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Brian Willis, MD, FACS, FAANS

Neurosurgeon
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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Neurosurgery Center
945 Margaret Place
Suite 100
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
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Ochsner LSU Health - Viking Drive
4481 Viking Drive
Bossier City, Louisiana 71111
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General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Neurosurgery

Additional Specialties

  • Pediatric Neurosurgery
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Back, Neck and Spine

Visit

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Neurosurgery Center
945 Margaret Place
Suite 100
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
Get Directions
Ochsner LSU Health - Viking Drive
4481 Viking Drive
Bossier City, Louisiana 71111
Get Directions

General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Neurosurgery

Additional Specialties

  • Pediatric Neurosurgery
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Back, Neck and Spine
Featured in the 2019 Top Doctors issue of SB Magazine, Dr. Brian Willis is an experienced and gifted general neurosurgeon at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport as well as current Professor of the LSU Health Shreveport Department of Neurosurgery and Chief of the Section of Neurosurgery at Overton-Brooks VA Medical Center in Shreveport. Dr. Willis also served as the Interim Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at LSU Health Shreveport from October 2017 until July 2019. Brian Willis, MD, FAANS, FACS specializes in general neurosurgery, including cranio-cerebral trauma, brain tumors, hydrocephalus, degenerative disease of the spine, and microsurgical techniques. He has had additional training in pediatric and stereotactic neurosurgery.

Medical School

LSU Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine - Shreveport, LA

Internship

LSU Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine - Shreveport, LA

Residency

Clinical Fellowship - Primary Children's Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT

Accepted Payors at Our Facilities

  • Aetna Better Health (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Aetna Health Inc. PPO/POS
  • Aetna Health Inc. - Medicare Advantage
  • AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana- HMO/PPO/OGB & Blue Connect product(s) & Medicare Advantage product(s), Blue High Performance Network
  • Cigna Behavioral Health
  • Cigna HealthCare
  • Cigna-HealthSpring - Medicare Advantage product(s)
  • Coventry Healthcare of Louisiana
  • Dignity Care Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
  • First Health Network PPO
  • Gilsbar 360
  • Healthy Blue (formerly Amerigroup Louisiana Inc.) (Healthy Louisiana) and Healthy Blue Dual Advantage (HMO-D-SNP)
  • Humana Behavioral Health
  • Humana - Commercial, Medicare Advantage
  • Humana Military - Tricare
  • Louisiana Healthcare Connections (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation(LWCC)
  • Medicaid/Medicare
  • Multiplan/PHCS/American LifeCare
  • Optum VA CCN
  • Peoples Health Network - Medicare Advantage
  • Stratose - PPO
  • United Behavioral Health (Optum) - United Commercial, Medicare Advantage and Community Plan (Healthy Louisiana)
  • United Healthcare - Commercial
  • United Healthcare Community Plan (Healthy Louisiana)
  • USA Managed Care Network
  • Vantage Health Plan - Commercial, Medicare Advantage
  • Verity Health Network - LSU First Choice
  • Zelis (formerly PPOPlus)