BATON ROUGE – During its January meeting, the LSU Board of Supervisors approved a proposal to meet Louisiana’s need for dental services expansion in the northern and rural areas of the state.
“This is what LSU is all about,” said Chair of the LSU Board of Supervisors Robert Dampf. “This is LSU at its absolute best, and we’re just extraordinarily proud.”
The Board of Supervisors received a report that outlined the collaborative work between the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Dentistry and LSU Health Shreveport to expand dental services and limited specialty level-dental services in the northern part of the state initially, and then to other parts of the state as warranted and appropriate. LSU Health New Orleans and Shreveport believe the citizens of Louisiana need unrestricted access to Oral Health Services for public health, safety and wellness.
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New Orleans, LA - 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). Their report describes prior failures to correct these racial inequities and offers strategies that may be effective in eliminating these disparities. Their paper, published online in the open-access science journal,
eLife, is available for download here.
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.
People eager for the start of 2021 are urged to have realistic expectations
2021 expectations vs reality By Sabrina Wilson | December 29, 2020 at 6:41 PM CST - Updated December 29 at 6:41 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Many people are eager to forget this year ever happened and already have placed 2021 on a very high pedestal. And while having high hopes for the new year is a good thing, a LSU Health New Orleans psychiatrist says it is important to have realistic expectations.
Mark Griggs works in emergency medical services and experienced up-close the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Twenty-Twenty was a hard year, a hard year. I’m in EMT service, so it was kind of frontline stuff for me,” said Griggs.