Angie Reech is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Comprehensive Dentistry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO), School of Dentistry. She received her Bachelor of Science in Dental Hygiene from LSUHSC-NO and her Master of Education with high distinction from Liberty University. She has been a Registered Dental Hygienist since 2009 and an LSUSD faculty member since 2020. She is currently working toward an Oncology Certification through the National Network of Healthcare Hygienists. In addition to clinical responsibilities, Mrs. Reech directs dental hygiene professional development courses and coordinates the dental hygiene local anesthesia lab. She has participated in LSUHSC interprofessional education since 2022. Mrs. Reech is a member of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association, Louisiana Dental Hygienists’ Association, New Orleans Dental Hygienists’ Association and is a faculty advisor for the LSUHSC-NO School of Dentistry Student Chapter of the American Dental Hygienists’ Association. She is also an inductee of the Kappa Delta Pi Honors Society.

Contact:

amars1@lsuhsc.edu • (504) 941-8153

Dr. Elewonibi is an Assistant Professor in the department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Louisiana State University Health Science Center. She is a public health demographer with extensive experience conducting research in the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. Her research broadly examines how the structural, social, and cultural environment affects access to preventive healthcare services in vulnerable populations and uses evidence-based interventions to remove barriers to care and address health disparities.

Dr. Elewonibi is the Program Director of Screen Up, a quality improvement initiative funded by the Center from Disease Control and Prevention. Screen Up provides quality improvement support to Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) across the state to increase preventable cancer screening rates and reduce patient barriers to screening in accordance with national experts’ guidelines, resulting in fewer suffering and death from cancer.

Dr. Elewonibi also has experience working in non-academic settings. In a previous role, she used her program planning and implementation and population research skills to provide evidence of the effectiveness of a community-based intervention in improving women’s reproductive health in Tanzania. She collaborated with in-country researchers to analyze health systems performance, inform systems improvement, and contributed to capacity building.

Contact:

belewo@lsuhsc.edu

Colette Baudoin is a Clinical Instructor of Nursing at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, School of Nursing. She has been a nurse for over 30 years and at the School of Nursing since 2018. She is a Certified Nurse Education and Oncology Certified Nurse and has achieved several recognition awards including Great 100 Nurses in 2016 and Daisy Faculty Award in 2020 and 2021. She is a member of several professional organizations including the New Orleans Oncology Nurses and Sigma Theta Tau-Epsilon Nu chapter. 

Contact: cbaud4@lsuhsc.edu • (504) 568-4205

Scott Edwards is an Associate Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO), with appointments in the School of Medicine and School of Graduate Studies. Dr. Edwards completed his PhD training in the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at the UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Afterwards, Scott joined the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute where he was awarded a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Edwards joined the Department of Physiology in 2013 and currently serves as a member of the translational LSU Health New Orleans NIH-funded Comprehensive Alcohol-HIV/AIDS Research Center as Director of Research Component 3 (Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Neurological Symptoms of Cognitive Dysfunction and Pain) as well as Director of the Information Dissemination Core, which is focused on interprofessional education. Sr. Edwards has been engaged in several interprofessional activities and has published in this area.

Contact: sedwa5@lsuhsc.edu • (504) 568-2669

Leslie C. Lopez, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-CL, CHES, PNAP is a speech-language pathologist (SLP) with expertise in communication health at the population level. She serves as an Associate Professor and Program Director for the Speech-Language Pathology program in the Department of Communication Disorders. Dr. Lopez holds specialty board certification in Child Language and is a Certified Heath Education Specialist. She earned a PhD in Public Health at the University of Louisville. Dr. Lopez is committed to advancing early identification and timely referral of children with, or at risk for, developmental delays. Her work centers on developing and promoting health education strategies and provider-caregiver interventions that support confident, informed conversations about early childhood development. She is especially dedicated to strengthening systems for early identification across Louisiana and driving impactful health behavior change at individual, community, and systems levels.

Contact: llope4@lsuhsc.edu

Michael Dicharry is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry for LSUHSC-NO and the Clerkship Director for Psychiatry. He received his undergraduate degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, then returned home to New Orleans where he earned his graduate degree from Tulane University and subsequently attended LSUHSC-NO for Medical School and his residency in Psychiatry. He currently works full time in the Behavioral Health Emergency Room at University Medical Center in New Orleans.

Contact: mdicha@lsuhsc.edu • (504) 568-6009