LSU Health Shreveport

LSU Health Shreveport medical students have two fundraising events set for this week.

The LSU Health Shreveport student organization Geaux Bald hosts its 3rd annual Head Shaving Day today, March 17, from 2-6PM in the Biomedical Research Institute (BRI) Atrium.

The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center at LSU Health Shreveport is hosting a marrow registry drive with LifeShare this Friday afternoon for patient Billy Bennett.

There are three upcoming health events you're encouraged to be a part of.

The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center's Great Pumpkin Run for Research is set for October 25, 2014.

What started out as a dream last year has now become a reality. A group of LSU Health Shreveport medical students has launched an international research journal published by students for students.

A third-year medical school student at LSU Health-Shreveport has been named a recipient of the American Medical Association's 2014 Leadership Award.

Saturday will be a big day for second-year students at the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine. That's the day they'll receive their white coats in a rite of passage ceremony attended by their families and faculty mentors in the Riverview Theater.

Dr. Andrew Chesson, Jr., Dean of the School of Medicine at LSU Health Shreveport, has announced his retirement. Dr. Chesson, a neurologist, spent his entire career at the health sciences center here in Shreveport, rising through the faculty ranks to Professor of Neurology.

It has been almost a month since the Biomedical Research Foundation officially took over operations of the LSU hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe, but State Treasurer John Kennedy says this privatization effort is not to save money on operating costs.