4 Memorial Medical Milestones • 2026 Issue 1 When longtime law enforcement officer Nathan Keller, of the Ward 3 Marshal’s Office, began experiencing shoulder pain in November 2024, he assumed it was just the toll of an active 36 years on the job or the stress of the past year, which had brought two family losses. “I wasn’t sick,” he says. “I just went to my primary doctor because my shoulder was hurting.” Unwelcome surprise His internal medicine doctor, Muhammad Atif Jadoon, MD, first thought it was arthritis, but as the pain got worse and began keeping Keller up at night, Dr. Jadoon decided to dig deeper and sent Keller to the Memorial Heart & Vascular Center. There, interventional cardiologist Ahmad Awan, MD, ran a heart catheterization that showed several blockages, including one artery that was 85% blocked. Keller was soon sitting across from J. Gregory Lugo, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital. “Dr. Lugo and his whole staff are just unbelievable,” Keller says. “He told me, ‘We really need to get this done.’ But I Nathan Keller’s story of gratitude and trust in Memorial’s care teams The heart behind the care
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