Dr. Alan Kaye, Provost, awarded Amber N. Edinoff, a Third Year Psychiatry Resident, the Provost’s Outstanding Graduate Medical Education Resident Research Award. Dr. Edinoff was selected for her outstanding research contributions. She has worked on over 40 papers in the past year on topics including, psychiatry, pain, and pharmacology. Congratulations!
Our Psychiatry Residency is a 4 year ACGME accredited program.
The program Faculty consists of Board Certified Psychiatrists with several years of experience who have a variety of sub-specialty training. Our residents are exposed to a wide array of patients across multiple training sites. The clinical experience and educational activities foster well-rounded psychiatrists who are prepared to enter private practice or sub-specialty training. We are accredited for 32 total positions, and typically accept 8 interns per year in the NRMP Match. In addition to the traditional Psychiatry track, we also offer Psychiatry-Child Track through the NRMP Match.
What sets us apart from other Psychiatry Residency programs?
- Inpatient Psychiatric services at the private psychiatric hospital Louisiana Behavioral Health. The behavioral health facility is a partnership with Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and Oceans Healthcare and provides inpatient behavioral health services for adolescents, adults, and seniors including an IOP.
- Decreasing call responsibilities from PGY I - PGY IV and a Night Float system
- Rotation in Emergency Psychiatry
- Rotation in Community Psychiatry during PGY III at Shreveport Behavioral Health Clinic
- Rotation in Forensic Psychiatry available as a PGY IV includes: Observing sanity commissions, treating the mentally ill who are incarcerated, and treating patients with developmental disabilities.
- Elective experiences include: Community Psychiatry, Neuroradiology, ECT, and Sleep Medicine
- Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
- Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Program Information

Shawn E. McNeil, MD, FAPA
Rachel Voss, MD
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Theresa McAnn, MBA
Program Administrator
(318) 675-6619
theresa.mcann@lsuhs.edu
Gladys Jackson, BS
Program Specialist
(318) 675-7520
gladys.jackson@lsuhs.edu
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