My specialty is maternal-fetal medicine and essentially that’s a much larger fancier
term for an obstetrician who specializes in high risk pregnancies.
I was here in Shreveport in private practice for about four years just doing general obstetrics and gynecology.
About two, two and a half years into practice, I started realizing I had a special passion
for taking care of patients that had high
risk type problems during pregnancy whether
it be diabetic moms or babies that had other types of problems.
We always have to treat the mother first.
A healthy mother is always going to provide the best environment for growth and good health
for the fetus.
A lot of times we have moms that don’t want to take medicines or don’t want to take
treatments because they’re worried about
the harmful effects I could have on the baby.
I constantly am reminding them that treating mom and having a healthy mom is the first step in treating and
keeping babies healthy.
I am married and I have two sons.
They both play a lot of sports, football,
baseball, basketball.
With their sports, me taking them to practice,
sometimes helping with coaching, that takes
up the majority of my time when I’m not
here at the office working.
We have a really good staff here at Regional Perinatal Group.
Our nurses and our front desk staff are so
calming.
Just very nice to the patients and helpful
with any problems they may have with getting
checked in or brought to the back.
I think providing an environment like that
when you first come into an office helps a lot.
And then just try to sit down and talk before
we go through too much of the technical jargon.
I like to sit down at the bedside and have
a conversation about why they’re here and
what we expect to get out of their visit.
