accepting new patients
Locations
WK Center for Pediatric Gastroenterology
2508 Bert Kouns Industrial Loop
Suite 101
Shreveport
, LA 71118
View hours
Monday
8:00am
- 5:00pm
Tuesday
8:00am
- 5:00pm
Wednesday
8:00am
- 5:00pm
Thursday
8:00am
- 5:00pm
Friday
8:00am
- 5:00pm
About Me
Education
Medical School:
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
, MD
Internship:
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Internship:
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Internship:
Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center
Residency:
Mt. Sinai Hospital Medical Center
Fellowship:
LSUHSC New Orleans School of Medicine
Fellowship:
Baylor College of Medicine
Board Certifications
Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics
Languages
French
Spanish
Insurances Accepted
- AARP Medicare Supplemental Plans
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health of Louisiana
- Aetna Coventry Advantra Louisiana
- Aetna Coventry Medicare Dual Preferred
- Aetna Medicare Freedom PPO
- Amerihealth Caritas Louisiana
- Beech Street (Multiplan)
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield - PPO Preferred Care
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield Federal Employees
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana - HMO Louisiana
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana - Medicare Advantage
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield OGB
- Cigna HealthCare
- Coventry Health Care (Aetna)
- First Health
- GEHA (Government Employees Health Association)
- Gilsbar
- Health Plus of Louisiana
- Healthy Blue
- Humana
- Humana Choice PPO
- Humana Gold Plus SNP Dual Eligible
- IMA of Louisiana
- Louisiana Healthcare Connections
- Louisiana Medicaid
- Louisiana Medicaid CHIP
- Mail Handler's Benefit Plan (Aetna)
- Medicare Railroad
- Medicare Traditional Part B
- Multiplan
- Mutual of Omaha Supplemental Plans
- Novasys Health
- People's Health
- PHCS (Private Healthcare Systems / Multiplan)
- PPO Plus
- Tricare for Life
- Tricare Prime
- Tricare Select / Standard
- UMR (United Healthcare)
- United Healthcare
- United Healthcare Community Plan - Medicaid
- United Healthcare Dual Complete
- Vantage Health Plans – Commercial & Medicare Advantage
- Workers Compensation
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Disorders
- Abdominal Pain
- Achalasia
- Anal or Rectal Pain
- Anemia
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Benign Neoplasm of the Digestive System
- Celiac Disease
- Constipation
- Crohn's Disease
- Diaphragmatic and-or Hiatal Hernia
- Diarrhea
- Duodenitis
- Dysentery
- Dysphagia
- Enteritis
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Esophageal Achalasia and Cardiospasm
- Esophageal Diseases
- Esophageal Ulcer
- Esophagitis
- Food Allergy
- Gas-Bloat Syndrome
- Gastric Ulcer
- Gastritis
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Gastrointestinal Diseases
- Gastrointestinal Malabsorption
- Giardiasis
- Heartburn
- Hemorrhoids
- Hepatitis C
- Hernia
- Hiatal Hernia
- Indigestion
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Intestinal Ischemia
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Lactose Intolerance
- Malnutrition
- Nausea
- Pancreatitis
- Peptic Ulcer
- Rectal Bleeding
- Stomach Diseases
- Ulcer
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Unexplained Weight Loss
- Vascular Disease
- Viral Hepatitis
- Vomiting Disorders
Procedures Performed
- Botox® Injection
- Colonoscopy
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Duodenal Polypectomy
- EGD /Biopwsy/DEA/Ablation
- Endoscopy (Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine)
- Esophageal Manometry
- EUS U/S Fine Needdle Biopsy liver bx
- EUS with PFT Secretin
- Fecal Impaction Removal
- Flexible Sigmoidoscopy
- Gastroenterology Procedures
- Hydrogen Breath Test (HBT)
- Lileo-Colonoscopy and Enteroscopy
- Percutaneous Edoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
- Rectal Biopsy