Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge welcomes several new providers to expand its services across the region.
Dr. Benjamin Browning, focusing on orthopedics and sports medicine, has his primary practice location at Ochsner Health Center – Summa, 9001 Summa Avenue in Baton Rouge. Dr. Browning earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. He completed simultaneous master’s and medical degrees at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. He is a fellowship-trained sports medicine orthopedic surgeon, having completed his Orthopedic Surgery residency at the State University of New York Downstate Hospital in Brooklyn, N.Y. He also completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at the Ochsner Sports Medicine Institute in New Orleans. He has extensive experience working with high school, college, and professional sports teams, including acting as the team physician for Belle Chase High School, game coverage physician for other local high schools, and as an assistant team physician with the New Orleans Saints, New Orleans Pelicans, and Dillard University.
Dr. Yihong Zheng is a primary care physician. Her primary practice location is Ochsner Health Center – Summa, 9001 Summa Avenue in Baton Rouge. She will also practice at Ochsner Urgent Care locations in Denham Springs, Prairieville, and Zachary. A graduate of Shanghai Medical School, Dr. Zheng completed both her internship and her residency at the former LSUMC in Baton Rouge. Dr. Zheng comes to Ochsner from private practice in Baton Rouge.
Dr. Zheng is board-certified in Family Medicine with the American Board of Family Medicine.
Jennifer Hooper Laws, MSN, FNP-C, will practice in the Urology Department at Ochsner Health Center – O’Neal, 16777 Medical Center Blvd. in Baton Rouge. Laws earned her Master of Science in Nursing from University of Louisiana-Lafayette, and completed her undergraduate degree at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
Jennifer Hooper Laws is board-certified in Family Nursing by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
Ochsner accepts most health insurance plans active in Louisiana. For a patient appointment with Dr. Benjamin Browning, Dr. Yihong Zheng, Jennifer Hooper Laws, or one of the other providers at any Ochsner - Baton Rouge region location, call 225-761-5200, or visit www.ochsner.org/batonrouge.