Transplant Hepatologist and Gastroenterologist Dr. Gia Landry Joins Baton Rouge General
BATON ROUGE, La. – Baton Rouge General (BRG) today announced that it is expanding its gastroenterology and hepatology services with the opening of a new Hepatology and Liver Disease Clinic, led by Gia Landry, MD, MPH, an experienced transplant hepatologist. The clinic joins the hospital’s Crohn’s and Colitis Center to comprise BRG’s Comprehensive Gastroenterology Institute.
Transplant hepatologists have advanced training in gastroenterology and focus on managing severe, end-stage liver disease and the entire liver transplantation process. Dr. Landry started and led a specialized liver center in Baton Rouge, providing high-level care for patients with liver disease.
A New Orleans native, Dr. Landry is board-certified in gastroenterology and hepatology. She specializes in comprehensive diagnosis and management of the digestive tract, inflammatory bowel diseases and pancreatic diseases, along with a focus on liver diseases including fatty liver (metabolic liver disease), viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, primary biliary cholangitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and liver cancer.
Dr. Landry earned her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, followed by a residency in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology/hepatology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as well as a fellowship in transplant hepatology at Tulane University in New Orleans. Dr. Landry also earned a Master of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston.
Since 2019, Dr. Landry has served as a clinical expert for the Louisiana Department of Health’s initiative to eliminate hepatitis C, a role she continues today. She has published multiple peer reviewed articles on the HCV elimination, hepatitis C, hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma. For more than a decade, she served as a clinical associate professor of medicine at Louisiana State University.
Outside of the hospital setting, Dr. Landry is also the CEO and founder of Med School Admit and Med School Admit Cares, which helps undergraduate students become competitive medical school applicants and exposed students to careers in medicine.
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About Baton Rouge General Medical Center
Baton Rouge General Medical Center is the area’s first community hospital with over 600 licensed beds between three campuses. Baton Rouge General opened its doors in 1900, and has provided the Greater Baton Rouge community with high-quality healthcare for generations. An accredited teaching hospital since 1991, Baton Rouge General is affiliated with several medical school programs, and offers other medical education programs, including a School of Nursing, School of Radiologic Technology, Family Medicine Residency Program, and Internal Medicine Residency Program. For more information, visit BRGeneral.org, find us on Facebook at Facebook.com/BatonRougeGeneral and follow us on Twitter @BRGeneral and Instagram @batonrougegeneral.
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