200 Henry Clay Ave
New Orleans, LA 70118 / Phone 504 896 9756
Fax 504 896 3979
Evans Valerie, M.D.
Education / High School: Erasmus Hall High SchoolGraduated: 1985
College: Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
Graduated: B.A., May 1989
Medical School: Brown University Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island
Graduated: M.D. 1994
Residencies / General Surgery
State University of New York, Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn
Brooklyn, New York
July 1994 through June 2001
Director, Richard Waite, M.D., Ph. D
Pediatric Surgery
The Hospital for Sick Children
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Director, Jacob Langer, M.D.
Board Certification / American Board of Surgery
General Surgery
Issued: June 2003
American Board of Surgery
Pediatric Surgery
Issued April 2008
Academic Appointments / Assistant Professor
LSU School of Medicine
Department of Surgery and Pediatrics
September 2003 to present
Section Chief
Division of Pediatric Surgery
LSU Department of Surgery
December 2005 to Present
Active Hospital Appointments / Staff Appointments:
Children’s Hospital of New Orleans
200 Henry Clay Ave
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tulane Hospital for Children
1514 Tulane Ave
New Orleans, LA 70112
Oschner Clinics
1514 Jefferson Highway
New Orleans, LA 70121
Earl K Long Hospital
5825 Airline Ave
Baton Rouge LA 70805
University Medical Center-Lafayette
2390 West Congress Street
Lafayette, LA 70506
Publications and Presentations / Valerie E
Epidemiology and Prevention of Childhood Injury. Children’s Hospital Pediatric Review. August 2005. Vol XIX No. 8
Valerie E, Durrant A, Forte Vito, Wales P, Chait P, Kim PCW
A Decade of Using Intraluminal tracheal/bronchial stents in the Management of Tracheomalacia and/or Bronchiomalacia: Is it Better than Aortopexy? Journal of Pediatric Surgery June 2005 Vol 40, No 6
Valerie E, Gilchrist B, Frischer J, Scriven R, Klotz D, Ramenofsky ML
Diagnosis and Treatment of Urethral Prolapse in Children. Urology. Vol 54 (6), 1999
Sokoloff AJ, Ryan JM, Valerie EP, Wilson DS, Goslow GE
Neuromuscular Organization of Avian Flight Muscles: Morphology and Contractile Properties of Motor Units in the Pectoralis of Pigeons. Journal of Morphology, 236 179-208, 1998
Gilchrist B, Valerie E, Nguyen M, Coren C, Klotz D, Ramenofsky M
Pearls and Perils in the Management of Prolonged, Peculiar, Penetrating esophageal Foreign Bodies in Children. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 32: 1429-1431, 1997
Valerie E, Gilchrist B, Nguyen, M, Scriven R, Klotz D, Ramenofsky M
Laparoscopic Evaluation of the Pediatric Abdomen in Blunt Trauma: Preliminary Results: Submitted, Journal of Laparo-endoscopic Surgery. June 1999
Gilchrist B, Scriven R, Valerie E, Klotz D, Ramenofsky M, Iatrogenic Injury to the Neonatal Duodenum. Surgical Rounds 1999
Switzer W, Mahler R, Shanmugan V, Mathews A, Valerie E et al. Lack of Cross Species Transmission of Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus Infectious to Non human Primate Recipients of Porcine Cells, Tissues or Organs. Transplantation. 2001 April 15; 71 (7): 959-65
Presentations / Valerie E, Kim PCW
Thoracoscopic Thymectomy for Myasthenia Gravis in Children. Video Section. Congress of the American College of Surgeons. Chicago IL. Oct 2003
Gilchrist B, Valerie E, Nguyen M, Coren C, Klotz D, Ramaenofsky M
Pearls and Perils in the Management of Prolonged, Peculiar, Penetrating esophageal Foreign Bodies in Children. American Pediatric Surgery Association, Residents Section June 1996
Gilchrist B, Valerie E, Nguyen M, Coren C, Klotz D, Ramaenofsky M
Pearls and Perils in the Management of Prolonged, Peculiar, Penetrating esophageal Foreign Bodies in Children. American Academy of Pediatrics, Surgical Section. April 1996
Valerie E, Gilchrist B, Nguyen, M, Scriven R, Klotz D, Ramenofsky M
Laparoscopic Evaluation of the Pediatric Abdomen in Blunt Trauma: Preliminary Data. International Congress of Pediatric Surgery. Cape town, South Africa. February 1998
Denny R, Valerie E, Distant D, Fodor W, Squinto S, Norin A
A Long Term Survival of CD59+ Swine Skin Xenografts in Primates. The 49th International Congress for Xenotransplantation. Naples, France. Sept 7-11, 1997
Valerie E, Ryun J, Goslow G. Neuromuscular Organization of Flight Muscles in Pigeons.
American Society of Zoologists. Amherst, MA Oct 1991
Additional professional activities / President, Board of Directors, Louisiana Safe Kids. 2005 to present
Professional memberships / Specialty Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005-present
Member, Louisiana Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics
Orleans Parish Medical Society
Louisiana State Medical Society
Accreditations / American Trauma Life Saving Certificate, October 2000
American Cardiac Life Saving Certificate, July 1994