NEW ORLEANS – Ochsner Health has announced David A. Schwartz, MD, as the 2024 winner of the Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Disease. Dr. Schwartz is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and ...

The year was 1942 when Alton Ochsner and four fellow doctors opened New Orleans' first multi-specialty group practice. Today, Ochsner Health System encompasses 13 hospitals and more than 50 ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans New Orleans, featuring ...

Effective April 1, 2011, all facilities and property within the Ochsner Health System will become tobacco-free. Beginning on that date, designated smoking areas and ashtrays will be removed from ...

What would become the region’s largest healthcare provider started as the city’s first group practice in 1941. Alton Ochsner, Guy Caldwell, Curtis Tyrone, Edgar Burns and Francis LeJeune Sr. wanted to ...

NEW ORLEANS – Dr. John Ochsner has passed away at 91. Ochsner, whose father, Dr. Alton Ochsner, founded the Ochsner Health System, was a world-renowned cardiac surgeon. After earning his medical ...

For 34 years, Ochsner Health System has annually recognized scientists who have made major contributions regarding the relationship between smoking and disease along with the development of innovative ...

Into the-amphitheater of New Orleans’ old and vast (1,800-bed) Charity Hospital * stepped a trim figure with a calmly confident air: Dr. Edward William Alton Ochsner, then 31, newly appointed ...

Dr. Patrick Quinlan will step down Sept. 1 as chief executive officer of Ochsner Health System, handing control of the region's largest healthcare provider to his longtime second-in-command, Warner ...

Ochsner Health announced Paul J. Kenny, PhD as the 2020 recipient of the annual Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Disease, which recognizes scientific research achievements that provide major ...

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – Ochsner Health has announced the recipients of the 38 th Annual Alton Ochsner Award Relating Smoking and Disease. They are Ken J. Kellar, Ph.D, Professor of Pharmacology, ...