Dr. Watkins began his practice with Dr.’s Jack W. Pou and Harold J. Quinn in July, 1969. The practice was later named the Ear, Nose & Throat Center. He received his medical degree from the Louisiana State Medical School in New Orleans in 1962 and completed his residency at Confederate Memorial Center in Shreveport, LA. He was born in Carthage, Mississippi. Dr. Watkins is married with five children and fourteen grandchildren. Dr. Watkins served in the Army at Fort Gordon Georgia as a major in the Medical Corp.

TRAINING

• Residency: Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Confederate Memorial Medical Center (1963 – 1967)
• Internship: Confederate Memorial Medical Center (1962 – 1963)
• Education: Louisiana State Medical School in New Orleans, LA, Doctor of Medicine (1958 – 1962)
• Undergraduate: Centenary College of Louisiana (1953 – 1957), Shreveport, LA

CIVIC ACTIVITIES

Rotary Club of Shreveport, Committee of 100, Board of the Bio-Medical Research Foundation, Board of Trustees of Centenary College, active in Noel Memorial United Methodist Church

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

Shreveport Medical Society, Louisiana State Medical Society, American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (Board Certified), The American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy, and The American Medical Association

BOARD CERTIFICATION

American Board of Otolaryngology