Area physicians have been selected by their peers to serve on the North Oaks Medical Center Medical Executive Committee for 2019. These officers will serve as liaisons between the North Oaks Medical Staff and North Oaks Health System Board of Commissioners.
Serving as chief of staff is anesthesiologist Michael Cordone, MD. He is a graduate of Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans and fulfilled an internship there. He completed his residency through Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as chief of staff elect in 2018 and chaired the Surgery Department from 2016 to 2017. Certified by the American Board of Anesthesiology, Cordone joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2008.
Chief of staff elect is cardiologist James Parker, MD, FACC, FSCAI. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an internship, a residency, and a cardiology fellowship through the LSU Health Sciences Center, also in New Orleans. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease and is also a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. He joined the North Oaks medical staff in 2010 and went on to serve as member-at-large on the North Oaks Medical Center Medical Executive Committee from 2015 to 2016. In 2014, he served on the hospital’s Bylaws & Credentials Committee.
Members-at-large entering their first year of a two-year term are urologist Jay Heintz, MD, and family medicine physician Scott Picou, MD.