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Educating The Best and The Brightest
Our Pediatric Residency Program provides
an innovative training ground for tomorrow’s
medical practitioners. Launched in 2010,
our Pediatric Residency Program helps to
continuously feed the pipeline of physician
development in Louisiana.
In July 2016, the program’s seventh class of
pediatric residents began their training and
joined upper-level residents at our children’s
hospital. Our Pediatric Residency Program is
a strong indicator of the depth and breadth of
clinical experience that brings new physicians
to our region, and specifically to our
children’s hospital. Currently, the Pediatric
Residency program has 33 residents spanning
three years of training.
Our pediatric residents have gone on
to enroll in some of the nation’s most
prestigious fellowship programs at
institutions including The Children’s Hospital
of Philadelphia, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
and Duke Children’s Hospital and Health
Center, to name a few.
With more than 70% of medical residents
remaining within 70 miles of where they
completed their training, our Pediatric
Residency Program helps attract the best and
brightest minds to treat Louisiana’s children.
One of our residents, Dr. Andres Carrion,
went on to complete a pediatric pulmonary
fellowship and has recently returned to
join our pulmonology team. Pediatric
pulmonologists are crucial in treating
premature infants and children with chronic
lung diseases as well as acute problems
like asthma.
“I was a member of the first graduating class of pediatric
residents at Our Lady of the Lake, and I had the opportunity
to come back after finishing my fellowship training. It was
not a hard decision to join the children’s hospital team once
again. I could not be more excited about the creation of
a freestanding hospital. Baton Rouge is a city filled with
wonderful and caring people, and with the new hospital, we
will continue to serve the community with the excellence that
distinguishes Our Lady of the Lake.”
- Dr. Andres Carrion