Lynn Witherspoon, MD

Dr. Witherspoon is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison. He trained in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine at the Ochsner Medical Institutions in New Orleans and Duke University Medical Center in Durham and is Board Certified in both. After serving in the United States Navy he joined the staff of the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans where his practice included Endocrinology, Nuclear Medicine, and the creation and management of Ochsnerís immunoassay laboratory. Dr. Witherspoon served in an Informatics role or as CIO during much of his Ochsner career. He conceptualized and built a clinical repository in the mid-1980s and subsequently shepherded the design, development, deployment, and certification of Ochsnerís legacy EHR platform. Ochsner has recently implemented a broad suite of practice support, billing, medical record, and clinical applications from Epic. Dr. Witherspoon is now Chief Medical Information Officer Emeritus at the Ochsner Health System.