twinkling Museum in Ferriday, Wtouring NACK-a-tish), founded in lights, drawing visitors birthplace of Jerry Lee historic homes, reeling in 1714. Nestled along the 32- from all over. Natchitoches’ Lewis and Mickey Gilley. the “big one” or hiking in mile Cane River, charm led it to be named a Two other interesting the rich diversity of a Natchitoches possesses one top place to retire by U.S. Crossroads towns, national forest, the of the state’s finest News and World Report. Alexandria and Pineville, Crossroads region of collections of historic Another unique spot is lie on opposite sides of the Louisiana will suit you well. buildings in its Historic Winn Parish, home to the Red River. Alexandria was In the Crossroads, the Landmark District. In town of Winnfield. Winn sold to the United States as Cajun and Creole Catholic addition to touring Parish produced two of part of the Louisiana history of South Louisiana charming homes, you can Louisiana’s most Purchase and grew rapidly, meets with the Anglo- shop the district’s many interesting governors, thanks to its good cropland Protestant heritage of the unique stores or enjoy a Huey and Earl Long; learn and abundant timber. north, leading to a culture meal at one of the cafés. about them and many Other interesting sites to as rich as one of our Natchitoches is known for others at the Louisiana see include Kent House, famous gumbos. its meat pies, a turnover Political Museum. If one of the area’s oldest A good place to start filled with a spicy meat Louisiana’s musical plantations, and

84 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Natchitoches meat pies Kent House

Alexandria’s beautiful perfect for those seeking and cuisine at the Cane quiet country living for Museum of Art. Today, it the outdoor life. The River Zydeco Festival and those who prefer a slower has a campus of Louisiana 600,000-acre Kisatchie Meat Pie Festival. Many of pace of life. State University. National Forest, headquar- Crossroads’ towns hold Either way, you’ll find Neighboring Pineville is tered in Pineville, is a their own Mardi Gras cele- yourself close to dozens of home to the Huey P. Long haven for those who love brations, complete with places to visit. And Memorial Hospital and to hike, bike, backpack, parade floats and “throws.” Louisiana’s moderate Louisiana College. The camp, fish, hunt and swim. Like most sections of climate means you can be town of Vidalia invites you For fishing aficionados, Louisiana, Crossroads out enjoying yourself to visit its restored Vidalia Toledo Bend Reservoir is offers a wide choice of instead of shoveling snow. Riverwalk. Another the place to be. Nearby, try accommodations. Those Why not plan a trip to the fascinating spot to tour is the course at Cypress Bend who seek to live with other Crossroads, stay in one of Frogmore Plantation and Golf Resort and retirees can choose from its charming bed-and- Cotton Gin. Here, you can Conference Center. retirement communities breakfast inns and sample contrast the way cotton Louisiana people love to such as England Oaks, some of the area’s was processed in the past celebrate, and the residents located near Alexandria. outstanding food? You’ll with the way a modern of the Crossroads are no But because of the region’s see for yourself why so cotton gin works. exception. Natchitoches rural sections, the many people find it an Crossroads is also pays homage to its music Crossroads can provide ideal place to retire. n

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Crowley Rice Festival Jambalaya

ajun Country, settled by French Acadians sample a bowl of seafood some great bands. nestled along the who left their native Nova gumbo or shrimp Creole or Lake Charles, near the Gulf of Mexico, is Scotia more than 250 years tour the University of Louisiana-Texas border, is Cinternationally ago. Its fertile land and Louisiana at Lafayette’s another popular Cajun known for its flavorful many bodies of water well-known art museum. Country destination. Some cuisine, its fascinating made for great hunting, Two don’t-miss times to say the pirate Jean Lafitte culture and some of the fishing and farming. Today, visit Lafayette are the made Lake Charles his friendliest folks you’ll ever the area is home to a busy spring Festival hideaway; each May, the meet. Many a visitor has oil-and-gas industry as well International de Louisiane, Contraband Days festival come for a vacation and as modern educational and where you can hear all re-enacts this tale. The decided to make Cajun medical resources. kinds of music and taste festival also features live Country home base; A good place to start flavorful seafood and music, Cajun treats and the same attributes that checking out Cajun Caribbean cuisine, and the carnival rides. make it a delectable place Country is Lafayette, one of Festivals Acadiens and If your retirement plans to visit make it an ideal the region’s most beautiful Créoles in the fall, where center around the relaxed retirement home. cities. You’ll find plenty to you can dance the Cajun life of a small town, Cajun Cajun Country was do: take a swamp tour, two-step to the music of Country can fit the bill.

86 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival Lake Fausse Pointe State Park

Abbeville, Mamou, Breaux crawfish festival in Breaux the local produce and earn a new one have Bridge, Crowley, Bridge and Crowley’s seafood that are so several two- and four-year Opelousas and Thibodaux rice celebration. plentiful. Even the area’s schools from which to are just some of the After decades spent in smallest cafés pride choose. Some have special choices you have. Each office cubicles, many themselves on their breaks for seniors; the town has a variety of living retirees are eager to versions of such regional University of Louisiana styles from which to explore the great outdoors. treats as jambalaya, gumbo at Lafayette, for example, choose and lots of friendly That’s easy to do in Cajun and étouffée. Cajun cooks offers a tuition discount people eager to welcome Country, which features were practicing the “local for students over 60. newcomers with a pot of Lake Fausse Pointe State food” movement years Whether you choose steaming café au lait and a Park and the 180-mile before it became trendy, Cajun Country for its plate of pralines, a candy Creole Nature Trail. And filling their menus music; its cuisine; its treat made with Louisiana you’ll have more days to with dishes made from fascinating culture; or its pecans. Many towns are spend outdoors, thanks to fresh local meats, fish laid-back, friendly people, noted for festivals Louisiana’s mild climate. and vegetables. your retirement days will celebrating their natural Cajun food gets its Retirees who aim to be short on boredom and resources, such as the reputation from its use of finish a college degree or long on fun. n

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Destrehan Plantation Manor Swamp in Tickfaw State Park

he very name more than a mecca for now owned by the state of Louisiana’s capital and one “Plantation tourists. Its many charming Louisiana, is well-known of its busiest cities. Country” hearkens small towns are ideal for its magnificent gardens. Louisiana State University Tback to a time places for people who want Oakley House, an Audubon and Southern University when cotton was king and to retire to a place where State Historic Site, is where have their flagship southeastern Louisiana was the pace of life is calm, the John James Audubon campuses there, and both the site of some of the most neighbors are friendly and painted some of his draw thousands to their beautiful homes ever built big-city amenities are just beautiful works of art lively sporting events. You in the United States. a short drive away. featuring Louisiana’s many can entertain visiting Originally the purview You might begin your birds. Great pains have grandkids at the Blue of millionaire farmers tour of Plantation Country been taken to preserve the Bayou Waterpark and Dixie and traders, many of at Destrehan Plantation, the outbuildings at many of Landin’ Amusement Park, these houses have been oldest documented these plantations so visitors visit the city’s museums, lovingly restored and plantation home in the can see how the workers take in a live theater welcome visitors, either lower Mississippi River who kept these vast performance or shop at the for tours or as bed-and- Valley area, or Oak Alley, estates going lived. Mall of America. The city breakfast inn guests. with its canopy of giant live Plantation Country is also has a full selection of But Plantation Country is oaks. Rosedown, which is home to Baton Rouge, adult leisure activities.

88 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 Tunica Hills Wildlife Management Area Oakley House

When medical care is outdoor activities, it Park, where boardwalks ship communal living needed, the Mary Bird doesn’t come any better take you through varied brings. At Carter Perkins Cancer Center than the Tunica Hills terrain. Rent a canoe (or Plantation, just 30 and Pennington Wildlife Management bring your own) for a minutes from Baton Biomedical Research Area, located northwest pleasant ride, or reserve Rouge, you can build Center are close at hand. of St. Francisville. Tunica a cabin or campsite to your own home on Equally charming are the Hills’ 6,000 acres of hills, stay awhile. Kids will lots of various sizes, area’s many small towns bluffs and ravines are ideal have fun cooling off in including waterfront lots, such as St. Francisville, for hunting, trapping, the water playground. or stay at the guest villas known for its many bird-watching, hiking, Plantation Country has and enjoy the resort’s antiques shops; New horseback-riding, biking, a variety of home styles beautiful golf course Roads, where the False photography and available, including and restaurants. River (really an oxbow sightseeing. A nature trail modern subdivisions, From historic mansions lake) provides great and three hiking trails let quaint rural spots and to front-porch fishing; Prairieville; and you see the wonders of this independent and assisted- communities, Plantation White Castle, home to preserve up close. living communities for Country is sure to have Nottoway Plantation. Another outdoor spot in those who want the a spot for you to enjoy For those who prefer the area is Tickfaw State activities and companion- your retirement. n

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Arnaud’s Audubon Insectarium

St. Charles Avenue streetcar

ou will sometimes new home and added to its Delgado Community interested in, New Orleans hear New Orleans rich mixture. College, are tailor-made for offers lots of opportunities referred to as the The resulting blend has newcomers who want to to learn. If art is your Ycountry’s “most kept New Orleans from cook like natives. Dining passion, the New Orleans European city.” It’s true; turning into one of the out is another common Museum of Art, ensconced generations of English, cookie-cutter communities preoccupation, and in New in beautiful City Park, is a French and Spanish you find throughout the Orleans the variety of great place to start. Other settlers left their unique country. And those who restaurants is infinite. don’t-miss museums marks on the city. The choose New Orleans as Special occasions might include the National World many Irish, Italian and their retirement home will call for a trip to such War II Museum and the German immigrants constantly find new aspects grandes dames as Ogden Museum of brought their ways, adding of the city to explore. Commander’s Palace or Southern Art. History takes to an already vibrant Shopping, cooking and Arnaud’s. But one can dine center stage at such African and Caribbean eating are three of a New with equal enjoyment at historic buildings as the culture. More recently, Orleanian’s favorite things any of the many cafés and Presbytere and the Cabildo. Vietnamese people have to do. A variety of cooking poor boy shops. Professional opera, ballet made New Orleans their classes, including those at No matter what you are and symphony perform-

CHERYL GERBER PHOTOGRAPHS 90 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 New Orleans Museum of Art Tammany Trace

ances provide regular berry-picking or fishing, or Northshore. Downtown won’t run out of things to entertainment, while the take a bicycle ride along offers modern lofts and do. Take a streetcar ride New Orleans Jazz & the Tammany Trace. condos, while independent along historic St. Charles Heritage Festival and the It’s easy to find the right and assisted-living Avenue, spend the day Essence Festival are annual sort of housing in New communities are there browsing Magazine Street’s events that draw people Orleans – and at a wide for those who may need a miles of shops, enjoy Café from all over the world. variety of prices, too. Those little help. No matter which du Monde and beignets in If you like to relax who long to live in a part of town you live in, the French Quarter. And if outdoors, you’ll be in historic old home can you’ll be near top-flight grandchildren come to heaven. You can choose choose from several neigh- medical facilities. stay, don’t miss the from one of the area’s borhoods, including the Finally, if you retire in Audubon Institute’s zoo, excellent golf courses or gracious Uptown district. Louisiana, you won’t lack Insectarium and Aquarium have a picnic or family Those seeking suburbs for company. Friends and of the Americas. That’s reunion at leafy Audubon with big yards and such relatives from “back home” just one of New Orleans’ Park. Drive across the amenities as swimming who are aware of New many charms: There’s Causeway bridge to the pools have dozens to Orleans’ reputation will something to please city’s north shore and go explore, many on the love to come visit, and you people of every age. n

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YOU’LL NEVER BE BORED. specialties for yourself. Plus, Louisiana is like many states our mild weather means rolled into one. Each region long growing seasons, so has its own distinct you can dine on fresh fruits topography, wildlife, and vegetables right from culture, cuisine and history, the garden. so you can enjoy your retirement in many IT’S EASY TO KEEP SHARP. different ways without For some people, retirement making long trips. means returning to school for that long-sought-after ACTIVE LIFESTYLES ARE degree. Others want to ENCOURAGED. learn to speak French or Fishing, hunting, boating, hone their skills in arts and golfing, bird-watching – crafts. Louisiana has a Louisiana has lots of strong network of two- and inducements to get up four-year colleges, and 2010, and the NBA New antiquing and preservation. off the couch and many give older adults a Orleans Hornets or the Seniors searching for the head outdoors. tuition break. New Orleans Zephyrs, a excitement of big-city living Triple-A baseball team. can find it in Louisiana, too. COMPANY IS COMING. HEALTH CARE IS Louisiana’s reputation as WIDELY AVAILABLE. STRETCHING YOUR DOLLARS LOUISIANA PEOPLE a great place to visit makes No matter where in Low property taxes, a ARE FRIENDLY. it a magnet for friends Louisiana you choose to generous homestead You won’t stay a stranger and family members. settle, you won’t be far from exemption, modest state long in Louisiana, where Grandchildren will cutting-edge health care income tax and affordable entertaining is a way of life. especially like visiting facilities. Major hospitals, housing make it a smart Before you know it, because there are child- primary-care clinics and move economically to neighbors will invite you to friendly activities scattered rehab and wellness centers retire in Louisiana. drop in for red beans and all over the state. And what make it easy to stay at the rice or you’ll find yourself child doesn’t like catching a top of your game. In THERE’S A COMMUNITY riding on a Mardi Gras fish or taking a swim? addition, our mild weather FOR EVERY TASTE. float. Here, folks make time means no housebound For those who long to for drinking iced tea on a ON THE MENU: days due to snow and ice. downsize, Louisiana towns front porch or doing the DELICIOUS MEALS have a variety of Cajun two-step at a local Whether you choose a small WHAT’S YOUR PLEASURE? apartments, condos and dance hall. Louisiana has poor boy shop or a famous College football rivalries town houses where upkeep been a magnet for people white-tablecloth restaurant, make for great games all is minimal, giving you more from all parts of the world you are guaranteed to dine over the state. If pro ball free time. But the state also for decades, and its well in Louisiana. Even is your thing, check out provides a robust number of residents are experts at more fun is learning to cook the New Orleans Saints, beautiful old homes just making newcomers feel some of our renowned Super Bowl winners in right for those interested in at home. n

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Ghost Walk REGIONAL REPORTS FROM ACROSS THE STATE COMPILED AND EDITED BY JEANNE FROIS NORTHERN PROFILES happened to me on my land, I MUSLIM RETROSPECTIVES would probably have the FROM SHREVEPORT same reaction.” On the 10th anniversary of In a YouTube video, 11- the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, year-old Safa Michigan, also the Shreveport Times filed a from Shreveport, makes no report that featured bones about her thoughts on comments and experiences of the matter. She made the door handles of the mosque. portrayed in these Muslim Americans in the video to emphasize that she is Hamid admits that Muslims fascinating scenes. Shreveport-Bossier area. both Muslim and American. don’t feel as free to speak The Ghost Walk transports Now 25 years old, Salwa The Caddo Middle Magnet since the Sept. 11 attacks. visitors back in time to mingle Rayyan of Bossier was a student said: “Sure, I try to “Some healing has taken with Confederate soldiers, sophomore in high school pray five times a day, fast and place,” he said, “but we politicians, town leaders and when the attacks occurred. read the Quran, but I do would like to see it in the teachers. Actors and Rayyan told the Shreveport exactly what you do, as well. open. I always say befriend a volunteers garbed in period Times that her classmates I’ll do anything I need to make Muslim family and see how dress regale visitors with true treated her no differently but sure I’m a proper American they treat you.” stories of the town’s past. that her younger siblings are citizen because I owe that to These characters guide still bullied in school today this beautiful country I’m CAUSE TO CELEBRATE groups to different sites, all because of their faith. She proud to call my own. 9/11 NOVEMBER IN MINDEN with a fascinating tale to tell. admits that because she is very was really sad, and I don’t November in Minden also It’s Minden’s version of the religious, she would very much think it should’ve happened, marks the beginning of the Day of the Dead (sans like to wear the traditional head but it’s really not something town’s official Christmas skeletons). Once proper tribute covering but refrains due to the that should be associated with celebration. But before has been paid to forbears, the bad treatment her mother and all Muslims because we are Christmas can be savored town pulls out all the stops for sister (who wear the head not all like that.” beneath December’s constel- holiday celebrating. scarves) receive when in public. Her father, Sunny Hussain, lations, you must first walk Specialty shops throughout At the time of the attacks, reports that he has never among the golden fallen Minden sponsor the Holiday Nisreen Hajaj of Shreveport experienced discrimination. leaves and sepia-colored Open House, while over at had been in America only two In the living room of their chrysanthemums of the Old the First Baptist Church, The months after immigrating home is a group of candles to Minden Cemetery on gray Gift of Christmas Concert from Lebanon. When she memorialize the victims of the November days; the Annual gives full-throated joy for the heard about the attacks, her Sept. 11 attacks; rising above Minden Cemetery Ghost season. (The church later heart sank when she learned the memorial on their mantel Walk “Living History Lesson” plays host to the Christmas Muslims were behind them. lies a Bible, Torah and Quran, is the first steppingstone on Eve Candlelight Service.) The After starting her first job placed as a symbol of the the town’s pathway to Historic Candlelight Tour of soon after, some of the family’s religious tolerance. Christmas. Held to also Homes and the Community customers she served were Sheik Khalid Hamid, an commemorate Veterans Chorus Candlelight Concert kind, but she encountered imam at the Mosque Noor in Day, the eighth annual tour banish any remnants of cruelty from others, as well. Bossier City, came to America begins at noon. Past tours Scrooge-isms lurking in the Her boss would escort her to 37 years ago simply for, as he have included attendees best-hearted of all of us. her car at night for safety. states, “freedom.” from California, North For more information, “At that point I understood Muslims don’t eat pork, Carolina, Florida, Arkansas contact Pattie Odom, 520 their anger,” said Hajaj, and recently someone and Nebraska, all with the Broadway, Minden, LA 71055, wrapped bacon around the “because if that would have goal of seeing their ancestors (318) 377-2144. n

94 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 AROUND LOUISIANA

Michael Ford CENTRAL

powerhouse under the Matt Flynn moments after the Bordenlonville is filled with Friday night lights. In victory of the 2007 BCS towering moss-draped 2006, as a high school Championship and my cypress trees, their knobby sophomore, he was personal favorite, the 1997 knees rising out of the water. recognized as one of “See You Later, Gators” These “knees” are known as the top backs in the edition with Kevin Faulk pneumatophores, cone- nation after he rushed eluding a Gator as he rushed shaped extensions of the for 1,334 yards and downfield. It was a picture root system, believed to be achieved 18 from the night the No. 14 the means by which the touchdowns. From Tigers defeated No. 1 Florida trees obtain oxygen during 2006 to his last senior led by Steve Spurrier. I placed high floodwaters. game, he amassed a a sign in my mother’s car that The bald cypress is a PROFILE total of 20 straight 100-yard read: “Tigers 28; Spurrier 21” deciduous wetland species THE RUNNING BACK games. In his last high school until she told me to remove it that is slow to grow and slow FROM LEESVILLE game, a playoff against because she was “an old lady to die. They can live as long When he played at Leesville Zachary that Leesville lost, too old for this nonsense.” As as six centuries and flourish High School, Michael Ford, Ford nevertheless rushed 39 the latest LSU football player in the coastal plains of the now a sophomore running times for three touchdowns to make the cover, Ford joins Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic back at LSU, distinguished and 299 yards. He broke a hallowed gallery of Tigers. Ocean and the Mississippi himself consistently on the Leesville’s rushing record as a River Valley. They can also field as a fine player. When senior with 2,447 yards, thus LOUISIANA-GROWN be confused with the pond the Tigers played their toppling the record of 2,143 FEATHERS cypress, which tends to opening game against the yards held since 1994 by I once lived in a place that grow in still-water wetlands mighty Ducks of Oregon in another stellar LSU player, overlooked a long narrow and has leaves more similar Dallas this year, Ford’s Cecil Collins. He ended his space filled with five bald to pine trees than the feathery standout plays in the form of senior year with nine games cypress trees that had grown leaves of the bald cypress. rushing for 96 yards and of 200 rushing yards or to a mighty height. It was like The really old bald cypress grabbing two touchdowns in better. The press stood up looking at a grove of trees usually have flattened the second half to defeat and took notice of his Christmas trees filled with tops crowned with dangling Oregon 40-27 landed him achievements. He was soft green feathers for leaves. Spanish moss. As a squarely on the cover of named to the Advocate’s One cold gray Sunday timber product, it is highly Sports Illustrated magazine. Super Dozen; the New afternoon, I watched the rain resistant to rot. From Dallas, while Tropical Orleans Times-Picayune’s fall upon the leaves that For the swampland Storm Lee doused the Bayou Blue-Chip List; the Atlanta November had turned to rust- ecosystem, it provides shelter State at home, the fourth- Constitution’s Super Southern red; it was the closest to an and food for wildlife. ranked LSU Tigers sent the 100 and the Mobile Press- autumn landscape I could Migratory birds feast off of its third-ranked Ducks quacking. Register Super Southeast 120. imagine in Louisiana. But seeds in winter, and rabbits While at Leesville High, SuperPrep ranked him as the most of all, I remember their and deer have been known Ford was one of the country’s No. 2 recruit in the Bayou scent, which I’ve inhaled to seek the bald cypress for top running back prospects to State, while ESPN and whenever I have visited protective cover. Many come from the class of 2009. Rivals.com gave Ford a relatives in Avoyelles Parish wetland and swamp critters Born May 27, 1990, to parents national ranking of 7. or visited the cypress homes escape to this strong old Frank and Tanny Ford, he Ford’s appearance on the built by my Avoyelles Parish tree and find refuge at its was named to the Parade cover of Sports Illustrated relatives in New Orleans –– protective base. They are Magazine All America team marked the ninth time LSU that sweet, woodsy perfume the Christmas trees of and was likewise a second- has been featured on the that permeates the rooms that the swamp, wearing moss team All-USA choice by USA cover. The eight other times I always associate with strong for tinsel, lit by the changing Today while in high school. featured some pretty coffee and a pot of something colors of daylight and Coached by Terence Williams, memorable highlights in the smothering on the stove. adorned with wildlife Ford was an unstoppable history of the Bayou Bengals: Horseshoe Lake in for ornaments. n

www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 95 AROUND LOUISIANA CAJUN Boudin FORK IN THE ROAD prepared boudin, boudin being ALONG THE BOUDIN TRAIL prepared or patrons preparing Southwest Louisiana is to eat boudin fill the crisp famous for its magnificent winter air. Creole Nature Trail. Filled with Boudin may be smoked until countless migratory birds, it is its casings are crisped, sizzled transformed into a marshland in a cast-iron pot or heated in wonderland when soft winter a microwave. It can be eaten weather kisses the steamy like a lollipop or squeezed until Louisiana air. But when all of its delectable filling pops into that nature-gazing in cold air your mouth like something makes your appetite kick up like from a coon-ass version of a a Cajun two-step, the region Pez dispenser. Louisianians’ enjoyable as the Cajun culture Cajun Country joyously also sports the gastronomic love of boudin extends to that keeps the links connected. displayed in Scott to the small wonder of the Boudin Trail that many corners – I have Visit www.visitlakecharles.org/ town tableaux that remind just waits for exploration. purchased homemade boudin visitors/dining/southwest- people to “Keep Christ in The Southwest Louisiana from the gift shop of a New louisiana-boudin-trail/. Christmas,” I doubt anyone Boudin Trail winds its way Orleans hospital for a Best Stop Supermarket, 615 who is served a bowl of through such towns as Lake delightful quick lunch. I once Louisiana Highway 63 N., Christmas gumbo or gateux de Charles, Iowa, Sulphur and loaded some links into a pot of Scott, (337) 233-5805. sirop with warmth and Hackberry to name a few, smothered cabbage that hospitality at these celebra- dotted with deceptively inaus- subsequently exploded CAUSE TO CELEBRATE tions is ever questioned if picious enclaves that concoct wonderfully into a loose CHRISTMAS IN they’re Jewish, Muslim or that primo Cajun finger food version of stuffed cabbage. CAJUN COUNTRY Catholic. They are simply told called boudin. Boudin is a Somewhat off the beaten I have a profound personal “Joyeux Noël,” which Cajun sausage of sorts that boudin trail of southwest objection to the homogeniza- translates into: “Welcome. You appears in many delicious Louisiana, the town of Scott tion of the holiday season. We are loved because you are my savory forms with varied lies like a little hub of a wheel now must call Christmas “a brother.” Here in the land composition – shrimp, encircled by the congenial celebration,” whether it’s in the where “Silent Night” is sung crawfish, alligator and the spokes of Lafayette to the east, oaks or the office break room, with a Cajun accent most traditional filling of pork. Carencro to the north, replacing the syllable “Christ” accompanied by an accordion The savory, tender filling of Broussard to the south and with an “X” in writing lest we and frottoir, the omission of pork meat and pork liver are Rayne to the west. When it offend. The most disheartening symbols isn’t required to usually slow-cooked in a big comes to selecting primo seasonal office party I ever advertise community black cauldron for hours with boudin, all points lead to Best attended featured a film tolerance. For more than two onion, bell peppers and red Stop Supermarket, acclaimed montage replete with Buddha, centuries now, Cajun Country and black peppers. Then, it’s as one of the best places to symbols of Kwanzaa, people have known a perfect ground and combined with grab a few links of this Cajun menorahs and Islam but not pot of gumbo is made with a rice (usually long-grain), green delicacy. Boudin with a salad, one trace of a nativity scene. diversity of ingredients that onions, salt and more pepper boudin with a side of dirty rice One attendee who I knew was are multicultural. In a region before it is stuffed into casings. or boudin on a toothpick with Jewish watched this display filled with celebration of life “Boudiniers” abound on this an Abita chaser: All of it has and made a point of going to year-round, Christmas in flavorful trail in the form of been said to have originated everyone wishing them “Merry Cajun Country rises a degree grocery or convenience stores, with French fur trapper Christmas!” I think I could higher than usual; the reason delis or cafés. From Peto’s Deli Toussaint Charbonneau, who have kissed him. for the season takes rightful in Moss Bluff, Fontenot’s whipped up a batch of buffalo This is not the case in Cajun center stage in gestures that Cajun Foods in Iowa, Brown’s boudin on the trail with Lewis Country. From the Christmas are not exclusionary but Grocery in Hackberry or B & and Clark. Hot, savory, parades in St. Martin Parish to tolerant, inviting all in a O Kitchen in Sulphur, the seafood, porcine or mild, this Lafayette’s Christmas on the participatory spirit of spicy, savory flavors of revered link is as individual and Bayou, from Christmas in prevalent good will. n

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WORTH WATCHING woods, clear and bare of canes glorious season, a really fine nonprofit groups, clubs, THE BACK ENTRANCE OF …” before they journeyed onto holiday escape and/or gift is businesses and organizations; ASCENSION PARISH the Amite River. the book Winding Through the town also offers support In 1699, the Bayougoula The high spring floods Time: The Forgotten History for any of these groups’ American Indians told a deceived the French explorers and Present-Day Peril of Bayou fundraisers by allowing the newcomer to Louisianee, Pierr into thinking that the bayou Manchac by Mary Ann sale of tickets as long as it’s Le Moyne, Sieur d’Iberville, could be used as a trade route. Sternberg. Sternberg went on first cleared with the market about a waterway that was a During the Revolutionary War, her own personal odyssey of board. Singers, musicians or shortcut to le Golfe du when Spanish Gov. Bernardo Bayou Manchac and uncovered any other entertainer Mexique. It was an ancient de Galvez was doing his best its history; met its dwellers; and interested in volunteering to water system in the area where to fight the British in both collected a fine repertoire of perform are welcomed – tip Alligator Bayou conjoined with Louisiana and Florida stories, history and personal jars are also allowed. Bayou Manchac that, from 500 territories and waters, the observations that she’s Contact Courtney Yoes at B.C. to 1500 A.D., was Spanish beat the British at Fort beautifully chronicled in this (225) 288-3772 or enthroned as an American Butte on Bayou Manchac and book. Her work exposes the [email protected]. Indian enclave of power went on to wrest New richness of Bayou Manchac’s named “Anatamaha,” or “Fish Richmond (Baton Rouge) from past and breaks its silence CAUSE TO CELEBRATE Place.” American Indians the Brits, as well. while still preserving its peace. CHRISTMAS UNDER THE OAKS resided in the Bayou Manchac Bayou Manchac, also known Christmas comes early at the area from as early as 6,000 as Iberville River, runs for 18 NEWS BRIEF Christmas Bonfire Party at Oak B.C., and the waterway bore miles in South Louisiana as a OPEN ENTERPRISE IN Alley on Dec. 3. The beautiful several names throughout the boundary for several parishes. ZACHARY old place is decorated the old- centuries: Askankia, Ascantia, In November, the feathery According to the Advocate, fashioned Creole way, with Massiac and Manchacque. green cypress leaves turn rust the town of Zachary had been fruit, festooned greenery and “Manchac” is believed to be a colored against gray-brown on the lookout for participants candlelight. The grand old derivation from the Choctaw bark and skies filled with golden in the newly formed Second house is open with food word “imashaka,” meaning light. During this time that some Saturday Community Market, stations set throughout. back entrance. American Indians tribes call part of the Zachary Farmer’s At 8 p.m., the quintet leads On a March night in 1699, “the moon of red leaves,” the Market. The first market kicks a carol-laden procession to the Iberville wrote in his journal, place whispers to you. off on Nov. 12. Christmas tepee-like wooden structure on “This place … is one of the If time constraints restrict shoppers, take note: The market the levee that is set ablaze and prettiest I spots I have ever you from taking a tour of will also be held for the first burns as an early beacon to seen, fine level ground, beautiful Bayou Manchac during this three Saturdays of December. welcome Papa Noel. As the This new market is located at food stations empty when the Zachary Farmer’s Market Florida and Virginia streets. evening gets late, hot Open-air as it is, the market is chocolate, coffee and beignets decidedly not a cattle call for just help you pleasantly slide into any type of ware to be the midnight hour. displayed. It is a producer-only Dancing shoes are a must. type of venue. The only For more information and to acceptable wares are art, purchase tickets, call (800) 44- baked goods, candles, craft ALLEY (or (800) 442-5539) or items and woodworking – and (225) 265-2151. Tickets will not no cutting creative corners by be mailed; reservations will be submitting items made from kept at will call at the back door commercial kits. Zachary is of the mansion, and guests will also seeking involvement from be checked in upon arrival. n

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CAUSE TO CELEBRATE with my family gathered Mississippi winding CAFFEINE CULTURE together in our cottage’s its way about us, the IN NEW ORLEANS kitchen in Uptown New steamy air and the I’ve lost count of how many Orleans, the tom-tom-like syrupy sunlight that automatic coffee pots I’ve rhythm of a stainless-steel threatens to melt us gone through in my life: Bunn, percolator pumping along like even in December, Krups, Mr. Coffee, Proctor a musician from Congo New Orleans was Silex. When the latest Square as the church bells destined to be a automatic coffee pot bit the from Incarnate Word tolled the coffee town. From dust, I unearthed an old 6 o’clock Angelus hour and the 1890 when the standby, a tin drip pot that early morning sun streamed Bartlett and Dodge looks like it belongs on a through the usually opened families began selling cowboy’s campfire; boiled a back door. The cans or packs cans of locally roasted kettle of water; and dripped it of coffee in the cabinet coffee in the colorful over the grounds. The coffee included Luzianne, Union and French Market for in my mug tasted as wonderful Eight O’Clock for many years. which they named their coffee swirled with the finest as its aroma, and beads of We drank from blue cups with product to the delicious cups chicory to be found in Europe. caramel-colored oil floated on white saucers and then basket- you partake of either at home (We can thank the Dutch for its surface, mingling with the weave plastic mugs. As I grew or at restaurants such as this last addition.) Arabica cream deliciously. Not long older, I formed a strange Galatoire’s, Antoine’s or beans originated in the after, I was in Dillard’s, eyeing attachment to my coffee mugs; Commander’s Palace, this mountains of Yemen in the a Krups coffee pot on sale, I still have one emblazoned stimulating beverage is, para- Arabian Peninsula, the ready to purchase it when the with a bear from the Great doxically, an integral part of Ethiopian highlands and memories of this old tin pot Smoky Mountains also bearing the unique, laissez-faire Sudan. The beans already crowning my stove top and of my name. I once sipped from a mindset of the Big Easy. contain less caffeine than the fragrance and flavor that mug that resembled old-time others, something also aided issued from its spout and of beige mixing bowls with the FORK IN THE ROAD by the addition of chicory. The the singing kettle that sounded blue and pink stripes at the GROUNDS FOR ENJOYMENT plants flower beautifully with each morning at 5 made me rim. When my mother acci- IN NEW ORLEANS tiny white flowers that look abruptly turn away sans a new dentally broke it, I nearly In my own personal and smell like Confederate pot. Why mess with a good wailed. “I wrote two books experience, there is only one jasmine before turning into thing? Dripping a kettle of and edited two almanacs with way to eliminate the stupor the coffee berry. boiling water over some Mello that mug at my side the whole that envelopes you after you Enjoy a cup of coffee après Joy, French Market or just time!” I cried to her. My mug have somehow managed to lunch or dinner at premiere plain Folgers coffee grounds for the past 14 years is a white consume one more slice of New Orleans eateries such as and then sipping a cup French bowl that bears the pumpkin or pecan pie after a Commander’s Palace, the partially combined with hot legend “Joe Muggs.” I refer Thanksgiving feast or coconut Hotel Monteleone, Café dairy – either cream, Silk, fat- to this mug as a person. I cake at the Yuletide repast. It Adelaide or Bayona to name free Carnation or condensed never say, “Where is my takes a good cup of coffee a few, and you’re sipping milk – as the sun eventually cup?” but rather, “Where is followed by a brisk walk if you French Market Coffee. Still begins to illuminate the levee Joe Muggs?” My mother used can still move. More than 120 located on Magazine Street, outside my window perfectly to tell me stories about years ago, back in the days where it’s been since 1920, accompanies morning helping her grandmother in when vendors sang of their the master-tasters prove the meditations – or cold Central Louisiana toast green wares on the streets, French establishment hasn’t lost its afternoons when the window coffee beans in a cast-iron Market Coffee began selling touch with each flavorful can is pelted by rain. Mello Joy skillet on a wood-burning cans of its flavorful grounds at, from an establishment with a and French Market grounds stove and then grinding them of course, the French Market. history that’s masterfully are my drip preferences. for a pot of coffee. These tins were filled with a blended into the story of I associate coffee’s perfume With the praline-colored blend of ground Arabica New Orleans. n

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Visions of a Louisiana Christmas | BY LAURA CLAVERIE

IT’S BEGINNING TO look traditions with bonfires on the NATCHITOCHES ceremony downtown on the like Christmas all over levees or religious customs NATCHITOCHES riverbank, the stunning events Louisiana. In all corners of the brought from Acadian CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL continue until Jan. 6, 2012. The state, the holidays are being ancestors. Whatever the As the second-oldest holiday Blues Christmas Weekend, celebrated in culturally diverse festivities, the holidays are celebration in America, the Nov. 26, features fireworks on customs and style. For some celebrated and cherished in Natchitoches Christmas the river and music by Johnny communities, it’s towns and our state. Here are events that Festival hosts its 85th event & the Nightcrawlers and parks decorated to the hilt. In will brighten your spirit: this year. Beginning Nov. 19 Diddley Squat. The Cajun others, it’s centuries-old with its Festival of Lights Christmas Weekend, Dec. 10,

100 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 brings Brandon Ledet and the Louisiana cities to form the visitors tour the gardens and the beloved streetcars don Jambalaya Cajun Band. Most Holiday Trail of Lights, experience the centerpiece of garlands and ribbons as they of these activities are free and including Shreveport/Bossier Christmas New Orleans-style. rumble down St. Charles open to the public, with City, Monroe/West Monroe, There’s plenty to see and do Avenue and in Mid-City. It’s modest charges for some. Alexandria/Pineville and at Celebration in the Oaks, so impossible to escape the “We focus our music on Minden. Visitors are plan to spend the evening holiday spirit in New Orleans, Louisiana entertainers,” says encouraged to take part in the riding the miniature train and once again, the city Iris Harper, executive director holiday events in all these through much of the park’s has lots to celebrate. of the Natchitoches locations, making for a fun 1,300 acres, walking the Visit www.celebra- Convention & Visitors Bureau. weekend trip. gardens and listening to tionintheoaks.com and “This state has a wealth of Despite the entertainment carolers from area schools and www.fqfi.org. talent, and we showcase it and economic boost these churches. A small café every chance we get.” events provide, the spiritual provides hot chocolate, SHREVEPORT/BOSSIER CITY Visitors find this a user- aspect of the season is gumbo and jambalaya, and a DECEMBER ON THE RED friendly festival as most of the not lost. gift shop features locally made Twenty-six acres of lush attractions are within walking “This is where you can find crafts and gifts. A life-size rose bushes sparkle with 1 distance. Front Street the real meaning of nativity scene solemnly million lights at Shreveport’s becomes a wonderland of Christmas,” Harper says. “Just depicts the spiritual meaning Christmas in Roseland, a “snow,” a blizzard made of walk along the riverbanks and of Christmas. hallmark event of bubbles. Children sit in inner hear the music, watch families Because the park gets no Shreveport/Bossier City’s tubes and slide down a nearby mill around and enjoy one city funding and little state December on the Red. It is hill made of ice. another. This is what the funding, Celebration also here in the garden of the There are tours of historic holidays are about.” provides much-needed funds, American Rose Center that homes, carolers who roam For more information , visit almost 12 percent of the park’s visitors experience an the streets singing songs of www.holidaytrailoflights.com annual budget. It takes place impressive array of activities, the season and Lesson & Nov. 25, 26, 27 and nightly from train rides for the Carols at Trinity Episcopal NEW ORLEANS from Dec. 2 to Jan. 1, 2012. children to holiday music sung and Immaculate Conception CHRISTMAS As always, New Orleans by area choirs. The exquisite churches. NEW ORLEANS-STYLE does the holidays big! Visitors event benefits the garden, The six-week celebration With more than 1 million enjoy discounted hotel rooms which is the national home of has an estimated $75 million twinkling lights adorning the and special Creole Réveillon the American Rose Society. economic impact for the gardens and oaks of New dinners at some of the city’s But more holiday spirit parish and attracts more Orleans City Park’s Botanical most sumptuous restaurants. waits in this North Louisiana than 500,000 visitors. It’s an Garden, Celebration in the Historic homes such as the city. A three-story Christmas economic boon to this town Oaks celebrates its 25th Hermann-Grima, Longue Vue tree welcomes holiday of 18,000. anniversary this year by and Gallier houses are visitors to the Louisiana In a regional marketing bringing back old favorites decorated in their finest Boardwalk. The half-mile effort, Natchitoches has joined and welcoming new ones. embellishments of the periods, outdoor shopping area, forces with other North Each year, more than 120,000 providing a peek at Creole which boasts more than five culture through the ages. Free dozen shops, makes for an jazz concerts in the St. Louis alluring stroll. Cathedral feature such classic Fireworks light up Caddo performers as Ellis Marsalis, Lake on Saturday, Dec. 3, Irvin Mayfield and harpist and the festivities continue Rachel Van Voorhies most through the night with music nights. The Roosevelt Hotel, by nationally known talent. now part of the Waldorf The Barnwell Garden and Astoria collection, re-creates Arts Center puts a modern the Teddy Bear Teas of days spin on holiday lights with past, and the hotel’s lobby its Laser Light Show. “This is features a snow village made an unexpected holiday event of gingerbread, depicting as you don’t often see a laser New Orleans scenes. Cooking show in a nature conserva- demonstrations, led by some tory,” says Chris Jay of the of the city’s star chefs, are Shreveport/Bossier CVB. held in the new kitchen at the “It’s sort of a Pink Floyd- historic French Market. Even meets-the-holidays moment.” © www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 101 as the Cajuns would have Alley are worth the trip. Make experienced a hundred years time to visit the elegant ago or so,” says Maria Biedenharn Home and DelaCroix. “It’s a quiet, ELsong Gardens Dec. 1 reflective time, a time of through Jan. 2, 2012. simplicity and beauty.” “Our Christmas celebration Oh, cher, this is the place has grown a lot very quickly,” to be during the holidays. says Snow. “And it’s been www.bayouvermilion.org an economic boost [for] the area. But the most MONROE/WEST MONROE important aspect is that it CHRISTMAS ON THE RIVER instills community pride in One of the newest holiday the residents.” celebrations in the state is Visit www.christmason- Christmas on the River, Nov. theriver.org and 26 to Jan. 1 throughout www.bmuseum.org. The month of events also of a serious visit. Monroe and its sister city, packs an economic punch of Acadian Village supports West Monroe. Begun only LAKE CHARLES nearly $50 million. LARC, an organization that four years ago, the festivities AND BATON ROUGE Sports fans are also in for a helps individuals with devel- now attract crowds from BONFIRES treat as Shreveport hosts the opmental disabilities. With throughout the South. If this isn’t enough to Independence Bowl when the state cutbacks this year, the The biggest weekend takes brighten your holidays, travel ACC and Mountain West event is more important than place Dec. 1-3 when a night- to Lake Charles for Light Up Champions face off on Dec. ever. “We help service more long Gallery Crawl invites the Lake and its lighted boat 26. Upward of 40,000 fans than 300 LARC clients with visitors to explore the art parade, Dec. 3, and Sulphur’s descend on the city, so make this event, and 100 percent of galleries in both cities. three-day festival, Christmas your reservations early. Visit the profits go to the organiza- “Monroe and West Monroe Under the Oaks, Dec. 2-4, www.holidaytrailoflights.com. tion,” says Joey Babineaux, have growing arts which includes lots of snow the village’s director. communities, and our and family activities such as LAFAYETTE Visit galleries feature something the Kiwanis balloon parade NOEL ACADIEN AU VILLAGE, www.acadianvillage.org. for everyone – paintings, and the spectacle of lights Lafayette, the heart of the Vermilionville is another photography and sculpture,” (www.visitlakecharles/cajunch Acadian culture, honors its stop during your Cajun says Sheila Snow, communi- ristmas.org). Baton Rouge heritage with two must-see holiday experience. Here, cations director for Monroe toasts the season with its events: Noel Acadien Au another small Acadian village and West Monroe CVB. North Boulevard Festival of Village at Acadian Village and boasts 23 acres dotted with 19 Three parades dominate Lights with 500,000 lights illu- Vermilionville. structures, some dating back Dec. 3 when West Monroe minating downtown, a 5K Acadian Village, a faithful to the late 1700s. Visitors are hosts the Bawcomville Reindeer Run, ice-skating and reproduction of an 1800s-era treated to an authentic look at Redneck Christmas Parade 6 tons of “snow” in Snow South Louisiana town, is open Cajun Christmas traditions. in the morning. At noon, pets Village. The old Louisiana year-round but pulls out all Artisans dressed in period of all kinds don holiday attire State Capitol is decorated in the stops during Christmas. costumes make cornhusk for the Paw-Rade. That its most elegant holiday attire. Homes original to the era are dolls, santons (“little saints”) evening the Kiwanis Club (www.visitbatonrouge.com.) furnished with period figures from bousillage (a Christmas Parade travels And, of course, Lutcher’s furnishings and accurately plaster made of moss and through both towns and Festival of the Bonfires lights depict early life in south- mud) and nativity sets. Others features decorated floats, area the way for Santa and his western Louisiana. It will be spin, weave and make bands and Christmas Beauty reindeer with its traditional open Dec. 1-23. rosaries. Christmas hymns Pageant winners. The night lighting of holiday bonfires Visitors find a glittery are sung in the manner in caps off with the Jaycees along the banks of the array of more than 500,000 which they were written a Fireworks Extravaganza. Mississippi River on lights decorating the 18th- century ago. If you cannot make it to Christmas Eve. Small century shops and homes The Vermilionville North Louisiana that hamlets such as Vacherie and and a small midway with celebration is open Dec. 13-16 weekend, don’t fret. There are Paulina also have bonfire children’s rides and ponies. during the day, a perfect activities and holiday sites to traditions worth seeing, all An art gallery featuring school field trip that adults see throughout the month. saying “Merry Christmas” works by local emerging and and children will treasure. The dancing lights that hover with an unmistakable established artists is worthy “Our celebration is exactly over West Monroe’s Antique Louisiana accent. n

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A GUIDE TO FESTIVALS AROUND THE STATE NOVEMBER-DECEMBER

COMPLIED BY ALEX GECAN AND EVE KIDD CRAWFORD

NORTHERN LOUISIANA Nov. 3-5. Holidays in Cedartown. Ruston Civic Center, Ruston. (318) 255-7707. Nov. 4-5. Main to Main Trade Days. Minden. (318) 371-4258. Through Nov. 5. Ruston Parks and Recreation Youth Soccer and Flag Holiday Laser Light Football. Ruston. (318) 255-5800. Show at Barnwell Through Nov. 6. State Fair of Louisiana. Center, Shreveport. Shreveport. (318) 635-1361. Nov. 11-12. Minden Fasching Celebration. Dec. 1. Downtown Gallery Crawl. Downtown Alexandria. (318) 487-8243. 520 Broadway, Minden. (318) 371-4258. Monroe and West Monroe. (318) 329-1921. Nov. 10-13 and Nov. 17-20. A Possum Nov. 12. Ghost Walk. Minden Cemetery, Dec. 2-23. Holiday Laser Light Show. Grape Christmas Live! Multi-Purpose Minden. (318) 423-0192. Barnwell Center, Shreveport. Academic Building on LSUA, Alexandria. (318) 673-7703. (318) 473-6573 Nov. 12-13. Annual Mistletoe and More Show. West Monroe Convention Center, Dec. 3. Springhill Christmas Parade. Nov. 12. 12th Annual Sugar Day Festival. West Monroe. (318) 470-6714. Springhill. (318) 539-4717. Kent Plantation House, Alexandria. (318) 487-5998. Nov. 13. North Louisiana Team Roping. Dec. 3. Adventure Race. Lincoln Parish North Louisiana Exhibition Center, Park, Ruston. (318) 251-5156. Nov. 12-13. A Merry Christmas in CenLa. Ruston. (318) 243-4941. Dec. 9. Carols and Cocoa. Louisiana Rapides Parish Coliseum, Alexandria. (318) 445-1962 or (318) 442-9581. Nov. 15-18. Snoopy. Performing Arts Tech University, Ruston. LaTech.edu. Center Theatre, Grambling State Dec. 10. Sounds of the Season. West Nov. 12. Cenla Rollergirls: Roller Derby University, Grambling. Gram.edu. Monroe Convention Center, West Bout. Rapides Parish Coliseum, Alexandria. (318) 767-3968. Nov. 18-19. Art with a View. Premier Monroe. (318) 812-6761. Plaza, Monroe. (318) 329-1921. Dec. 10. Sarepta Christmas Festival. Nov. 19. Turn On the Holidays. Downtown Riverbank, Natchitoches. Nov. 19. CMT on Tour: Luke Bryan Sarepta. (318) 847-4333. ChristmasFestival.com. Tailgates and Tanlines. Monroe Civic Dec. 15. Springhill Main Street Center, Monroe. (318) 329-2225. “Christmas on Main.” Main Street, Nov. 19. The Chee Weez. Alexandria Riverfront Center, Alexandria. Nov. 19. Elvis and the Great Pretenders. Springhill. (318) 539-5699. Jack Howard Theatre, Monroe. (318) 623-7359. (318) 348-1034. Nov. 26. Snow Fest. Downtown Riverbank, CENTRAL LOUISIANA Natchitoches. (800) 259-1714. Nov. 19. National Barrel Horse Association Nov. 2-6. SWAC Conference Soccer Racing. North Louisiana Exhibition Nov. 20. Run Wild’s The Half Marathon Tournament. Johnny Downs Soccer Center, Ruston. (318) 243-4941. and 10K of Central Louisiana. Woodworth. Complex, Alexandria. Swac.org. Runwild.us. Nov. 25-26. D’Arbonne Range Riders Nov. 5. Louisiana College vs. McMurry. Barrel Racing. North Louisiana Exhibition Nov. 26-27. The Nutcracker Ballet. Wildcat Stadium, Pineville. (318) 487-7006. Center, Ruston. (318) 243-4941. Coughlin-Saunders Performing Arts Nov. 5. LSUA Foundation Scholarship Gala. Center, Alexandria. (318) 792-1699. Nov. 26. Big Dog Trail Run. Lincoln Alexandria Riverfront Center, Alexandria. Parish Park, Ruston. (318) 251-5156. Nov. 29. Louisiana State Bicentennial (318) 619-2916. Kent Plantation Nov. 26-Dec. 26. Fourth Annual Christmas Opening Ceremony. Nov. 10-13. Smoke on the Mountain House, Alexandria. (318) 487-5998. on the River. Monroe and West Monroe. Homecoming. Lagniappe Theatre Co., (318) 387-5691. Nov. 29-Jan. 14. Annual Miniature Exhibit.

106 | Louisiana Life November/December 2011 River Oaks Square Arts Center, Alexandria. Through Nov. 5. Envision daBERRY: (337) 584-2818. (318) 473-2670. Realizing Revitalization Through Public Nov. 16-19. Mistletoe and Moss Holiday Dec. 1-23. Gingerbread House. City Hall, Art. 524 Hopkins St., New Iberia. Market. Lake Charles Civic Center, Lake Pineville. (318) 449-5650. (337) 944-9966. Charles. (337) 436-4025. Dec. 1-23. Santa’s House. City Hall, Nov. 4-6. Swine Festival. Basile. N ov. 17-20. Southern Screen Film Festival. Pineville. (318) 449-5650. (337) 230-1479. Lafayette. (337) 291-3456. Dec. 1. Holiday Magic. Alexander Fulton Nov. 4-6. Kiwanis Christmas Arts Nov. 18-20. Celtic Nations Heritage Mini Park, Alexandria. (318) 449-5051. & Crafts Show. Lake Charles Civic Festival. Lake Charles. (337) 439-4888. Center, Lake Charles. (800) 479-9186. Dec. 1-3, 8-10 and 15-23. Holiday Nov. 18-Dec. 29. W .H. Tupper Light Safari. Alexandria Zoo, Alexandria. Nov. 5. Southdown Marketplace Arts Museum Christmas Exhibit. Jennings. (318) 441-6810. & Crafts Festival. Southdown Plantation (337) 821-5532. and Museum, Houma. (985) 851-0154. Dec. 3. 85th Annual Christmas Festival. Nov. 19. Freddie Pate’s Jamboree. Strand Downtown Riverbank and Front Street, Nov. 5. The Great Chili Challenge. Theatre, Jennings. (337) 779-2342. New Iberia. (337) 364-2273. Natchitoches. (800) 259-1714. Nov. 26. Cajun Christmas Bayou Parade. Dec. 3. Porch Sale Fundraiser. Bolton Nov. 5. Tail-Gator Food Fest featuring The Breaux Bridge. (337) 332-8500. Battle of the Paddles. Hanson Memorial House, River Oaks Square Arts Center, Nov. 26. Christmas in the Park. Reeves. High School, Franklin. (337) 828-3487. Alexandria. (318) 473-2670. (337) 749-2000. Nov. 5-6. Giant Omelette Celebration. Dec. 4. Rapides Symphony Orchestra Nov. 27. Christmas Shoppe. 113 Willow Abbeville. Giantomelette.org. Holiday Concert. Coughlin-Saunders Wood Drive, New Iberia. (337) 229-1982. Performing Arts Center, Alexandria. Nov. 5-6. Shadows-on-the-Teche Civil War Nov. 27. Sounds of the Season with the (318) 484-4469. Re-enactment. New Iberia. (877) 200-4924. Acadiana Symphony Orchestra. 108 E. St. Dec. 8-12. A Pilgrimage to Bethlehem. Nov. 5-6. Acadiana Barrel Race Association, Peters St., New Iberia. (337) 364-1603. Emmanuel Baptist Church, Alexandria. Bayou Classic. 713 N.W. Bypass, New Nov. 27-Dec. 31. Victorian Christmas at (318) 442-7773. Iberia. (337) 365-7539. the Joseph Jefferson Home. 5505 Rip Van Dec. 9. City of Pineville Christmas Nov. 6. Horse Show. Houma Air Base Winkle Road, New Iberia. (337) 359-8525. Parade. Pineville. Pineville.net. Arena, Houma. (985) 665-1005. Nov. 29. New Iberia Christmas Parade. Dec. 10. Town of Ball Christmas Nov. 11. Veterans Day Memorial Ceremony. New Iberia. (337) 365-1428. Parade. Ball. HeartofLouisiana.com. New Iberia. (337) 365-1428. Dec. 1-4. Sulphur’s Christmas Under the Dec. 10. Cenla Christmas Spectacular. Nov. 11. Mulberry Elementary School Oaks Festival. Henning House, Sulphur. Coughlin-Sanders Performing Arts Center, 15th Annual Veterans Day Program. (337) 527-0357. Alexandria. (318) 487-8243. Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, Houma. Dec. 1-4 and Dec. 8-11. Iberia Performing (985) 850-4657. Dec. 10. Children’s Christmas Party. Arts League Presents A Carol for Tiny Tim. Natchitoches Events Center, Natchitoches. Nov. 11. Veteran’s Day Avenue of Flags. 126 Iberia St., New Iberia. (337) 364-6114. (800) 259-1714. Orange Grove/Graceland Cemetery, Dec. 2-31. Shadows Merry Making Season. Lake Charles. (337) 437-7807. Dec. 10. Fête d’Hiver. Fort St. Jean Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia. (337) Baptiste State Historic Site, Natchitoches. Nov. 11-13. Cracklin Festival. Port Barre. 369-6446.Dec. 2. Christmas at the Railroad (800) 259-1714. (337) 585-6188. Museum. DeQuincy Railroad Museum, Dec. 10-11. Sullivan Gun & Knife Show. Nov. 11-14. Rayne Frog Festival. Rayne. DeQuincy. (337) 540-4606. Rapides Parish Coliseum, Alexandria. (337) 366-2884. Dec. 2. DeQuincy Christmas Parade. (318) 442-9581. Nov. 12. Atchafalaya Basin Festival. Downtown DeQuincy. (337) 786-6451. Dec. 11. City of Alexandria Christmas Henderson. (337) 205-2443. Dec. 2. Vinton Christmas Parade. Downtown Parade. Alexandria. (318) 623-7359. Nov. 12. TARC Holiday Open House. TARC Vinton. (337) 589-7453. Dec. 17. Christmas in Kolin Festival. Kolin Restaurant and Gift Shop/Campus, Houma. Dec. 3. Annual Gingerbread House Contest. Vendors Market, Kolin. (318) 446-3737. (985) 876-4465. Lake Charles/Southwest Louisiana Nov. 12. Thibodeauxville Fall Festival. Convention & Visitors Bureau, Lake Charles. CAJUN COUNTRY Downtown Thibodaux. (985) 446-1191. (337) 436-9588. Nov. 1-Dec. 31, every Tuesday and Nov. 12. Annual Fall Arts & Crafts Show Dec. 3. Christmas Under the Oaks/Balloons Saturday. Teche Area Farmer’s Market. 102 Bazaar Fundraiser by St. Mary Red Ribbon on Parade. Heritage Square/Henning W. Main St., New Iberia. (337) 256-4971. Committee. Patterson Area Civic Center, House, Sulphur. (337) 527-0357. Nov. 1 -30. Artist of the Month Janet Patterson. (337) 836-9661. Dec. 3. Light Up the Lake Christmas Mayfield. Downtown Art Gallery, Houma. Nov. 12-13. St. Paul Church Fall Bazaar. Celebration. Downtown Lake Charles/Civic (985) 851-2198. St. Paul Catholic Church, Elton. Center, Lake Charles. (337) 436-9588. © www.louisianalife.com Louisiana Life | 107 Dec. 3-4. Acadiana Barrel Race Association Nov. 11-13. Westwego Cypress Swamp BATON ROUGE/ Finals. 713 N.W. Bypass, New Iberia. Fest. Catfish Bourgeois Park, Westwego. PLANTATION COUNTRY (337) 365-7539. (504) 341-1003. Nov. 4-5. The 13th Gate Haunted House. Dec. 7. Pearl Harbor Day Memorial Nov. 12-13. Covington Three Rivers Art Under I-10 Bridge, Downtown Baton Ceremony. 102 W. Main St., New Iberia. Festival 15th Anniversary. North Columbia Rouge. (225) 389-1313. (337) 365-1428. Street, Covington. (985) 327-9797. Nov. 5. Baton Rouge Arts Market. Dec. 10. Delcambre Christmas Boat Parade. Nov. 16-20. New Orleans Fringe Theater Main Street Market, Baton Rouge. Boat launch, Delcambre. (337) 380-7879. Festival. M arigny, Bywater, various other (225) 344-8558. locations, New Orleans. (504) 941-3640. Dec. 10. Yuletide on the Bayou. 102 W. Nov. 11. U.S.S. Kidd and Old State Capitol Main St., New Iberia. (337) 369-2330. Nov. 18. Celebration in the Oaks Adult Veterans Day Ceremonies. USS Kidd Dec. 11. Delcambre Christmas on the Bayou Preview Party. City Park’s Botanical Garden Veterans Memorial and Museum, Baton Parade. Main Street, Delcambre. and Amusement Park, New Orleans. Rouge. (225) 342-1942, extension 12. (504) 483-9415. (337) 519-2541. Nov. 12-13. Destrehan Plantation Fall Dec. 11. Shadows Christmas Tour of Nov. 19. 25th Annual All Saints Soiree … Festival. Destrehan Plantation, Destrehan. Homes. Shadows-on-the-Teche, A Masked Gala! First NBC Building Lobby, (985) 764-9315. New Orleans. (504) 525-3377. New Iberia. (337) 369-6446. Nov. 18-19. Annual Broadmoor Arts & Dec. 12. Tri-City Youth Theatre Christmas Nov. 20. November Music in the Park. Crafts Festival. Broadmoor High School, Live Theatre Production Children’s Play. Cate Square Park, Hammond. Baton Rouge. (225) 926-1420. hammondchamber.org. Municipal Auditorium, Morgan City. Dec. 1-31. Creole Christmas: An (985) 380-4639. Nov. 24-Dec. 25. Christmas in the Park. Exploration of Foreign Influences on Dec. 15. Lake Charles Symphony Winter 202 Avenue I, Bogalusa. (985) 732-7044. Southern Christmas Celebrations. Concert & Gala Fundraiser. McNeese State Nov. 25-Jan. 1. Celebration in the Oaks. Magnolia Mound Plantation, Baton Rouge. University Performing Arts Center, Lake City Park, New Orleans. (504) 483-9415. (225) 343-4955. Charles. (337) 433-1611. Until Dec. 16. Andy Warhol’s Celebrities: Dec. 2. North Boulevard Festival of Lights. From the New Orleans Museum of Art. City Downtown Baton Rouge. (225) 389-5520. GREATER NEW ORLEANS of Slidell’s Cultural Center Gallery, Slidell. Dec. 3. Baton Rouge Beach Marathon & slidell.la.us. Half Marathon. Milford Wampold Memorial Nov. 5. Bayou Bacchanal. Lafayette Park, Baton Rouge. (225) 324-3123. Square, New Orleans. (504) 220-8441. Dec.1-Jan. 6. Christmas – New Orleans Style. Various locations, New Orleans. Dec. 3. Oak Alley Plantation’s Annual Nov. 4-6. Ponchatoula Antique Festival. (504) 522-5730. Christmas Bonfire Party. Oak Alley Downtown Ponchatoula. (800) 617-4502. Dec. 2. Annual Santa Parade. Bogalusa. Plantation, Baton Rouge. (800) 442-5539. Nov. 5. City of Slidell’s Arts Evening (985) 735-5731. Dec. 7. U.S.S. Kidd Pearl Harbor Day Festival. Olde Towne Slidell. Observance. USS Kidd Coast Guard Plaza, (985) 646-4375. Dec. 2-4. Christmas Extravaganza. Covington Fairgrounds, Covington. Baton Rouge. (225) 342-1942, extension 12. Nov. 5. Abita Springs Gospel Jubilee. (985) 796-5835. Dec. 9-11. Festival of the Bonfires. 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population of cranes existed. But whooping cranes appeared in large numbers in these habitats in the 1890s, before people began encroaching on their habitat and turning the land into farms. Hunting also played a role in their decline. Three previous efforts to reintroduce whooping cranes in the U.S. have failed or faltered. Experts at the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries are upbeat about the efforts at White Lake and have learned from past failures. The reintroduction has a long way to go before it’s considered successful, though. WhiteLake “Reintroduction will be “The long-term considered a success when An ideal spot for hunters, fishermen – management of a large stable we reach that 125 to 130 and whooping cranes | BY MEGAN HILL fresh marsh and adjacent population with 25 to 30 agricultural land make the breeding pairs, but pairs WLWCA one of the most must be producing offspring And it’s filled with wildlife, A LITTLE-KNOWN swath important waterfowl that live to fledgling,” Salyers making it attractive to of marsh in Vermilion Parish, wintering areas in coastal says. “This is likely at least hunters and fishers. The area visited mostly by fishers and Louisiana,” says Carrie 10-plus years down the contains one of the highest hunters, is now home to a Salyers, biologist supervisor road.” And given that White concentrations of mallards in bird that can grow as tall as a for White Lake. “In addition Lake is popular with hunters, the state, and the fishing’s not small person. to waterfowl, White Lake Salyers acknowledges the bad here, either. Ten endangered whooping provides abundant habitat for need to educate those who But taking advantage of cranes were recently reintro- a variety of avian species use the area. White Lake takes some duced in the White Lake including migrant passerine “We have created whooping planning. It’s mainly intended Wetlands Conservation Area. birds, shorebirds and wading crane identification sheets that as a conservation area, so The white wading birds, which birds. Additionally, several we are able to distribute to the Louisiana’s Department of inhabited the area until 1950, large breeding rookeries public, as well as general Wildlife and Fisheries allows can grow up to 5 feet tall. occur on the property.” information regarding the hunting and fishing and White Lake’s status as a The most notable residents reintroduction,” she says. other so-called “consumptive conservation area is a of White Lake are the 10 Visitors to White Lake can activities” only 38 days relatively recent development. whooping cranes introduced view the whooping cranes and of the year. The nearly 71,000 acres of in March, and more cranes other birds on a newly created White Lake is an important freshwater marsh in western will be added each year. These birding trail. The trail, which is refuge for birds: It’s the first Vermilion Parish, near the Gulf birds are considered the most still in the planning stages, will stopping point for millions of of Mexico, once belonged to endangered of all of the be self-guided, and White Lake migrating songbirds on their British oil company BP. In world’s crane species. staff is designing a map to aid way from Central and South 2002, BP donated the property Whooping cranes inhabited birding enthusiasts who come America in the spring. Come to the state of Louisiana. Three Louisiana’s wetlands and to the area. winter, around 500,000 years later a new conservation prairies until 1950, when the More information on White migratory birds call the area area was born. last crane was relocated to Lake and the whooping cranes home. It’s important for scores Much of White Lake is Aransas National Wildlife is available at marsh – some 52,000 acres. of other birds, too. Refuge in Texas, where a www.wlf.louisiana.gov. n

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JulieKane Northwestern State University professor is Louisiana’s new poet laureate.

BY MEGAN HILL

JULIE KANE, whom Gov. poems, and for many years I Bobby Jindal named as hid my poems. I’d fold them the state’s poet laureate up in squares and hide them for 2011 to 2013, finds in my underwear drawers.” inspiration in Louisiana. It wasn’t until college that “Louisiana has such a Kane began letting the world scene; its Sunday afternoon Louisiana Endowment for the strong culture and sense in on her poetry. events have become the Humanities. Sartisky of place,” she says. “With “I took a creative writing longest-running poetry authored the state statute such strong traditions and course in college, and I readings in North America. guiding the selection process. customs, you can’t help but started reading aloud to Kane, now a professor of The panel then turns over be influenced and inspired.” classmates and publishing English at Northwestern the three names to the Kane grew up in my poems,” she says. State University in governor, who makes the Massachusetts, married a But it wasn’t easy at first: Natchitoches, relies on a final selection. man from Louisiana, and the “I was so afraid. When “spark of fascination” to Although Kane knew she couple moved from the you’re first starting out, ignite her poetry. was a nominee, she didn’t Northeast to Baton Rouge. poetry feels like yourself “Something lodges within expect to make it any farther. Kane had been to Louisiana stripped bare. Fortunately me,” she says. “It’s like a “I was surprised to be in only once previously, and the the response was good and grain of sand in an oyster, the final three,” she says. “I change took some getting encouraging. I started taking irritating the oyster until was very honored, but I used to. myself seriously.” it comes out a pearl. figured that was as far as I “It was June, and I was in When Kane and her Something will stick like would go. Then, to my shock, absolute shock at the heat,” husband divorced, she that, and eventually a poem I was in my office before she says. “I thought the moved to New Orleans, will result.” class, and I had an e-mail coffee was undrinkable when where her experiences Kane is only the third from the governor. I did I first got here.” influenced her work in Jazz writer to be named scream when I opened it. I Kane worked as a technical Funeral and Rhythm & Booze. Louisiana’s poet laureate thought: ‘Is this real? Is writer in Baton Rouge to put “I had been to New under the current peer someone putting me on?’” her husband through school, Orleans a couple of times, selection process. The As poet laureate, Kane is but, she says, “It wasn’t what and part of me thought it relatively new process encouraged to make public I loved and didn’t give me would be interesting to live begins with a public call appearances and promote any opportunities to bring in New Orleans for a year for nominations, of which poetry in the state, though poetry into my work.” before probably going back there were 14 this year. her only official duty is What she loves, of course, to Massachusetts,” she says. A selection committee giving a public reading. is poetry. “But I fell in love with it, and whittles down the nominees She’ll serve a two-year term. “I started writing as soon it turned into 17 years.” to three, says Michael “It’s more an honorific,” as I could print words,” she She became a fixture of the Sartisky, president and Sartisky says, “to recognize a says. “I started writing Maple Leaf Bar literary executive director of lifetime of work.” n

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