Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center has announced the election of Brent W. Allain Jr., MD, FASMBS, as its chief of staff for 2023.
“I am confident that Dr. Allain will be a great leader for our medical staff throughout this year,” said Catherine O’Neal, MD, chief medical officer at Our Lady of the Lake. “Dr. Allain has over 15 years of experience at Our Lady of the Lake and brings an incredible amount of knowledge to the Chief of Staff's role.”
Allain is a board-certified general surgeon with the Surgeons Group of Baton Rouge at Our Lady of the Lake. Allain also specializes in bariatric surgery and is a founding physician of the Metamor Institute, a bariatric multidisciplinary clinic run in partnership between Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, the Office of the Governor of Louisiana, Louisiana Economic Development, LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Pennington Biomedical Research Foundation.
He earned a medical degree from the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, where he also completed an internship and residency in general surgery. He then completed a fellowship in 2009 in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Allain is also a fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
As chief of staff, Allain will serve on the Our Lady of the Lake Board of Directors while also leading the Medical Executive Committee. The committee uses input from more than 1,800 members of the medical staff to make key leadership decisions related to medical staff policies, procedures, and rules, with an emphasis on clinical care and quality improvement initiatives.