Bio

Nick Raush is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Baton Rouge Regional Campus.  He received a B.S. from Louisiana State University and an M.D. from LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.  Dr. Raush completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.  Following residency, he served as core faculty and helped build the Forrest General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.  He then completed fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Raush joined the critical care faculty at LSUHSC in Baton Rouge in 2021 and practices at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Baton Rouge General Medical Center.  He is deeply involved in graduate medical education and curriculum development.  He co-created and directs the pulmonary and critical care didactic curriculum for several Baton Rouge training programs, including two internal medicine residencies, an emergency medicine residency, and a family medicine residency.  He has developed educational series in point-of-care ultrasound, critical care morning report, and critical care journal club.  Dr. Raush serves as the inaugural Program Director for the LSU Baton Rouge Critical Care Medicine Fellowship, which will welcome its first class of fellows in the 2027–2028 academic year.