About Us

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 eight 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

Accreditation

Centers of Excellence

Chronology

The current LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Chancellor is Steve Nelson, M.D., C.M.

Former LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Chancellors and their period of chancellorship follow:

  • 1965 - 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
  • 2005 - 2021, Larry H. Hollier, M.D. - Chancellor