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Neuropsychologist, Co-Director
Ochsner Health
New Orleans, Louisiana
Dr. John Sawyer is a neuropsychologist at Ochsner health where he co-directs the Center for Brain Health. The Center leads Alzheimer’s and related dementia assessment and care programs within Ochsner’s Neuroscience Institute. Also, at the Neuroscience Institute, he is the first Medical Director for Value. This role helps the service line develop, measure, and report out on value-based care metrics. He has authored a paper in the New England Journal’s business imprint – Catalyst – on the need to rethink dementia care in a value-based world. Recently, Catalyst asked him to help with their white paper on Dementia care initiatives. In 2019, the Louisiana Psychological Association gave him the Early Career Psychologist award that year and, in 2020, was nominated as a healthcare hero at Ochsner during the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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