Terrie Thomas, MD, Elected 2012 Chief of Staff of Woman’s Hospital

BATON ROUGE, La. – Terrie R. Thomas, MD, has been elected to a one year term as the Chief of the Medical Staff of Woman’s Hospital. As Chief of Staff, Dr. Thomas will also serve on Woman’s Hospital Board of Directors.  A practicing obstetrician and gynecologist with Associates in Women’s Health, she is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and graduated from LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans, where she completed her OB-GYN residency. Dr. Thomas serves on the board of Motivating Excellence Academy.

Additional 2012 medical leadership at Woman’s includes:

• Nicolle Hollier, MD, Vice Chief of Staff

• Amanda Pearson, MD, Secretary-Treasurer

• Cheree Schwartzenburg, MD, Chief of Department of Clinical and Support Services

• Timothy Maher, MD, Chief of Anesthesiology

• Marshall St. Amant, MD, Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine/High Risk Obstetrics

•  J. Kyle Schwab, MD, Chief of Medicine

• Steven Spedale, MD, Chief of Neonatology

• Sarah Davis, MD, Chief of Obstetrics/Gynecology

• Beverly Ogden, MD, Chief of Pathology

• Cynthia Voelker, MD, Chief of Pediatrics

• Marcia Gremillion, MD, Chief of Radiology

• Alec Hirsch, MD, Chief of Surgery

• Mark Posner, MD, Chief of Urology

Imperial Calcasieu Medical Group Welcomes  Yoko Broussard, M.D.

Lake Charles —Imperial Calcasieu Medical Group, a private, physician owned, multi-specialty partnership comprised of more than 50 medical providers in the Lake Charles area; is pleased to welcome Yang-Tze Yoko Broussard, M.D.

Dr. Broussard, a board certified physician specializing in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, has practiced medicine in the Lake Area since 1998.    

Dr. Broussard received a Bachelor of Science degree in Premedicine from McNeese State University.  She earned her Medical Degree, and completed a combined internship/residency in internal medicine and pediatrics, at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans.

Louisiana Heart Hosptial Names Chief Executive Officer

Lacombe — The Board of Directors at the Louisiana Heart Hospital are pleased to announce that Charles Nasem, FACHE, has been named President and Chief Executive Officer.  Charles joins the hospital most recently from Deaconess Health System in Oklahoma City, OK.   

Charles is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  He received both his undergraduate degree and a Masters of Healthcare Administration from George Washington University.  Working in hospitals for 35 years he has held positions clinically in cath labs, critical care and open heart surgery as a registered cardiovascular technologist, operated several departments as a director, and has led high performing teams as a senior hospital administrator. 

Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson

Attorneys Recognize

Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P. (BSW) is pleased to announce that 11 attorneys have been named to the 2012 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers and three attorneys have been named Rising Stars.

Baton Rouge

• Bernard E. Boudreaux, Jr. for Business/Corporate

• Robert T. Bowsher for Mergers & Acquisitions

• David R. Cassidy for Tax

• Murphy J. Foster, III for Employment & Labor

• Paul M. Hebert, Jr. for Family Law

• Van R. Mayhall, Jr. for Business/Corporate

• Claude F. Reynaud, Jr. for Intellectual Property

• Emile C. Rolfs, III for Environmental

• James E. Toups, Jr. for Real Estate

• Douglas K. Williams for Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice

New Orleans

•  Peter J. Butler, Jr. for Business Litigation

Rising Stars

•  Emily B. Grey for Health Care

• Van R. Mayhall, III for Corporate Governance & Compliance

• Thomas R. Temple, Jr. for Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice

Louisiana Super Lawyers is an annual publication that identifies attorneys from more than 70 practice areas who have achieved high levels of peer recognition and professional achievement. Additionally, Rising Stars recognizes the top up-and-coming attorneys in the state who are 40 years old or younger, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.

Louisiana Association of Health Plans Elects 2012 Board of Directors

BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Association of Health Plan’s Board of Directors will operate under new leadership in 2012.  J Pegues, chief executive officer of Coventry Health Care, was elected board President at the association’s Annual Meeting and Recognition Dinner in December.

Pegues is formerly the Vice President of the LAHP Board of Directors.  That role will be filled in 2012 by George Bucher of Amerigroup.  Jeff Fernandez of Humana will remain the Secretary-Treasurer.

The association’s previous President, Glen Golemi of UnitedHealthcare, will be serving the board this year as a Director.  He will be joined in that role by David Gandy of MultiPlan, Don Hidalgo of Health Associates, Lyle Luman of WellCare, Sonia Madison of LaCare, Warren Murrell of Peoples Health, John Price of Aetna, and Carol Solomon of Peoples Health.

The board’s appointed committee chairs are Michele Calandro of Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Legislative Affairs Committee); Brooke Flaherty Tiner of Aetna (Regulatory Affairs Committee); Milam Ford, RPh, MBA, MPH, of Blue Cross and Blue Shield (Membership Committee); Doug Layman of Gilsbar (Education Committee); Ronald Ritchey, MD, of eQHealth Solutions (Medical Director Forum); and Ansley Zehnder of Humana (Communications Committee).

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