Navdeep Singh Samra, MD, FACS, FICS

1. Lorio E, Ballard DH, Guarisco E, Hughes JH , Griffen FD, Samra NS. Appedectomy Hospital Stay :No Difference in Obese Adult or Pediatric Patient Length of Stay Compared to Nonobese Patients.Ochsner J. Spring 2021;21(1):14-18
2. Wells AH, Oswald TJ, Samra N, Scott LK, Conrad SA. Extracorporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal in the Management of Complex Bilateral Flail Chest Injury. ASAIO journal (American Society for Artificial Internal Organs: 1992). 2019.
3. Delafontaine J-L, Moreci R, Samra NS. Acute splenic rupture following laparoscopic pneumoperitoneum: A case report. Trauma case reports. 2019;22:100211-100211.
4. Sabat J, Hsu C-H, Samra N, et al. Length of Stay and ICU Stay Are Increased With Repair of Traumatic Superior Mesenteric Vein Injury. Journal of Surgical Research. 2019;242:94-99.
5. Palmer DS, McDaniel CC, Samra NS, Griffen FD. Comparing Surgical Site Infection for Open and Endoscopic Component Separation. Am Surg. 2019;85(4):350-352.
6. Savoy J, Ballard DH, Carroll C, Dubose AC, Caldito G, Samra NS. "Academic Epinephrine"-Smartphone Use as an Educational Tool for Trainees: Survey Results after Implementation of Texting-Based Educational Material in a General Surgery Residency Program. Am Surg. 2019;85(11):e553-e555.
7. Smith JP, Samra NS, Ballard DH, Moss JB, Griffen FD. Prophylactic antibiotics for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The American Surgeon. 2018;84(4):576-580.
8. Jones L, Chu Q, Samra NS, Hu B, Zang W, Tan TW. Evaluating the Utilization of Prophylactic Inferior Vena Cava Filters in Trauma Patients. Annals of Vascular Surgery. 2018; 46: 36-42.
9. Ballard DH, Williams M, Samra NS. Role of nonpowder guns in pediatric firearm injuries. The American Journal of Surgery. 2017;213(6):1193.
10. Ballard DH, Fransman RB, Sangster GP, Ayo M, Samra NS. Jejunal Carcinoid Tumors Presenting as Small Bowel Obstruction. The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society: official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society. 2017;169(1):15-17.
11. Armstrong F, Samra N, Rybin D, Doros G, Zhang W, Tan T-W. Patients who required surgery for blunt abdominal aortic injury have higher risk of perioperative mortality, pneumonia and longer hospital length of stay. American Medical Student Research Journal. 2017;4(1).
12. Mowad R, Samra NS, Rao V. A Mullerian Cyst Resected From the Posterior Mediastinum. The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society: official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society. 2017;169(2):43-47.
13. Ballard DH, G Patton Pennington II M, Chu QD, Samra NS. Resident duty hours and american board of surgery in-training examination performance. The American surgeon. 2017;83(5):E151.
14. Ballard DH, Pelliccio N, Rudd J, Caldito G, Chu QD, Samra NS. Pediatric pedestrians and bicyclists versus motor vehicle accidents: comparison of injury patterns by mechanism and influence of socioeconomic status. American surgeon. 2017;83(5):165-167.
15. Sun H, Samra NS, Kalakoti P, Sharma K, Patra DP, Dossani RH, Thakur JD, Disbrow EA, Phan K, Veeranki SP, Pabaney A. Impact of prehospital transportation on survival in skiers and snowboarders with traumatic brain injury. World neurosurgery. 2017;104:909-918. e908.
16. Carter T, Ballard DH, Bhargava P, Samra NS. Obturator Hernia, ‘The Little Old Lady Hernia’: Case Report and Review of the Literature. J La State Med Soc. 2017; 169(4):96-98.
17. Darvie PJ, Ballard DH, Harris N, Bhargava P, Rao VR, Samra NS. Occult lawn mower projectile injury presenting with hemoptysis. Radiology case reports. 2017;12(4):678-681.
18. Ballard DH, Samra NS, Pennywell DJ, Griffen FD. Is the Surgical Site Infection Rate after Ventral/Incisional Hernia Repair Higher in a Facility Not Participating in a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program? The American Surgeon. 2016;82(3):289.
19. Ballard DH, Samra NS, Gifford KM, Roller R, Wolfe BM, Owings JT. Distance of the internal central venous catheter tip from the right atrium is positively correlated with central venous thrombosis. Emergency radiology. 2016;23(3):269-273.
20. Samra N, Ravi A, Johnson L, Williams M. Traumatic bilateral carotid artery dissection. The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society: official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society. 2011;163(1):26-28.

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September, 2021 - Honored as a Healer for services at LSU Health Shreveport for patient care

October, 2020 - Provider of the month – October 2020, Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport

May, 2019 - Elected to the Society of University Surgeons - BIZ Magazine

June, 2019 - Best Teaching Faculty by Department of Surgery, General Surgery Residents

May, 2019 - Honored as a Healer for services at LSU Health Shreveport for patient care

May, 2018 - Honored as a Healer for services at LSU Health Shreveport for patient care

September, 2017 - Employee Excellence Award in recognition of outstanding services to LSU Health Shreveport

June, 2017 - Best Teaching Faculty by Department of Surgery, General Surgery Residents

May, 2017 - Honored as a Healer for services at LSU Health Shreveport for patient care

June, 2016 - Best Teaching Faculty by Department of Surgery, General Surgery Residents

April, 2016 - Honored as a Healer for services at LSU Health Shreveport for patient care

January, 2014 - Senior author of a Trauma State Paper Winner presented at LA-ACS meeting in New Orleans

June and April, 2013 - Team Recognition Awards by Hospital Administration LSU Health Shreveport

March, 2013 - Elected in Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society as a Faculty member

June, 2011 - Best Senior Resident Teaching Award

June, 2011 - Honored for obtaining high score in top 25 percentile in ABSITE examination held in January 2011

May, 2011 - Honored as a Hero and received a Medal for Services provided in a Trauma Center

January, 2011 - Winner of Third Annual Jeopardy Bowl at the annual meeting of the Louisiana chapter of the American College of Surgeons

July 2022, Professor of Surgery with Tenure, LSU Health, Shreveport, Louisiana

May 2020, Trauma Medical Director – Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Trauma Center, Shreveport, Louisiana

July 2018, Program Director - General Surgery Residency Program, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana

October 2017, Associate Program Director - General Surgery Residency Program, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana

July 2017, Associate Professor with Tenure - Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana

December 2016, Assistant Program Director - General Surgery Residency Program, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana

September 2012, Assistant Professor with Tenure - Trauma, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, LSU Health Shreveport, Louisiana

November 2002-April 2004, Resident Surgeon CVTS Department - Fortis Heart Institute, Mohali, India

October 2001-October 2002, Resident Surgeon - Dhaliwal Nursing Home, Bathinda, India

October 1998-September 2001, Junior Resident Surgeon - Govt. Medical College & Rajindra Hospital, Patiala, India

January 1998-September 1998, House Officer Medicine – Civil Hospital, Mansa, India

July 1992 - December 1997, Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, India (MEDICAL SCHOOL) -Salutatorian honors- Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

October 1998 - September 2001, Government Medical College, Patiala, India (Junior Residency in Surgery) Master of Surgery (M.S.)

July 2006 - June 2007, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Internship-General Surgery

July 2007 - June 2010. Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Resident - General Surgery

July 2010 - June 2011, Louisiana State University Health Shreveport, Chief Resident - General Surgery

July 2011 - June 2012 Washington University / Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis MO Surgical Critical Care Fellow