HJBR Sep/Oct 2022

HEALTHCARE JOURNAL OF BATON ROUGE I  SEP / OCT 2022 39 For weekly eNews updates and to read the journal online, visit HealthcareJournalBR.com “The LHA is grateful to our new and returning board members for their leadership and their dedication to the industry,” said LHA President and CEO Paul A. Salles. “These members con- tinually strive to improve patient care and lower healthcare cost for Louisianians.” Our Lady of the Lake Heart & Vascular Institute Performs 1,000th TAVR Procedure Our Lady of the Lake Heart & Vascular Institute performed its 1,000th TAVR procedure and cele- brated the occasion with a special event at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Physicians, politicians, media, and dozens of other guests gathered in the HVI Lobby to mark the occasion. The millennium milestone empha- sizes the sustained excellence and continuous innovation of the HVI team, which performed the region’s first Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replace- ment (TAVR) in 2013. “I am extremely proud to be a part of one of the best cardiovascular teams in the South, one that endlessly strives to bring the best possible care to our patients,” said Denzil Moraes, MD, HVI chief medical officer at Our Lady of the Lake. “TAVR and other cutting-edge procedures available at Our Lady of the Lake provide hope to patients living with chronic heart and vascular conditions.” The procedure has steadily grown in frequency over the years, with the HVI structural heart team now performing roughly 200 surgeries per year. The team consists of four cardiovascular sur- geons and five interventional cardiologists: Wil- liam Boedefeld, MD; Walter Bringaze, III, MD; Carl Rigby, MD; Terry Stelly, MD; Jorge Castella- nos, MD; Federico De Puy, MD; Harold Helmke, MD; Steven Kelley, MD; and Venkat Suakanti, MD. TAVR is an advanced, minimally invasive proce- dure that replaces a diseased aortic valve with a man-made valve without the need for open heart surgery. The surgery typically uses a transfemo- ral approach, which enters through the femoral artery in the groin and does not require a surgi- cal incision in the chest. Baton Rouge General Physicians Welcomes NewDoctors Victoria Bourgeois, MD, and Nathan Sugarman, MD, have recently joined Baton Rouge General Physicians (BRGP), both located at the hospital’s Bluebonnet campus. Bourgeois will see patients at BRGP’s Obstetrics and Gynecology clinic, and Sugarman will take care of patients at BRGP’s Baton Rouge Family Medical Center. Bourgeois earned a medical degree from American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine and completed a residency in obstet- rics and gynecology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge. Sugarman graduated from the American Uni- versity of the Caribbean School of Medicine and completed a family medicine residency at Baton Rouge General where he served as chief resi- dent. A native of Los Angeles, he earned a Bach- elor of Science in Biology from the University of California. OchsnerWelcomes Back Lindsey Fauveau, MD Ochsner Cancer Center - Baton Rouge wel- comed Lindsey Fauveau, MD, on her return to the capital region after completing a yearlong fellowship in breast surgical oncology at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. During the fellowship, Fauveau received spe- cialized surgical training in the treatment of breast cancer and high-risk breast care. She learned advanced surgical techniques like nipple-spar- ing mastectomy and oncoplastic breast surgery. Also during the fellowship, Fauveau took part in research that was presented at the American Society of Breast Surgeons’ annual meeting in Las Vegas. The work later received top honors during a separate presentation at Baylor. Fauveau completed undergraduate studies at LSU and earned a medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine. She completed a residency in general surgery at LSU Health Sci- ences Center in New Orleans. She joined Och- sner in 2018. Pictured from left to right are Denzil Moraes, MD; Steven Kelley, MD; Venkat Surakanti, MD; Terry Stelly, MD; Carl Rigby, MD; Trudy Worthington, RN; William Helmke, MD; Jorge Castellanos, MD; William Boedefeld, II, MD; Federico DePuy, MD. Lindsey Fauveau, MD