Dr. Louis Heuser, MD
CEO
I became acutely aware of the value of exercise in the 5th grade. That was the first year we were required to take the Presidents Physical Fitness Test. I failed the test and was extremely embarrassed in front of my classmates. I was the class president and this physical failure was devastating. I started reading every body building book and magazine I could get my hands on. I hid in the basement and exercised in secret to over come the disability I was living with. I was all alone, miserable but I was adamant I could turn this problem I had around. It took a while but by the time puberty caught up with me I had built a fairly fit body. I was never an outstanding athlete but I did get most of my college tuition paid by pole vaulting. I finally had some self esteem. Exercise was my awakening to a new way of life. Exercise has been part of my daily life every day. Even through residency and my surgical practice when it would be easy to not exercise and devote those hours to society I found time to exercise. I found I gave more if I took care of my self.
The bottom line to this story is that if I can be fit, anybody can be fit. You just need to know how to do it, and then follow through with effective exercise.
Nutrition became part of my professional duties during medical school and surgical residency. Surgeons learned how to feed people by vein in the early 70’s. Burn victims and patients with massive abdominal wounds can not be feed by mouth. With the GI tract unavailable, we learned how to give every gram of protein, carbohydrate, fat, and vitamins in liquid suspension intravenously. I was very much involved from the ground up in surgical nutrition challenges with extremely difficult cases. We had incredibly gratifying results saving people that would have died just months before we learned these new techniques. The same nutrition science that heals massive wounds also builds fit bodies in healthy people. It’s a lot more fun to eat protein, carbohydrates, and fat I assure you.
I developed Heuser Heuser because I watched the overall health of Americans deteriorate over the past 30 years. As I got older my patients got sicker. Not from the diseases they were referred to me for, but they were sicker because they were getting fatter and fatter. They all had heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. My breast cancer patients were not dying of breast cancer, they were dying of heart attacks. I saw more and more patients with surgical complications of diabetes. Easy operations were made hard because of all the fat. No one in medicine was doing anything to help people prevent all these preventable diseases. My interest in nutrition and exercise was the answer to this frustrating dilemma. The Clinic was developed to help people help themselves by eating nutritious foods and exercising effectively, building fit healthy, vigorous bodies. We prevent 90% of the diseases Americans die prematurely from.
The clinic is the place to come to learn how to take control of your life and live a healthy life-style. The whole family is invited to learn together to have generations of wellness.
Dr. Louis S Heuser MD
CV
Education: Bachelor of Science 1968-1972
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Master of Science (Anatomy)1974-1978
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Louisville, Kentucky
Doctor of Medicine(Honors)
School of Medicine
University of Louisville 1974-1978
Louisville, Kentucky
Residency: General Surgery 1979-1984
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Chief Resident 1983-1984
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky
Fellowship: Surgical Resident 1981-1982
Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Department of Surgical Research
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
Appointments: Private Practice 1986-2003
President 1997 -1998
Norton Healthcare
Norton Medical Staff
Louisville, Kentucky
Chairman, Laparoscopy Committee 1996-1997
Center for Advanced Surgical Technologies
Norton Health Care
Louisville, Kentucky
Board of Directors 1994-1997
Adult Operating Board
Norton Health Care
Louisville, Kentucky
Chief of Surgery 1987-1997
Norton Hospital
Louisville, Kentucky
Honors and Awards: President, Junior Class 1977
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Morgan Williams Memorial Award 1977
University of Louisville
Department of Surgery
Israel Muss Memorial Award 1977
President, Senior Class 1978
University of Louisville
School of Medicine
Alpha Omega Alpha 1978
Phi Kappa Phi 1978
George P. Caldwell Memorial Award 1978
University of Louisville
Department of Surgery
William L. Brohm Award 1980, 1983
University of Louisville
Department of Surgery
Resident/Fellow Basic Research Award 1985
Peggy Heuser, MSN, A.P.R.N.
APRN (Chief Medical Officer)
Peggy is a native of Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, but has lived more than 35 years in Louisville, Kentucky. She earned her nursing degrees from Eastern Kentucky University and Spalding University and is currently enrolled in the Nurse Practitioner program at Spalding University.
Her passion is her family, her business and all of her clients (and having fun!)
Fun Facts about Peggy:
Chris Thompson
Chief of Staff/Fitness Director
Chris Thompson is from Louisville and graduated from University of South Florida (undergraduate studies) and the University of Louisville with a Master’s degree in Exercise physiology. He joined the Heuser team in 2002 and enjoys getting to know and work with clients and helping them make positive changes in their lives.
Fun Facts about Chris:
Marissa Higgins
Exercise Physiologist
Marissa is from Louisville KY and graduated from Ohio University with a degree in Exercise Physiology. She loves working at Heuser because the team is such a blast! She is passionate about leading a healthy lifestyle and helping people feel better about themselves.
Fun Facts about Marissa:
Chip Day
Exercise Physiologist
Chip is a native of New Albany, IN, who earned degrees from University of Louisville in Business Management, Exercise Science, and Sports Administration. He joined the Heuser team in 2007 and enjoys his daily interaction with our members and his co-workers.
Fun Facts about Chip:
Moriah Facktor
Exercise Physiologist
Moriah is from Louisville, KY and graduated from Bellarmine University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science. She joined Heuser in 2013 and enjoys working with “the great staff and the variety of clients.”
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Donny Hack
Exercise Physiologist
Donny is a native of Clarksville, IN who earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science from University of Louisville. He started his career with Heuser in 2001 and enjoys “pushing members to their max.”
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