Ann Lafranca, MD, FACOG, has been elected to a one-year term as the Chief of the Medical Staff of Woman’s Hospital, the highest elected leadership position among the medical staff. Dr. Lafranca’s duties include the coordination of clinical improvement activities as well as chairing the Medical Executive Committee. As Chief of Staff, she will also serve on Woman’s Hospital Board of Directors. A practicing obstetrician and gynecologist with Schwartzenburg,Lafranca, Guidry and Chapman, she is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Lafranca graduated from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and completed her OB-GYN residency at LSU-affiliated charity and state hospitals.
Additional 2018 medical leadership at Woman’s includes:
·Kathy Guidry, MD, Vice Chief of Staff
·Julie Martin, MD, Secretary-Treasurer
·Jill Bader, MD, Chief of Department of Clinical and Support Services
·Dewitt Bateman, MD, Chief of Anesthesiology
·Marshall St. Amant, MD, Chief of Maternal-Fetal Medicine/High-Risk Obstetrics
·Charles Pearson, Jr., MD, Chief of Medicine
·Steven Spedale, MD, Chief of Neonatology
·Charles Aycock, MD, Chief of Obstetrics/Gynecology
·Beverly Ogden, MD, Chief of Pathology
·Stephen Sanches, MD, Chief of Pediatrics
·Steven Sotile, MD, Chief of Radiology
·Michael Puyau, MD, Chief of Surgery
·Mark Posner, MD, Chief of Urology