Navdeep Samra, MD, FACS

Dr. Navdeep Samra is a Tenured Associate Professor, Program Director for General Surgery Residency Program at LSU Health Shreveport and Trauma Medical Director at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport. He was born in New Delhi, India, where he graduated high school as valedictorian. Dr. Samra received his medical degree with salutatorian honors from Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India, in 1998 and went on to complete a junior general surgery residency from Government Medical College, Patiala, Punjab, India, in 2001. Dr. Samra moved to the United States in 2004 where he began his general surgery internship at LSU Health Shreveport, in 2006 and graduated the program in 2011. He then completed a surgical critical care fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 2012. Dr. Samra is double board certified in general surgery and surgical critical care. As a faculty member at LSU Health Shreveport, he was inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society in 2013 and was awarded the Best Teaching Faculty award in 2016, 2017 and 2019 by surgical residents. He has forty five plus research articles and two book chapters, which he has co-authored. Dr. Samra currently serves as the holder of the Charles D. Knight, Sr. M.D., Endowed Professorship in General Surgery. He has also served as President of John C. McDonald Surgical Society in year 2015-2016. From 2011-2019, Dr. Samra was honored five times at the Evening of Healers, sponsored by the LSU Health Shreveport Foundation, for taking care of critically ill patients. In 2019, he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society.