Kevin White

Dr. Kevin White’s roots arise from central Kentucky. Despite a calling to medicine at
a young age, he rebelliously studied music education pursuing a career as a music
teacher. After teaching for a few years, he revisited the calling to study medicine.
Despite pushback from friends, colleagues and even family, outside of his supportive
wife, he took the necessary prerequisite coursework and was accepted to the
University of Kentucky College of Medicine. He became the first in his family to
graduate medical school when he graduated his medical class with distinction and
matched to obstetrics and gynecology residency at Marshall University.
He continued to grow in residency, consistently scoring the highest CREOG scores,
an annual residency examination. During this time, he published four papers in peer
reviewed journals exploring and developing improvements in postoperative pain
management. He is among the 1st to publish a paper regarding liposomal
bupivacaine injections to reduce post cesarean pain which is now the standard of
care across the country. In addition to publications, he presented his findings at 11
different annual meetings across the country. Implementing these findings into the
practice of medicine at Marshall, led him to receive the Vice Dean Graduate Medical
Education Award for quality improvement three times during his tenure as a resident.
In private practice, Dr. White desires to bring high-quality and evidence-based care
to rural populations. In that effort, he became the 1st surgeon in Kentucky to
perform vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery. Subsequently, the
governor of Kentucky commissioned Dr. White as a Kentucky Colonel. Most
recently, he became the first in Louisiana and only 1 of only 60 in the world to be
awarded as a master surgeon in minimally invasive gynecology by the Surgical
Review Corporation.
Dr. White continues working to improve the quality of care for his patients. He
recently became among the first in the state of Louisiana to implement pre and
postoperative use of suzetrigine, an effective nonopioid pain medication. Currently,
he has published 2 papers in that effort. His education training did not go to waste
as he continues to mentor medical students and residents as part of faculty with the
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine and Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center.
Seeing all patients as children of God, Dr. White holds that all patients deserve to be
treated with dignity and respect. Dr. White does not believe in a universal
approach for all patients, rather he believes care must be individualized and tailored
to each patient’s concerns, issues and treatment goals. He believes for any
physician to be effective, they must meet patients where they are. He believes that
listening is the most important diagnostic assessment tool, citing day one of medical
school when the professor said “If you listen long enough, the patient will tell you
what is wrong with them.”