Leonard Weather, Jr., M.D.

Dr. Weather is a gynecologist, specializing in infertility, fibroids, pelvic pain and endometriosis.  Dr. Weather is a health educator, ordained minister, painter and photographer. He is the publisher of the Dr. Weather Report, a monthly healthcare eNewsletter and he has authored three inspirational poetry books and an infertility handbook.

Dr. Weather is an active gynecological clinical trials researcher and has presented over 125 peer reviewed presentations and papers on laser surgery, the outpatient treatment of infertility, endometriosis, and pelvic pain and fibroids. He developed the surgical procedure Optical Dissection Pelviscopy to assist in the prevention of organ injury during laparoscopy. Dr. Weather is a graduate of Howard University’s College of Pharmacy.  He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Rush Medical College and trained in gynecology and obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital. He is a past Adjunct Clinical Professor at Xavier University College of Pharmacy, Past President of the National Medical Association’s (NMA) New Orleans Medical Association and Louisiana Medical Association.

Dr. Weather is a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Past Grand President of Chi Delta Mu Medical Fraternity, and the former Treasurer of Black Congress on Health, Law and Economics (BCHLE). He is also a member of numerous Louisiana Commissions appointed by the Governor, Past Chair of Region V, NMA, Inc., and a member of the National Medical Association’s Board of Trustees and Executive Committee. He was the Principal Investigator for the National Medical Association’s Katrina Disaster Practice Restoration Grant. Currently, he is the President of Northern Louisiana Medical Association and the New Orleans Health Alliance (NOHA), the latter organization founded in 1999 consists of Black Health Professionals, Black Nurses, Inc., New Orleans Medical Association, New Orleans Dental Association, Podiatric Association, New Orleans Optometrists, Pharmacists and Physical Therapists, along with Chi Delta Mu Medical Fraternity. He is also a Member of the Board of Scientific Advisors to the Endometriosis Association and the Chair of the Health Policy Committee for the National Medical Association’s Board of Trustees. In September 2009, Dr. Weather was appointed Co-Chair of the Commission to End Health Care Disparities.  The Commission is a joint effort between the NMA and AMA to end health disparities. 

Dr. Weather is married to Dr. Cynthia Montgomery, who is also an Ob/Gyn and they reside in Shreveport, Louisiana with their two children.