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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

Centers of Excellence

Accreditation

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097: Telephone number 404-679-4501) to award Postsecondary awards, certificates, or diplomas of less than one academic year (less than 900 contact or clock hours); Postsecondary award, certificate, or diploma of at least one but less than two academic years (at least 900 but less than 1800 contact or clock hours); Associate Degrees; Postsecondary awards, certificates or diplomas of at least two but less than four academic years (at least 1800 but less than 3800 contact or clock hours); Bachelors Degrees; Post-baccalaureate Certificates; Masters Degrees; Post-Masters Certificates; Doctoral Degrees; First-Professional Degrees; First-Professional Certificates (Post-Degree).

All academic certificate or degree program offerings of the five professional schools of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans are either fully accredited or are eligible for accreditation according to criteria of and review by the appropriate national or other accrediting agency concerned.

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