LHA Board of Trustees

Executive Committee

  • Chair: Michele K. Sutton, FACHE, President & CEO, North Oaks Health
  • Chair-Elect: Edgardo J. Tenreiro, FACHE, President & CEO, Baton Rouge General
  • Secretary: Paul A. Salles, President & CEO, Louisiana Hospital Association
  • Treasurer: Joan M. Coffman, FACHE, President & CEO, St. Tammany Health System
  • Immediate Past Chair: Rene J. Ragas, FACHE, President & CEO, Woman’s Hospital
  • 2nd Immediate Past Chair: MaryEllen Pratt, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer, St. James Parish Hospital
  • Elected Member: Greg C. Feirn, CPA, Chief Executive Officer, LCMC Health

Trustees

  • David Caston, Chief Executive Officer, Reeves Memorial Medical Center
  • Lee J. Chastant, III, Chief Executive Officer, West Feliciana Hospital
  • Jaf Fielder, President & CEO, Willis Knighton Health
  • Devon Hyde, President & CEO, Lake Charles Memorial Health System
  • E.J. Kuiper, FACHE, President & CEO, FMOL Health
  • Christopher Lege, MD, FACP, President & CEO, Touro Infirmary
  • Scott Prouty, Chief Executive Officer, Allegiance Health Management
  • Timothy L. Riddell, MD, EVP & Chief Operating Officer, Ochsner Health
  • Traci H. Thibodeaux, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer, Beauregard Health System
  • Dionne E. Viator, CPA, FACHE, President & CEO, Iberia Medical Center
  • Sean Wendell, CPA, Chief Executive Officer, Beacon Behavioral Partners
  • Monte A. Wilson, Chief Executive Officer, CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital
  • Kemp Wright, Senior Vice President, Priority Hospital Group

Ex-Officio Members 

  • 2021-2022 Chair: Jason E. Cobb, FACHE, Senior Vice President of Strategic Operations, Willis Knighton Health
  • 2019-2021 Chair: Phyllis L. Peoples, President & CEO, Terrebonne General Health System
  • 2018-2019 Chair: David L. Callecod, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer, Ochsner LSU Health System
  • 2016-2017 Chair: Charles D. Daigle, FACHE, Regional CEO, Ochsner Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, Ochsner Health