Education News

Governor John Bel Edwards joined local and state leadership and legislators, LSU leadership and Ochsner Health System leadership for the groundbreaking of the Center for Medical Education building at LSU Health Shreveport.

Toni has been working in higher education for more than twenty years. She is returning to LSU Health Shreveport following employment at the Louisiana Department of Education, Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, and Cornell University.

LSU Health Shreveport has received Continued Accreditation status from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

James Patterson II, MD, PhD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine effective August 1, 2019. 

40 high school and undergraduate students recently shared the research projects they have spent eight weeks working on in summer programs held at LSU Health Shreveport.

Bharat Guthikonda, MD, FAANS, FACS, Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of Skull Base Research, has been named Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at LSU Health Shreveport.

The School of Allied Health Professions has been awarded the “Geaux Upstate Technology Expansion” grant for $43,010 from The Noel Foundation, Inc.

Louisiana native receives scholarship from Ochsner Health System that will cover full tuition for her to attend LSU Health Shreveport - School of Medicine

Debbie Chandler, MD, has been appointed Associate Dean of Student and Diversity Affairs for the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine.

Norman Harris, PhD, has been named Chairman of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology in the School of Graduate Studies.