LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine Contents Page Administration. 188 Grading and Evaluation of Performance. 188 Appeal of Final Grade. 189 Continuing Medical Education.
193 Description of Departments. 226 LSUHSC-NO Academic Catalog/Bulletin 175 LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER AT NEW ORLEANS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Steve Nelson, MD, Dean Appointed to the Deanship: September 18, 2007 Appointed to the Health Sciences Center Faculty: July 1, 1984 Faculty Academic Rank: Professor of Medicine Address: LSUHSC School of Medicine 2020 Gravier Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Telephone Number: (504) 568-4007 Website: http://www.edu Administration FRED LOPEZ, MD Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and STEVE NELSON, MD Records Dean SAMUEL G. McCLUGAGE, PhD WAYNE BACKES, PhD Associate Dean for Admissions Associate Dean for Research VACANT JOSEPH DELCARPIO, PhD Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Records KEITH G. SCHROTH Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs RICHARD DICARLO, MD Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education DWAYNE THOMAS, MD Associate Dean for Health Quality and Patient CATHI FONTENOT, MD Safety Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs and Development EDWARD G.
HELM, MD Associate Dean for Community and Minority Health Education CHARLES W. HILTON, MD Associate Dean for Academic Affairs JANIS G. LETOURNEAU, MD Associate Dean for Faculty and Institutional Affairs LSUHSC-NO Academic Catalog/Bulletin 176 LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine Administrative Council PATRICIA MOLINA, MD, PHD Head of the Department of Physiology STEVE NELSON, MD LEE NESBITT, MD Dean; Chairman Head of the Department of Dermatology WAYNE BACKES, PhD DANIEL W. NUSS, MD Associate Dean for Research Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and ROBERT BATSON, MD Biocommunication Head of the Department of Surgery AUGUSTO OCHOA, MD NICOLAS BAZAN, MD, PhD Director of Stanley S.
Scott Cancer Center Director of the Neuroscience Center HOWARD J. OSOFSKY, MD PhD LEONARD BOK, MD Head of the Department of Psychiatry Head of the Department of Radiology SETH PINCUS, MD FRANK CULICCHIA, MD Director of the Research Institute for Children Head of the Department of Neurosurgery ALISTAIR RAMSAY, PhD COLEMAN, MARY, MD, PhD (ex-officio) Director of the Gene Therapy Program and Head of the Department of Microbiology Director of Community Health JOSEPH DELCARPIO, PhD CHARLES V. SANDERS, MD Associate Dean for Student Affairs Head of the Department of Medicine RICHARD DICARLO, MD KEITH G. SCHROTH, MD Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs JOHN D.
ENGLAND, MD RICARDO SORENSEN, MD Head of the Department of Neurology Head of the Department of Pediatrics CATHI FONTENOT, MD DWAYNE THOMAS, MD Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs Associate Dean for Health Care Quality and Safety ARTHUR HAAS, PhD RICHARD S. VANDER HEIDE, MD Head of the Department of Biochemistry and Head of the Department of Pathology Molecular Biology KURT VARNER, PhD EDWARD G. HELM, MD Head of the Department of Pharmacology Associate Dean for Community and Minority Health JAYNE WEISS, MD Education Head of the Department of Ophthalmology & Director CHARLES W. HILTON, MD of the Eye Center Associate Dean for Academic Affairs J.
CHRISTIAN WINTERS, MD ANDREW HOLLENBACH, PhD Head of the Department of Urology Elected Basic Science Faculty, Faculty Assembly AMY YOUNG, MD Head of the Department of Obstetrics and ALAN KAYE, MD Gynecology Head of the Department of Anesthesiology ANDY KING, MD Head of the Department of Orthopaedics CATHI FONTENOT, MD Associate Dean for Alumni Affairs & Development KIM EDWARD LEBLANC, MD, PhD Head of the Department of Family Medicine JANIS G. LETOURNEAU, MD Associate Dean for Faculty and Institutional Affairs FRED LOPEZ, MD Assistant Dean for Student Affairs & Records SAMUEL G. McCLUGAGE, PhD Associate Dean for Admissions and Head of the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy ROBIN MCGOEY, MD Elected Clinical Faculty Representative, Faculty Assembly JOSEPH M. MOERSCHBAECHER III, PhD (ex-officio) Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean for School of Graduate Studies LSUHSC-NO Academic Catalog/Bulletin 177 LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine HISTORY MISSION STATEMENT The original charter creating the Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University School of Medicine - New Orleans by Legislative Act 145 of 1877, authorized the creation of the trains physicians and scientists in health care disciplines.
The School of Medicine at New Orleans. Medical School strives for excellence in medical education, research, and service through the following objectives: On January 3, 1931, the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors and the governing board of the Medical Center of Louisiana, New Orleans met at New Orleans and founded the Medical Education Mission Objectives School of Medicine. Arthur Vidrine was named the first Dean and construction began in 1931. The undergraduate curriculum contains programs of study that enable students to become competent, caring physicians The School accepted fifty first year and twenty-eight third who can function in any healthcare system, continue self- year students and classes began October 1, 1931.
The education, and appreciate and evaluate medical research. twenty-eight transfer students were graduated in 1933 and the first fourth year class graduated in 1935. The number of Graduate Medical Education programs and their support are students has been gradually increased to the present 176 first important components of the educational mission. Graduates year students.
of specialty training programs will be skilled and knowledgeable in their chosen discipline and able to assume Post World War II saw erection of the newer building portions the responsibilities of a practicing physician. at 1542 Tulane Avenue, construction of the Residence Hall and Student Center at 1900 Perdido Street, the completion of Training programs of the school assess and adjust to the Medical Education Building at 1901 Perdido Street, the changing physician work force needs of the state. Lions-LSU Clinics Building at 2020 Gravier Street, the Resource Center at 433 Bolivar Street, and the Clinical Science Building at 533 Bolivar Street. Research Mission Objectives Through May 2005, over 8,500 physicians have graduated Medical education and research are related pursuits.
from the School of Medicine, and more than half have Academic excellence in research heightens the intellectual remained in Louisiana. atmosphere, develops new knowledge, and transmits current information for the benefit of all constituencies. The School is now in its seventy-sixth year of education, research, and service to the public. The Medical School provides adequate facilities for trainee and faculty research including support areas such as the library, animal care, and computer services.
Long term planning and CHRONOLOGY acquisition of research funds are vigorously pursued to ensure research growth. Sixteen people have served the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans as Dean since its inaugural Service Mission Objectives convocation, October 1, 1931. The names of the fifteen former deans and their period of deanship are as follows. The school provides a model of excellence in public and Arthur Vidrine, MD (1931-1937) private medical care and community oriented programs.
The school remains responsive to changing health care systems Joseph Rigney D'Aunoy, MD (1937-1939) and trends. Beryl Iles Burns, MD (1939-1945) Patient care activities are important to all school missions. Wilbur Cleveland Smith, MD (1945) Personal practice supports and maintains the clinical skills of George Walter McCoy, MD (1945-1946) faculty and expands opportunities for undergraduate and Vernon William Lippard, MD (1946-1949) graduate teaching and research. William Wesley Frye, PhD, MD (1949-1966) The school develops community outreach programs that John Charles Finerty, PhD (1966-1971) provide educational and service opportunities and enhance the quality of life of constituent communities.
Norman Crooks Nelson, MD (1971-1973) Silas Edgar O'Quinn, MD (1973-1977) Paul Frank Larson, MD (1977-1985) Robert Frank Dyer, PhD (1985-1986) Acting Robert S. Daniels, MD (1986-1995) Robert L. Marier, MD, MHA (1995-2002) J. Patrick O’Leary, MD (2002-2004) Interim Larry H.
Hollier, MD (2004-2007) LSUHSC-NO Academic Catalog/Bulletin 178 LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine CALENDAR 2012 – 2013 January Monday 07 Classes resume and Jr. Residency Planning Day-Attendance Mandatory June Freshmen begin 1 week of clinical Friday 22 Senior registration, 12:00 noon preceptorship Senior Classes begin Tuesday 08 Junior Classes Begin Monday 25 Junior registration, 12:30 pm Monday 14 Freshman Classes Begin Tuesday 26 Junior Ophthalmology and Radiology Friday 18 Martin Luther King holidays begin, begin 5:00 pm and Optional Seventh Senior Block ends July Tuesday 22 Classes resume and Eighth Senior Tuesday 03 Fourth of July Holiday begins, 5 pm Block Begins Thursday 05 Classes resume Friday 06 Junior Ophthalmology and Radiology February Ends Friday 08 Mardi Gras Holidays Begin 5 pm Monday 09 First Senior & Junior block begins Wednesday 13 Classes Resume Monday 23 Sophomore registration, 12:00 noon Friday 15 Eighth Senior block ends, 5:00 pm Sophomore classes begin Monday 18 Ninth Senior block begins August March Friday 03 First Senior Block ends 5 pm Monday 06 Second Senior block begins Friday 15 Ninth Senior block ends, 5 pm Wednesday 08 Freshman registration Wednesday 08 Freshman orientation Monday 18 Tenth Senior block begins to to Thursday 28 Third Junior Block Ends and Spring Tuesday 14 Holidays Begin Wednesday 15 Freshman classes begin Friday 31 Second Senior Block Ends & Labor Day April Holidays Begin, 5 pm Tuesday 02 Classes Resume and Fourth Junior September Block Begins Tuesday 04 Classes resume Friday 12 Tenth Senior block ends Tuesday 04 Third Senior Block begins Monday 15 Eleventh Senior (Special Topics) Friday 28 Third Senior & First Jr Block ends, 5 begins pm May October Friday 10 Sophomore final exams, 5:00 pm Monday 1 Fourth Senior and Second Junior blocks begin Friday 10 Senior classes end, 5:00 pm Friday 26 Fourth Senior Block ends, 5 pm Wednesday 15 Pre-Commencement Monday 29 Fifth Senior Block begins Thursday 16 Commencement November Friday 17 Freshman Classes end, 5:00 pm Tuesday 20 Fifth Senior block ends, 5 pm Friday 24 Memorial Day Holidays begin, 5 pm Tuesday 20 Thanksgiving holidays begin, 5 pm Tuesday 28 Classes resume Monday 26 Classes Resume Monday 26 Sixth Senior Block begins June December Friday 14 Sophomore classes end, 5:00 pm Friday 21 Sixth Senior and second Junior blocks Friday 21 Junior classes end, 11:30 am end at 5:00 pm Senior registration, Class of 2014, Winter holidays begin at 5:00 pm 12:00 noon to 5:00 p. Monday 24 Junior Registration, Class of 2015, Monday 24 Optional seventh Senior block begins 12:30 pm, (Must have permission) LSUHSC-NO Academic Catalog/Bulletin 179 LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans School of Medicine ADMISSIONS EARLY DECISION PROGRAM (EDP) LOCATION: Medical Education Building, Room 3201 The LSU School of Medicine offers the Early Decision Program. PHONE: (504) 568-6262 If an applicant wishes to apply for EDP, there are certain rules www.edu/admissions established by AMCAS, which must be followed.
The earliest date to apply is June 1 and the latest date to METHOD OF APPLICATION apply is August 1. The School of Medicine participates in the program designated The applicant may apply only to the LSU School of Medicine in as the American Medical College Application Service, referred New Orleans and may not apply to any other schools prior to to as AMCAS. All applications for admission to the first year being informed of LSU's decision. The applicant will be class must be submitted through this service.
The application informed of this decision on or before October 1. process for the School of Medicine is divided into two stages. The first stage is of preliminary nature and handled by If accepted, the applicant must accept and he/she may not AMCAS. The second stage is an exclusive relationship apply to any other schools.
If the applicant is not accepted between the School and those applicants who have completed then he/she may apply to other schools. Ordinarily the files of Stage I and have received Stage II material directly from the those applicants who are not accepted are placed in the Admissions Office. regular applicant pool and may be considered at a later date.