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 believed that cardiovascular evaluation was needed and quickly referred 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 told him, ‘I’ve got things to do; give me two weeks,’” Keller Nathan Keller’s story of gratitude and trust in Memorial’s care teams The heart behind the care
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