Biography for Dr. Demetrius J. Porche, DNS, PhD, APRN, PCC, FACHE, ANEF, FAANP, FAAN

Dr. Porche, the James B. and Helen A. Dunn Professor of Nursing, has been an invaluable member of our LSU Health community since 1999 and has led as Dean of Nursing since 2007. During his term as Dean, he has raised the standards of excellence in nursing education and research such that our School of Nursing is now consistently recognized as one of the top ten nursing schools in the country. Dr. Porche, who also holds appointments in our Schools of Public Health and Graduate Studies, received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Nicholls State University and his Master of Nursing and Doctor of Nursing Science from Louisiana State University Medical Center. He completed Family Nurse Practitioner post-graduate coursework at Concordia University Wisconsin and earned a Doctorate of Philosophy from Capella University in Organization and Management with a specialization in Leadership. Dr. Porche is certified as a Clinical Specialist in Community Health Nursing and Family Nurse Practitioner, is board certified in healthcare by the American College of Healthcare Executives, was inducted as a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives, the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, National League for Nursing Academy of Nurse Educators, and the American Academy of Nursing. He is currently the Chief Editor of American Journal of Men's Health.

Dr. Porche has admirably represented LSU Health New Orleans and the nursing profession in the local, state, and national communities as a gubernatorially-appointed member of the Louisiana State Board of Nursing, and as two-term Presidents of each of the Louisiana State Board of Nursing, the American Assembly for Men in Nursing, and the Southern Nursing Research Society. He served on the national Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, as Chair of its Public Health Nursing Section Development Committee, and as members of the Research Committee of the Association of Community Health Nurse Educators, Education Committee of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists, and Doctoral Conference Planning Committee of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. He most recently served on the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Board of Governors as Member at Large and Chair of the Implementation Science and Synthesis Network of the Americas. Dr. Porche currently chairs the Louisiana Health Works Commission and the SEC Nursing Deans Organization.