HJBR Nov/Dec 2019

56 NOV / DEC 2019  I  Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge   Hospital Rounds Wester, president and CEO at Our Lady of the Lake. “We are honored to receive this designation as it recognizes our team’s daily pursuit of excel- lence and the exceptional care they provide.”  Graduates of BRGResidency Programs Transition into Healthcare System Seventeen new physicians are beginning careers at health systems and physician practices across the country after graduating from Baton Rouge General’s (BRG) residency programs in family medicine and internal medicine. For the fourth year in a row, 100 percent of BRG’s family medicine residents who took the board exami- nation have passed. BRG’s internal medicine res- idents will take their board exams in August. Three graduates will remain at BRG – Stepha- nie Coleman-Lawrence, MD, and Rachael Kermis, MD, in family medicine, and Swapna Varakantam, MD, in internal medicine. Kermis will practice at Baton Rouge Family Medical and will also serve as a part-time FMRP faculty preceptor for the Fam- ily Medicine Residency Program. Coleman-Law- rence will practice at BRG’s Oak Grove clinic in Prairieville, and Varakantam will practice as a hos- pitalist at BRG. The family medicine graduates are Aarti Attreya, MD; Stephanie Coleman-Lawrence, MD; Janice Dara, MD; Rachael Kermis, MD; Cory Lemoine, DO; Matt Mann, MD; and William Devin Owens, MD. Top Photo: BRG’s Family Medicine Residency Program graduates are, from left to right, Aarti Attreya, MD; Stephanie Coleman-Lawrence, MD; Cory Lemoine, DO; Matthew Mann, MD; Devin Owens, MD; Rachael Kermis, MD; and Janice Dara, MD. Bottom Photo: BRG Internal Medicine Residency Program graduates are, from left to right, Navya Eleti, MD; and Prathyusha Yeturu, MD; (middle row, left to right) Swapna Varakantam, MD; and Shanti Akasapu, MD; and (back row, left to right) Bilal Saiyed, MD; Venkata Kishore Mukku, MD; Nicholas Latuso, MD; Vasudev Tati, MD (Program Director); Matthew Casey Geiger, MD; Ramandeep Singh, MD; and Rajendra Boyilla, MD.