Bio

Dr. Laura born and bred in south louisiana with the majority of his family working in the oilfield.  He started his educational endeavors by obtaining a Bachelor’s of Science in Biomedical Engineering at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. The biomedical engineering department aims to prepare its students for careers in the biotechnology, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries with course loads that include engineering materials, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, biomechanics, mass transport, and biomedical signals and systems. Dr. Laura went on to attend Louisiana State University School of Medicine and received his medical degree in 2012. Dr. Laura then completed his internal medicine residency, cardiovascular disease (2018) and Interventional Cardiology Fellowship (2019) at LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans. Throughout his career he has multiple case reports and case series presented at the American College of Cardiology Southern Regional Meetings; was awarded outstanding fellow of the year by both Touro Infirmary Crescent City Physicians and the LSU Internal Medicine Section of Cardiology, and spent multiple years working on various clinical quality improvement projects dealing with heart failure and the positive predictive value and outcomes of stress testing at the University Medical Center of New Orleans. Dr. Scott Laura is currently an attending physician in the Department of Medicine in the Section of Cardiology and the associate program director for the section of Interventional Cardiology.

As a practicing physician and biomedical engineer by training, Dr. Laura observes the challenges and obstacles interventional cardiologist are tasked with when completing complex procedural cases. Being well versed in the latest standard of care and the up-incoming procedural techniques, Dr. Laura has a realistic and down to earth approach, improving the quality of patient care and establishing more efficient, safe and efficacious therapeutic strategies for individuals undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention or endovascular procedures.