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Big Turnover
A Heady Experience

When the dentists at Louisiana Dental Center visited their alma mater on a recent evening, they didn’t come empty-handed. They came bearing gifts–one for the LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry and one for the DDS senior class. More

Tiger Pride: LSU Health New Orleans OB/GYN on "Jeopardy!" Winning Streak

Never mind medicine, if there’s anything you need to know about ancient symbols, French cities, or world literature, just ask LaKedra Pam, MD, LSU Health New Orleans Clerkship Director and Clinical Instructor of Obstetrics and Gynecology based in Baton Rouge. More

LSU Health Dental School Angel Tree
The Spirit of the Season

Can you imagine the excitement and joy on the face of the little boy who has never had a new toy of his own when he spies the brand new Ninja Turtles bike Santa brought him on Christmas morning? More

Dr. Amedee at Graduate Studies Research Day
Amedee Named Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Joseph Moerschbaecher, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at LSU Health New Orleans, has appointed Angela Amedee, PhD, Professor of Microbiology, Immunology & Parasitology, as Associate Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Graduate Studies. More

National Academy of Medicine
Gee Elected to National Academy of Medicine

Dr. Rebekah Gee, Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy & Systems Management at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. More

Drs. Henry Gremillion and Steve Nelson at Ozanam Inn Gala
LSUHealthNO Deans Honored for Serving Homeless

Ozanam Inn honored Dr. Steve Nelson, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Henry Gremillion, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, at the 37th Annual Ozanam Inn Gala. More

LSUHealthNO Tiger Run
Tiger Run 2017 Goes to the Dogs

LSU Health New Orleans Tiger Run 2017 organized by LSUHealthNO medical students is Sunday, November 19th in Audubon Park. Enter at Magazine Street – the entrance to get to the Audubon clubhouse. More

Settoon Family with Golden Band from Tigerland
Where Dreams Come True

The best Father’s Day gift ever didn’t disappoint. Last Saturday, Charlie Settoon got to do something few people get to do thanks to his five children and the LSU Health New Orleans Camp Tiger Benefit Auction. More

LSUHealthNO PT White Coat Ceremony
A Rite of Passage

Thirty-five second-year Doctor of Physical Therapy students at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions received the mantle of professional practice during a White Coat Ceremony. More

Dr. Fred Rodriguez
LSU Health New Orleans Professor Receives Prestigious Honor

Fred Rodriguez, Jr., MD, MASCP, Emma Moss Professor of Pathology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has received the 2017 Ward Burdick Award for Distinguished Service to Pathology. More

plastic surgery
LSUHealthNO Resident to Receive International Award

A 4th-year LSU Health New Orleans Plastic Surgery resident is a co-author on a paper that has won the “Best International Collaboration-Bronze Paper” award in the journal, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery-Global Open for papers published in 2016. More

Dentsply Sirona donated equipment
Dentsply Sirona Supports New Dental Teaching Labs

Dentsply Sirona recently donated equipment valued at $679,720 for LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry's new preclinical laboratories. More

LSUHealthNO Dental Back to School Checkup
Starting the School Year with a Healthy Smile

Dozens of underserved children got their smiles ready at a back-to-school dental checkup on August 14, 2017. The free community service was held at the LSU Health New Orleans After-Hours Pediatric Dental Clinic. More

Lympho-Maniac donation to LSUHealthNO
Lympho-Maniacs Donation Supports a First – Precision Medicine Testing

A $25,000 donation from the New Orleans Lympho-Maniac Cancer Fund to LSU Health Foundation New Orleans will be used for cancer patients who could benefit from genomic testing and tumor profiling, but who cannot afford it. More

Dr. Henry Gremillion Hinman Society
LSUHealthNO’s Gremillion Inducted as Honorary Member of Prestigious Dental Society

At the Thomas P. Hinman Dental meeting sponsored by the Hinman Dental Society this spring, Henry A. Gremillion, DDS, MAGD, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, was named an honorary member of the Hinman Dental Society. More

LSUHealthNO pediatric ENT's
Representing Well

LSU Health New Orleans had a significant presence at the recently concluded American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology meeting in Austin. More

New Yorker Cover
Worth 1,000 Words

LSU Health New Orleans women surgeons have joined female surgeons around the world taking The New Yorker Cover Challenge. More

Boy Scouts Public Health Badge
Scouting Public Health

Thirty-three boy scouts from troops in Louisiana and Mississippi were on their feet trying to find a hip hop beat on a recent Saturday morning at LSU Health New Orleans. More

LGBT health care
LSUHealthNO Offers LGBT Health Care Symposium

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine will present LGBT Health Care Symposium: Insight on Current Affairs and the Future of LGBT Health Care on Monday, April 10, 2017, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. More

LSU Day
LSU Goes to Washington

LSU President Dr. F. King Alexander and leaders from LSU campuses are in Washington, DC this week for LSU Day at the Capitol. More

Pictures in Nursing
Nursing as an Art Form

Did you know that Hygeia, the Greek goddess of health, is considered by some to have been the first nurse? Or that nurses and nursing have been the frequent subjects of postcards? More

STEM NOLA Day
Tomorrow’s Doctors

About 25 middle school students from metropolitan New Orleans schools got hands-on science and health experience during STEM NOLA Day on a recent Saturday at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. More

tornado damage
Tornado Relief Fund Application Available

The application to receive funds from the LSU Health Foundation Tornado Relief Fund is now posted. More

tornado damage
LSU Health Creates Tornado Relief Fund

LSU Health New Orleans and its Foundation have teamed up to help faculty, staff, residents, fellows and students who suffered losses from the historic tornadoes that hit Louisiana in February. More

Dr. Charlie Brown
The Passing of a Legend

Dr. Charlie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Public Health, died over the weekend. Though he lived a long and very full life, it was way too soon. More

Nursing White Coat Ceremony
Nursing Students Mark Passage

One hundred thirty-six Sophomore II and CARE XVI students at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing celebrated a rite of passage on January 9, 2017. More

Tiger Run
Tiger Run Supports Homeless Clinics

And they were off! About 140 runners didn't let 22mph winds and the season's first big chill stop them from supporting LSU Health New Orleans medical students' 2016 Tiger Run. More

VA Medical Center Ribbon Cutting
Serving Those Who Served

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine Dean Dr. Steve Nelson was invited to help launch a new resource for those who have given so much. More

BioChallenge Winner
Chosen Chosen for BioChallenge Top Prize

Chosen Diagnostics, a startup company founded by Sunyoung Kim, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology at LSU Health New Orleans, took both the Audience Favorite and the Grand Prize in the 2016 BioChallenge Pitch Competition. More

Day with the Docs
Shaping the Future

If you think getting nearly a hundred high school students and teachers from multiple schools in multiple parishes to travel 150+ miles first thing in the morning and arrive on time, at the same time is an easy feat, just imagine the logistics involved. More

PA Week
LSU Health New Orleans Celebrates PA Week

PA Week, celebrated this year October 6 - 12, recognizes the contributions that physician assistants make to health. More

flu shot
LSU Health and LSU Healthcare Network Make it Easy to Get Your Flu Shot

LSU Health New Orleans and LSU Healthcare Networked have teamed up to offer flu shots to LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans faculty, staff, and students again this year. More

Medtronic partnership
LSU Health Recognized for Patient Implant Safety Training

Cynthia Walker, Medtronic Vice President of Global Education in the Cardiac Rhythm/Heart Failure Division, traveled to New Orleans and presented Chancellor Larry Hollier, MD with a certificate of achievement recognizing 10 years of excellence in training physicians to safely implant and manage pacemakers. More

White Coat Ceremony
DPT Students Reach Milestone

The LSU Health New Orleans Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2019 reached a milestone in their educational journey Friday, September 16, 2016. They received their white coats, marking their entrance into clinical practice. More

Geaux Blue
LSU Health Geauxs Blue

LSU Health New Orleans campuses were painted blue today as faculty, staff and students proudly wore their support for NOPD and other law enforcement agencies, and most especially, LSU Health New Orleans University Police. More

Flood Relief Fund
LSU Health Creates Flood Relief Fund

You can help members of the LSU Health New Orleans family recover from catastrophic flooding. More

jambalaya
Dental School Students Say Thanks in Their Own Special Way

For the second year in a row, students at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry pulled out their big pots on an August Sunday morning to cook for a cause. More

AAA screening
Free screening finds deadly AAAs

Nearly 200 people took advantage of a free abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening on a recent Saturday morning at the LSU Healthcare Network. More

serving NOPD
LSU Health New Orleans hosts NOPD Graduation

At a time when it is so important for law enforcement officers to know their many sacrifices and willingness to run toward danger are deeply appreciated, LSU Health New Orleans was honored to host the Commencement Exercises of Recruit Class #175 and then throw them a party. More