Abbott Nutrition

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com and on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

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Aetna Better Health of Louisiana

Aetna Better Health of Louisiana offers benefits and services for those who qualify for Healthy Louisiana (Medicaid).

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Alexion

 Alexion will be presenting their product Koselugo, a MEKI treating NG1-PNs.

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AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana

AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana is part of the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of Companies, a national leader in managed care. We’ve been selected year after year as one of the Best Places to Work in Baton Rouge.

The name Caritas stands for care. That’s because care is the heart of our work. We provide access to quality health care to people covered by publicly funded programs. These programs include Medicaid and Louisiana Children’s Health Insurance Program (LaCHIP).

AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana helps members get the care they need when they need it. We do this with:
-A coordinated approach to health care
-Leading-edge technology solutions
-Innovative community programs and wellness centers

Our goal is to improve health outcomes for our members and build healthy communities across Louisiana.

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BioMarin

BioMarin is a global biotechnology company that relentlessly pursues bold science to translate genetic discoveries into new medicines that advance the future of human health.

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is committed to our mission to improve the health and lives of Louisianians. Founded in New Orleans in 1934, we are a tax-paying not-for-profit health insurer with offices in every major region to serve our customers. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana has been recognized for the past six years as an honoree of The Civic 50, named by Points of Light as one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. We invite all Louisianians to visit our website at www.bcbsla.com or talk to us on social media @BCBSLA.  

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Brentwood Hospital

Located in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brentwood Hospital is the largest psychiatric hospital in the state. We’ve been providing help and hope to people across the state of Louisiana since 1971 by offering behavioral health and substance abuse treatment. Providing services for patients 4 and up, our confidential, caring environment promotes crisis resolution, positive self-awareness, socials skills, and personal growth through our mental health services and clinical excellence across acute inpatient and outpatient levels of care.

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CeraVe

CeraVe is the #1 dermatologist recommended skin care product. Developed with dermatologists to help maintain and restore your patient’s skin barrier.

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Children's Hospital of New Orleans
Dairy MAX

Dairy MAX is a nonprofit Dairy Council representing more than 900 dairy farm families across eight states.
We’re a connected group of experts in dairy farming, education, health and wellness, and business, who are fanatical about the power of dairy.
Our Mission: We advocate with purpose – connecting the dairy experience with hearts, minds and communities everywhere.

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e3 Diagnostics

e3 Diagnostics is the leading provider of audiology equipment sales and service solutions in the United States. With over 30 offices nationwide, staffed with teams of highly-experienced hearing and balance instrument experts, our local approach allows us to be your most responsive, helpful option when looking for solutions to help you provide the best care and grow your practice.
Our Goal: We aim to make it easier for you to do what you do best – take care of your hearing patients. That’s the e3 promise. That’s the e3 way.

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Equip

Equip’s virtual, evidence-based care empowers patients to beat the eating disorder and protect against relapse. We treat children, teens, and adults in all 50 states and our providers are trained to treat all eating disorder diagnoses, as well as co-occurring conditions like anxiety, depression, and OCD. Patients are supported by a multidisciplinary team that provides wraparound care, helping them achieve lasting recovery at home, and we are in-network with most commercial insurance plans.

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Greaux Healthy

Greaux Healthy is a public service initiative grounded in evidence-based research conducted over decades at Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Each Product, resource, and tool stems from the Center’s 35-year commitment to obesity research and serves as a scientifically validated guide to enhancing children’s health across all ages by educating communities and promoting proven practices for preventing and treating childhood obesity. 

The focus of Greaux Healthy is to empower families, educators, healthcare providers, and communities with products, tools, and resources that are accessible to all throughout Louisiana.

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Healthy Blue

Healthy Blue is a managed healthcare provider that has been serving the state since 2012, and currently serves the state’s Medicaid, Medicaid Expansion and LaCHIP programs. Healthy Blue is the trade name of Community Care Health Plan of Louisiana, Inc., an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Healthy Blue, a joint venture between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana and Anthem Partnership Holding Company, LLC (parent company, Elevance Health), recognizes the challenges low-income and underserved individuals face, and tailors its programs such that health plan members are assured care that is not only accessible, but also accountable, comprehensive, integrated and patient-centered. Healthy Blue provides ongoing community relations and outreach to encourage members to become active participants in their healthcare. Also, through health education programs, members are empowered to choose and sustain healthy lifestyles. To learn more about Healthy Blue, visit www.myhealthybluela.com and follow the company on Facebook and X (formerly Twitter) @HealthyBlueLA, and on LinkedIn @healthy-blue-louisiana.

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Kyowa Kirin

Kyowa Kirin North America is a fully integrated specialty pharmaceutical company, where people work together to understand clinical needs and opportunities for innovation that can result in real advances for patients. Since 2018, the North American organization has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market 3 first-in-class medicines – achievements Kyowa Kirin shares with the scientific, medical, and advocacy communities who contributed greatly to the success of these programs.

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Louisiana AAP

The Lousiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics is a member-based professional organization serving Louisiana’s pediatric providers. Our mission is to be advocates for all children in Louisiana. 

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Louisiana Child Death Review
Louisiana Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program

The Louisiana Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (LCLPPP) is a program of the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health, Section of Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology. Our program’s goals are to:
– Eliminate childhood lead poisoning in Louisiana
– Ensure that all healthcare providers test children under the age of six for lead in their blood
– Reduce or eliminate lead in the home by testing homes and properties for lead hazards
– Coordinate care for children affected by lead poisoning.

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Louisiana Families for Vaccines

Louisiana Families for Vaccines is a volunteer-led, grassroots network of Louisianans dedicated to advocating for public health and fact-based public policy and promoting immunizations for healthier kids and communities. We exist in response to growing concerns about targeted disinformation, high rates of vaccine hesitancy, and dangerous legislation putting us all at risk. Louisiana Families for Vaccines, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit and Louisiana Families for Vaccines Action Fund is a 501(c)4 non-profit advocacy organization. With each of these organizations LFV provides education, community outreach, calls to action, and advocacy focused on promoting fact-based vaccine and public health policies.

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Louisiana Healthcare Connections
Louisiana Vaccine Alliance

Louisiana Vaccine Alliance is a group of physicians, parents, and community members working to reduce vaccine-preventable disease across the lifespan through education, advocacy, and strategic partnerships.

Our goals:

  • Raise the public’s awareness of vaccine-preventable disease
  • Increase use of the Louisiana Immunization Network for Kids (LINKs)
  • Educate healthcare providers, the public, and policy makers
  • Provide evidence-based resources families need to make informed choices
  • Advocate for immunization policy in Louisiana that is evidence-based, ensures equitable access to immunizations, and protects communities from vaccine-preventable disease

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Louisiana WIC

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) provides healthy foods, breastfeeding support, nutrition education and referrals to other social services to women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or postpartum. Infants and children up to their fifth birthday may also receive benefits.

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Mead Johnson Nutrition

Enfamil Infant and Pediatric Nutrition formula

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Merck Vaccines

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Moderna

Moderna, Inc.- Delivering on the promise of mRNA science to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients.

Overview: Moderna, Inc. is a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines. Moderna’s mRNA platform builds on continuous advances in basic and applied mRNA science, delivery technology and manufacturing, and has allowed the development of therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and auto-immune diseases 

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Ochsner Children's Hospital

Our comprehensive Pediatrics Program including primary care pediatricians and pediatric medical and surgical subspecialists (Ochsner Children’s™) represents over 230 physicians. The group is the region’s leading integrated provider of multispecialty care for newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. We offer a full range of pediatric complex specialty services including congenital heart surgery and cardiac transplantation, liver and bone marrow transplantation, a comprehensive surgical sub-specialty group, and the region’s only comprehensive multidisciplinary developmental center.

We recently announced the building of a new separate, comprehensive, dedicated Children’s Hospital on our main campus, with expected opening in 2027.

We currently care for patients in an expanding 54-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, a 14-bed PICU, a 12-bed pediatric CV-ICU, and a 44-bed pediatric acute unit, with a dedicated pediatric emergency room, and full-time, region-wide in-house pediatric and neonatal transport teams.

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Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital
Pediatric Management Institute
Pediatrust

Pedia Trust provides skilled nursing to medically fragile children who cannot attend regular daycare. Each child has the opportunity to interact with other children while receiving the highest level of nursing care. Our facilities offer physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and an educational curriculum. We also provide transportation to and from our facility.

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LeAnn Craig – lcraig@pediatrustla.com

Terra Hotstream – thotstream@pediatrustkids.com

Pfizer

For 175 years, Pfizer has been a trusted partner in healthcare – discovering, developing, and delivering medical breakthroughs to prevent, treat, and cure some of the world’s most vexing conditions and diseases.

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Dana Raupp – dana.raupp@pfizer.com

Allie Ann Newstrom – Allie.Newstrom@pfizer.com

Provider to Provider Consultation Line

The Louisiana Provider-to-Provider Consultation Line (PPCL) is a no-cost provider-to-provider telephone consultation and education program to help pediatric and perinatal health care providers address their patients’ behavioral and mental health needs. Access additional information about consultation, educational opportunities, and other services available through PPCL by clicking here.

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Paulette Carter – paulette.g.carter@la.gov

Jody West – jody.west@la.gov

Sanofi Medical

 Sanofi Vaccine’s Medical Affairs team provides clinical updates and discussions, and disease state awareness education regarding relevant vaccines in the Sanofi portfolio to include RSV in infants and toddlers, influenza, and meningococcal disease.

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Andre Frigyes, Pharm.D – andre.frigyes@sanofi.com

Shots for Tots Louisiana
Shriners Children's Shreveport

Shriners Children’s Shreveport is a leader in providing care for orthopedic conditions, spinal cord injuries and other spine disorders, rehabilitation, sports injuries and craniofacial conditions. We also offer specialized services, including orthotics and prosthetics and motion analysis. We strive to provide the care and support our patients need to reach their goals and discover their full potential. In addition, our healthcare system conducts research to improve our patients’ quality of life and offers outstanding educational programs for medical professionals. All care and services are provided regardless of the families’ ability to pay or insurance status.

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United Healthcare

UnitedHealth Group
Helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone.
Serving individuals and the broader health system through two distinct platforms.
Our essential capabilities in collaboration, consumer excellence and modern technology help UnitedHealth Group
enable greater impact on behalf of those we serve. By engaging people in their health and integrating data and the best
scientific evidence to empower physicians, we deliver proven actions and sustainable results on a global basis. These
essential capabilities enable us to achieve the triple aim of health care.
Connected by values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation, and Performance, our potential is made
stronger by inclusive and diverse skillsets, perspectives, and beliefs. Embracing these as servant leaders, we are
dedicated to transforming health care for one person, one health system at time.

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VIA LINK Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana

VIA LINK provides crisis support, connects people to resources and services and provides vital data and trend information to ensure policies and programs meet community needs. We can also provide ACEs training, Darkness to Light, and suicide prevention training.

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