LSU Health Shreveport is a public university focused on health sciences education and located in Shreveport, Louisiana . It is part of the Louisiana State University System and is composed of three schools: the School of Medicine, School of Graduate Studies, and School of Allied Health Professions. The School of Medicine offers the Doctor of Medicine degree, while both the Schools of Graduate Studies and Allied Health offer Bachelor's degrees , Master's degrees , and Doctorate degrees. The School of Medicine also offers 17 residency and 34 fellowship training programs through the Office of Graduate Medical Education.
6-833: Established in 1966 as the Louisiana State University School of Medicine at Shreveport , Edgar Hull – who in 1931 had worked to establish the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans – served as the first dean until his retirement in 1973. G. E. Ghali was named Chancellor of LSU Health Shreveport in October 2016. Ghali left LSU Health Shreveport in June 2021. David Lewis, also dean of the School of Medicine, stepped in as interim chancellor. In January 2023, David Guzick took over as chancellor. Since 2016,
12-578: The LSU medical school in Shreveport has grappled with financial troubles. LSU President F. King Alexander said that the troubles date to 2013, when the private Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana assumed control of the teaching hospital as part of then- Governor Bobby Jindal 's plan to privatize the state charity hospital system. Alexander said that the foundation has not paid hospital bills in full and provides insufficient funding to sustain
18-600: The MD degree, but some students elect to join the rigorous combined MD–PhD program. Most students complete clinical rotations at one of the Ochsner LSU Health sites including the main Academic Medical Center, St. Mary's Medical Center for Women and Children, Louisiana Behavioral Hospital, and Monroe Medical Center. Edgar Hull Edgar Hull Jr. (February 20, 1904 – October 25, 1984),
24-482: The medical school. In October 2018, LSU Health Shreveport formed a 50/50, public/private partnership with Ochsner Health. This new entity, Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport is a branch of Ochsner Health System and serves the people of North Louisiana, a patient population of approximately 2 million. LSU Health Shreveport's three professional schools (Allied Health Professions, School of Graduate Studies, and School of Medicine) offer multiple degree paths. Allied Health has
30-702: The widest arrangement of academic degrees, with undergraduate and graduate programs. It also offers three residency programs. The school of graduate studies offers master's degrees and PhDs and takes part in a combined MD-PhD program with the School of Medicine. The SOGS offers doctorate degrees in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and Pathology and Translational Pathobiology. The Cellular Biology and Anatomy department also offers master's degrees. https://schoolofgradstudies.lsuhs.edu/academics/ The School of Medicine only offers
36-898: Was a Louisiana physician . He was part of the founding faculty of the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans , and later served as Dean of the Louisiana State University School of Medicine at Shreveport (now the LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport ). Hull died in Pascagoula, Mississippi, at the age of eighty, and was interred at Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. This Louisiana -related article
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