Dr. Qiang Cai is a professor in LSUH School of Medicine Shreveport. He directs the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology there. He is also the Ochsner Chief Gastroenterologist there in Shreveport. Prior to that, he was a professor and director of endoscopy and advanced endoscopy at Emory University School of Medicine for 20 years. 

He is an advanced endoscopist and one of the few who can perform varieties of endoscopic procedures, such as EUS, ERCP, POEMS, ESD, etc. He has performed thousands of different POEMS, such as Z-POEM, E-POEM, G-POEM, etc. He has performed more than one thousand POEMs since he moved to Louisiana in 2021 which helped our patients here in Louisiana significantly, because POEM was not available in LA state before he moved in. He has built the largest POEM center in our country in Shreveport.

He is an author for more than 500 publications, and an author for 4 books. He is an invited speaker for national and international conferences about three hundred times. 

He was chairmen of the International Affair Committee of American College of Gastroenterology, President of Georgia State Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Society, ACG Georgia Governor, Director of National Pancreas Foundation Georgia Chapter. He was an editorial board member of American Journal of Gastroenterology for 6 years, an associate editor of American Journal of Gastroenterology for another 6 years. He was an international editor-in-chief for United European Gastroenterology Journal for 5 years. Currently, he is the president for Would Chinese Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Society, Vice Chairman of International Committee of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Society.  He is a co Editor-in Chief of Journal of Digestive Diseases. 

He organized and directed more than 30 academic courses, symposiums, including 11 ACG reginal and national hands courses and post-graduation courses, and 5 LSUH Shreveport Gastroenterology and Hepatology Symposiums

He was awarded Master of American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in 2026 and Master of American College of Gastroenterology in 2022. Those are top designations of the society. 

He would like to donate his time to LGS and serve the LGS members.

John J. Hutchings, M.D., FACG is Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans and holds the Allen D. Meisel, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Gastroenterology. He also serves as Director of GI Clinical Operations at University Medical Center New Orleans, where he established a collaborative GI-Psychiatry clinic focused on disorders of the brain–gut axis.

Dr. Hutchings earned his undergraduate degree from the College of Charleston and his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina. He completed a combined Medicine-Psychiatry residency and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Tulane University Health Sciences Center. His clinical and research interests focus on the microbiome and the brain-gut connection, and he remains active in medical education and global health initiatives.

My name is Rey Quevedo and I am currently in practice at Ochsner Medical Center as part of the Southshore Group.  I have been here at Ochsner for about 5 years and am enjoying practicing medicine in the New Orleans again.  I am one of the general gastroenterologists at Ochsner and spend my time working in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. 

I am originally from New York and went to college in Washington, DC at GWU.  After college, I made my way to Tulane where I completed medical school and my internal medicine residency.  After 10 years at Tulane, I left for my GI fellowship at Duke, where I stayed on staff for 3 additional years.   In 2020, my family and I made our way back to New Orleans and we could not be happier.   My wife is from New Orleans, so returning to Louisiana seemed inevitable.  That said, I love living here and would not want to live anywhere else.  Together we have two little boys which keep us constantly on the run when not at work.