School of Medicine

Bariatric Surgery Fellowship

Faculty & Fellows

 

Faculty

Michael Cook, MD, FACS

Michael Cook, MD, FACS

Program Director, LSUHSC/Pennington Bariatric Surgery Fellowship
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
Division of General Surgery
LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans

 

Philip Schauer MD, FACS, FASMBS

Philip Schauer MD, FACS, FASMBS

Associate Program Director, LSUHSC/Pennington Bariatric Surgery Fellowship
Professor of Metabolic Surgery
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University

 

Vance L. Albaugh, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS

Vance L. Albaugh, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS

Assistant Professor of Metabolic Surgery
Metabolic Surgery Lab
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana State University

 

Carlos Galvani, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Carlos Galvani, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Chief of General Surgery
Division of General Surgery
LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans

 

James A Leithead, III, MD

James A Leithead, III, MD

Bariatric and General Surgery
Our Lady of the Lake

 

Mark Hausmann, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Mark Hausmann, MD, FACS, FASMBS

Bariatric and General Surgery
Our Lady of the Lake

 

Brent Wheeler Allain, Jr., MD

Brent Wheeler Allain, Jr., MD

Bariatric and General Surgery
Our Lady of the Lake

 

Daryl Stephen Marx, MD

Daryl Stephen Marx, MD

Bariatric and General Surgery
Our Lady of the Lake

 

 

Fellows

Class of 2026

Shubham Bhatia, M.B.B.S.
Shubham Bhatia, M.B.B.S.
Flushing Hospital Medical Center, Surgery, 2025
Nicholas Dahlgren, M.D.
Nicholas Dahlgren, M.D.
Prisma Health-Upstate/Univ of SC SOM Greenville, Surgery, 2025