News Releases

Dr. Kevin Reed, Associate Dean for Baton Rouge Affairs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Baton Rouge Regional Campus, has appointed Dr. Matthew Foy Director of Undergraduate Education. More

Public Release Date: September 19, 2023

HHS Awards $1 Million Nursing Diversity Workforce Grant to LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing

The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing a $1.085 million Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) grant to provide a diverse nursing workforce prepared to provide high-quality, culturally aligned care and improve health care access for patients in rural and medically underserved communities. More

Public Release Date: September 18, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Releases Latest Report on Cancer in Louisiana

The Louisiana Tumor Registry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health has published Cancer in Louisiana Volume 38. It includes information on cancer incidence and deaths between 2016 and 2020, incidence and mortality trends from 1988 to 2020, survival statistics for cases diagnosed from 2009 to 2019, and followed into 2020, and prevalence of cancer cases diagnosed from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2020. More

Public Release Date: September 14, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Study Shows the Major Measure of Diabetes Is Significantly Higher in Young Black Patients

LSU Health New Orleans research led by Stuart Chalew, MD, Professor of Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that HbA1c, a major metric of diabetes management, is markedly higher in black youth compared to whites at any level of mean blood glucose. The findings are published online in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. More

Public Release Date: September 13, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Study Identifies a Potential New Approach to PTSD Treatment

An LSU Health New Orleans research study led by Siqiong June Liu, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, has found that cerebellar inhibitory interneurons are essential for fear memory, a type of emotional memory formation. Inhibitory interneurons within the cerebellar circuitry act as gatekeepers and control the output of the cerebellar cortex. The formation of fear memory requires the activity of these interneurons. The findings, which may lead to a novel treatment approach for post-traumatic stress disorder, are published in Cell Reports. More

Public Release Date: September 12, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Research Quantifies Effect of Chronic Diseases on Racial Disparity in COVID-Associated Hospitalizations

LSU Health New Orleans conducted the first research using disease surveillance data to quantify the effect of chronic diseases on racial disparity in COVID-associated hospitalizations. The research team, led by Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, MPH, Professor and Director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, reports that chronic diseases explained almost two-fifths of the racial disparity in COVID-associated hospitalizations among cancer patients, specifically common chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and chronic kidney disease. More

Public Release Date: September 11, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Researchers Discover a Key Failure in AMD that May Lead to Progression & Vision Loss

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor, Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair for the Study of Retinal Degeneration, and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, suggests that age-related macular degeneration (AMD) decreases an essential fatty acid, preventing the formation of a class of protective molecules and reducing repair potential. The discovery may also open new therapeutic avenues for AMD. More

Public Release Date: August 21, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions to Receive ASAHP Award for IPE Excellence and Innovation

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The Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions (ASAHP) has selected LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Allied Health Professions as the recipient of the 2023 ASAHP Award for Institutional Excellence and Innovation in Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Collaborative Health Care. More

Public Release Date: August 9, 2023

LSU Health Research Suggests A New Approach For Treatment-Resistant Breast Cancers

A collaborative study between LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, the University of Rochester and Cellestia Biotech AG, a biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, provides compelling evidence that combining an investigational oral drug with standard-of-care medications reverts hormone resistance and increases Rx effectiveness in experimental models of estrogen-receptor positive (ER+) and triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC), respectively. More

Public Release Date: August 3, 2023

Study Reveals Significant Difference in Cardiomyopathy Genes Between Black and White Patients

Although at greater risk, a new study found that patients of African ancestry with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) were less likely to have clinically actionable variants in DCM genes than those of European ancestry. LSU Health New Orleans is one of the 25 clinical sites nationally that enrolled participants in the study. More

Public Release Date: July 27, 2023

LSU Health’s Boulmay Appointed to ABIM Specialty Board

Brian Boulmay, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been appointed to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Medical Oncology Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment Approval Committee. He is one of five members of the Committee. More

Public Release Date: July 21, 2023

LSU Health’s Lazartigues Honored by American Heart Association

The American Heart Association’s Council on Hypertension has selected Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Director of the Cardiovascular Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, to present the 2023 Lewis K. Dahl Memorial Lecture. More

Public Release Date: July 14, 2023

DeBlieux to Lead LSU Health Advanced Education and Simulation

Peter DeBlieux, MD, has been appointed Assistant Dean for Advanced Learning and Simulation at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. The appointment was effective July 10, 2023. More

Public Release Date: July 13, 2023

LSU Health Nursing Awarded $2.6 Million to Improve Primary Care, Mental Health and Maternal Care in Louisiana

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Nursing $2.6 million over four years to increase the number of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives trained and prepared to provide equitable, culturally aligned, quality primary care services, mental health and substance use disorder care, and maternal health care to underrepresented populations in rural, urban, tribal, and underserved areas across the state. More

Public Release Date: July 10, 2023

LSU Health’s Dr. Jeremy Toler Named 1 of 11 Doctors Nationally Moving Medicine Forward

Jeremy Toler, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Child Neurology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of eleven physicians in the country honored by the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation with the 2023 Excellence in Medicine Awards, which honor extraordinary physicians and medical advocates. More

Public Release Date: July 5, 2023

Takeda Licenses LSU Health New Orleans Technology for Potential Rare Neurological Disorders

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LSU Health New Orleans today announced that Takeda has exercised its option to receive an exclusive license to certain early-stage technology designed to slow the progression of DNA repeat expansion disorders. More

Public Release Date: June 28, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing Faculty Inducted as AANP Fellows

LSU Health New Orleans faculty are two of six nurse practitioners nationally and the only ones from Louisiana who became Fellows of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) at the 2023 Induction Ceremony. The ceremony was held on June 22, 2023, in New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: June 15, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Hosts Meeting of North American Cancer Statistics Specialists

LSU Health New Orleans’ Louisiana Tumor Registry is hosting the first in-person annual meeting of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) since the start of the pandemic, June 20-22, 2023. The three-day conference will take place at the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: June 13, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans’ Bailey Elected Chair of Prestigious Caucus on Global Mental Health

Rahn Bailey, MD, DLFAPA, ACP, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been elected Chair of the Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Caucus of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He will serve a two-year term. More

Public Release Date: June 7, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Expert Invited to Testify at Congressional Hearing about the Youth Mental Health Crisis in America

Joy Osofsky, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Public Health and Head of the Division of Pediatric Mental Health at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, will share her expertise at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee at 10:00 am ET on Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Room 430, Dirksen Senate Office Building. More

Public Release Date: June 6, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Researchers Discover Potential New Rx Strategy for Ischemic Stroke

A study conducted by scientists at LSU Health New Orleans’ Neuroscience Center of Excellence reports that the additive neuroprotection of a combination of two omega-3 fatty acid-derived signaling molecules is more effective in protecting brain cells and increasing recovery from stroke in an experimental model than a single drug. More

Public Release Date: May 25, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Study Finds Diet Contributes to Risk of HPV-Related Cancer

A study conducted by LSU Health New Orleans’ Schools of Public Health and Medicine faculty reports that diet contributes to HPV infection leading to cervical cancer. Results are published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. More

Public Release Date: May 24, 2023

LSU Health’s Angela Johnson, MD, Voted Chair-Elect of ACP Board of Governors

Angela Johnson, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Section Chief of Internal Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Baton Rouge campus, has been elected Chair-Elect of the American College of Physicians (ACP) Board of Governors. More

Public Release Date: May 23, 2023

Study Results Validate a Rapid Diagnostic Test for Sepsis in the Emergency Department

Critical care physician Hollis O'Neal, MD, MSc, Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Baton Rouge campus, presented data that validate a rapid diagnostic test for sepsis at the American Thoracic Society 2023 International Conference. More

Public Release Date: May 19, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Graduates Nearly 900 New Health Professionals

Students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ six professional health schools graduated during its 149th Commencement on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena. Graduates included students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ Schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, Public Health, Graduate Studies, Dentistry and Medicine. More

Public Release Date: May 4, 2023

$1.4M Research Pipeline Grant Funds Increased Diversity of Biomedical Sciences Workforce

The National Institutes of Health has renewed a 5-year biomedical sciences research pipeline grant to LSU Health New Orleans. With the $1.4 million Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) grant awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, LSU Health New Orleans will enhance the diversity of the biomedical sciences research workforce. More

Public Release Date: May 3, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Joins AACR Project GENIE

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected LSU Health New Orleans as one of the participating institutions in Project GENIE (Genomics Evidence Neoplasia Information Exchange). Project GENIE is an international, open-source, pan-cancer registry of real-world clinical and genomic oncology data built by sharing clinical-grade sequencing and medical data gathered during routine medical care among its 22 participating leading international cancer centers. More

Public Release Date: April 3, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans LA Tumor Registry Releases 6th Census Tract Cancer Incidence Report

LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) has published the sixth report of statewide cancer incidence rates by census tract. The publication, which reports 2010-2019 combined cancer incidence data, found that 81% of the census tracts in Louisiana met publication criteria for all cancers combined. More

Public Release Date: March 21, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Study Suggests Interprofessional Team Training Could Prove Effective in AUD Prevention & Treatment

An LSU Health New Orleans study demonstrated the effectiveness of single, focused Interprofessional Education (IPE)-based exercises in preparing young health professions learners to limit or prevent alcohol use disorder (AUD). Students learned together as a foreshadowing of future interprofessional practice. This intervention produced significant decreases in the stigma associated with alcohol use, which is highly relevant for potential AUD patients. More

Public Release Date: March 17, 2023

80% of LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads Staying In-State Will Enter LSU Health Residency Programs

Match Day figures revealed that 80% of the graduating LSU Health New Orleans medical students staying in-state will enter an LSU Health residency program. Nearly 50% of the LSU Health New Orleans graduates chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training (49%, or 91 of 187 participating in the National Resident Match Program this year.) LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine residency programs in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles and Bogalusa will accept 219 new residents. More

Public Release Date: March 16, 2023

LSU Health’s Jernigan Named 2023 MASELA Medical Role Model

Dr. Amelia Jernigan, Division Chief of Gynecologic Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was selected by the Medical Association of Southeast Louisiana (MASELA) as its 2023 Medical Role Model. More

Public Release Date: March 7, 2023

Fragoso Joins LSU Health New Orleans

LSU Health New Orleans welcomes Jill Fragoso as its first Chief Human Resources Officer. In her role, she oversees all Human Resources functions including strategy, culture, talent acquisition and development, compensation, benefits and employee relations. More

Public Release Date: February 27, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Pain Protocol Eliminates Need for Opioids Following Knee Replacement in Most Patients

A study led by Vinod Dasa, MD, Professor of Orthopaedics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports that a novel surgical pain management strategy following total knee arthroplasty (TKA), or total knee replacement, provided pain relief without opioids. The researchers also found that changing prescriptions for opioids at discharge from automatic to upon request dramatically decreased opioid use. More

Public Release Date: February 24, 2023

Med Student Fundraiser to Keep LSU Health New Orleans’ Camp Tiger Free to Families

LSU Health New Orleans’ Camp Tiger Benefit Auction – the major fundraiser supporting the free, weeklong summer day camp for children with special needs in metropolitan New Orleans – is Friday, March 10, 2023, from 7 - 11 p.m., at Club XLIV- Champions Square in New Orleans (on Lasalle Street adjacent to the Caesars Superdome). More

Public Release Date: February 22, 2023

Center for Evidence to Practice Reducing Mental Health Crisis Burden on 1st Responders

By training behavioral health crisis response teams, the Center for Evidence to Practice is reducing the burden on police and emergency departments to care for people struggling with mental health and substance abuse crises. More

Public Release Date: February 13, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Named Top University Fulbright Scholar Producer

LSU Health New Orleans is one of only ten 2022-2023 Top Producers of Fulbright Scholars in the Special 4-Year Focus Institutions category. The U. S. State Department, in collaboration with the Institute of International Education, made the announcement Friday, February 10, 2023. More

Public Release Date: February 10, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans’ Porche Will Continue to Serve on Prestigious National Nursing Board

Demetrius Porche, PhD, DNS, APRN, PCC, ANEF, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, Dean and Professor at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been re-elected to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Board of Directors. More

Public Release Date: February 2, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans’ Jarreau 1 of Only 5 Awarded API Scholarships

The American Proficiency Institute (API) has awarded Alexandra Jarreau, a senior in the Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, a $2,000 scholarship. It is one of five awarded nationally. More

Public Release Date: January 25, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Welcomes New Dental School Dean

After a national search, Interim Chancellor Steve Nelson, MD, CM, appointed Angelo J. Mariotti, DDS, PhD, Dean of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry. Dr. Mariotti began his new role on January 3, 2023. More

Public Release Date: January 24, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans’ Manning to Lead National Clinical Nursing Association

Jennifer Manning, DNS, ACNS-BC, CNE, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Nursing Programs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists as President-Elect. More

Public Release Date: January 18, 2023

LSU Health New Orleans Physician Lead Investigator on Groundbreaking Sepsis Test

Sepsis is the No. 1 cause of death in hospitals and Louisiana leads the country with the highest rate of sepsis mortality, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More

Public Release Date: January 10, 2023

New England Journal of Medicine Podcast Features LSU Health’s Astronaut Dr. Serena Auñon-Chancellor

Serena Auñon-Chancellor, MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Baton Rouge campus, is one of two physician-NASA astronauts recently interviewed by the New England Journal of Medicine about aerospace medicine. More

Public Release Date: January 5, 2023

Ruffin and Blackman Join LSU Health New Orleans Leadership Team

Edwin Murray, JD, Vice Chancellor for Governmental, Community and Security Affairs at LSU Health New Orleans, has appointed Ceasar Ruffin, MPA, as Director of Campus Security, and Richard Blackman, III, as Chief of University Police. More

Public Release Date: December 16, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Honors December Graduates

One hundred twenty-one LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing students were presented their diplomas at a ceremony on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at the Frederick Sigur Center. More

Public Release Date: November 28, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Molina Nationally Honored for Distinguished Service

Patricia Molina, MD, PhD, Professor and Head of the Department of Physiology and Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the Association of Chairs of Departments of Physiology’s 2022 Distinguished Service Awardee. More

Public Release Date: November 28, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Smith Nationally Recognized for Educational Leadership

Dean G. Smith, PhD, Professor and Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, was selected as the recipient of the 2023 Gary L. Filerman Prize for Educational Leadership by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). More

Public Release Date: November 28, 2022

LCMC Health and LSU Partner for Nursing Scholars Program

Today, LSU Health New Orleans, the LSU Foundation, and LCMC Health announced a partnership to launch the LSU-LCMC Health Scholars Program for nursing students. The nursing program, which provides tuition and fees assistance, is available for eligible LSU nursing students who intend to pursue employment at LCMC Health. The inaugural application period is open for eligible LSU students from Nov. 28 through Dec. 9. After the first cycle, the application process will open again twice a year for the next five years. More

Public Release Date: November 18, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing Simulation Center Earns 5-Year Re-Accreditation

The Simulation Center of the Nursing Skills and Technology Center at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing was re-accredited through 2027 in Teaching/Education by the Society for Simulation in Healthcare. LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing was the first to be accredited in Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: November 14, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Study Reveals Economic Burden of Gun Violence

A study led by Christopher Marrero, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports that the net loss for treating acute firearm injuries at one Level I Trauma Center was $20.3 million over a four-year period. The results are published online in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. More

Public Release Date: November 7, 2022

Patent to be Issued to LSU Health New Orleans for Technology to Diagnose Life-Threatening Preemie Condition

US Patent 11,493,515 will be issued to LSU Health New Orleans on November 8, 2022, for a noninvasive test that more accurately diagnoses a potentially fatal condition in premature infants. Sunyoung Kim, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, led a research team that invented a diagnostic biomarker test for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) called NECDetect. More

Public Release Date: November 1, 2022

Southerland Assumes Chief Academic Officer Role at LSU Health New Orleans

LSU Health New Orleans welcomes Janet Southerland, DDS, MPH, PhD, as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. She joins LSU Health’s leadership from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where she was Vice President for Interprofessional Education, Institutional Effectiveness and Health Education, a professor in the Department of Nutrition Metabolism and Rehabilitative Sciences and a clinical professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. More

Public Release Date: October 28, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Nurses Among Great 100 Nurses

Seven members of the faculty of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing were among those honored in 2022 by The Great 100 Nurses Foundation. More

Public Release Date: October 17, 2022

LSU Health Research Finds New Drug Target for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Research led by Dr. Suresh Alahari, Professor of Biochemistry at LSU Health New Orleans’ Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, reports a combination of a novel small inhibitory molecule and an FDA-approved chemotherapy drug suppresses the growth of triple-negative breast cancer cells synergistically. More

Public Release Date: October 14, 2022

Landmark Study Finds Antisepsis Agents Interchangeable in Reducing Infection Risk in Open Fracture Surgeries

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Orthopaedics faculty at LSU Health New Orleans participated in a study comparing two antisepsis aqueous solutions in reducing the risk of infection in patients requiring surgery for open fractures. In the largest known randomized-controlled trial, the research team found that contrary to current international recommendations, chlorhexidine gluconate was not superior to povidone-iodine in an alcohol or aqueous solution in preventing surgical site infection. More

Public Release Date: October 13, 2022

National Leader in Pediatric Health Care, Dr. Dedrick Moulton, Returns to New Orleans to Lead Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans and Serve as Pediatrician-In-Chief at Children’s Hospital New Orleans

Dedrick Moulton, MD, has been named Head of the Department of Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and Pediatrician-in-Chief at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Dr. Moulton previously led the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Section and Fellowship Program and served as Vice-Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in LSU Health New Orleans’ Department of Pediatrics. He was also the Gastroenterology Service Line Chief at Children’s Hospital New Orleans and Director of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program. More

Public Release Date: October 11, 2022

STTR Award to LSU Health New Orleans Spin-Out Company to Develop New Class of Anticancer Drugs for Glioblastoma

The National Cancer Institute has awarded WayPath Pharma, a spin-out company based on LSU Health New Orleans research, a $225,000 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) award. Included in the award is a $127,024 subcontract to LSU Health New Orleans. The funding will advance the development of a new class of anticancer drugs for glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer for which there are currently only limited treatment options. More

Public Release Date: October 7, 2022

$3M Award to LSU Health New Orleans Will Address Nursing Shortage and Improve Health Equity in Rural and Medically Underserved Areas

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been awarded nearly $3 million to create a program to improve health equity and care in rural and medically underserved communities in Region 6 (Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.) It is one of only ten such awards granted by the Health Resources and Services Administration of the US Department of Health and Human Services. More

Public Release Date: October 5, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Awarded $4.6m to Help Develop Burn Care Education & Training for Military and Civilian Disasters

The Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium, in collaboration with the US Army Medical Research and Development Command, has awarded LSU Health New Orleans $4.6 million over three years to develop education and training to improve burn injury care in military conflicts and civilian disasters before the patients reach a hospital. More

Public Release Date: September 27, 2022

NCI NCORP-designated LSU Health New Orleans and ConcertAI Advance Multi-Year Collaboration Addressing Diversity in Clinical Trials

The National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCI NCORP)-designated Louisiana State University (LSU) Health New Orleans and ConcertAI, LLC (ConcertAI) announced a five-year partnership to improve the diversity of clinical trials and ensure broader clinical trial access throughout the Gulf South region. More

Public Release Date: September 2, 2022

LSU Health’s LA Tumor Registry Publishes Latest Statewide Cancer Incidence, Mortality & Survival Info

LSU Health New Orleans’ Louisiana Tumor Registry has published the latest volume in its annual Cancer in Louisiana monograph series. Cancer in Louisiana, Volume 37, 2015 – 2019, documents cancer incidence and mortality from 2015 to 2019 in Louisiana, as well as incidence and mortality trends from 1988 to 2019. It also includes survival statistics for cases diagnosed from 2008 to 2018 and followed into 2019, as well as prevalence for cancer cases diagnosed from January 1, 2000, to January 1, 2019. More

Public Release Date: September 2, 2022

Applications Open for Only Nurse-Midwifery Program in Louisiana

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is accepting applications for its Nurse-Midwifery Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. The only nurse-midwifery program in the state, it has been pre-accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Midwifery Education (ACME) to begin admitting students in 2023. More

Public Release Date: August 30, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Ali Appointed to LA State Board of Medical Examiners

Governor John Bel Edwards has appointed Dr. Juzar Ali, Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, to the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners. The Board works to protect and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Louisiana through licensing, regulation, research, and discipline of physicians and allied health professionals. More

Public Release Date: August 29, 2022

NCI Awards LSU Health’s Ochoa Most Prestigious Honor for His Leadership & Contributions to Community-Based Cancer Clinical Trials

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) chose LSU Health New Orleans’ Augusto Ochoa, MD, as the 2022 recipient of its most prestigious award honoring excellence in community-based cancer research. Dr. Ochoa received the Harry Hynes Award for Outstanding Contributions to Clinical Trials and Community Research on August 25, 2022, during the NCORP (NCI Community Oncology Research Program) Annual Meeting. More

Public Release Date: August 29, 2022

Study Reports Blocking Key Enzyme Boosts Anti-Cancer T-Cell Responses and Resistance to Immunosuppression

A study led by LSU Health New Orleans cancer researchers describes a novel therapeutic strategy to overcome tumor-induced immunosuppression. For the first time, the research team identified a critical immunosuppressive pathway and a promising approach to intervene, protecting the ability of T-cells to attack cancer cells. Results are published in Frontiers in Immunology. More

Public Release Date: August 22, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Springgate Named Health & Aging Policy Fellow

Benjamin Springgate, MD MPH, Chief of Community & Population Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of 14 members of the 2022 Class of Health and Aging Policy Fellows at the Columbia University-based national program and the only Fellow from Louisiana. The one-year fellowship provides a unique opportunity for professionals in health and aging to work with offices in Congress, the Executive branch, or a non-government organization (NGO) to gain expertise in health and aging policy issues. More

Public Release Date: August 10, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Bonanno Named AAN Fellow

Laura S. Bonanno, PhD, DNP, CRNA, Professor of Nursing and Director of the Nurse Anesthesia Program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She is the only nurse leader from Louisiana who will be inducted in the 2022 Class of Fellows. More

Public Release Date: August 9, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Discovers Major Contributor to Alzheimer’s Disease

Research led by Drs. Yuhai Zhao and Walter J Lukiw at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center and the Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Neurology and Ophthalmology, reports for the first time a pathway that begins in the gut and ends with a potent pro-inflammatory toxin in brain cells contributing to the development of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). They also report a simple way to prevent it. More

Public Release Date: August 8, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Expands Nursing Education to North Louisiana

Starting in January 2023, LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Nursing will educate students in three accelerated nursing programs in North Louisiana at its newly approved Off-Campus Instructional Site located on the LSU Health Shreveport campus. Courses will be delivered through a combination of in-person instruction and synchronous distance education, where students in Shreveport will virtually join classes going on at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing. LSU Shreveport and LSU Health Shreveport faculty will also teach some basic science courses. More

Public Release Date: August 3, 2022

LSU Health Hosts Special Monkeypox Education Event Friday

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine will host a special Grand Rounds with the latest and detailed information about monkeypox, declared a Global Public Health Emergency. Monkeypox: What we know…. What we need to know is scheduled for Friday, August 5, 2022, from 12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m. on LSU Health New Orleans’ downtown campus in the first-floor Lecture Room A of the Medical Education Building, 1901 Perdido Street. More

Public Release Date: July 26, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Analysis Highlights Importance of Including Demographic Data in Human Research Papers to Reduce Health Disparities

In the current issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, the editors cite an LSU Health New Orleans study reporting that race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status were infrequently reported and analyzed within articles published in top orthopaedic journals. They thanked the LSU Health authors for “shining a light on this important issue.” More

Public Release Date: July 25, 2022

James Miller Memorial Health Fair & Blood Drive to Honor Young Man’s Tradition of Giving Back

LSU Health New Orleans, Tulane University and The Blood Center will hold the James Miller Memorial Health Fair and Blood Drive on Saturday, July 30, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Audubon Tea Room., 6500 Magazine Street, New Orleans. The event honors the August 1 birthday and the legacy of community service of an exceptional young man who went missing and was presumed drowned while vacationing with his family in November 2021. More

Public Release Date: July 14, 2022

Study Finds Treating Precancerous Growths in People with HIV Reduces Anal Cancer by More Than Half

A team of researchers, including LSU Health New Orleans Infectious Diseases and Microbiology professor Michael Hagensee, MD, PhD, has shown for the first time that treating precancerous anal growths called high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) in persons living with HIV significantly decreased the progression to anal cancer. Results are published in the New England Journal of Medicine. More

Public Release Date: July 12, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Develops New Human Cell Line to Study Blinding Eye Disorders

Under the direction of Boyd Professor Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, scientists at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence have developed a new, experimental human cell line from retinal pigment epithelial cells. Called ABC, these cells so closely resemble and retain the properties of native retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells, the research team has shown that they are a reliable cell system to study retinal degenerative diseases. More

Public Release Date: July 11, 2022

LSU Health’s Human Development Center Helps Families with Young Children Who Need Assistance Covering the High Cost of Quality Child Care

The Early Head Start Child Care Partnership at LSU Health New Orleans’ Human Development Center is offering scholarships for early child care to qualified applicants. The Partnership supports Early Head Start programs in the Greater New Orleans area. More

Public Release Date: July 5, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Precision Medicine Lab Finds New Omicron Subvariants

LSU Health New Orleans’ Precision Medicine Lab has found two new SARS-CoV-2 variants in Louisiana. BE.1 and BF.1 are subvariants of the Omicron Variant of Concern that has driven the latest surge. The Lab identified three cases of BE.1 and one case of BF.1 in tests performed at the end of June. More

Public Release Date: July 5, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Earns Highest WellSpot Designation

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has designated LSU Health New Orleans as a Level 1 WellSpot through its Well-Ahead Program. Level 1 is the highest designation given. More

Public Release Date: June 29, 2022

LSU Health Research Suggests Novel Combination Therapy for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry at LSU Health New Orleans schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, suggests a combination of drugs already approved by the FDA for other cancers may be effective in treating chemo-resistant triple-negative breast cancer. More

Public Release Date: June 28, 2022

LSU Health’s Cohen-Rosenblum 1st Female British Hip Society Traveling Fellow

Anna Cohen-Rosenblum, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the first female to be awarded the prestigious The Hip Society-British Hip Society Traveling Fellowship. More

Public Release Date: June 27, 2022

Dr. Valentine N. Nfonsam Named LSU Health New Orleans Surgery Chair

Dr. Richard DiCarlo, Interim Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has named Valentine N. Nfonsam, MD, MS, FACS, FASCRS, Department Head for Surgery. He will also serve as the Surgical Quality Officer for University Medical Center. He is expected to start in the fall. More

Public Release Date: June 14, 2022

LSU Health’s Weiss Named to FDA Ophthalmic Devices Panel

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has appointed Jayne S. Weiss, MD, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, as a Voting Member of the Ophthalmic Devices Panel in the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. She will serve a three-year term. More

Public Release Date: June 6, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing School Ranked #10 in U.S.

Nursing Schools Almanac has just released its 2022 rankings of the best U.S. nursing schools. LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is ranked the #10 nursing school in the U.S. and the #5 nursing school among public nursing schools. More

Public Release Date: June 3, 2022

LSU Health Study Shows Promise of NB-UVB Phototherapy in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

A randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study led by Frank Lau, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy is safe and decreased death in a small group of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: May 30, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Banajee Named ASHA Fellow

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has named Meher Banajee, PhD, CCC-SLP, Associate Professor of Communication Disorders and Program Director of the Speech-Language Pathology Program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, an ASHA Fellow. More

Public Release Date: May 27, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Psychiatry Develops Free Resource for Parents

The Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has created a free resource for parents to help their children process school shootings. While numerous sources exist, they aren’t as comprehensive as this resource that offers detailed guidance all in one place. More

Public Release Date: May 23, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Graduates Enter Health Care Workforce

Students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ six professional health schools graduated during its 148th Commencement on Thursday, May 19, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena. Graduates included students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ Schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, Public Health, Graduate Studies, Dentistry and Medicine. More

Public Release Date: May 9, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Frazier Installed as American Counseling Association President

Kimberly Frazier, PhD, LPC, LMFT, NCC, Associate Professor of Counseling at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, was sworn in as President of the American Counseling Association (ACA) during ACA Conference & Expo 2022. She will serve a one-year term as the 71st president of the ACA begnning July 1, 2022. More

Public Release Date: May 6, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ England Elected to Lead AUPN

John England, MD, FAAN, Professor and Chair of Neurology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been elected President-Elect of the Association of University Professors of Neurology (AUPN). His two-year term begins in July. He will then serve as President from July 2024 – June 2026. More

Public Release Date: May 4, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Faculty Invited to Present at Cancer Moonshot Community Conversation

Dr. Augusto Ochoa, Deputy Director of the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center and Chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Xiao-Cheng Wu, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Louisiana Tumor Registry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, were invited panelists for the Cancer Moonshot Community Conversation held on May 4, 2022. More

Public Release Date: April 27, 2022

LSU Health Cancer Center Funded to Enhance Research Capacity at Tanzania’s Major Cancer Institute

LSU Health New Orleans’ Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center has been awarded $1.5 million over five years to increase the number of trained cancer researchers in Tanzania and prepare them for the future of HIV-associated cancer diagnostics and research in cancer genomics and therapy. It will support the development of the Tanzania AIDS Malignancies Training and Research Program at the Ocean Road Center Cancer Institute (ORCI), the major cancer research institution in Tanzania. More

Public Release Date: April 21, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Bazan Named to Ophthalmologist’s 2022 Power List

Haydee E. P. Bazan, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been named to the Ophthalmologist Power List 2022. According to the magazine, the list features “the Top 100 most influential people in the world of ophthalmology” and includes “genuine giants of clinical practice and vision research – and each one was nominated by you and then plucked from the long list of 450 names by our international panel of 20 judges.” More

Public Release Date: April 19, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans’ Zabaleta Awarded Fulbright Foreign Scholarship

The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FFSB) has awarded Jovanny Zabaleta, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, a Fulbright Award to Colombia in academic year 2022-2023. More

Public Release Date: April 14, 2022

Lancet Journal Commentary Cites Significance of LSU Health New Orleans Obesity-Cancer Research

A recent LSU Health New Orleans study is the subject of a commentary published in eBioMedicine, a premium translational biomedical research journal of The Lancet. The LSU Health New Orleans research found that low-density neutrophils may represent a novel immunological link to explain how obesity establishes a chronic inflammatory condition that promotes coexisting diseases, including cancer. It also confirmed and translated pre-clinical findings to human patients. More

Public Release Date: April 13, 2022

NCI Recognizes LSU Health New Orleans Among the Top 5 Community Sites for Cancer Clinical Trial Participants

The National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Prevention recognized LSU Health New Orleans’ NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) as a top 5 site for accruing participants into Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) clinical trials. The recognition came at the SWOG Spring 2022 Consortium held on April 11, 2022. More

Public Release Date: April 11, 2022

Proof-of-Concept Demonstration Recommends Continuous Air Monitoring & Other Precautionary Practices in St. John Parish

A small monitoring demonstration around the Denka facility in St. John the Baptist Parish conducted by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health reports detectable chloroprene in two air samples and metabolites indicating exposure to volatile organic compounds in most urine samples, even when the plant was not operating. More

Public Release Date: April 6, 2022

Study Reports Potential Target and Compounds to Slow the Development of Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence and Karolinska Institutet have discovered a potential biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis that may also serve as a therapeutic target. Examining cerebrospinal fluid samples from patients with cognitive impairment ranging from subjective impairment to a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, they found a shift in the profile of specialized lipid mediators from pro-resolving to pro-inflammatory. The results of the exploratory study are published in the Springer journal, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology. More

Public Release Date: April 1, 2022

National Kidney Foundation Inducts LSU Health’s Rivera as Fellow

Sherry Rivera, DNP, APRN, ANP-C, Assistant Professor at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been inducted as a Fellow of the National Kidney Foundation and will be recognized in April at the Spring Clinical Meeting 2022 in Boston. The National Kidney Foundation recognizes health care providers who serve the organization through professional, educational, and community service activities promoting the mission of the National Kidney Foundation. More

Public Release Date: March 31, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans LA Tumor Registry Releases 5th Census Tract Cancer Incidence Report

LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) has published the fifth report of statewide cancer incidence rates by census tract. The publication, which reports 2009-2018 combined cancer incidence data, found that 81% of the census tracts in Louisiana met publication criteria for all cancers combined. For specific cancer types, fewer census tracts met the criteria. For the Louisiana census tracts meeting the criteria, the incidence rates for all cancers combined and for specific cancer types were compared with the corresponding rates for the entire state. More

Public Release Date: March 28, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health Releases New Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan

Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan 2022-2027, just released by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health marks several firsts. For the first time, the plan is only online, which permits continual updating and allows access from anywhere. The strategies are now all in one place, and the goals and objectives are easily found, comprising Chapter 1. The plan, based on the latest available data and evidence-based practices, for the first time also contains guidance to put the plan into action in the “What You Can Do Section.” More

Public Release Date: March 25, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Study Reports Majority of Patients Recover from Knee Replacement Without Opioids

A retrospective case series study led by Dr. Vinod Dasa, Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports that more than two-thirds of the patients who underwent total knee replacement did not need opioids for postoperative pain. Results are published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Experience & Innovation. More

Public Release Date: March 21, 2022

Study Shows That Intranasal Rx Halts Memory Decay in Experimental Alzheimer’s Model

A research collaboration between scientists at LSU Health New Orleans and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has found that applying specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators intranasally arrested memory loss and brain degeneration in an experimental model of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The results are published in the Nature journal, Communications Biology. More

Public Release Date: March 18, 2022

Almost All LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads Staying In-State Will Enter LSU Health Residency Programs

Match Day figures revealed that eighty-six percent of the graduating LSU Health New Orleans medical students who are staying in-state will enter an LSU Health residency program. Nearly 50% of the LSU Health New Orleans graduates chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training (forty-eight percent, or 84 of 174 participating in the National Resident Match Program this year.) LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine residency programs in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Lake Charles and Bogalusa will accept 222 new residents. More

Public Release Date: March 15, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans & Xavier Partner on Medical School Early Acceptance Program

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine will begin reviewing applications recommended by Xavier University of Louisiana for early acceptance into medical school through a new program launched this year. At the time of conditional acceptance, LSU Health New Orleans will provide students who commit the opportunity to receive a conditional full four-year scholarship. More

Public Release Date: March 8, 2022

LSU Health Med Student Fundraiser to Keep Camp Tiger Free for Families

The Camp Tiger Benefit Auction – the major fundraiser supporting the free, weeklong summer day camp for children with special needs -- will be a 24-hour online silent auction on Friday, March 11, 2022. Camp Tiger is planned, organized, staffed, and funded by the efforts of first-year students at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. All proceeds go directly to running Camp Tiger, so it remains free to campers and their families. More

Public Release Date: March 7, 2022

Free Head and Neck Cancer Screening to Help Save Lives

Led by Dr. Rohan Walvekar, a Head and Neck Surgeon at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, LSU Health New Orleans ENT faculty and medical students will conduct a free community head and neck cancer screening on Sunday, March 13, 2022, from 1:00 - 4:00 p.m., at Broadmoor Community Church, 2021 South Dupre Street, New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: February 17, 2022

LSU Health Study to Measure Health Impact of Food Insecurity Intervention Program

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has awarded Dr. Tiffany Wesley Ardoin, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at its Baton Rouge branch campus, a Research Enhancement Program grant to investigate the outcomes of an intervention program addressing food insecurity. The FISH (Food Insecurity and Its Sequelae on Health) Study will measure the effects of the Geaux Get Healthy Program on health. More

Public Release Date: February 16, 2022

Study Suggests Epigenetic Treatment May Prevent Memory Loss in Vascular Dementia

An LSU Health New Orleans research team working in a mouse model of vascular cognitive impairment (VCI) has found that repetitive exposure to environmental hypoxia (air with lower-than-normal oxygen content) prevented memory loss. They also demonstrated for the first time that offspring can inherit this protection against dementia. More

Public Release Date: February 11, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Opens Clinical Trial Studying Liquid Aspirin for Early COVID-19

LSU Health New Orleans is recruiting up to 200 participants recently diagnosed with COVID-19 to a proof-of-concept clinical trial to test whether early outpatient treatment with liquid aspirin can reduce hospitalization rates. This liquid aspirin formulation is currently not FDA-approved in the United States. More

Public Release Date: February 4, 2022

Al Copeland Foundation and LSU Health New Orleans Expand Partnership

In honor of World Cancer Day and National Cancer Prevention Month, the Al Copeland Foundation announces the donation of $400,000 to LSU Health Foundation New Orleans and a commitment of $2 million over the next ten years to support the Al Copeland Foundation and LSU Health New Orleans Cancer Partnership Network. The Network, an innovative, robust cancer program that will benefit patients with cancer in Louisiana and the Gulf States Region, expands the partnership that began more than a decade ago. More

Public Release Date: January 24, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans to Help Develop Personalized Nutritional Approaches to Improve Health

LSU Health New Orleans scientists will participate in a $170 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) study to develop algorithms to predict individual responses to food and dietary routines. More

Public Release Date: January 21, 2022

LSU Health New Orleans Precision Medicine Lab Earns CAP Accreditation

The Precision Medicine Laboratory at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has been fully accredited by the College of American Pathologists. More

Public Release Date: December 10, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Presents Diplomas to New Members of the Health Care Professions

One hundred twenty-seven LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing students were presented their diplomas at a ceremony on Thursday, December 16, 2021, at the Frederick Sigur Center. More

Public Release Date: December 10, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Precision Medicine Lab Finds Omicron Variant

Among the 567 new COVID-19 cases reported today in Louisiana are two confirmed cases of the Omicron variant from the New Orleans area found by the LSU Health New Orleans’ Precision Medicine Laboratory. Directed by Lucio Miele, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, along with Dr. Gordon Love, Professor and Chair of Pathology, the lab sequences samples from positive tests to learn what strains of the virus that causes COVID-19 are infecting patients here. More

Public Release Date: December 9, 2021

LSU Health Contributes to Research Suggesting Late-Onset Retinal Degeneration Mechanism & Potential Rx

A study led by the National Eye Institute (NEI) that included five researchers from the Bazan Lab at the LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence has discovered how late-onset retinal degeneration can develop and a surprising potential therapeutic -- metformin. The results are published online in Communications Biology, a Nature journal. More

Public Release Date: December 9, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans and Takeda Collaborate to Advance Novel Research for Rare Neurological Disorders

LSU Health New Orleans entered into an exclusive option and license agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) granting Takeda the exclusive right to develop further a technology invented at LSU Health New Orleans with the aim to discover potential therapeutics to treat rare neurological diseases caused by DNA repeat expansion. More

Public Release Date: December 8, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Discovery Deemed Cancer Research Landmark

A publication detailing a research breakthrough by faculty at LSU Health New Orleans’ Cancer Center has just been selected as one of 24 Cancer Research Landmarks Papers. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the National Cancer Act, the American Association for Cancer Research created the Cancer Research Landmarks series. The series highlights pivotal National Cancer Institute-funded basic, translational, and clinical studies published in Cancer Research over the last 50 years, with commentaries reflecting on how these discoveries impacted the trajectory of the field. More

Public Release Date: December 7, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Study Finds Dramatic Drop in Opioid Rx After State Legislation Enacted

A study led by Dr. Peter Krause, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports a nearly 70% drop in morphine milligram equivalent (MME) per discharge opioid prescriptions for patients who had common lower extremity surgical procedures after state laws to reduce opioid abuse were enacted in Louisiana in 2017. Patients receiving at least one new opioid prescription after their discharge also sharply declined from 2013 to 2018. More

Public Release Date: December 3, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Review Reveals Alarming Increase in Physician Burnout

A review co-authored by Dr. Bradley Spieler, Vice-Chair of Scholarly Activity and Research in the Department of Radiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Neil Baum, of Tulane’s Department of Urology, reports that although burnout affects more than 50% of health care workers, diagnostic radiologists are at even higher risk. More

Public Release Date: November 29, 2021

LSU Health’s Human Development Center and Clara’s Little Lambs to Hold Community Health Information and Resource Fair

LSU Health New Orleans’ Human Development Center (HDC) is partnering with Clara’s Little Lambs on a Community Health Information and Resource Fair, Saturday, December 4, 2021, from 9:00 – 11:30 a.m. at Clara’s Little Lambs Federal City, 775 Hunley Lane in New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: November 8, 2021

LSU Health Rediscovers Anatomy to Correct “Common Knowledge” about Hip Muscles

LSU Health New Orleans anatomists and their colleagues have shown that centuries-old knowledge about the musculature that assists with human walking and running was correct after all. Though the information was known many years earlier, Henry Gray’s detailed studies of the human thigh in the 1858 Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical identified the iliopsoas, the most powerful hip flexor, as two separate and distinct muscles. More

Public Release Date: November 1, 2021

LSU Health School of Nursing 1st Fellowship Program Selected by National Learning Collaborative to Improve Care for Medically Underserved

The Nurse Practitioner (NP) Fellowship Program created by LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is the first nursing program selected by the National Health Center Training and Technical Assistance Partners to participate in the Postgraduate Nurse Practitioner Fellowship and Residency Programs Learning Collaborative. More

Public Release Date: October 29, 2021

LSU Health’s Osofsky Presented Lifetime Achievement Award by ZERO to THREE

ZERO to THREE, the nation’s leading early childhood development nonprofit dedicated to ensuring all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life, presented one of two Lifetime Achievement Awards to Joy Osofsky, PhD, Paul J. Ramsay Endowed Chair of Psychiatry and Barbara Lemann Professor of Child Welfare at LSU Health New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: October 20, 2021

LSU Health’s Taylor Appointed to NIH Advisory Council

Anthony Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, welcomed Stephanie Taylor, MD, professor of medicine and microbiology in the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, as one of two new members of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Council at her first Council meeting. She is the only NIAID Council member from Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: October 14, 2021

LSU Health Spinout Awarded $2.1M to Advance Test that Better Diagnoses Deadly Preemie Disease

Chosen Diagnostics Inc, a woman-owned spinout company based on an LSU Health New Orleans research breakthrough, has been awarded a $2.1M Phase 2 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the National Institutes of Health. The non-dilutive NIH award will advance the development and commercialization of a noninvasive diagnostic biomarker test for necrotizing enterocolitis called NECDetect invented by Sunyoung Kim, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine. More

Public Release Date: October 12, 2021

LSU Health Funded to Support Community Health Workers for Pandemic Response

LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded $2,314,161 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of Minority Health to support community health workers in New Orleans, throughout Louisiana and nationally. The funding will provide the knowledge and skills to support the COVID-19 public health response and move toward health equity. More

Public Release Date: October 11, 2021

LSU Health Participation in TMIST Seeks Answers about Best Breast Cancer Screening

The Gulf South National Cancer Institute (NCI) Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP), led by LSU Health New Orleans with its partner institutions Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner, has enrolled nearly 2,000 women in a breast cancer screening trial that will help determine the best ways to find breast cancer in women who have no symptoms. Under the direction of the principal investigator Augusto Ochoa, MD, at the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, LSU Health New Orleans has enrolled more than 900 participants at University Medical Center, with more than 200 at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and more than 600 at LSU Health Shreveport. More

Public Release Date: October 6, 2021

LSU Health’s Lazartigues Receives NIH Director's Transformative Research Award

Eric Lazartigues, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology & Neuroscience at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded one of 19 NIH Director’s 2021 Transformative Research Awards. It is among 106 grants the National Institutes of Health awarded this year to support highly innovative and broadly impactful biomedical or behavioral research by exceptionally creative scientists through the Common Fund’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. More

Public Release Date: September 30, 2021

New Rx Combination Inhibited Glioblastoma Multiforme Tumor Growth

A study led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, reports that in an experimental model of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a combination of approved and novel therapeutics improved survival and reduced tumor volume and growth. More

Public Release Date: September 21, 2021

Latest Cancer in LA Volume Contains New Incidence & Mortality Tables for Industrial Corridor

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health’s Louisiana Tumor Registry has published the latest report on cancer incidence and mortality in Louisiana – Cancer in Louisiana 2014-2018 (Volume 36). More

Public Release Date: September 17, 2021

LSU Health’s Alahari Elected as 1 of 14 ASCB 2021 Fellows

Suresh Alahari, PhD, FASCB, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of only 14 Fellows of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) for 2021, and the only one from Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: September 16, 2021

LSU Health COVID-19 Papers Featured in Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society

The current issue of the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society includes two papers by LSU Health New Orleans authors. The first, “An Internal Medicine Residency Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Louisiana,” describes the response of LSU Health New Orleans’ Internal Medicine Residency Program in its three teaching hospitals in metro New Orleans. The second, “The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Undergraduate Medical Education Experience at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans,” describes the impact of COVID-19 on medical education. More

Public Release Date: September 15, 2021

When the Lights Went Out: A Story About Hurricane Ida

Three LSU Health New Orleans licensed professional counselors and registered play therapists have created a new book to help children cope with the experience and aftermath of Hurricane Ida. A couple of very talented children, Susanna (age 8) and Ellie (age 6) Frischhertz, drew the illustrations. The authors have made it available to teachers, parents and caregivers at no charge. More

Public Release Date: August 23, 2021

Patent Issued for LSU Health & LSU Invented Tracking Surgical Headlight/Camera System

US Patent 11,085,611 has been issued for a medical device that sheds new light on surgical procedures. Rohan Walvekar, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Jin-Woo Choi, PhD, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, invented a surgical headlight that automatically tracks to the surgical field of interest with a positional indicator, eliminating the need to manually adjust the headlamp when it has moved out of position. More

Public Release Date: August 9, 2021

$1.4 Million Grant to LSU Health Nursing School Will Expand Access to SANEs

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been awarded $1.4 million over three years to increase the number of trained and certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) in rural and underserved communities in Louisiana. The grant, awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration, will continue the work that began three years ago. Alison Davis, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE, Director of the Nursing Skills and Technology Center and Nurse Educator Concentration, is the project director. More

Public Release Date: July 26, 2021

UCP & LSU Health Dental School Partner to Care for Children and Adults with Special Needs

United Cerebral Palsy of Greater New Orleans has donated $100,000 to support education, patient care and community outreach at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, benefiting children and adults with special needs. More

Public Release Date: June 30, 2021

LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Graduation Increases Louisiana Health Care Workforce

Ashley Smith, LSU Health medical graduate

In keeping with COVID-19 restrictions, students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ six professional health schools were honored in separate school ceremonies during May and June 2021. Graduates included students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ Schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, Public Health, Graduate Studies, Dentistry and Medicine. More

Public Release Date: June 25, 2021

1st Delta Variant Case Confirmed in Area

The Precision Medicine Lab at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has identified the first Delta variant COVID case in Region 1 of Louisiana, which includes the New Orleans metropolitan area. More

Public Release Date: June 23, 2021

LSU Health’s Millet Tapped for National COVID Vaccination Initiative

Clair Millet, DNP, APRN, PHCNS-BC, Director, Faculty Development, Continuing Nursing Education & Entrepreneurial Enterprise at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been appointed to the Nurse-Led Vaccine Confidence Advisory Committee of the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium. More

Public Release Date: June 22, 2021

Study Provides MIS-C Treatment Guidance

An analysis conducted by a group of investigators including Tamara Bradford, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found that children and adolescents with Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) initially treated with intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) plus glucocorticoids had a lower risk of new or persistent cardiovascular dysfunction than IVIG alone. More

Public Release Date: June 17, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans’ Frazier to Lead American Counseling Association

Kimberly Frazier, PhD, LPC, LMFT, NCC, Associate Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation and Counseling at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, has been elected President-Elect of the American Counseling Association (ACA). More

Public Release Date: June 14, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing Awarded $1.25M for Mental Health for Underserved

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing a $1.25 million grant over five years to improve access to mental and behavioral health care. The funding will increase the number of psychiatric mental health nurse practitioners integrated into primary care settings and improve education and training for primary care nurse practitioners who encounter patients with mental and behavioral health needs. More

Public Release Date: June 11, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Awarded $2.38M to Sequence COVID-19 Virus Variants

LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded $2.38 million in funding to lead partnerships to sequence SARS-CoV-2 variants. The funding is from a contract with the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH)) and a National Institute of General Medical Sciences supplement to the LACaTS (Louisiana Clinical & Translational Science Center) grant. More

Public Release Date: June 10, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Study Reports Compound Blocks SARS-CoV-2 and Protects Lung Cells

Research conducted at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence reports that Elovanoids, bioactive chemical messengers made from omega-3 very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids discovered by the Bazan lab in 2017, may block the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering cells and protect the air cells (alveoli) of the lung. More

Public Release Date: June 9, 2021

Stewart to Lead LSU Health/LCMC Health Cancer Center

Steve Nelson, MD, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Greg Feirn, Chief Executive Officer of LCMC Health, have appointed John H. Stewart, IV, MD, MBA, FACS, as Center Director of the LSU Health New Orleans/LCMC Health Cancer Center. He will also join the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine faculty as a professor of surgery. More

Public Release Date: May 27, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Describes a Causal Mechanism of Link Between Cancer and Obesity

A review study led by Maria D. Sanchez-Pino, PhD, an assistant research professor in the departments of Interdisciplinary Oncology and Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Medicine and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, advances knowledge about the connection between obesity-associated inflammation and cancer. More

Public Release Date: May 13, 2021

Study Finds Mechanism Leading to Herceptin Resistance and Rx Approach to Reverse It

Research conducted by an international team of scientists discovered a mechanism that leads to Herceptin resistance, representing a significant clinical obstacle to successfully treating HER2-positive breast cancer. They also identified a new approach to potentially overcome it. More

Public Release Date: April 29, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Hematology-Oncology Fellow Nationally Recognized for Scientific Merit

The foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) – Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, has named Aneesha Ananthula, MD, a Hematology-Oncology Fellow at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, one of 164 recipients of the Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, 2021 ASCO Annual Meeting Merit Awards. More

Public Release Date: April 19, 2021

LSU Health COVID Vaccination Clinic Taking Walk-Ins Wednesday

LSU Health New Orleans’ COVID Vaccination Clinic on the first floor of 2020 Gravier Street is accepting walk-ins Wednesday, April 21, 2021, from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. for the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Appointments will not be necessary. LSU Health New Orleans can vaccinate individuals 16 years of age and older. More

Public Release Date: April 12, 2021

Study Identifies Specific Antioxidants that May Reduce Oncogenic HPV Infection in Women

A study led by Hui-Yi Lin, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, and a team of researchers at LSU Health New Orleans Schools of Public Health and Medicine has found that adequate levels of five antioxidants may reduce infection with the strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) associated with cervical cancer development. More

Public Release Date: April 6, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Study Discovers Source of Zika Neurodevelopmental Defects

A study led by Edward Wojcik, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, identified how microcephaly (abnormally small heads) and blindness may develop in Zika-infected fetuses, as well as a new way to potentially prevent these neurodevelopmental defects. More

Public Release Date: March 31, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans LA Tumor Registry Releases 4th Census Tract Cancer Incidence Report

LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) has published the fourth report of statewide cancer incidence rates by census tract. The publication, which reports 2008-2017 combined cancer incidence data, found that 81% of the census tracts in Louisiana met publication criteria for all cancers combined. More

Public Release Date: March 29, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Taking COVID-19 Vaccination Appointments

Members of the public can now make appointments to get COVID-19 vaccinations at LSU Health New Orleans. Walk-ins are not permitted. Appointments can be made online. More

Public Release Date: March 19, 2021

Most LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads To Remain In-State

Fifty-six percent, or 98 of 175 LSU Health New Orleans graduating medical students participating in the National Resident Match Program this year, chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training. Seventy-eight percent of those staying in-state will enter an LSU Health residency program. More

Public Release Date: March 3, 2021

$1M Grant Funds Research on Potential New Rx for Prostate Cancer

The Biomedical Laboratory Research and Development Branch of the Veterans Administration (VA) has awarded Hari Koul, PhD, Professor and Interim Chairman of the Department Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, $1,056,317 in research funding over four years to help find new treatments for prostate cancer. More

Public Release Date: March 1, 2021

Cancer Reporting in St. John Parish Findings Validate Louisiana Tumor Registry Data

A project to verify the completeness of cancer incidence data in St. John the Baptist Parish found no reportable cancers that were not part of Louisiana Tumor Registry data. More

Public Release Date: February 25, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing Faculty Elected to State and National Leadership Posts

Demetrius J. Porche, DNS, PhD, ANEF, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, professor and dean of the School of Nursing at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. More

Public Release Date: February 24, 2021

Study Identifies Strengths and Challenges of Responding to Dual Disasters

A new study of how the 2020 major hurricanes and the COVID-19 pandemic affected each other as well as disaster response found that although prior experience enabled community-based organizations to respond to the pandemic, the pandemic is also creating new challenges to preparing for and responding to natural disasters. More

Public Release Date: February 23, 2021

LSU Health New Orleans Study Finds Disadvantaged Census Tracts Linked to COVID Incidence

A study by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, believed to be the first study to investigate the role of neighborhood deprivation on COVID-19 in Louisiana, found that the more a neighborhood is deprived, the higher the risk for cases of COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: February 19, 2021

LSU Health Study Finds Psychosocial Factors May Drive Peritoneal Dialysis Patient Dropout

A retrospective study conducted by LSU Health New Orleans reports that contrary to previous research, most patients who drop out of peritoneal dialysis may do so for psychosocial reasons. More

Public Release Date: February 4, 2021

Bazan One of Few Appointed Foreign Adjunct Professor at Prestigious Karolinska Institutet

Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor, Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair for Retinal Degeneration and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of 11 international academics and one of only 3 from the United States appointed as foreign adjunct professors by the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm, Sweden. More

Public Release Date: January 26, 2021

“LOCKDOWN FUNK”

In what may be the first adaptation of Mark Ronson’s and Bruno Mars’ “Uptown Funk” to COVID-19, LSU Health New Orleans medical students have made a video to encourage people to #MaskUp. More

Public Release Date: January 25, 2021

Analysis Details Racial Inequity and Corrective Strategies in Research Grant Funding

An analysis by Nicholas Gilpin, PhD, Professor of Physiology and Associate Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Michael Taffe, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego, summarizes long-standing racial inequities in federal funding for biosciences research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). More

Public Release Date: January 14, 2021

LSU Health Awarded $2.5M Grant to Reduce Stroke Risk for Obese Women on Contraceptives

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Rinku Majumder, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, a $2.5 million grant over four years to help reduce the high stroke risk to women with obesity who take estrogen-containing birth control pills. More

Public Release Date: January 12, 2021

Shortening College Athlete COVID Quarantine May Boost Adherence Without Increasing Risk

Catherine O’Neal, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s branch campus in Baton Rouge, is a co-author of a paper reporting that shortening the length of quarantine due to COVID exposure when supported by mid-quarantine testing may increase compliance among college athletes without increasing risk. More

Public Release Date: December 30, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Discovers Potential New Rx Strategy for Stroke

Research conducted at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence reports that a combination of an LSU Health-patented drug and selected DHA derivatives is more effective in protecting brain cells and increasing recovery after stroke than a single drug. More

Public Release Date: December 17, 2020

LSU Health Research Suggests New Mechanism to Balance Emotional Behavior

Research led by Si-Qiong June Liu, MD, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, discovered a surprising reciprocal interaction between chemicals in the brain resulting in accelerated loss of molecules that regulate brain cell communication. More

Public Release Date: December 14, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Ranked #9 in the US

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been ranked the #9 nursing school in the country and the nation’s #4 public nursing school by Nursing Schools Almanac. More

Public Release Date: December 4, 2020

Fair Named LSU Health New Orleans Vice Chancellor for Diversity & Inclusion

Larry Hollier, MD, Chancellor of LSU Health New Orleans has appointed Timothy J. Fair, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Inclusion, effective December 1, 2020. More

Public Release Date: December 4, 2020

LSU Health Conducts 1st Study on Neighborhood Deprivation & COVID in LA

Public Release Date: December 3, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health Leads New Public Health Resource

cover art of the Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association Volume 1

The inaugural issue of the Journal of the Louisiana Public Health Association, Volume 1 | November ’20, is now available. Developed in partnership with the Louisiana Public Health Association, this new publication is led by faculty and staff at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health. More

Public Release Date: December 1, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Discovers Drug Development Target for Retinal Dystrophies

A team of LSU Health New Orleans researchers reports for the first time that deleting one of the inhibitors of the RPE65 gene in a mouse model that carries a human disease mutation prevents degeneration of cone photoreceptors that are used for daytime high-resolution color vision. More

Public Release Date: November 30, 2020

LSU Health Student Chosen for 1st ARVO Emerging Advocate Award

Jarrod C. Harman, a student at LSU Health New Orleans School of Graduate Studies, is the recipient of the inaugural Emerging Advocate Award presented by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO). More

Public Release Date: November 25, 2020

LSU Health’s Alahari Named 2020 AAAS Fellow

Suresh Alahari, PhD, Fred G. Brazda Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). More

Public Release Date: November 17, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans’ Honoré Selected for African Diaspora Task Force

Peggy A. Honoré, MHA, DHA, AmeriHealth Caritas-General Russel Honoré Endowed Professor at LSU Health New Orleans’ schools of Public Health and Medicine, is one of seven individuals invited as inaugural members of the African & Diaspora Universities Research, Instruction & Engagement (ADURIE) Task Force. More

Public Release Date: November 16, 2020

FDA Fast Tracks LSU Health Faculty Invention to Save Lives of Preemies

A technology to diagnose a potentially fatal disease in premature infants invented by Sunyoung Kim, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been granted a Breakthrough Device Designation by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The noninvasive diagnostic biomarker, NECDetect, more accurately diagnoses necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). More

Public Release Date: November 10, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Fellow LA’S 1st NIH Outstanding Scholar

Khanh Do, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, is a member of the first group chosen by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as NIH Outstanding Scholars in Neuroscience. More

Public Release Date: November 6, 2020

LSU Health Team Wins Best 2020 Radiology Image Award

AuntMinnie.com awarded Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice Chairman of Radiology Research and Associate Professor of Radiology, and Emma R. Schachner, PhD, Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy, at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, the 2020 Best Radiology Image for their COVID-19 lung model project. More

Public Release Date: November 4, 2020

Study Shows Myocarditis Linked to COVID-19 Not as Common as Believed

A study conducted by Richard Vander Heide, MD, PhD, Professor and Director of Pathology Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Marc Halushka, MD, PhD, Professor of Pathology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, suggests myocarditis caused by COVID-19 may be a relatively rare occurrence. More

Public Release Date: October 20, 2020

Student of the Year and Other Honors Awarded to LSU Health New Orleans Nursing Students

LSU Health New Orleans nursing student Kritina Rigterink

Students at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing were honored and elected to leadership positions during the 66th Annual Louisiana Association of Student Nurses (LASN) Virtual Convention. More

Public Release Date: October 19, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Review Suggests HNB Tobacco Products May Threaten Health

A review of heat-not-burn (HNB) tobacco products from the laboratory of Dr. Jason Gardner, Professor of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports an association with elevated blood pressure, increased heart rate, cell death, and circulatory dysfunction shown by early studies. More

Public Release Date: October 14, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans & LDH to Create the LA Cancer-COVID-19 Registry

The National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health has awarded LSU Health New Orleans Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center a $147,000 supplement to its NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP) grant to create the Louisiana Cancer-COVID-19 Registry with the Louisiana Department of Health. More

Public Release Date: September 25, 2020

NIH STTR Grant to Fast Track New Class of Pain Reliever Without Addiction or Toxicity

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $1.9 million Fast-Track Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant to South Rampart Pharma to commercialize a new class of non-opioid medicines to relieve pain and reduce fever discovered at and licensed from LSU Health New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: September 17, 2020

Study Finds Novel Mechanism That May Confer Protection Against Glaucoma

A team of researchers from LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence and the University of Copenhagen provides the first evidence that patients with ocular hypertension may exhibit superior antioxidant protection that promotes resistance to the elevated intraocular pressure associated with glaucoma. More

Public Release Date: September 10, 2020

LSU Health Study 1st to Show Nonharmful Stress Protects Against Disease in Offspring

Research led by Jeff Gidday, PhD, Professor of Ophthalmology, Biochemistry, Neuroscience, and Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports what is believed to be the first study in a mammalian model documenting the reprogramming of heritability to promote disease resilience in the next generation. More

Public Release Date: September 3, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Radiologists Find Chest X-Rays Highly Predictive of COVID-19

A team of LSU Health New Orleans radiologists investigated the usefulness of chest x-rays in COVID-19 and found they could aid in a rapid diagnosis of the disease, especially in areas with limited testing capacity or delayed test results. More

Public Release Date: September 2, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Ranked #1 in LA

NursingProcess.org, an online one-stop shop for information about state nursing education for those considering nursing careers, has ranked LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing the #1 accredited nursing school in Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: August 28, 2020

LSU Health Study Explains Multipronged SARS-CoV-2 Attack & Widespread COVID-19 Infection

A study of a gateway receptor for SARS-CoV-2 led by Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Ophthalmology at LSU Health New Orleans’ Neuroscience Center of Excellence and School of Medicine, may help explain the wide variety of symptoms and organs involved with SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: August 27, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Faculty Take Top State Nursing Honors

LSU Health New Orleans 2020 Nightingale Award Winners

The Louisiana State Nurses Association (LSNA) has recognized three members of the faculty of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing with prestigious 2020 Nightingale Awards. More

Public Release Date: August 25, 2020

LSU Health Awarded Fast Grant for COVID Research

Paul Fidel, Jr., PhD, Professor and Director of the Center of Excellence in Oral and Craniofacial Biology and Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, has been awarded a $300,000 Fast Grant to support a research study evaluating the MMR vaccine’s ability to produce the cells that may prevent or decrease the lung inflammation/sepsis associated with COVID-19 infection following exposure. More

Public Release Date: August 19, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Team Creates Better Tool to Aid COVID Diagnosis

An LSU Health New Orleans radiologist and evolutionary anatomist have teamed up to show the same techniques used for research on reptile and bird lungs can be used to help confirm the diagnosis of COVID-19 in patients. More

Public Release Date: August 17, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Participating in NIH Monoclonal Antibody Clinical Trial at UMC

LSU Health New Orleans is participating in a National Institutes of Health (NIH) clinical trial evaluating the safety and effectiveness of monoclonal antibodies as a potential new treatment for COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: August 6, 2020

LSU Health Discovers Key to Dialogue Between Brain Cells to Protect Against Stroke

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Ludmila Belayev, MD, LSU Health New Orleans Professor of Neuroscience, Neurology and Neurosurgery, has unlocked a key fundamental mechanism in the communication between brain cells when confronted with stroke. More

Public Release Date: August 4, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Helps Discover COVID Impact on Cancer Patients

Suki Subbiah, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of the oncologist authors of a recent paper that was the first large and broad geographic study to analyze the clinical impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with cancer. More

Public Release Date: August 3, 2020

LSU Health Study Suggests Snap Diagnoses May Be More Accurate

A pilot study conducted by a team of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine faculty has found that Snapchat is an effective tool to teach residents emergency radiology. The results are published online in Emergency Radiology. More

Public Release Date: July 30, 2020

LSU Health Pathologists Publish First Report on Likely MIS Involving the Heart

A team of LSU Health New Orleans pathologists published what is believed to be the first case report on pathologic findings of vasculitis of the small vessels of the heart, which likely represents multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS). More

Public Release Date: July 21, 2020

Autopsies Reveal Surprising Cardiac Changes in Covid-19 Patients

A series of autopsies conducted by LSU Health New Orleans pathologists shows the damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients is not the expected typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with myocarditis, but rather a unique pattern of cell death in scattered individual heart muscle cells. More

Public Release Date: July 8, 2020

Video Contest to Help Protect LatinX Community

LSU Health New Orleans and LPHI are hosting a contest for short videos aimed at the LatinX community about COVID. The videos must be in Spanish and 59 seconds or less. There are two categories based on key issues. More

Public Release Date: July 7, 2020

Health’s Sugarman Chosen for National Health Equity Fellowship

Meredith K. Sugarman, MPH, Associate Director of the Louisiana Community Health Worker Institute in the Center for Healthcare Value and Equity at LSU Health New Orleans, has been selected as a Fellow in Families USA’s Health Equity Academy in System Transformation. More

Public Release Date: July 6, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Discovers New Class of Safer Analgesics

Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence and colleagues have discovered a new class of pipeline drugs to relieve pain and reduce fever without the danger of addiction or damage to the liver or kidneys. More

Public Release Date: July 2, 2020

Social Media and Radiology – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Bradley Spieler, MD, Vice Chairman of Radiology Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the lead author of a Radiology Research Alliance paper examining the usefulness of social media in Radiology. More

Public Release Date: June 26, 2020

Common Childhood Vaccine Might Prevent Severe Complications of COVID-19

A paper published by LSU Health New Orleans and Tulane researchers suggests that live attenuated vaccines such as MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) may prevent the severe lung inflammation and sepsis associated with COVID-19 infection. More

Public Release Date: June 18, 2020

LSU Health Nursing Leader Now Leads N. O. District Nurses Association

Kendra M. Barrier, PhD, MSN, RN, CNE, Assistant Dean for Student Services at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, became President of the New Orleans District Nurses Association (NODNA) on June 1, 2020. More

Public Release Date: June 16, 2020

LSU Health Geneticist Says New Study Shows Mutated SARS-CoV-2 More Infectious

Lucio Miele, MD, PhD, Professor and Head of Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, says the mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 now circulating in the United States may be a “new and improved” virus that is better at infecting human cells than the original strain from Wuhan, China. More

Public Release Date: June 12, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans LA Tumor Registry Earns Multiple Honors

The latest recognition of LSU Health New Orleans’ Louisiana Tumor Registry came from the Louisiana State Legislature with the passage of House Concurrent Resolution 95 in the 2020 Regular Session. More

Public Release Date: June 11, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Spin-Out Company Awarded SBIR Grant

The National Science Foundation has awarded Chosen Diagnostics, Inc., an LSU Health New Orleans spin-out company, a $224,758 Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) Phase I grant. More

Public Release Date: June 2, 2020

Donation to Support LSU Health New Orleans’ COVID-19 Testing

The McNulty Foundation, in partnership with the Aspen Global Leadership Network, has donated $7,500 to LSU Health New Orleans to support its community COVID-19 testing effort. More

Public Release Date: May 27, 2020

1ST COVID Autopsy Series by LSUHealthNO Pathologists Reveals New Cardiopulmonary Findings

LSU Health New Orleans pathologists performed the first series of autopsies on African Americans who died from COVID-19 in New Orleans, and their findings provide new and critical information to guide patient management. More

Public Release Date: May 18, 2020

Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry Passes

Henry A. Gremillion, DDS, MAGD, passed away this morning after a brief illness. A Louisiana native, in 2008 Dr. Gremillion returned home to lead his alma mater as the sixth dean of the School. More

Public Release Date: May 13, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Graduates Honored at Virtual Ceremonies

Hundreds of graduating students in LSU Health New Orleans Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Allied Health Professions, Public Health and Dentistry will be honored during virtual pre-commencement ceremonies this week. Faculty, students and their families are invited to participate in the Zoom ceremonies. More

Public Release Date: May 1, 2020

LSU Health Study Suggests Nicotine Exposure Alone Leads to Pulmonary Hypertension

A study conducted by a team of researchers at LSU Health New Orleans has shown for the first time that chronic exposure to inhaled nicotine alone increases blood pressure (hypertension), in both the body’s general circulation and in the lungs that can lead to pulmonary hypertension. More

Public Release Date: April 30, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Infectious Diseases Specialists Cautiously Optimistic About Investigational Drug They're Using

LSU Health New Orleans physicians who have been treating COVID-19 patients on the front lines for months secured approval of a protocol for Expanded Access use of the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir in their hospitalized patients with severe manifestations of the disease. More

Public Release Date: April 24, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Expertise Tapped to Improve Health Equity and Outcomes

Six members of the faculty of LSU Health New Orleans have been appointed to Governor John Bel Edwards’ Health Equity Task Force and subcommittees. More

Public Release Date: April 23, 2020

LSU Health’s O’Neal Appointed to Economic Recovery Task Force

Catherine O’Neal, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Branch Campus in Baton Rouge, has been appointed to the Louisiana Legislative Advisory Task Force on Economic Recovery. More

Public Release Date: April 22, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Seeking Plasma Donations from Recovered COVID-19 Patients

LSU Health New Orleans Infectious Diseases physicians and staff have put out a call for plasma donations from people who have recovered from COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: April 21, 2020

LSU Healthcare Network Debuts Drive-Through Eye Pressure Checks

LSU Healthcare Network achieved an adaptive medical first in New Orleans this week by providing drive-through eye pressure checks. Patients, by appointment only, drive to the back of the LSU Healthcare Network clinic at 3700 St. Charles Avenue where they are met by techs in full personal protection equipment (PPE.) More

Public Release Date: April 20, 2020

LSU Health’s Johnson Leads American College of Physicians’ LA Chapter

Angela Johnson, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Branch Campus in Baton Rouge, has been elected Governor of the Louisiana Chapter of the American College of Physicians. More

Public Release Date: April 16, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Pollen Data Contributing to Potential COVID Association Study

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reached out to LSU Health New Orleans on behalf of researchers at Technical University of Munich (TUM) for its year-to-date pollen count data. The data are being used in an analysis of COVID-19 and a potential association of the co-exposure to pollen and the cumulative health effects. More

Public Release Date: April 14, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Research Shows How Stress Remodels the Brain

Research led by Si-Qiong June Liu, MD, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has shown how stress changes the structure of the brain and reveals a potential therapeutic target to the prevent or reverse it. The findings are published in JNeurosci, the Journal of Neuroscience. More

Public Release Date: April 13, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Enrolls 1st Patient in COVID-19 Clinical Trial

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has enrolled its first patient in a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine alone, and in combination, as a treatment for COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: April 8, 2020

JPSO Volunteers for LSU Health New Orleans/National Cancer Institute COVID Research

Ten Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies volunteered to participate in COVID-19 research at LSU Health New Orleans and the National institutes of Health by donating blood samples today. The deputies have recovered from infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: April 6, 2020

LSU Health Faculty Leads Section at Covid-19 Convention Center Medical Monitoring Station

Dr. Meghan Maslanka, Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Emergency Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been appointed Medical Manager/ Operations Section Leader at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Medical Monitoring Station, which opened to COVID-19 patients this morning. More

Public Release Date: April 6, 2020

LSU Health Dental School Aims to Produce the Very Best PPE for Those on the COVID-19 Front Lines

“I want to be able to provide my residents as well as all other residents, faculty, staff and all health care providers, not only at University Medical Center, but at other LSU Health teaching hospitals and those across the country with the very best protection possible,” declares Robert Laughlin, DDS, MD, Chairman of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry. More

Public Release Date: April 2, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Medical Students Volunteer to Collect PPE for COVID-19 Front Line Health Care Workers

A student at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has organized an effort to solicit area businesses for donations of personal protective equipment (PPE.) The project supports faculty and residents working on the front lines of health care delivery to patients with COVID-19. More

Public Release Date: March 27, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans on Front Lines of COVID-19 Care

LSU Health New Orleans faculty and residents continue to save lives of patients with severe COVID-19 at its partner teaching hospitals in New Orleans, Metairie, Slidell, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Bogalusa, Lake Charles, Houma and Independence, Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: March 20, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads Forego Match Day Ceremony to Support Response to COVD-19 Pandemic

Forty-six percent, or 86 of 186 LSU Health New Orleans graduating medical students participating in the National Resident Match Program this year, chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training. More

Public Release Date: March 4, 2020

LSU Health Expertise Helping Chinese Parents Support Children Isolated Due to COVID-19

Joy Osofsky, PhD, Professor and Paul Ramsay Chair of Psychiatry, and Howard Osofsky, MD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, have developed a guide to Supporting Young Children Isolated Due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) with a Chinese translation. More

Public Release Date: February 4, 2020

LSU Health LA Tumor Registry and NCI Data Show Advanced Colorectal Cancers at Recommended Screening Age

A study analyzing LSU Health’s Louisiana Tumor Registry and other NCI-designated tumor registry data found that by the time recommended screening for colorectal begins, cancers have already spread in a high percentage of people. More

Public Release Date: February 6, 2020

Pregnant Women in Louisiana at Increased Risk for Homicide

Pooja Mehta, M.D., clinical assistant professor of obstetrics & gynecology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was a member of a research team that found 13% of deaths occurring during or up to one year after pregnancy among Louisiana women in 2016-17 were homicides. More

Public Release Date: February 3, 2020

LSU Health Hosts Special Coronavirus Education Event Friday

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine will host a special Grand Rounds with the latest and detailed information about the new coronavirus declared a Public Health Emergency in the US and globally. More

Public Release Date: January 16, 2020

The Secret Weapon that Allowed Dinosaurs to Take Over the Planet Becomes Official TED Talk

A TEDxLSU Talk given by Emma Schachner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has now been published as an official TED Talk. More

Public Release Date: January 13, 2020

LSU Health’s Winters Honored Nationally for Outstanding Leadership and Contributions

J. Christian Winters, M.D., Professor and Chair of Urology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of three physicians in the country chosen by the American Urological Association (AUA) to receive the 2020 Distinguished Contributions Award. More

Public Release Date: January 9, 2020

LSU Health New Orleans & LSU Collaborate on Breast Cancer Disparity Research

A research team led by Frank Lau, M.D., F.A.C.S., Associate Professor of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Elizabeth Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, has been competitively awarded a $100,000 internal grant to study how obesity may drive chemotherapy resistance in breast cancer patients with obesity. More

Public Release Date: January 2, 2020

1st Reported Occurrence & Treatment of Spaceflight Medical Risk 200+ Miles Above Earth

Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D., M.P.H., Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s branch campus in Baton Rouge, is the lead author of a paper describing a previously unrecognized risk of spaceflight discovered during a study of astronauts involved in long-duration missions. More

Public Release Date: December 13, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing School Ranked #8 in U.S.

Nursing Schools Almanac has just released its 2019 rankings of the best U.S. nursing schools, and LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing jumped two spots up in the top 10 and one spot among public nursing schools. LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is now ranked the #8 nursing school in the U.S. and #3 among public nursing schools. More

Public Release Date: December 12, 2019

LSU Health Studying New Way to Improve Walking for Children with CP

Noelle Moreau, Ph.D., PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, and Kristie Bjornson, PT, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are the co-principal investigators of a $2.7 million grant to study an innovative training method to improve walking in children with cerebral palsy (CP). More

Public Release Date: December 10, 2019

LSU Health Discovers Critical Role of Two Proteins in Vision and Preventing Blinding Eye Diseases

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, Ph.D., Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has discovered unique patterns of genetic activity that may lead to the development of blinding retinal diseases. More

Public Release Date: December 9, 2019

STTR Award to LSU Health-Spin Out Company to Create Clinical Solutions for Life-Threatening Preemie Condition

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health has awarded Chosen Diagnostics Inc, a spin-out company, a $299,641 Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer award. More

Public Release Date: November 11, 2019

LSU Health Research Discovers Potential New Rx Target for AMD and Alzheimer’s

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found a new mechanism by which a class of molecules his lab discovered may protect brain and retinal cells against neurodegenerative diseases like age-related macular degeneration and Alzheimer’s. More

Public Release Date: November 8, 2019

Study Shows Biomarker Accurately Diagnoses Deadly Infant Disease

A diagnostic study of 136 premature infants found that a protein involved in managing harmful bacteria in the human intestine is a reliable biomarker for the noninvasive detection of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Led by researchers and clinicians at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, this is one of the largest prospective clinical studies in premature infants yet. More

Public Release Date: October 22, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Awarded $1.74 M for Usher Syndrome Antisense Therapy Rx

Jennifer J. Lentz, PhD, Associate Professor at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence and Departments of Otorhinolaryngology, Genetics and Ophthalmology, in collaboration with Robert K. Koenekoop MD, PhD and Professor of Pediatric Surgery, Human Genetics and Ophthalmology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, has been awarded a $1.74 million USD grant to advance research on Usher syndrome. More

Public Release Date: October 17, 2019

Weiss Receives Top Global Honor

Jayne S. Weiss, MD, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and Chief Medical Officer of LSU Healthcare Network, was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Castroviejo Award. More

Public Release Date: October 9, 2019

LSU Health’s Wennerstrom Awarded RWJ Team Fellowship

Ashley Wennerstrom, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor at LSU Health New Orleans Schools of Public Health and Medicine, has been selected as a fellow on of one of 15 teams of researchers and community members of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2019 class of Interdisciplinary Research Leaders. More

Public Release Date: October 2, 2019

Asthma Changes Obesity Rate in Black Female Teens Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans Schools of Public Health and Medicine found that asthma may protect against obesity among African American female adolescents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods. More

Public Release Date: September 30, 2019

LSU Health Tumor Registry Launches New Interactive Resource

LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry has launched a new, user-friendly, interactive, online tool to provide easier access to cancer information in Louisiana. To our knowledge, Louisiana Cancer Data Visualization provides the most complete information of any online state-specific, cancer resource tool in the United States. More

Public Release Date: September 27, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Smoking Cessation Success Featured as National Model

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has featured a smoking cessation case study of LSU Health New Orleans’ Louisiana Tobacco Control Initiative in its Million Hearts® Tobacco Cessation Change Package released nationally this month. More

Public Release Date: September 26, 2019

Study Helps Surgeons Determine Optimal Approach for Broken Hips

Robert Zura, MD, Professor and Robert D'Ambrosia Chair of Orthopaedics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of an international collaborative study group whose findings will help orthopaedic surgeons identify the best individual approach to treat broken hips in those over age 50. The study provides a head-to-head comparison of the two techniques used to replace displaced femoral neck fractures in this vulnerable population and reports similar rates of outcome measures between the two. More

Public Release Date: September 19, 2019

LSU Health Research Targets Metformin as Breast Cancer Rx

Research conducted by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that metformin, a commonly prescribed drug for Type 2 Diabetes, may be effective in treating cancers that lack a protein called Nischarin. More

Public Release Date: September 18, 2019

Study Shows Pre-Disaster Collaboration Key to Community Resilience

LSU Health New Orleans-led research reports that the key to improving community resiliency following disasters is a dynamic partnership between community-based organizations and public health agencies established pre-disaster. More

Public Release Date: September 13, 2019

LSU Health Open House Shows Off Simulation Technology & Resources

As part of Health Care Simulation Week, LSU Health New Orleans, a pioneer in medical simulation education and training, will hold a Health Care Simulation Open House Tuesday, September 17, 2019, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. at 2020 Gravier Street. More

Public Release Date: September 4, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Awarded $13.6 Million for Expanded Cancer Clinical Trials Network

LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a $13.6 million grant by the National Cancer Institute to expand its successful statewide clinical trials network with a special emphasis on minority and underserved cancer patients. More

Public Release Date: August 2, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans to Co-Host Free Community Conference on Disaster-Related Mental Health

LSU New Orleans will host a community conference with the NOLA Partnership for Mental Health on the importance of community involvement in disaster-related and LGBTQ+ research in the context of mental health on Friday August 9, 2019. More

Public Release Date: July 22, 2019

LSU Health DPT Program’s Accreditation Reaffirmed

LSU Health New Orleans’ Doctor of Physical Therapy Program was recently re-accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Physical Therapy Education (CAPTE) for a period of 10 years. More

Public Release Date: July 3, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Nursing School Degree Programs Earn Maximum Accreditation

Three academic programs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing have been re-accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) for a period of 10 years. More

Public Release Date: July 1, 2019

Gender Bias Alive and Well in Health Care Roles, Study Shows

Results of a multi-center study of patients’ assumptions about health care professionals’ roles based on gender show significant stereotypical bias towards males as physicians and females as nurses. More

Public Release Date: June 14, 2019

LSU Health Research to Study Link between Obesity and Breast Cancer in Real Time

Frank Lau, MD, Associate Professor in the Section of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded a grant by the Southeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons to improve the care and research of breast cancer and obesity. More

Public Release Date: June 19, 2019

LSU Health’s Bonanno Elected President of Accrediting Agency

Laura Bonnano, DNP, CRNA, Nurse Anesthesia Program Director and Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been elected President of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (COA). More

Public Release Date: June 13, 2019

Research Finds Pre-Pregnancy Weight Affects Infant Growth Response to Breast Milk

In the first study of its kind, LSU Health New Orleans researchers report that women’s pre-pregnancy overweight or obesity produces changes in breast milk, which can affect infant growth. The research findings are published in PLOS ONE, available online here. More

Public Release Date: June 12, 2019

LSU Health’s Lazarus Elected to NRMP Board

Cathy Lazarus, MD, FACP, Associate Dean for Student Affairs & Records at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of five people recently elected to a four-year term on the Board of Directors of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). More

Public Release Date: May 30, 2019

LSU Health Research Finds New Rx Target for Common STD

Research led by Ashok Aiyar, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has identified a target that may lead to the development of new treatments for the most common sexually transmitted infection in the US. More

Public Release Date: May 24, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Tumor Registry Earns Top NCI Honor Again

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health’s Louisiana Tumor Registry is the recipient of a 2019 Data Quality Profile First Place Award from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute. MoreCancer.html" class="text-link-dark">More

Public Release Date: April 11, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Research Finds New Rx Target for Childhood Cancer

Research led by Michael Lan, PhD, Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, found that a compound named 5'-iodotubercidin (5'-IT) suppresses the growth of neuroblastoma cells and identified a potential new therapeutic approach for the disease. More

Public Release Date: April 4, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans’ Gremillion Elected Chair of National Dental Board

Henry Gremillion, DDS, MAGD, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, was installed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) at its annual meeting in Chicago. More

Public Release Date: April 1, 2019

LSUHealthNO LA Tumor Registry Releases 2nd Census Tract Cancer Incidence Report

LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) has published the second report of statewide cancer incidence rates by census tract. The publication, which reports 2005-2015 combined cancer incidence data, found that 82% of the census tracts in Louisiana met publication criteria for all cancers combined. More

Public Release Date: March 22, 2019

LSU Health Study Reports Continued PTSD in Women Exposed To Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

A study led by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health reports that women exposed to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon (BP) Oil Spill continue to experience symptoms of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). More

Public Release Date: March 20, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans and Partners Host Event to Improve Mental Health after Disasters

The Section of Community and Population Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine organized, and along with NOLA Partnership for Mental Health and the Community Resilience Learning Collaborative & Research Network (C-LEARN), is hosting a free event to engage professional agencies, community organizations and members of the public to explore issues and hear about research focused on mental health in the context of disaster preparedness and recovery, as well as community resilience. More

Public Release Date: March 19, 2019

Mudbug March to Stomp Out Pulmonary Hypertension

The LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Alumni Association will hold the 5th Annual Mudbug March to stomp out Pulmonary Hypertension on Sunday, March 31, 2019. More

Public Release Date: March 18, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Medical Students Raise Funds for Camp Tiger at Benefit Auction

LSU Health New Orleans Camp Tiger Benefit Auction - the major fund-raiser supporting the free, week-long summer day camp for children with special needs in the metropolitan New Orleans and Baton Rouge communities - is on Friday, March 29, 2019, from 7:00 - 11:00 p.m., at Club XLIV- Champions Square (on Lasalle Street adjacent to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome). More

Public Release Date: March 15, 2019

More LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads Staying in LA & Entering Primary Care

Forty-nine percent, or 89 of 181 LSU Health New Orleans graduating medical students participating in the National Resident Match Program this year, chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training. Eighty-one percent of those staying in-state will enter an LSU Health residency program. More

Public Release Date: March 14, 2019

New Undergraduate Public Health Degree Program at LSU Health New Orleans Taking Applications

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health is now taking applications for its new Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) degree program. It is the first bachelor of science in public health program at a public university in Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: March 13, 2019

LSU Health Dentistry Providing Free Oral Cancer Screenings

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry faculty and students are offering free screenings to detect oral cancer every Wednesday in April, which is Oral Cancer Awareness Month. More

Public Release Date: March 11, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Match Day to Determine LA Supply of Physicians

Envelopes revealing the number of new doctors who will train in Louisiana will be opened at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine Match Day Ceremony on Friday, March 15, 2019, at 11:00 a.m. at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Iberville Club Lounge. More

Public Release Date: February 21, 2019

LSU Health New Orleans Gives Kids a Smile

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry and the New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) are partnering to Give Kids a Smile on February 22, 2019. More

Public Release Date: February 20, 2019

LSU Health, Tulane select New Orleans BioInnovation Center as statewide partner for biomedical technology accelerator program

LSU Health New Orleans and Tulane University have selected the New Orleans BioInnovation Center (NOBIC) as the statewide implementation partner for a newly launched initiative to augment business development efforts and accelerate the commercialization of life science research from university labs to biotechnology startups in the region and to existing companies around the world. More

Public Release Date: February 12, 2019

LSU Health OB-GYN Residency Program Awarded Continued Accreditation

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans’ Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program Continued Accreditation. The four-year program trains physicians specializing in Obstetrics and Gynecology at four main partner hospitals. More

Public Release Date: February 7, 2019

Immunotherapy Drug Used As 1st-Line Therapy for Merkel Cell Carcinoma Improved Survival

A multi-center phase II clinical trial investigating pembrolizumab as a first-line and programmed cell death-1 therapy in patients with advanced Merkel cell carcinoma reports lasting tumor control, generally manageable side effects and improved overall survival. More

Public Release Date: January 29, 2019

Landry Selected as Louisiana’s Top Nurse Practitioner

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) selected LSU Health New Orleans’ Jessica Landry, DNP, FNP-BC, as the recipient of the 2019 American Association of Nurse Practitioners® Louisiana State Award for Nurse Practitioner Advocate Excellence. More

Public Release Date: January 24, 2019

HBOT Showed Improvement in Alzheimer’s Disease

PET scan showing brain improvement after HBOT

Dr. Paul Harch, Clinical Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Edward Fogarty, Chairman of Radiology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, report the first PET scan-documented case of improvement in brain metabolism in Alzheimer’s disease in a patient treated with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). More

Public Release Date: January 22, 2019

Bazan Awarded International Honor

Haydee Bazan, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, and Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, will be inducted into the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Fellows Class of 2019 as a Gold Fellow in the spring. More

Public Release Date: January 14, 2019

LSU Health Nursing School Ranked in Top 10 Nationally

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is ranked 10th among all nursing schools in the United States and 4th among public schools of nursing nationally. The 2018 rankings were just released by Nursing Schools Almanac. More

Public Release Date: January 11, 2019

Research to Advance Cancer Therapy

Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, the Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found a new role for a protein discovered by his lab in preventing the growth and spread of breast cancer. More

Public Release Date: December 21, 2018

LSU Health Nursing Faculty Appointed to Human Trafficking Prevention Commission Healthcare Subgroup

Louisiana Human Trafficking Prevention Commission Chair Judge Joy Lobrano has asked Katherine Carter, DNP, PHCNS-BC, Coordinator BSN-DNP Public/Community Health Nursing and Instructor of Clinical Nursing, and Deborah St. Germain, DNP, RN, CEN, CNE, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, to serve on the Healthcare Subgroup. More

Public Release Date: December 17, 2018

Study Suggests Promising New Rx Target for Obesity and Diabetes

Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Microbiology at LSU Health New Orleans, suggests a novel protein may be a promising therapeutic target to treat or prevent metabolic disorders. More

Public Release Date: November 23, 2018

The Passing of Dr. Gerald Berenson

Gerald S. Berenson, MD, Boyd Professor of Cardiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, passed away Thursday, November 22, 2018 while visiting family in Houston. He was 96 years old. Dr. Berenson was an internationally known physician-scientist whose work helped shaped our understanding of the causes of heart disease. More

Public Release Date: November 7, 2018

Study Finds New Single-Dose Antibiotic Safe and Effective for Uncomplicated Gonorrhea

A phase 2 clinical trial led by Stephanie N. Taylor, MD, Professor of Medicine and Microbiology in the Section of Infectious Diseases at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that a new antibiotic effectively treats uncomplicated urogenital and rectal gonorrhea infections in a single oral dose. More

Public Release Date: November 7, 2018

Clearing Up Information about Corneal Dystrophies

Jayne Weiss, MD, Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs, Professor and Chair of Ophthalmology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the lead author of an editorial about inaccuracies in the medical literature that medical professionals rely upon to diagnose corneal dystrophies, as well as a free resource that provides correct information. More

Public Release Date: October 25, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Joins Alliance to Advance Physician-Led Innovation

LSU Health New Orleans has joined Vantedge Venture’s Innovation Alliance (VIA), a collective of health systems seeking to innovate and create sustainable solutions from the ideas developed by their network of clinicians and physicians. More

Public Release Date: October 24, 2018

Students in Health Enrichment Programs Benefit from Early Team-Based Exposure

A study conducted by LSU Health New Orleans researchers provides new evidence that early exposure to multiple health disciplines in pipeline programs targeting underserved/underrepresented students interested in health professions reduces the development of traditional role and leadership stereotypes about professional health care teams and practice. More

Public Release Date: October 19, 2018

The Terrible yet Unrecognized Toll Violence Takes on Children

Joy D. Osofsky, PhD, Paul J. Ramsay Chair and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the co-editor of a new two-volume handbook being called a must-read for families, those who work with children and policymakers. More

Public Release Date: October 19, 2018

2018 Tiger Run Benefits LSU Health New Orleans Medical Student Outreach

LSU Health New Orleans Tiger Run 2018, a 5k race and 1-mile fun run/walk organized by students at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is Sunday, November 18, 2018, at the Magazine Street entrance to Audubon Park near Shelter #10. More

Public Release Date: October 11, 2018

New Tech Transfer Hub to Drive Innovation Improving Health and Economy

LSU Health New Orleans will partner with 24 academic institutions in the southeastern US and business in a tech transfer accelerator hub that will improve the translation of basic science discoveries from academic research labs to products that advance patient care and improve health. More

Public Release Date: October 8, 2018

LSU Health Psychiatry Expertise Tapped for LA Response to Opioid Crisis

Working with the Louisiana Office of Behavioral Health, LSU Health New Orleans Department of Psychiatry will receive $7.2 million to address the opioid crisis in Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: October 1, 2018

$1.3M Grant to LSUHealthNO to Increase Certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners

A team led by Jessica Landry, DNP, FNP-BC, Program Coordinator, BSN-DNP Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, successfully competed for a $1.3 million grant to increase access to certified sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) for people who have been sexually assaulted in 12 southeast Louisiana parishes. More

Public Release Date: September 24, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Leads U.S. Recruitment for Advanced Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial

LSU Health New Orleans Scott Cancer Center has enrolled the first patients in the United States in a National Cancer Institute/Southwest Oncology Group clinical trial for men whose prostate cancer has spread. The Phase III multi-center trial will compare the outcomes of treating men diagnosed with metastatic Stage 4 prostate cancer with standard systemic therapy or with standard systemic therapy in combination with either surgery or radiation therapy. More

Public Release Date: August 31, 2018

Mayo Clinic Hosts Larry H. Hollier Visiting Professor and Namesake

Chancellor Larry Hollier, MD being honored by Mayo Clinic

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, one of the most prestigious medical centers in the world, invited Dr. Larry H. Hollier, Chancellor of LSU Health New Orleans, to be part of the twelfth annual Larry H. Hollier Visiting Professorship activities held at Mayo . More

Public Release Date: August 27, 2018

LSUHealthNO Studies Innovative Approach to Improve Walking In Children with CP

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $2.5 million translational research grant over five years to Noelle Moreau, PhD, PT, Associate Professor of Physical Therapy at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions, to study the effectiveness of a highly innovative approach to improve the ability of children with cerebral palsy to walk. More

Public Release Date: August 22, 2018

LSU Health Study Documents Limited Access to Orthopaedic Care for La Medicaid Patients

A study led by Christopher Marrero, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reports that despite Medicaid expansion, access to outpatient orthopaedic care in Louisiana remains significantly limited for patients with Medicaid insurance. More

Public Release Date: August 21, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Dental Alumni Celebrate 50th Anniversary

About 200 alumni of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry will gather at the school at 1100 Florida Avenue on Friday, August 24, 2018, to commemorate the past and learn about the future of the school and the profession. More

Public Release Date: August 16, 2018

First US Patients Receive AGILI-C™ Implants

CartiHeal, developer of Agili-C, a proprietary implant for the treatment of joint surface lesions, and two LSU Health New Orleans orthopaedic surgeons announced today the successful enrollment of the first two US patients in the Agili-C IDE pivotal research study. More

Public Release Date: August 15, 2018

Better Statistical Methods to Understand Gene Interactions Leading to Cancer Development

Research led by Hui-Yi Lin, PhD, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has developed another novel statistical method for evaluating gene-to-gene interactions associated with cancer and other complex diseases. More

Public Release Date: August 7, 2018

LSU Health Research Reveals New Obesity Prevention Target

A team of LSU Health New Orleans researchers has found a lower prevalence of overweight and obesity among youth in Grenada compared to US adolescents. The differences may reflect the impact of the westernized diet and lifestyle. The research may lead to a change in worldwide obesity prevention strategy. More

Public Release Date: August 1, 2018

LSU Health Research Discovers New Link between Hypoxia and Blood Clot Risk

Research led by Rinku Majumder, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found how hypoxia (a low concentration of oxygen) decreases Protein S, a natural anticoagulant, resulting in an increased risk for the development of potentially life-threatening blood clots (thrombosis). More

Public Release Date: July 23, 2018

Study Finds Flushing Water Lines Protects Inconsistently and May Increase Lead Exposure

Research conducted by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health finds that the current recommendations for running water to flush out lead are not consistently effective and may not be the best way to protect children from lead in drinking water. More

Public Release Date: July 19, 2018

Creative Collaboration Advances Nursing Education and Practice

A new academic-practice partnership between LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing and University Medical Center New Orleans is already achieving success in advancing nursing education and health care. More

Public Release Date: July 18, 2018

Research Identifies New Breast Cancer Therapeutic Target

Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has shown for the first time that a tiny piece of RNA deregulates energy metabolism, an emerging hallmark of cancer. More

Public Release Date: July 17, 2018

LSUHealthNO Part of 1st Large-Scale Study of Aggressive Prostate Cancer in African-American Men

LSU Health New Orleans is one of 12 universities and health care entities conducting the first large-scale, multi-institutional study to help determine why African- American men are at higher risk for developing aggressive prostate cancer and dying from it. More

Public Release Date: June 29, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans’ Pierce Elected to National Office

The American Nurses Association (ANA) Membership Assembly elected Stephanie Pierce, PhD, MN, RN, CNE, Program Director for Baccalaureate Articulation, CARE, and Nurse Educator MSN Programs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, as its next Secretary. More

Public Release Date: June 28, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Graduate Student’s Research Recognized Internationally

Along with students from Harvard, MIT and Stanford, Khanh Do, a doctoral student at LSU Health New Orleans School of Graduate Studies, was invited to present her research this month at the Schlumberger Foundation’s Faculty for the Future Fellows and Alumnae Forum during the Session with Outstanding Fellows. More

Public Release Date: June 25, 2018

National & Regional Experts Gather to Prevent Colorectal Cancer and Deaths

About 200 health professionals and national leaders working to prevent colorectal cancer and save lives by promoting screening will gather at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans from June 27-29, 2018 for the 3rd Annual Southeastern Colorectal Cancer Consortium. More

Public Release Date: June 22, 2018

Collaborative Model for Post-Disaster Behavioral Health Recovery May Serve as Standard

Faculty in LSU Health New Orleans schools of Medicine and Public Health and colleagues report that a collaborative effort to build capacity to address behavioral health and promote community resilience after the 2016 Great Flood in Baton Rouge, LA successfully expanded local behavioral health services delivery capacity and that the model may be useful to other disaster-struck communities. More

Public Release Date: June 18, 2018

Lazarus Honored by Standard-Setting National Board for Medical Licensure

Dr. Robert Zura, Professor and Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of a research team reporting that not only may opioid use increase the risk of bone fractures, but opioids may also impair healing. More

Public Release Date: June 15, 2018

Study with Implications for Opioid Crisis Finds Opioids Raise Risk of Fracture Nonunion

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Public Release Date: June 14, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans and Cumberland Emerging Technologies Announce Collaboration Agreement

LSU Health New Orleans and Cumberland Emerging Technologies Inc. (CET) have entered into a collaboration agreement to develop new biomedical products. More

Public Release Date: June 13, 2018

ACF’S Chicken Jam to Expand Patient Access to LSU Health’s Cancer Clinical Trials

The Al Copeland Foundation’s Third Annual Chicken Jam will take place on July 6, 2018, National Fried Chicken Day, from 5:00 - 10:00 p.m. at UNO Lakefront Arena, 6801 Franklin Avenue, New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: June 13, 2018

Lefer to Lead International Heart Research Society Section

David Lefer, PhD, Director of LSU Health New Orleans’ Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, was inaugurated as President-Elect of the International Society of Heart Research – North American Section at its 37th Annual Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He will serve a three-year term before assuming the presidency. More

Public Release Date: June 1, 2018

Partnership to Improve Nursing Care

signing LSU Health New Orleans - Delgado nursing agreement

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing and Delgado Community College have entered into an agreement to increase the number of nurses with bachelor’s degrees and get them into the workforce sooner. More

Public Release Date: May 31, 2018

New Guidelines Recommend Earlier Colorectal Cancer Screening

New guidelines developed by the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommend that screening for colorectal cancer for average-risk adults begin at age 45, five years earlier than the previous recommendation. More

Public Release Date: May 31, 2018

TransEnterix Announces LSU Health Completes Purchase of Senhance Surgical System

TransEnterix, Inc. (NYSE American:TRXC), a medical device company that is digitizing the interface between the surgeon and the patient to improve minimally invasive surgery, today announced that LSU Health completed the purchase of the Company’s Senhance™ Surgical System. The Senhance has been installed at University Medical Center New Orleans (UMC New Orleans). More

Public Release Date: May 30, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Cancer Control Manager Elected to Lead National Council

Mikal Giancola, MPH, Manager of the Comprehensive Cancer Program of the Louisiana Cancer Prevention and Control Programs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has been elected Chair of the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors Cancer Council. More

Public Release Date: May 14, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans to Graduate New Members of Health Care Workforce

Students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ six professional health schools will graduate during its 144th Commencement on Thursday, May 17, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena. More

Public Release Date: May 11, 2018

Dr. Perry Rigby, Former LSU Health Chancellor, Passes Away at 85

Following a brief illness, Perry Gardner Rigby, MD, who led LSU Medical Centers New Orleans and Shreveport campuses as Chancellor from 1985-94, passed away peacefully at his home on Thursday, May 10, 2018, at the age of 85. More

Public Release Date: May 11, 2018

Donation Supports Usher Syndrome Research

Jennifer J. Lentz, PhD, Associate Professor at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, has received a $25,000 donation from the Ush One See Foundation to support her research to develop a new therapy for the treatment of vision loss associated with Usher syndrome. More

Public Release Date: May 8, 2018

LSUHealthNO LA Tumor Registry among 16 Funded by NCI SEER Program

NCI SEER 1st Place Award to LA Tumor Registry

The Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health has been awarded a one-year $1.8 million contract by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to continue its work as a SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results) Program-designated cancer registry. More

Public Release Date: May 2, 2018

Moreno 1st Female Elected to Lead AAE

Lisa Moreno-Walton, MD, FAAEM, Professor of Emergency Medicine, Director of Research and Director of Diversity for the Section of Emergency Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been elected President-Elect of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM). She is the first female to hold the position. More

Public Release Date: April 26, 2018

1st-of-Its-Kind Study Associates Obesity with Poorer Stroke Outcomes in Non-White Patients

Research led by LSU Health New Orleans faculty has found that obesity contributed to poorer outcomes in non-white patients who had hemorrhagic strokes. It is one of the few studies examining outcomes of patients with obesity following intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) and is the first such study conducted within the stroke belt of the US with a racially diverse population. More

Public Release Date: April 24, 2018

LSUHealthNO Hosts 2nd LGBTQ+ Health Care Symposium

The second annual LGBTQ+ Health Care Symposium will be held the evenings of April 25-26, 2018, at LSU Health New Orleans Medical Education Building, 1901 Perdido Street, in Lecture Room A on the first floor. The two-day event is free and open to the public. More

Public Release Date: April 13, 2018

Chesson Awarded National Inaugural Mentor of the Year Honor

Dr. Ralph Chesson receiving SGS Mentor of the Year Award

Ralph R. Chesson, Jr., MD, the Jack Andonie Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is the recipient of the SGS 2018 Mentor of the Year Award. The award was presented at the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons 44th Annual Meeting. Although mentors are honored each year, this was the first time a mentor of the year was chosen. More

Public Release Date: April 12, 2018

LSUHealthNO’S Porche Leads Nursing Research Society

Following his term as President-Elect, Demetrius Porche, DNS, PhD, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, Professor and Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been installed as President of the Southern Nursing Research Society. More

Public Release Date: April 10, 2018

Carter Nationally Recognized as Nurse Educator

Katherine Carter, DNP, PHCNS-BC, Instructor of Nursing at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, is one of four nurse educators awarded the 2017 Nurse’s Touch Award by ATI Nursing Education. More

Public Release Date: April 6, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Dental School Nationally Recognized

ADEA 2018 Gies Award to LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry

Louisiana’s only dental school earned a number of top honors at the recent American Dental Education Association (ADEA) annual meeting. More

Public Release Date: April 3, 2018

LSUHealthNO LA Tumor Registry Reports 1st Census Tract Cancer Incidence

LSU Health New Orleans Louisiana Tumor Registry (LTR) has published statewide cancer incidence by census tract for the first time.The publication, which reports 2006-2014 combined cancer incidence data, found that one-fifth of the census tracts in Louisiana that met publication criteria had statistically significantly higher incidence rates for all cancers combined and/or for one or more specific cancer types compared to the state rates. More

Public Release Date: March 26, 2018

Ali Named CDC U.S. TB Elimination Champion

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected Juzar Ali, MD, FRCP (C), FCCP, Professor of Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, as one of ten CDC 2018 U.S. TB Elimination Champions. More

Public Release Date: March 23, 2018

Research Discovers How Some Cancers Resist Treatment

An international team of researchers led by Lucio Miele, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Genetics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Justin Stebbing, BM BCh MA, PhD, Professor of Cancer Medicine and Medical Oncology at Imperial College of Medicine in London, has found new genetic mutations that promote the survival of cancer cells. More

Public Release Date: March 16, 2018

Number of LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads to Stay in LA Continues to Fall

Forty-six percent, or 89 of 193 LSU Health New Orleans graduating medical students participating in the National Resident Match Program this year, chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training, and 75% of those staying in-state will enter an LSU Health residency program. More

Public Release Date: March 15, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Medical School Earns Maximum Accreditation

simulaton education at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine received formal notification from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) that it received full accreditation for the maximum period of 8 years. More

Public Release Date: March 13, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Medical Students Raise Funds for Camp Tiger

Dr. Steve Nelson bidding at Camp Tiger Auction

Public Release Date: March 12, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Dental Student Elected to National Office

Jeffrey Kerst, a third-year student at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, is one of two national vice presidents elected to the Board of Trustees of the American Student Dental Association (ASDA) for a one-year term. More

Public Release Date: March 12, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Match Day to Determine LA Physician Supply

Envelopes revealing the number of new doctors who will train in Louisiana will be opened at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine Match Day Ceremony on Friday, March 16, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome St. Charles Room. More

Public Release Date: March 8, 2018

LSU Health New Orleans Research Discovers New Rx for Allergic Contact Dermatitis

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found a promising new treatment for allergic contact dermatitis that offers an alternative to corticosteroids and their possible side effects. More

Public Release Date: March 2, 2018

Backes Elected to National Leadership

The membership of the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics elected Wayne Backes, PhD, Professor of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics and Associate Dean for Research at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, as its next leader. More

Public Release Date: February 21, 2018

Increasing Economic Stability to Reduce HIV in High-Risk Group

LSU Health New Orleans is one of three universities that will share a $723, 931award from the National Institutes of Health to develop and test a pilot microeconomic intervention to reduce the risk of HIV transmission among economically disadvantaged male-to-female transgender women. More

Public Release Date: February 20, 2018

Importance of Edwards’ Research Recognized Nationally

The Central Nervous System Section of the American Physiological Society has selected Scott Edwards, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, as the recipient of its 2018 New Investigator Award. More

Public Release Date: February 19, 2018

Improving Low-Income Residents’ Utilization of Farmers Markets

A pair of studies conducted at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health found reasons and possible solutions to improve low-income residents’ access to fresh, local produce at farmers markets. More

Public Release Date: February 14, 2018

LSU Health and Dental Partners Team Up to Give Kids a Smile

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry and the New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) are partnering to Give Kids a Smile on February 23, 2018. More

Public Release Date: February 7, 2018

LSU Health Nursing Alumni Host 4th Mudbug March to Stomp Out Pulmonary Hypertension

The LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Alumni Association will hold the 4th Annual Mudbug March to stomp out Pulmonary Hypertension on Sunday, March 4, 2018. More

Public Release Date: February 1, 2018

Grant to Provide Dental Care to Kids in Need

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry is one of three dental schools in the United States awarded funding by the American Dental Association (ADA) Foundation to provide comprehensive care to children whose parents cannot afford it. More

Public Release Date: January 31, 2018

Two New Degree Concentrations at LSU Health Nursing School

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is taking applications for two new Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree concentrations. The Acute Care Pediatric Nurse Practitioner concentration is the first in Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: January 24, 2018

Gnerlich Joins LSU Health New Orleans Faculty

Jennifer Gnerlich, MD, has joined the faculty of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine as an assistant professor of clinical surgery. Dr. Gnerlich is a board certified surgical oncologist specializing in upper GI cancers including those of the pancreas, liver, stomach and esophagus. More

Public Release Date: December 23, 2017

Governor Appoints LSU Health New Orleans’ Manning to State Nursing Board

Jennifer Manning, DNS, APRN, CNS, CNE, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been appointed by Governor John Bel Edwards to a four-year term on the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. More

Public Release Date: December 22, 2017

135 Earn Degrees at LSU Health New Orleans in December

One hundred thirty-five students in five LSU Health New Orleans schools received their diplomas in December 2017. More

Public Release Date: December 21, 2017

LSUHealthNO Contributes to 1s- Of-Its-Kind Study of Upper Aerodigestive Cancers

Using data interpreted by LSU Health New Orleans’ Louisiana Tumor Registry, a case-control study found for the first time that older people who have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are at higher risk for cancers of the upper respiratory and digestive tract. More

Public Release Date: December 14, 2017

Bazan Named Adjunct Professor at Prestigious Karolinska Institute

Nicolas G. Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor, Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair for Retinal Degeneration and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of 23 international academics and one of only 11 from the United States appointed as foreign adjunct professors by the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. More

Public Release Date: December 11, 2017

Technology Developed by LSUHealthNO to Drive Advances in Obesity-Related Diseases

For the first time, researchers led by Frank Lau, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans, have successfully kept white fat tissue alive outside of the body for up to eight weeks. More

Public Release Date: December 5, 2017

Molina Nationally Honored for Mentorship

The American Physiological Society (APS) has selected Patricia Molina, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans, as the second recipient of its prestigious A. Clifford Barger Underrepresented Minority Mentorship Award. More

Public Release Date: November 30, 2017

Fish Oil Component Preconditions Vision Cells to Survive Future Injury or Disease

A team of LSU Health New Orleans scientists discovered that a component of fish oil not only protects cells critical to vision from potentially lethal initial insults, but also from those that occur in the future. More

Public Release Date: November 21, 2017

Turtles & Technology Advance Understanding of Lung Abnormality

A study of an unusual snapping turtle with one lung found shared characteristics with humans born with one lung who survive beyond infancy. More

Public Release Date: November 17, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans-UMC Partnership Wins Gold

The 2017 Governor’s Outstanding Leadership in Disabilities (GOLD) Awards were a win-win for LSU Health New Orleans and University Medical Center (UMC). More

Public Release Date: November 16, 2017

Amedee Named Associate Dean of Graduate Studies

Dr Amedee at Graduate Studies Research Day

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

Public Release Date: November 13, 2017

LSU Health Med Students Get Firsthand Health Policy Experience

The second class of Summer Health Policy Fellows at LSU Health New Orleans received certificates of completion at a recent on-campus luncheon sponsored by AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: November 8, 2017

LSUHealthNO Collaboration Working to Improve Drinking Water Safety

Adrienne Katner, DEnv, Assistant Research Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, is part of a team working to help homeowners in Texas and Florida whose drinking water comes from wells that may have been affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. More

Public Release Date: November 1, 2017

LSUHealthNO Dental School’s Vision Nationally Recognized

For the second time, LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry will receive a prestigious American Dental Education Association (ADEA) William J. Gies Award. The ADEAGies Foundation will present the 2018 William J. Gies Award for Vision - Academic Dental Institution to Louisiana’s only dental school during the ADEA Annual Session & Exhibition next March. More

Public Release Date: October 20, 2017

LSUHealthNO to Study Exercise to Reduce Metabolic Disorders Risk in HIV+ People Who Drink

Patricia Molina, MD, PhD, Professor and Head of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been awarded a grant in the amount of $390,532 over two years to test the effectiveness of physical exercise to improve the regulation of blood sugar levels in people living with HIV/AIDS who also use alcohol. More

Public Release Date: October 19, 2017

Veterans Study Reports Reduction in Suicide Ideation after HBOT

A pilot case control study of veterans of the US armed forces with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) or persistent post-concussion syndrome (PPCS), with or without post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), has found significant improvements in persistent post-concussion syndrome and PTSD symptoms, suicide ideation and anxiety. More

Public Release Date: October 13, 2017

LSUHealthNO Dental School Honors Hovland for Lifetime Service

Eric Hovland, DDS, MEd, MBA, Professor Emeritus and former Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, was honored with the Lifetime Service Award at Alumni Day 2017. More

Public Release Date: October 10, 2017

Research to Personalize Pre- & Probiotic Rx to Reduce Diseases Linked to HIV & Alcohol Use

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $401,500 grant over two years to study the role of gut bacteria in the development of heart and metabolic diseases in those with HIV who use alcohol, as well as devise strategies to address these risks. More

Public Release Date: October 10, 2017

Daly Named LSU Health Dental Alumnus of the Year

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry honored Nelson Daly, DDS, as its Alumnus of the Year on Alumni Day 2017. Dr. Daly, a Baton Rouge native and graduate of LSU and UNO, earned his DDS at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry in 1993. More

Public Release Date: October 4, 2017

LSUHealthNO Joins National Precision Medicine Research Database Effort

LSU Health New Orleans' Precision Medicine team will participate in the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program. All of Us, which seeks to gather information about the health of 1 million or more participants living in the US aims to build the largest health research database in US history. More

Public Release Date: October 3, 2017

LSUHealthNO to Study Cause of Alcohol Abuse Linked to PTSD

LSU Health New Orleans has been awarded a $1.85 million grant over five years by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study the brain changes that may underlie excessive alcohol drinking associated with post-traumatic stress disorder. More

Public Release Date: September 27, 2017

New Class of Molecules May Protect Brain from Stroke, Neurodegenerative Diseases

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered a new class of molecules in the brain that synchronize cell-to-cell communication and neuroinflammation/immune activity in response to injury or diseases. More

Public Release Date: September 26, 2017

Reducing Disparities in Cancer Precision Medicine

The National Cancer Institute has awarded LSU Health New Orleans and Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in Tampa a $2 million grant over four years to study cancer precision medicine with an emphasis on underserved minorities and to train students and junior scientists in cancer health disparities-based precision medicine research. More

Public Release Date: September 25, 2017

$1.4 Million Grant to Fund LSU Health Research Pipeline

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $1.4 million grant over five years to prepare individuals from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to earn either a PhD or MD/PhD degree. More

Public Release Date: September 15, 2017

LSUHealthNO to Study New Drug to Regenerate Heart Muscle

In collaboration with Novo Biosciences, Inc., LSU Health New Orleans Cardiovascular Center of Excellence will receive more $500,000 over two years to study the effectiveness of a novel drug designed to stimulate the regeneration of heart muscle and prevent the formation or scar tissue following a heart attack. More

Public Release Date: September 12, 2017

LSUHealthNO Research Discovers Potential New Rx Target for Colon Cancer

Genetic research conducted at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center demonstrated for the first time that a novel protein can cause normal cells in the lining of the colon to become malignant, grow and spread, as well as take on the characteristics of stem cells. More

Public Release Date: August 31, 2017

LSUHealthNO Discovery May Be Key to Obesity, Diabetes Rx

Research led by Suresh Alahari, PhD, Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has demonstrated the potential of a protein to treat or prevent metabolic diseases including obesity and diabetes. More

Public Release Date: August 29, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Reopens, August 30, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans will resume normal operations on Wednesday, August 30, 2017.Classes will be held, and patients will be seen as scheduled at clinics located on the downtown New Orleans and dental school campuses. More

Public Release Date: August 28, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Closed Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Out of an abundance of caution due to the flooding threat posed by Tropical Storm Harvey coupled with the city's diminished pumping capacity, LSU Health New Orleans will close its downtown New Orleans and dental campuses on Tuesday, August 29, 2017. More

Public Release Date: August 28, 2017

LSUHealthNO Research Award to Improve Heart Attack Recovery

LSU Health New Orleans will receive $735,000 over two years to study the effectiveness of the first patented drug-eluting guidewire in preventing a complication that can occur following treatment of heart attacks with angioplasty. More

Public Release Date: August 25, 2017

10 Million Reasons that Treatment of Cancers Caused by Viruses May Advance

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded LSU Health New Orleans a $10 million grant over five years to support new basic research studies advancing the development new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for virus-induced cancers. More

Public Release Date: August 21, 2017

LSUHealthNO’s Campbell Named Family Physician of the Year

James Campbell, MD, Associate Professor and Director of the Kenner Family Medicine Residency Program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been selected as the Family Physician of 2017 by the Louisiana Academy of Family Physicians. More

Public Release Date: August 14, 2017

$3.7 Million Grant to Fund Research on Novel Drug Targeting Heart Diseases

The Exscien Corporation of Louisville, KY, in conjunction with LSU Health New Orleans Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, has been awarded an SBIR Fast-Track grant in the amount of $3.7 million over three years by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. More

Public Release Date: August 14, 2017

Carlson Family to Be Introduced at HBOT Conference

Paul Harch, MD, Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Edward Fogarty, MD, Chair of Radiology at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, will present details of the case of three-year-old Eden Carlson at the HBOT 2017 – 11th International Symposium on Friday, August 18, 2017, at 12:00 noon CDT. More

Public Release Date: August 11, 2017

$1.3 Million Federal Grant Supports Nursing Education & Clinical Trainingn

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been awarded a grant for $1,384,070 over two years by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to prepare primary care advanced practice registered nursing students to practice in rural and underserved settings. More

Public Release Date: August 8, 2017

$15 Million Grant to LSUHealthNO to Help Reduce Cancer in Louisiana

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health $15 million over five years for its cancer education, early detection, comprehensive control and registry programs. More

Public Release Date: August 4, 2017

LSUHealthNO Public Health Teams Up With Baby Cakes to Honor Cancer Survivors, Promote Prevention & Early Detection

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health faculty and staff will participate in the New Orleans Baby Cakes’ Cancer Awareness Night on Friday, August 4, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. at the Shrine on Airline. More

Public Release Date: August 2, 2017

Regents and Donors Support LSUHealthNO Health Education and Care

LSU Health Foundation New Orleans has received $360,000 in matching funds from the Louisiana Board of Regents Support Fund for endowed professorships and superior graduate scholarships. More

Public Release Date: July 31, 2017

LSUHealthNO Research Finds Home-Based Kit Would Increase HIV Testing

Research led by William Robinson, PhD, Associate Research Professor of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, has found that 86% of heterosexuals who are at high risk for HIV would use a home-based test kit provided by mail and 99% would seek treatment based on a positive result. More

Public Release Date: July 28, 2017

LSUHealthNO Research Finds Walnuts May Promote Health by Changing Gut Bacteria

Research led by Lauri Byerley, PhD, RD, Research Associate Professor of Physiology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that walnuts in the diet change the makeup of bacteria in the gut, which suggests a new way walnuts may contribute to better health. More

Public Release Date: July 25, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Dental School to Reopen Wednesday

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry will resume normal operations on Wednesday, July 26, 2017. Classes will be held and patients will be seen as scheduled. More

Public Release Date: July 24, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Dental School Remains Closed Tuesday

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry clean-up

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry will be closed Tuesday, July 25, 2017, because repairs to electrical infrastructure are not yet complete following Saturday’s flooding. More

Public Release Date: July 24, 2017

Research Targets Long-Term Brain Deficits in Cardiac Arrest Survivors

Research conducted by Jason Middleton, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Neuroscience at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and colleagues may lead to a treatment to prevent long-term sensory problems by restoring normal brain function in survivors of cardiac arrest. More

Public Release Date: July 19, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Dental School Closed Monday

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry will be closed Monday, July 24, 2017, due to a power outage that also affects telephones and the computer network on the dental school campus. Classes and patient appointments at the E. E. Jeansonne Clinic Building at 1100 Florida Avenue are cancelled, and only essential personnel should report for work on Monday. More

Public Release Date: July 19, 2017

Altier Takes Reins of LSU Health Foundation New Orleans

The Board of Directors of LSU Health Foundation New Orleans has named Matthew Altier President and Chief Executive Officer. Altier’s most recent prior position was Vice President for Business Development at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: July 18, 2017

LSUhealthNO Research to Improve Resilience to Disasters in LA

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health will receive $2.5 million to improve resilience and mental health outcomes in six communities in south Louisiana that experience weather-related and manmade disasters. More

Public Release Date: July 18, 2017

Using Omega 3 Fatty Acids to Treat Alzheimer’s & Other Diseases?

Understanding how dietary essential fatty acids work may lead to effective treatments for diseases and conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, age-related macular degeneration, Parkinson’s disease and other retinal and neurodegenerative diseases. The key is to be able to intervene during the early stages of the disease. More

Public Release Date: July 17, 2017

O2 & Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Reverses Brain Damage in Drowned Toddler

Dr. Paul Harch, Clinical Professor and Director of Hyperbaric Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and Dr. Edward Fogarty, at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, report the case of the reversal of brain volume loss in a two-year-old drowning victim unresponsive to all stimuli. More

Public Release Date: July 17, 2017

LSUHealthNO Nursing Simulation Center Earns Full Accreditation

The Simulation Center of the Nursing Skills and Technology Center at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing received 5-year accreditation. More

Public Release Date: July 14, 2017

LSUHealthNO’s Porche Selected for National Honor

Demetrius Porche, DNS, PhD, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, Professor and Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, is one of 14 distinguished nurse educators chosen for induction into the National League for Nursing’s Academy of Nursing Education. More

Public Release Date: July 13, 2017

Newly Discovered Elovanoids Called a “Transformative New Concept of Biology”

Research led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, has discovered a new class of mediators, or biochemical triggers that he named elovanoids (ELVs). More

Public Release Date: July 12, 2017

Entergy Foundation Supports Health Professions Pipeline Program

Entergy supports LSUHealthNO pipeline program

Entergy Charitable Foundation recently presented an $80,000 grant to support an LSU Health New Orleans program that is improving science education and attracting more young people to careers in the health professions. More

Public Release Date: July 11, 2017

ACF Donates $100,000 for LSUHealthNO Cancer Research

Chicken Jam celebrates fried chicken while raising $ for LSUHealthNO cancer research

Al Copeland, Jr., CEO and Chairman of the Board of Al Copeland Investments, presented a check in the amount of $100,000 to Dr. Larry Hollier, Chancellor of LSU Health New Orleans, Matthew Altier, President of LSU Health Foundation New Orleans and Dr. Augusto Ochoa, Director of LSU Health New Orleans Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, at the Second Annual Chicken Jam. More

Public Release Date: July 3, 2017

LSUHealthNO to Hold Dental Hygiene Program Open House

The Dental Hygiene Program at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry will hold an Open House on July 18, 2017, from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon at the school, 1100 Florida Avenue. More

Public Release Date: June 29, 2017

LSUHealthNO Public Health Cancer Plan to Reduce LA Cancer Deaths

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health’s Louisiana Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan 2017-2021 provides a roadmap to reduce cancer deaths in Louisiana over the next five years. More

Public Release Date: June 27, 2017

LSUHealthNO’S Gremillion Elected to National Dental Education Leadership Post

Henry Gremillion, DDS, MAGD, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, has been elected Board Director for Deans of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) 2017-18 Board of Directors. More

Public Release Date: June 26, 2017

LSUHealthNO-Founded Men’s Health Journal Now Ranked in Top 50

The impact factor of the American Journal of Men’s Health, housed in the LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, reveals that it has become an influential source of information nationally and internationally about men’s health. More

Public Release Date: June 23,, 2017

Donation Supports LSU Health New Orleans Usher Syndrome Research

Jennifer J. Lentz, PhD, Assistant Professor at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, has received a $30,000 donation from the Ush One See Foundation to support her Natural History of Usher Syndrome in Louisiana research study. More

Public Release Date: June 22,, 2017

Apply to LSUHealthNO Nursing Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program Now

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing is now accepting applications for Fall 2017 enrollment in its Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program. More

Public Release Date: May 25, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Offers Expertise to Cope with Terrorism

Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine offer their expertise to help people cope with the latest act of terrorism that occurred in London Monday night. More

Public Release Date: May 24, 2017

LSUHealthNO Partners with Team Gleason for ALS Conference

The Human Development Center at LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions will host a conference addressing communication strategies for people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). More

Public Release Date: May 16, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Graduates New Members of Health Care Workforce

Students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ six professional health schools will graduate during its 143rd Commencement on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena. More

Public Release Date: May 2, 2017

Free Oral Health Screening to Help Save Lives

Led by Dr. Rohan Walvekar, a Head and Neck Surgeon at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, LSU Health New Orleans ENT faculty, residents and medical students will conduct a free oral cancer screening open to the public. More

Public Release Date: May 1, 2017

LSUHealthNO Awarded $2.5m Grant to Develop Better Dental Filling Materials

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health has awarded LSU Health New Orleans’ School of Dentistry an R01 grant in the amount of $2,465,297 over five years to develop stronger, longer-lasting dental filling materials with antibacterial properties to inhibit recurrent cavities and extend the life of the restoration. More

Public Release Date: April 26, 2017

Harman Joins LSU Health New Orleans

Dr. Larry Hollier, Chancellor of LSU Health New Orleans has appointed John A. Harman, MBA, CPA, CGMA, CMPE, as Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance effective May 1, 2017. More

Public Release Date: April 21, 2017

LSUHealthNO Research Shows Fish Oil Component Helps Damaged Brain & Retina Cells Survive

A team of researchers led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has shown for the first time that NDP1, a signaling molecule made from DHA, can trigger the production of a protective protein against toxic free radicals and injury in the brain and retina. More

Public Release Date: April 19, 2017

LSUHealthNO Medical Student to Spend a Year Doing Research at NIH

Russ Guidry, a student at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of only about 50 medical students in the country chosen to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medical Research Scholars Program. More

Public Release Date: April 18, 2017

LSUHealthNO Hosts Geaux, Baby, Geaux! Workshop

LSU Health New Orleans School of Allied Health Professions will host the Geaux, Baby, Geaux! Workshop on April 21, 2017, from 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at its Human Development Center, 411 South Prieur Street. More

Public Release Date: April 17, 2017

Medicine 2017 White Coat Ceremony

The LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine will hold its annual White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, April 22, at 2:30 p.m. at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome Bienville Room. More

Public Release Date: April 13, 2017

Technique Improves Breast Reduction Outcomes

Research led by Frank Lau, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that long-term breast reduction outcomes can be improved by using techniques that minimally disrupt the lower breast suspensory ligaments. More

Public Release Date: April 12, 2017

LSUHealthNO Nursing Named a Stellar School – Again

For the second time, the National Student Nurses’ Association (NSNA) has designated LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing as a Stellar School. More

Public Release Date: April 5, 2017

LSUHealthNO Educators Awarded Nursing “Oscars”

Two members of the faculty of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing earned top honors at the Louisiana Nurses Foundation’s 2017 Nightingale Gala & Awards Ceremony. More

Public Release Date: March 31, 2017

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

Public Release Date: March 30, 2017

Discovery of New Predatory Dinosaur Species Gives New Insight on Their Evolution

Jayc Sedlmayr, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology & Anatomy at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of an international team of scientists who discovered a new tyrannosaur with an unusual mode of evolution. More

Public Release Date: March 29, 2017

LSUHealthNO Celebrates National Public Health Week

LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health will mark National Public Health Week, April 3 - 9, 2017, with a variety of events celebrating the power of prevention, advocating for healthy and fair policies, sharing strategies for successful partnerships and championing the role of a strong public health system. More

Public Release Date: March 28, 2017

LSUHealthNO’S LA Tumor Registry Now Includes Prevalence Data

For the first time, data published by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health’s Louisiana Tumor Registry includes cancer prevalence. More

Public Release Date: March 27, 2017

LSUHealthNO Donors Now Receive Tiger Athletic Foundation Priority Points

Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF) is now awarding priority points for gifts made to LSU Health Foundation New Orleans and LSU Health New Orleans Medical Alumni Association. More

Public Release Date: March 17, 2017

Nearly Half of LSU Health New Orleans Medical Grads to Stay In LA

Forty-nine percent, or 94 of 193 LSU Health New Orleans graduating medical students participating in the National Resident Match Program this year, chose to remain in Louisiana to complete their medical training, and More

Public Release Date: March 14, 2017

Phillippi’s Expertise in Juvenile Justice Recognized

Governor John Bel Edwards has appointed Stephen Phillippi, Jr., PhD, LCSW, CCFC, Associate Professor, Chair of Behavioral & Community Health Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Public Health and Justice at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, to the Louisiana Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Advisory Board. More

Public Release Date: March 13, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Match Day to Reveal How Many Doctors Louisiana Will Have

Envelopes revealing the number of new doctors who will train in Louisiana will be opened at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine Match Day Ceremony on Friday, March 17, 2017. More

Public Release Date: March 9, 2017

LSUHealthNO Public Health Hosts Free Health Disparities Event

Dean G. Smith, PhD, Professor and Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health will host a special event focused on health disparities on Wednesday, March 15, 2017. More

Public Release Date: March 6, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Student Bands Perform to Raise Funds for Camp Tiger

The LSU Health New Orleans Student Interest Group for Music and the Arts (SIGMA) will hold a “Battle of the Bands” on Saturday, March 11, 2017, from 7:00 - 11:00 p.m. at Republic NOLA, 828 South Peters Street in the Warehouse District. More

Public Release Date: March 2, 2017

LSU Health New Orleans Med Students Raise Funds for Camp Tiger

LSU Health New Orleans Camp Tiger Benefit Auction – the major fund-raiser supporting the free, week-long summer day camp for children with special needs in the metropolitan New Orleans area – will be on Friday, March 31, 2017, from 7:00 - 11:00 p.m., at Club XLIV in the heart of Champions Square (on Lasalle Street adjacent to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome). More

Public Release Date: February 22, 2017

LSUHealthNO Oral Surgeons Bring Added Expertise in Head & Neck Cancer Surgery & Reconstruction to NOLA & BR

LSU Health New Orleans’ Beomjune Kim, DMD, MD, FACS, and Waleed Zaid, DDS, FRCD (C), MSc, have been awarded a Certificate of Added Qualifications in Head and Neck Oncologic and Reconstructive Surgery by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS). More

Public Release Date: February 21, 2017

Application Deadline for Summer Health Professions Education Program Approaching

The deadline to apply for the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) at LSU Health New Orleans is March 1, 2017. More

Public Release Date: February 20, 2017

LSUHealthNO & Partners Offer Free Private Well Disinfection Class

LSU Health New Orleans Public Health faculty, along with Communities Unlimited and Rural Community Assistance Partnership, will teach a free class for private well owners affected by the Great Louisiana Flood of 2016. More

Public Release Date: February 9, 2017

Reed Honored as One of LA’s Most Influential in Tech & Entrepreneurship

Patrick Reed, MS, RTTP, Director of Technology Management at LSU Health New Orleans, has been selected as a member of the 2016 Silicon Bayou 100. More

Public Release Date: February 8, 2017

Dental Partners Team Up to Give Kids a Smile

The LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry and the New Orleans Dental Association (NODA) are teaming up to Give Kids a Smile. About 120 third-graders from ReNew McDonough City Park Academy are expected to take part in the 2017 Give Kids a Smile Day. More

Public Release Date: February 7, 2017

Approach Removes Thyroid Gland with No Neck Scar or Need for Special Equipment

A surgical approach developed by ENT surgeons at LSU Health New Orleans to perform thryroidectomies without scarring the neck appears to be just as successful using standard surgery. More

Public Release Date: February 1, 2017

Tessler Appointed to National Performance Group

Oren Tessler, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been selected to serve on the Autologous Breast Reconstruction Performance Measures Work Group of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). More

Public Release Date: January 31, 2017

Mudbug March to Stomp Out Pulmonary Hypertension

The LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Alumni Association will hold the 3rd Annual Mudbug March to stomp out Pulmonary Hypertension on Sunday, March 5, 2017 at the New Orleans City Park Peristyle. More

Public Release Date: January 26, 2017

Barsley Elected Chair of CSSP Executive Committee

Robert Barsley, DDS, JD, Professor of Diagnostic Sciences and Director of Oral Health Resources, Community and Hospital Dentistry at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, has been elected Chair of the Executive Committee of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents. More

Public Release Date: January 20, 2017

DiCarlo Appointed to Senior Leadership Post

Dr. Steve Nelson, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has appointed Dr. Richard DiCarlo as Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Institutional Affairs at the school. DiCarlo remains a Professor of Medicine. More

Public Release Date: January 19, 2017

IT Network Upgrades Support LSUHealthNO Research Enterprise

The Department of Information Technology at LSU Health New Orleans successfully competed for its first National Science Foundation grant. The $499,640 grant will support a complete cyberinfrastructure overhaul in two key research buildings. More

Public Release Date: January 13, 2017

LSUHealthNO’s Gilpin Only 1 in LA Chosen for High Us Government Honor

Nicholas W. Gilpin, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Associate Director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans, is the only Louisiana recipient of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers awarded by President Obama on January 9, 2017. More

Public Release Date: January 12, 2017

Grant Awarded to LSUhealthNO Student Program to Help Homeless Women & Children

A program founded and run by LSU Health New Orleans medical students to make health care and health education more accessible to homeless women and children has been awarded a $10,000 grant. More

Public Release Date: January 11, 2017

Fontham Appointed to Gulf Research Advisory Board

Elizabeth “Terry” Fontham, DrPH, Founding Dean and Emeritus Professor at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, is the only appointee from a Louisiana university to the Advisory Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine’s Gulf Research Program for the term beginning January 1, 2017. More

Public Release Date: January 10, 2017

LSUHealthNO Study 1st to Show Parents’ Concerns About Neighborhood Restrict Kids’ Outdoor Play

A study conducted by LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health is the first to demonstrate that parents who are concerned about their neighborhoods restrict their children’s outdoor play. More

Public Release Date: January 9, 2017

Charity Hospital Clean-Out Set to Begin

Jerry Jones, LSU Health New Orleans Health Care Services Division Director of Facility Planning, briefed media today on the Charity Hospital Clean-Out set to begin on January 10, 2017. More

Public Release Date: January 6, 2017

While Not Necessarily Reality, Perception Can Cause Reality to Evolve

In an invited perspective published January 6, 2017, in Science, Hamilton Farris, PhD, Associate Professor-Research at LSU Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence, finds that the key insight of an important study by Nachev, et al. is that perception can drive the evolution of observable traits. More

Public Release Date: January 4, 2017

LSUHealthNO’s Bonanno Reappointed to LA State Nursing Board, Elected President

Governor John Bel Edwards has reappointed Laura S. Bonanno, DNP, CRNA, Nurse Anesthesia Program Director and Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, to the Louisiana State Board of Nursing. More

Public Release Date: December 22, 2016

LSUHealthNO Docs Perform LA’s 1st High-Risk Coronary Angioplasty with Novel Device at UMC

LSU Health New Orleans interventional cardiologist Murtuza Ali, MD, led a team that performed the first coronary angioplasty using the investigational HeartMate PHP™ in Louisiana on Tuesday, December 20, 2106, at University Medical Center New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: December 19, 2016

LSUHealthNO’s Zura Helps to Get Powdered Gloves Banned

Powdered gloves used for everything from surgery to patient exams, have been now banned, a result that Robert Zura, MD, Professor and Chair of Orthopaedics at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has worked to achieve since his undergraduate days. More

Public Release Date: December 16, 2016

National Nursing Accrediting Agency Taps LSU Health New Orleans Dean

Demetrius Porche, DNS, PhD, FACHE, FAANP, FAAN, Professor and Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been appointed to a three-year term on the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education’s (CCNE) Report Review Committee. More

Public Release Date: December 14, 2016

Delacroix Elected to NCI Steering Committee

Scott Delacroix, Jr., MD, Director of Urologic Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been elected as the new community oncology representative to the Genitourinary Steering Committee, one of the Scientific Steering Committees of the National Cancer Institute’s Coordinating Center for Clinical Trials. More

Public Release Date: December 9, 2016

Bazan Selected for Prestigious International Appointment

Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor, Ernest C. and Yvette C. Villere Chair for the Study of Retinal Degeneration, and Director of the Neuroscience Center of Excellence at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has been appointed a Foreign Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience in the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. More

Public Release Date: December 9, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Flood Relief Fund Grants Awarded

Checks from the flood relief fund that LSU Health New Orleans and its Foundation established to provide emergency financial assistance to faculty, staff and students in extreme financial need after the Great Louisiana Flood of 2016 are being distributed to qualified applicants just in time for the holidays. More

Public Release Date: December 8, 2016

LSU Health Recognized as 1st Hidden Scar Center in New Orleans

LSU Health New Orleans has become the first Hidden Scar™ Breast Cancer Surgery Center in New Orleans. Dr. Adam Riker, Professor and Chief of Surgical Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, is one of the few Louisiana surgeons trained in the Hidden Scar™ Breast Cancer Surgery technique. More

Public Release Date: December 7, 2016

Protection Against Zika Just as Important During Winter

Just because temperatures are cooling down as winter approaches, it’s no time to let your guard down when it comes to mosquitoes that can carry the Zika virus. More

Public Release Date: December 6, 2016

Free Seminar Details Cannabis and Its Medicinal Potential

LSU Health New Orleans Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center of Excellence and Baker Donelson are offering Cannabis and Its Medicinal Potential: State of the Research and Policy Wednesday, December 14, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. on the LSU Health New Orleans campus. More

Public Release Date: December 5, 2016

Research Providing Promising New Treatments for Melanoma

In a paper published online November 30, 2016, in Melanoma Management, Adam Riker, MD, Professor of Surgery and Chief of Surgical Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, reviews approaches to manage melanoma, including one tested at LSU Health New Orleans that provoked a complete response in a patient with a long history of the disease. More

Public Release Date: December 1, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Offers Free Oral Cancer Screening

LSU Health New Orleans ENT surgeons, residents and medical students are conducting a free oral cancer screening open to the public on Friday, December 2, from 1 – 4 pm at Zuppardo's Family Supermarket, 5010 Veterans Memorial Blvd in Metairie. More

Public Release Date: November 30, 2016

Test for Early Diagnosis of Life-Threatening Preemie Disease Advances

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen an LSU Health New Orleans team that developed a test for the early detection of a potentially life-threatening gastrointestinal disease affecting pre-term, low birthweight babies to receive expert guidance to move the technology forward. More

Public Release Date: November 16, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Reports Innovations in Defining Sources of GI Bleeding

A team of physicians at LSU Health New Orleans has found that endoscopy combined with the administration of antiplatelet or anticoagulant agents is a safe and effective technique for identifying hidden sources of gastrointestinal bleeding. More

Public Release Date: November 10, 2016

Omniseq Forms Clinical Evaluation Partnership with LSU Health New Orleans to Provide Comprehensive Genomic Profiling

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans ( LSU Health New Orleans) and Omniseq (OmniSeq®), a subsidiary of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), are now partnering to provide oncologists with comprehensive next generation sequencing of solid tumors for clinical decision support. More

Public Release Date: November 7, 2016

LSU Health Nursing Inks Articulation Agreement with Fletcher

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has signed an Articulation Agreement with the School of Nursing at Fletcher Technical Community College to admit Fletcher graduates to LSU Health New Orleans’ Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program. More

Public Release Date: October 21, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Dental School to Open After-Hours Pediatric Clinic

LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry plans to open an after-hours pediatric dental clinic in November 2016, with support from a $37,156.83 grant from Healthy Smiles, Healthy Children (HSHC): The Foundation of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. More

Public Release Date: October 17, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Offering Free Well Water Testing in Flood-Affected Areas

Researchers at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health and Virginia Tech are offering free well water testing to residents who were affected by the recent Louisiana floods and will study results to better understand the impact of floods on private well water and the effectiveness of prevailing well water disinfection protocols. More

Public Release Date: October 13, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Opens Merkel Cell Carcinoma Clinical Trial

LSU Health New Orleans is recruiting participants to a clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of MK-3475 (pembrolizumab) in treating patients with Merkel cell cancer that cannot be removed by surgery, or controlled with treatment, or has spread to other parts of the body. It is the first systemic intervention for patients with advanced Merkel cell carcinoma. More

Public Release Date: October 10, 2016

New Resource for Cancer Patients

LSUHealthNO will hold a press conference to announce a new resource for cancer patients More

Public Release Date: October 4, 2016

Hollier Joins Small Number of Esteemed Colleagues Who Have Received Singular Honor

Larry H. Hollier, MD, FACS, FACC, FRCS (Eng.), Chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, has been accepted as an Honorary Member and named a Fellow of the Texas Surgical Society. In the organization’s 101-year history, only 22 surgeons in the country have been selected for this honor. More

Public Release Date: October 3, 2016

Research Provides New Information on Cancer & Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Link

A study conducted by researchers at LSU Health New Orleans suggests that age is an important factor in the association between cancer and sugar-sweetened beverages and recommends that intervention programs to reduce consumption of added sugar be focused on lower socio-economic status, young males, as well as cervical cancer survivors. More

Public Release Date: September 29, 2016

LSU Health Psychiatry Awarded $3 Million Grant to Build Terrorism & Disaster Resilience

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry has been competitively awarded a $3 million grant over five years by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to build the Terrorism and Disaster Coalition for Child and Family Resilience. More

Public Release Date: September 26, 2016

Case Demonstrates Best Rx Options for Advanced Skin Cancer in the Elderly

A new case study by a team of surgical oncologists and plastic and reconstructive surgeons at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine highlighted the frequency and clinical challenges of treating advanced skin cancers in older people. More

Public Release Date: September 22, 2016

NET Patient Conference Brings Hundreds to Hear Latest Advances by LSU Health Faculty & Other Leading Experts

LSU Health New Orleans faculty, among the most experienced physicians in the world treating neuroendocrine tumors, will share their expertise, advances and results at the 2016 National Neuroendocrine Tumor (NET) Patient Conference September 22 - 24, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans. More

Public Release Date: September 22, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Paints October Pink

Through a variety of activities, faculty and staff at LSU Health New Orleans will raise awareness about breast cancer and share the latest information on topics from research discoveries and clinical trials, to current treatments and what is on the horizon during the month of October – Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The events are free and open to the public. More

Public Release Date: September 21, 2016

LSUHealthNO Research Reveals How Psychedelics Alter Brain Function with Innovative Method

Surprising findings of LSU Health New Orleans research on the brain’s response to psychedelic drugs include that psychedelics directly activate only about 5% of brain cells, even in the most highly responding areas of the brain. More

Public Release Date: September 20, 2016

Neuro-Oncologist Joins LSU Health Faculty

Aaron Mammoser, MD, recruited as an associate professor of clinical neurosurgery, will hold the Kelsey Bradley Favrot Chair in Neuro-Oncology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery. Dr. Mammoser is an MD Anderson-trained neuro-oncologist. More

Public Release Date: September 16, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing Earns Top Rankings

The School of Nursing at LSU Health New Orleans has been ranked the #9 nursing school in the United States, the #5 nursing school among public nursing schools nationally and the #2 nursing school in the Southeast region. The rankings resulted from an evaluation of data collected from nursing schools nationwide. More

Public Release Date: September 13, 2016

Lee Named Chair of Dermatology

After a national search, Dr. Steve Nelson, Dean of LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has appointed Dr. Brian Lee Chairman of the Department of Dermatology. More

Public Release Date: September 7, 2016

Why Bones Don’t Heal: Researchers Identify Risk Factors for Nonunion of Fractures

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Dr. Robert Zura, the Robert D’Ambrosia Professor and Head of Orthopaedic Surgery at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, was part of a research team that identified risk factors which may help orthopaedic surgeons better predict a serious complication of bone fractures. The paper was published September 7, 2016, in the Online First section of JAMA Surgery. More

Public Release Date: September 6, 2016

LSU Health Dentistry Grant to Help Improve Oral Cancer Survival

Dr. Kitrina Cordell, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Diagnostic Sciences at LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, has been awarded a $5,000 grant by the Academy of General Dentistry to develop a school-wide program to teach patients about self oral cancer screening. More

Public Release Date: August 26, 2016

Researchers Report New Zika Complication

Dr. John England, Professor and Chair of Neurology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, and colleagues in Honduras and Venezuela have reported a new neurological complication of infection with the Zika virus. They described the first confirmed case of Zika-associated sensory polyneuropathy. More

Public Release Date: August 11, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Dental School Cooks for 1st Responders

More than 100 LSU Health New Orleans dental and dental hygiene students, faculty, staff and volunteers will bring out their cooking pots to make a New Orleans-style lunch for first responders on Sunday, August 14, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at the LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry, 1100 Florida Avenue. More

Public Release Date: August 10, 2016

LSU Health Med Students Get Firsthand Health Policy Experience

The first class of Summer Health Policy Fellows at LSU Health New Orleans will receive certificates of completion Friday, August 12, 2016, at an on-campus luncheon sponsored by AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana. More

Public Release Date: August 4, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans Works with ACP to Raise the Rates

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine faculty have partnered with the Louisiana Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP) to raise the immunization rates of Louisiana adults through ACP’s I Raise the Rates Program. August is National Immunization Awareness Month, beginning with Adult Immunization Week. More

Public Release Date: August 2, 2016

White Coat Ceremony–Rite of Passage for Medical Students

The LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine will hold its annual White Coat Ceremony on Saturday, August 6, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at Holy Cross High School, 5500 Paris Ave, New Orleans. This year, 203 second-year LSU Health New Orleans medical students will receive white coats, a visible symbol of patient care. During the ceremony, students are “coated” by faculty members chosen by the class for their commitment to medical education and their students. More

Public Release Date: July 25, 2016

LSU Health New Orleans nursing school awarded financial aid for students

LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing has been awarded a total of $2.2 million over four years by the Health Resources and Services Administration to help qualified Nurse Anesthesia and Family Nurse Practitioner students with school and living expenses. More

Public Release Date: July 22, 2016

Novel compounds arrested epilepsy development in mice

A team led by Nicolas Bazan, MD, PhD, Boyd Professor and Director of LSU Health New Orleans’ Neuroscience Center of Excellence, has developed neuroprotective compounds that may prevent the development of epilepsy. More

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