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Abben, Richard
Houma, LA
Cardiologist - Dr. Richard Abben, a native of Illinois, received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College and his medical degree...
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Craig M. Walker, MD
Cardiologist

Dr. Craig Walker, a native of Bourg, Louisiana, is a graduate of Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, and LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans.  He received his postgraduate training in cardiology at Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans and completed a research and teaching fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, before returning to Houma to establish Cardiovascular Institute of the South, where he remains its medical director.

Dr. Walker was named one of the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce's Ten Outstanding Young Americans for 1992 for proving that medicine of the highest order could be provided in smaller communities and for his work as a clinical investigator and medical inventor.  He is one of only a handful of physicians in the world to sit on the medical advisory boards of major corporations.

He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology.  He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American Society of Cardiovascular Interventionists, the International College of Angiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions and the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Walker is author or co-author of more than five dozen medical publications and has delivered scores of lectures to both lay and medical audiences.  He maintains the distinction of being a primary investigator for several cardiovascular and peripheral devices.  He is co-director of a national cardiovascular conference and the CIS "Gloves On" PVD training course that trains hundreds of physicians from around the world.

He is the co-author of "Something Old, Something New, Louisiana Cooking With a Change of Heart," a heart healthy cookbook developed in conjunction with internationally renown Chef John Folse.

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Walker, please call the Houma clinic at (985) 876-0300 or the Lafayette clinic at (337) 988-1585.

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