Omedetou Dr. Jack Strong!

Dr. Jack Strong, chairman of pathology at LSU Health Sciences Center, will receive the Order of the Rising Sun tomorrow for his scientific achievements as well as his work to improve cultural and academic relations between the United States and Japan.

Dr Strong, one of only 15 in the world to be presented with this prestigious award, will receive it at a private ceremony in City Park’s Botanical Garden tomorrow. Appropriate, as Dr Strong is also president of the Japanese Garden Society of New Orleans, which contribued a Japanese garden to New Orleans Botanical Garden in 2003.

Congratulations Dr Strong, from all your friends and colleagues here at LSUHSC. (Or as the Japanese say, omedetou gozaimasu!)