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North Oaks Medical Center Physicians Appoint 2022 Medical Executive Committee

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  • Written By: Melanie Lanaux Zaffuto
North Oaks Medical Center Physicians Appoint 2022 Medical Executive Committee

Nine area physicians are serving on the North Oaks Medical Center Medical Executive Committee for 2022. These officers were selected by their peers to serve as liaisons between the North Oaks Medical Staff and North Oaks Health System Board of Commissioners.

Emergency Medicine Physician Brandon Cambre, M.D., who was chief of staff-elect in 2021, will serve as chief of staff. He earned his medical degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) in Shreveport and completed an internship and residency through the Louisiana State University (LSU) Emergency Medicine Program at the former Earl K. Long Memorial Hospital in Baton Rouge. Cambre, who is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2005, was the Emergency Medicine Committee vice chairman for the hospital’s Medical Executive Committee in 2017 and served as Emergency Medicine Chairman in 2019 and 2020. Cambre’s other leadership roles include service on the hospital’s Emergency Medicine Steering Committee in 2009 and the Bylaws and Credentials Committee (2014 vice chairman and 2015-2016 member). Cambre also represents hospitals with more than 100 beds on the Regional Commission of Louisiana Emergency Response Network for Region 9.

Pulmonologist Justin Fowlkes, M.D., who was last year’s Department of Medicine chairman, is serving as chief of staff-elect. He joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2017 and earned his medical degree from LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. Through LSUHSC in Baton Rouge, he completed an Internal Medicine residency as chief resident and a Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal, Critical Care and Pulmonary Medicine.

Members-at-Large are Urologist Stephen Graham, M.D., and Endocrinologist Corey Majors, M.D.

Graham earned his medical degree at LSUHSC in Shreveport and completed his internship in General Surgery and residency in Urology at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is certified by the American Board of Urology and joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2012.

Majors earned his medical degree through LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an Internal Medicine residency through LSUHSC in Baton Rouge. A fellowship followed in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism through the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. He joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2017 and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Family Medicine Physician Scott Picou, M.D., is serving as Family Practice chairman. Picou earned his medical degree from St. George’s University School of Medicine in True Blue, Grenada. He carried out his internship and residency through the LSU Rural Family Medicine Residency Program at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital in Bogalusa. He joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2015. Last year, he was vice chairman of Family Practice, and in 2019 and 2020 he served in the capacity of member-at-large. In 2018, he was a Professional Practice Evaluation Committee member. He is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Hospitalist Rainier Batiste, D.O., is serving as Medicine Department chairman. She joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2017 and earned her medical degree from William Carey University in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She completed an Internal Medicine internship and residency through Danville Regional Medical Center in Virginia and is certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine.

Obstetrician and Gynecologist Kimberly Guillory, M.D., who is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, is serving as Obstetrics & Gynecology and Pediatrics chairman. She earned her medical degree from Tulane School of Medicine in New Orleans and completed an internship and residency through the former Earl K. Long Medical Center in Baton Rouge. She has belonged to the North Oaks medical staff since 2014.

Trauma Surgeon Michael Fahr, M.D., FACS, who joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2016, is serving as Surgery Department chairman. He earned his medical degree through LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an internship and residency in General Surgery through the University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Chattanooga. A fellowship in Surgical Critical Care followed through LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Since 2016, he has served on the Trauma Program’s Mortality and Morbidity Committee.

Emergency Medicine Physician John Krieg, M.D., has been reappointed 2022 Emergency Department Chairman after fulfilling the role last year and that of vice chairman in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He also belonged to the Bylaws and Credentials Committee in 2020. A member of the North Oaks medical staff since 2015, Krieg earned his medical degree through the LSUHSC in New Orleans. He completed an internship and residency through LSU’s Emergency Medicine program at Charity Hospital, also in New Orleans. Professionally, he belongs to the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and American College of Emergency Physicians. He is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.

North Oaks Medical Center is a Level II Trauma Center and Primary Stroke Center with 330 beds.