LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans
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The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans has teaching, research, and health care functions state-wide, through its six professional schools and twelve Centers of Excellence, as well as the more than one hundred hospitals and other health science related institutions throughout the State, Region, Nation, and the World, with which they maintain affiliations.
Schools
- 1931, The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine
- 1965, The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Graduate Studies
- 1966, The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Dentistry
- 1968, The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Nursing
- 1970, The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions
- 2003, The LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health
Accreditation
Centers of Excellence
- 1985, Neuroscience Center
- 1991, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center
- 1991, Cardiovascular Center
- 1991, Center for Molecular and Human Genetics
- 1991, Center for Oral and Craniofacial Biology
- 1991, Center on Aging
- 1991, Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
- 1996, Ernest N. Morial Asthma, Allergy, and Respiratory Disease Center
- 1999, Eye Center
- 2000, The Gene Therapy Program
- 2002, Epilepsy Center
- 2005, The Research Institute for Children
Chronology
Nine people have served as Chancellor of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans since its present organizational structure was implemented in 1965.
The current LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Chancellor is Larry H. Hollier, M.D.
The eight former LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Chancellors and their period of chancellorship follow:
- 1956 - 1969, William Wesley Frye, Ph.D., M.D. - Chancellor
- 1969 - 1974, William Huffman Stewart, M.D. - Chancellor
- 1974, John Charles Finerty, Ph.D. - Acting Chancellor
- 1974 - 1985, Allen Anthony Copping, D.D.S. - Chancellor
- 1985, Donna Harrington Ryan, M.D. - Acting Chancellor
- 1985 - 1994, Perry Gardner Rigby, M.D. - Chancellor
- 1994 - 2000, Mervin Lee Trail, M.D. - Chancellor
- 2000 - 2002, Mary Ella Sanders, M.D. - Interim Chancellor
- 2002 - 2005, John A. Rock, M.D. - Chancellor