Bio

Catherine Tridico Hudson, MD, MPH, DABOM is triple boarded in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Obesity Medicine. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. She specializes in Bariatrics, Foregut Gastroenterology, and Obesity Medicine. She completed all of her training in New Orleans at LSU including medical school, residency, and fellowship. During her fellowship she started the first Obesity Medicine clinic at University Medical Center Hospital and serves as the Medical Director of Obesity Medicine at the Center for Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery. She is also the Service Line Leader for the Inpatient Gastroenterology Service including serving as the Director of Endoscopy at University Medical Center Hospital.

She is a member of multiple professional societies including the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Foregut Society, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. She has been selected for multiple early career leadership programs within these organizations. She is a member and chair of multiple national committees including serving as the Chair of ACG's Obesity and Metabolic Task Force. She is a founding board member of the Louisiana Obesity Society and is the immediate past president of the board as well as the chair of the advocacy committee. She serves as the president elect of the Louisiana Gastrointestinal Society. 

Her endoscopic practice is focused on foregut and esophageal diseases as well as the advanced endoscopic management of surgical complications including suturing and advanced closures for leaks, fistulas, and iatrogenic perforations, stenting and dilations of strictures, endovacuum therapy, and double balloon enteroscopy to the excluded stomach.