title: The Weather family's Hurricane Katrina saga: Leonard Weather Jr., MD of New Orleans. Interview by George Dawson.
abstract: This interview of Leonard Weather Jr., MD was conducted so as to give our members and the medical community at large a version of what a New Orleans, LA physician of African-American descent experienced during Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath. Emile Riley, MD, Meharry Medical School graduate, general surgeon, role model, and New Orleans Civic Leader who helped to blaze the trail for other local African-American physicians, died January 31, 2006 at the St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital in Houston, TX at the age of 71. He evacuated to Houston prior to Hurricane Katrina.
authors.forename: Leonard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Weather
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004190:Disasters; D006176:Gynecology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D008402:Mass Media; D009774:Obstetrics / Q000266:history*; D011287:Prejudice; D012955:Societies, Medical