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, there are two pending publications 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.”