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Jimmy Ponder, Jr., MD, FIPP

Business Address
123 Frontage Rd.- A
Gray, LA. 70359
(985) 580-1200



Practice
  • Headache & Pain Center, amc
    President and Chief Executive Director
    1995-Present

  • Day Surgery, Inc.
    President and Medical Director
    1998-Present

  • Franklin Foundation Hospital
    Director of Anesthesiology and Pain Management
    1994-1995

  • Certifications
  • Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology, 1994;     subspecialty certification in Pain Medicine, 1996, recertification     09/30/2006
  • Diplomate, American Board of Pain Medicine, 1996
  • Diplomate, American Academy of Pain Management, 2004
  • Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice, 2005
  • Diplomate, American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians,     2006
  • Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Expires November 2009

  • Medical License
  • Louisiana (since 1989), previously in Kansas and Missouri

  • Professional Organizations
  • Louisiana Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Past     President (2004 - 2006)
  • American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
  • American Association of Orthopedic Medicine
  • American Academy of Pain Medicine
  • Society for Pain Practice Management
  • International Spinal Intervention Society
  • American Society of Regional Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
  • American Academy of Pain Management
  • Louisiana State Medical Society
  • Lafourche Parish Medical Society
  • Chamber of Commerce
  • Lifetime Member of LSU Committee of 100 - Champions of     Excellence
  • Society of Interventional Pain Management Surgery Centers,     2004
  • International Association for the Study of Pain

  • Other
  • Diamond Member American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians
  • Director at Large American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians 2007 - 2008
  • American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians Teaching     Staff
  • Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, School of     Medicine, LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA
  • Qualified as legal medical expert in anesthesiology and pain     management in the following parishes: Assumption, Lafourche,     Jefferson, St. Mary and Terrebonne


  • Pain Training
    1993-1994
  • Pain Management
    Pain Consortium of Greater Kansas City
    Leawood, KS
    Director: Steven Waldman, MD
  • Residency Training
    1990-1993
  • Anesthesiology
    Tulane Medical Center
    New Orleans, LA
    Chairman: Alan Grogono, MD
  • Internship
    1989-1990
  • Internal Medicine
    Saint Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
    Phoenix, AZ
    Director: Charles Dauschbach, MD
  • Medical Education
    1985-1989
  • Louisiana State University School of Medicine
    New Orleans, LA
    Medical Doctor Degree, 1989
  • Under Graduate Education
    1982-1985



    Summer 1983
    and 1984
  • Louisiana State University
    Baton Rouge, LA
    Bachelor of Science 1986
    Major: Zoology
    GPA: 3.7

  • Nicholls State University
    Thibodaux, LA

  • Lectures and Presentations Click Here to View (PDF format)

    Continuing Education Click Here to View (PDF format)

    Present Hospital Affiliations
  • Abbeville General Hospital
    118 North Hospital Drive
    P.O. Box 580
    Abbeville, LA 70511-0580
    337-893-5466

  • Iberia Medical Center
    2315 East Main Street
    P.O. Box 1338
    New Iberia, La 70562
    (337) 364-0441

  • New Iberia Surgery Center
    2309 E. Main Street,
    Suite 300
    New Iberia, LA 70560
    (337) 560-9622

  • Terrebonne General Hospital
    P.O. Box 1118
    Houma, LA 70361
    985-873-4141

  • Thibodaux Regional Medical Center
    602 North Acadian Road
    P.O. Box 1118
    Thibodaux, LA 70301
    985-447-5500

  • Day Surgery, Inc
    151 Frontage Road-A
    Gray, LA 70359
    985-580-1598

  • Franklin Foundation Hospital
    1501 Hospital Ave.
    Franklin, LA 70538
    337-828-0760

  • Physicians Specialty Center
    218 Corporate Drive
    Houma, LA 70360
    985-853-1390

  • Teche Regional Medical Center
    1125 Marguerite Street
    Morgan City, LA 70380
    985-384-2200

  • Pain Training (1993-94), Conferences and Presentations
  • Principles and Practice of Pain Management (Meeting)
    Kansas City, MO
    July-August 1993

  • Cervical Epidural Nerve Blocks (Presentation)
    American Academy of Pain Management
    National Meeting
    October 1993
  • Residency
    Specialty Rotations
  • Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
    July-November 1992
    Gloucestershire, England
  • Children's Hospital
    May-June 1992
    New Orleans, LA
  • Texas Heart Institute
    February-March 1992
    Houston, TX
  • Charity Hospital (obstetrical anesthesia)
    September-October 1991
    New Orleans, LA

  • Honors
  • Journal Club Award

  • Medical School
    Honors & Activities
  • Aesculapian Society
  • Physiology Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Research
  • Student Council - Secretary of the Senior Class
  • Board of Supervisors Academic Scholarship, 1985
  • LSU Alumni Academic Scholarship, 1986
  • History of Medicine
  • LSU Alumni History of Medicine
  • The American Medical Student Association
  • American Medical Political Action Committee

  • Publications & Presentations
  • Exercise Training and the Resistance of the Heart to Shock
    Peter M.C. DeBlieux, Steven F. Pflug, Jimmy N. Ponder, Jr., Raymond E. Shepherd
    Circulatory Shock 21:310
    (abs.48), 1987

  • Exercise Training and the Resistance of the Heart to Shock
    Dean's Research Symposium
    Louisiana State University School of Medicine 1986
  • Employment
    Other Employment:
    1990-1993


    1988-1989

    1986


    Summer 1983 and Summer 1984


  • C & M Medical Services
    Emergency Room Physician

  • Jefferson Parish Correctional Center Medical Assistant

  • Physiology Department
    Stipend by American Heart Association

  • Nicholls State University
    Computer Science Department



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