Our Lady of the Lake Health has announced Phillip Allen, MD, as vice president, chief of surgery and perioperative services. In this role, Allen will oversee and lead the surgery department at the region’s only Level I trauma center and throughout the Baton Rouge region.
Allen joined Our Lady of the Lake Health in 2013, serving as an otolaryngologist, medical director of the graduate medical education department and, most recently, the associate chief medical officer at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.
“Having Dr. Allen lead our surgical services is beneficial to both the surgery team and to the care we provide to the community,” said Chuck Spicer, Our Lady of the Lake Health president. “Dr. Allen has served in leadership roles at Our Lady of the Lake Health since 2019, so I am excited to see the great work and experience he will bring to this new role.”
A Louisiana native and LSU graduate, Allen completed a medical degree at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio and a surgical internship and otolaryngology residency at the University of Cincinnati. Upon his return to Louisiana in 2013 after practicing in Georgia for 10 years, Allen joined the LSU Department of Otolaryngology faculty in 2013 and started the hospital ear, nose, and throat program Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.