Our Team

Dr. Pounds is the founding physician and Chief Medical Officer of Baptist Community Health Services. She has grown up in New Orleans and attended LSU Medical School where she specialized in Internal Medicine. She has worked with BCHS since the doors opened in 2014 and currently she sees patients two days a week at the Mandeville location and focuses on clinical leadership the rest of the week. Dr. Pounds believes that every patient who walks through the doors of BCHS deserves the most excellent care and attention and she works to ensure that's the case.

Dr. White is a board-certified primary care internist at Baptist Community Health Services (BCHS). She completed her medical education at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She completed her internal medicine training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.  She specializes in adult care, with a focus on chronic disease management.  She is passionate about delivering high-quality, culturally competent care to all her patients. Dr. White currently sees patients Monday through Friday at our Sanchez location. Originally from Virginia, she now calls New Orleans home!

Dr. Prechter is a board certified internal medicine physician whose focus is primary care.  A native of New Orleans and a graduate of LSU, Dr. Prechter completed his medical training at William Carey University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Hattiesburg, MS.  He then completed his Internal Medicine residency at University Hospital and Clinics in Lafayette, LA with LSU Health Sciences Center-NO.  Dr. Prechter returned to New Orleans with his wife (also a physician) and son, choosing to work with BCHS to deliver high quality healthcare to our city with a Christ-centered focus.  Dr Prechter will work primarily out of the Sanchez Center in the lower ninth ward in addition to the Mandeville location.