BRINGING LOUISIANA’S BEST IN MEDICINE TOGETHER: Louisiana ACP Hosts Over 200 Physicians and Trainees at 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting
MARDI GRAS SPIRIT MEETS MEDICAL MENTORSHIP: CAMS Blends Celebration with Service in a Memorable Start to 2025
What does Spring bring in the Capitol city? Mardi Gras and Crawfish. The Capital Area Medical Society celebrates both very well. One of our own, Dr. Susan Bankston (past CAMS and LSMS President) is the reigning Queen of Artemis XXIV. Several members’ (Drs. Everette Bonner, Elise Scallan and Randy Vick) children were in the 2025 court. This year marks the 9th annual Spring Crawfish Boil for CAMS members and their families. This has become our signature event with live music, door prizes and great food. A great time was had by all attendees. CAMS has awarded over $30,000 in scholarship funds to deserving Louisiana medical students who have been nominated by our membership. This year’s recipients are Omar Azmeh, son of CAMS member, Warif Azmeh, MD, Brea Bonin, referred by CAMS member Eliott Hardy, MD, Hunter Schwab, son of CAMS member Kyle Schwab, MD and Jolan Taylor, daughter of CAMS member Jim Taylor, MD. They will all be honored at the Spring Social. Our newest initiative is the Medical Mentorship Program. CAMS has collaborated with LSU School of Sciences to develop mentoring opportunities with our members and pre-med students. In some cases, students are able to get hands on experience and others meet with members to discuss future plans in medicine. Several of our members look forward to representing CAMS and the LSMS board at the LSMS Annual meeting in Destin, Florida in August. A good productive time to reconnect with physicians from across the state and spend time with family and friends.
Mystery Case Competition: The top two resident/fellow abstracts were presented to a panel of judges without revealing the full abstract. As the case unfolded, the judges attempted to guess the diagnosis. • Mystery Case Winner – Neha Bapatla (Tulane), who will represent the Louisiana Chapter at the national ACP Poster Competition in April. The event concluded with a thrilling Jeopardy-style Doctor’s Dilemma contest, where seven Louisiana internal medicine residency programs competed. After two rounds and Final Jeopardy, Willis Knighton (Shreveport) defended their title for the second consecutive year and will represent the Louisiana Chapter at the national ACP Doctor’s Dilemma Competition in April. The Louisiana Chapter ACP is a diverse community of over 2000 internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, residents, fellows and medical students. The Chapter offers a professional home to physicians along with advocacy, educational, networking and professional development opportunities. Membership in the state Chapter includes membership in the national College, which offers a global network of over 161, 000 members, along with extensive avenues for professional development, educational resources and national advocacy opportunities.
The Louisiana Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) recently hosted over 200 physicians and trainees during its 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting and Annual Resident and Student Meeting in New Orleans. The hybrid Annual Scientific Meeting offered 7 hours of CME and MOC points featuring speakers from across the state of Louisiana. The meeting offered a large group of internal medicine and related specialty physicians updates in cardiology, pulmonology, neurology, gastroenterology and hospital medicine. The educational program also included great reviews of the latest in food allergy diagnosis, lifestyle medicine, Best Papers and the ACP’s legislative priorities. The Chapter also honored three distinguished physicians with the 2025 Louisiana Laureate Award, recognizing their exceptional contributions to the ACP and the field of medicine:
• Dayton Daberkow II, MD, FACP – Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center, Houma
• Philip Haddad, MD, MPH, FACP – Overton Brooks VA and LSUHSC, Shreveport
• Joseph Landers, MD, FACP – St. Tammany Parish Hospital, Covington.
The 2025 Annual Resident and Student Meeting was an outstanding showcase of the scholarly work of residents, fellows and medical students from across the state. Approximately 200 abstracts were submitted for consideration from which 120 abstracts were chosen to be presented at the in-person competition. Medical Student Abstract Competition: • Oral Presentation Winners: 1st – Dana Bruce (Tulane), 2nd – Rithvik Vutukuri (Tulane)
We are looking forward to a great 2025!!
• Poster Presentation Winners: 1st – Margaret Conrad (LSU NO), 2nd – Max Shteiman (Ochsner), 3rd – Vincent Pham (Tulane)
Resident/Fellow Abstract Competition: • Oral Presentation Winners: 1st – Ross Dies (LSU NO) and Swesha Shrestha (St. Francis Medical Center)
• Poster Presentation Winners: 1st – Amit Rajkarnikar (LSU Lafayette), 2nd – Allen Byl (LSU NO), 3rd – Gurtaj Mahil (LSU NO)
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