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.
Education
Undergraduate:
2005 - B.S. in Psychology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Graduate:
2008 - M.P.H. in Epidemiology
LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
Medical:
2015 - M.D.
LSU School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Residency:
2018 - Internal Medicine
LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
Fellowship:
2021 - Gastroenterology
LSU Health Sciences Center
New Orleans, Louisiana
Affiliated Hospitals & Clinics
- University Medical Center
- University Medical Center, Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery Clinic
Publications
1. Fontenot J, Spieler B, Hudson C, Boulmay B. Pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma--literature review and case report of
a 56-year-old man presenting with abdominal pain [published correction appears in
Radiol Case Rep. 2019 Dec 12;15(3):306-307]. Radiol Case Rep. 2019;15(1):39-43. Published
2019 Nov 9. doi:10.1016/j.radcr.2019.10.009.
2. Hudson C, Fontenot E, Landreneau S. Gastric antral vascular ectasia presenting as a polypoid
mass in a patient with cirrhosis. Gastrointest Endosc. 2018;87(2):612-613. doi:10.1016/j.gie.2017.08.002
3. Caroline Smith, Richard Hartsough, MD, Bradley Spieler, MD, Taylor Dickerson, MD,
Catherine T Hudson, MD, MPH, Fred Lopez, MD, Richard Marshall, MD, Adam Riker, MD. A 44-Year-Old Woman with Abdominal
Pain Giant Pedunculated Cavernous Hepatic Hemangioma. Journal of the Louisiana State
Medical Society, July/August 2018, Volume 170 p 124-127.