2026 Vascular Team 10

Meet Our Aortic Specialists

Meet the John Ochsner Heart & Vascular Aortic Center team.

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

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W. C. Sternbergh III, MD

W. C. Stern­bergh III, MD, spe­cial­izes in vas­cu­lar and endovas­cu­lar surgery at Ochsner Health. Dr. Stern­bergh is nation­al­ly rec­og­nized for his exper­tise in vas­cu­lar and endovas­cu­lar surgery, and he is the author of more than 150 pub­li­ca­tions and book…
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Dean Yamaguchi, MD

Director, Ochsner Aortic Center
Dean Yam­aguchi, MD, spe­cial­izes in vas­cu­lar surgery at Ochsner Health. Dr. Yam­aguchi was born in Metairie, Louisiana, and grew up in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. He has been on fac­ul­ty at East Car­oli­na Uni­ver­si­ty in the Divi­sion of Vas­cu­lar Surgery for the…
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Samuel R. Money, MD

Dr. Samuel R. Mon­ey attend­ed the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York Col­lege of Med­i­cine SUNY Down­state and grad­u­at­ed with dis­tinc­tion. He trained in vas­cu­lar surgery at the Ochsner Clin­ic in New Orleans, Louisiana. He remained at Ochsner Clin­ic for 15…
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Godfrey R. Parkerson, MD

Dr. Ross Park­er­son is a staff sur­geon in the sec­tion of vas­cu­lar surgery at Ochsner Health. He earned his under­grad­u­ate degree from Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty. He then returned home to attend Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine in New Orleans…
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Charles C. Leithead, MD

Charles Leit­head, MD is a vas­cu­lar sur­geon and med­ical direc­tor of the Ochsner Vein Clin­ic at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Leit­head pro­vides care for patients across the greater New Orleans region, includ­ing the Northshore and parts…
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Christopher D. Blackstock, MD

Christopher Blackstock, MD, practices vascular surgery at Ochsner Health.
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Genevieve A. Hayek, MD

Genevieve Hayek, MD, FACS, is a vas­cu­lar sur­geon at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Hayek sees patients at Ochsner Med­ical Cen­ter — New Orleans and Ochsner Health Cen­ter — Ken­ner. Dr. Hayek has exper­tise in treat­ing a host of vascular…
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Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Patrick E. Parrino, MD

Patrick Par­ri­no, MD, is a car­dio­tho­racic sur­geon at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana, spe­cial­iz­ing in advanced car­diac surgery. He pro­vides com­pre­hen­sive sur­gi­cal care for patients with heart valve dis­ease, coro­nary artery dis­ease, and heart…
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Aditya Bansal, MD

Dr. Aditya Bansal spe­cial­izes in car­dio­tho­racic surgery at Ochsner Health. He attend­ed med­ical school in India at the Bar­o­da Med­ical Col­lege. He com­plet­ed his intern­ship and gen­er­al surgery train­ing at Hen­ry Ford Hos­pi­tal. He com­plet­ed his…
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Saket Singh, MD

Saket Singh, MD, spe­cial­izes in car­diac surgery at Ochsner Health. Dr. Singh has exper­tise in adult car­diac surgery, offer­ing com­pre­hen­sive open sur­gi­cal and endovas­cu­lar care for var­i­ous car­diac dis­or­ders includ­ing struc­tur­al car­diac disease…
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Korie Jones, MD

K. Can­dis Jones, MD, prac­tices car­dio­tho­racic surgery at Ochsner Health in New Orleans, Louisiana. She spe­cial­izes in advanced aor­tic care and com­plex car­diac surgery, with exper­tise in aor­tic valve replace­ment with Yang root enlargement,…
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Cardiac Anesthesia

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Cara Bevinetto, MD

Senior Lecturer of Anesthesiology at The University of Queensland Medical School - Ochsner Health
Dr. Cara Bevinet­to is a prac­tic­ing anes­the­si­ol­o­gist. She received her med­ical degree from Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty Health Sci­ences Cen­ter School of Med­i­cine in New Orleans in 2013. Dr. Bevinet­to went on to com­plete a res­i­den­cy in anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at…
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David M. Broussard, MD

Dr. David Brous­sard joined Ochsner in 2004 and assumed the role of Chair of the Depart­ment of Anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at Ochsner Med­ical Cen­ter in New Orleans in 2017. Dr. Brous­sard earned his med­ical degree from the Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty Med­ical Center…
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Eric H. Busch, MD

Dr. Busch earned his med­ical degree at Case West­ern Reserve Uni­ver­si­ty Med­ical School in Cleve­land, Ohio and com­plet­ed his intern­ship and res­i­den­cy at Ochsner Med­ical Cen­ter. He also com­plet­ed a fel­low­ship in pain man­age­ment at the Mayo Clinic…
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Jason B. Falterman, MD

Dr. Jason Fal­ter­man earned his med­ical degree from Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine in New Orleans and com­plet­ed his intern­ship and res­i­den­cy at Ochsner Clin­ic Foun­da­tion. He com­plet­ed a fel­low­ship in car­dio­tho­racic anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at…
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Emilie Donaldson, MD

Dr. Don­ald­son earned her med­ical degree from Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine in New Orleans and com­plet­ed her intern­ship and res­i­den­cy at Ochsner Clin­ic Foun­da­tion. She also com­plet­ed her fel­low­ship in Adult Car­dio­tho­racic and Vascular…
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Logan J. Kosarek, MD

Dr. Logan Kosarek earned his med­ical degree from Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty Health Sci­ences Cen­ter in New Orleans, Louisiana and com­plet­ed both his intern­ship in inter­nal med­i­cine and res­i­den­cy in anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at Ochsner Clin­ic Foun­da­tion in New…
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Christopher Owen, MD

Dr. Christo­pher Paul Owen received his med­ical degree from Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty Health Sci­ences Cen­ter in New Orleans. Fol­low­ing this, he com­plet­ed his res­i­den­cy and fel­low­ship in adult car­dio­tho­racic anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at Ochsner Clinic…
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Manila Singh, MD

Manila Singh, MD, practices anesthesiology at Ochsner Health.
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Jay E. Trusheim, MD

Dr. Trusheim earned his med­ical degree from Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine in New Orleans. He com­plet­ed his intern­ship, res­i­den­cy and fel­low­ship in Car­dio­tho­racic Anes­the­sia at Ochsner Clin­ic Foun­da­tion while serv­ing as Chief Resident…
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Terrence M. Truxillo, MD

Dr. Trux­il­lo earned his med­ical degree Louisiana State Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine New Orleans, LA and com­plet­ed his res­i­den­cy in Anes­the­sia at Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle, WA. He also did a fel­low­ship in Car­dio­tho­racic Anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at…
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Kelly G. Ural, MD

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at The University of Queensland Medical School - Ochsner Health; Vice Chair of Education and Faculty Development - Anesthesiology System
Kel­ly Ural, MD, spe­cial­izes in anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at Ochsner Health. Dr. Kel­ly Ural com­plet­ed her anes­the­si­ol­o­gy res­i­den­cy at Ochsner Med­ical Cen­ter — New Orleans. She then com­plet­ed a fel­low­ship in Adult Car­dio­tho­racic Anes­the­si­ol­o­gy at the Cleveland…
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Vascular Medicine

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William L. Bennett, MD, PhD

The desire to become a physi­cian and car­di­ol­o­gist stems pri­ma­ry from his envi­ron­ment. Dr. Ben­nett grew up in a sin­gle-par­ent home in an impov­er­ished inner-city hous­ing project in Birm­ing­ham, Alaba­ma. In this world, health­care was viewed as an…
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