Academic Office:
LSUHSC School of Medicine
1542 Tulane Avenue, Box T4M-2
New Orleans, LA 70112
Clinical Office:
University Medical Center
2000 Canal Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-702-2051, phone
Dr. Lobna H. Ali is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and the Associate Program Director of the Geriatric Fellowship at Louisiana State University Health Science Center. She is board certified in both Family Medicine and Geriatrics.
Dr. Lobna H. Ali, MD, MPH, CMD, AGSF, is double board certified in Geriatric Medicine and Family Medicine and serves as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC). She holds a Master of Public Health (MPH) and has extensive experience in the care of older adults across acute care, post-acute care, and long-term care settings.
Dr. Ali is a Fellow of the American Geriatrics Society (AGSF), a Certified Medical Director (CMD), and Vice President of the Louisiana Geriatrics Society (LGS). She is an active member of the AGS Public Education Committee and the Educational Committee of the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (PALTC).
As faculty in the Section of Geriatrics at LSUHSC, Dr. Ali serves as Medical Director of the LSUHSC-LCMC Audubon Retirement Village, Medical Director of the Volunteers of America Community Clinic at the Terraces (LSU Student-Run Community Clinic-SRCC), Co-Medical Director of Compassus Hospice, and former Medical Director of PACE Greater New Orleans. She is a staff physician on the Geriatric-Trauma Consult Service at University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO), where she also serves as the Geriatric Liaison for the UMCNO Trauma Performance Improvement and Patient Safety (PIPS) Committee. Dr. Ali holds an appointed faculty position in the LSUHSC Department of Family Medicine.
Dr. Ali is actively involved in the education of medical students, residents, and geriatric fellows. She has a strong commitment to geriatric education and interprofessional training in long-term care and community-based settings.
Dr. Ali’s philosophy of care centers on patients and their safety. She utilizes all available resources to keep older adults healthy, active, and independent. Her aim as a geriatrician is to restore patients' independence, increase their dignity, and improve their quality of life. She supports her patients in independently performing daily activities and seeks to identify their medical, cultural, psychological, spiritual, emotional, and social needs. Her patients are encouraged to participate in the development and continual updating of their individualized plan of care.
Her clinical and academic interests include frailty syndrome, polypharmacy, cognitive decline, and healthy aging, with a focus on improving function, safety, and quality of life in older adults across care transitions.
Medical:
M.D.
University of Al-Mustansiriyah Medical College
Baghdad, Iraq
Residency:
Family Medicine
Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center
Toledo, Ohio
Fellowship:
Geriatrics Medicine
University of Toledo
Toledo, Ohio
Education:
Master of Public Health (MPH)
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Public Health
New Orleans, Louisiana
University Medical Center
1. Osinbowale, O., Ali, L., & Chi, Y. W. Venous thromboembolism: A clinical review.
Postgraduate Medicine. 2010 Mar; 122(2):54-56.
2. Pattabhi, R., Mathai, F., Reske, T.M., Ali, L., Barry, S., & Aguilar, E.A. A commonly
missed cause of hyponatremia. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 2018 Feb; 66(2):
387.
3. Mathai, F., Pattabhi, R., Reske, T.M., Ali, L., Barry, S., & Aguilar, E.A. A case
of metastatic stage 4 renal cancer and the relevance of hospice in end stages. Journal
of Investigative Medicine. 2018 Feb; 66(2): 386.
4. Mulloy, C., Rezkallah, K.N., Aguilar, E.A., Barry, S., Ali, L., & Reske, T. M.
Multiple antihypertensive therapy and risk of falls in geriatric patients. Journal
of Investigative Medicine. 2019 Feb; 67(2): 583
5. Abu-Farsakh, F., Chavez, M., Aguilar, E.A., Ali, L., Reske, T.M., & Pattabhi, R.
De novo pulmonary embolism in a nursing home resident after discontinuing aspirin:
A case report. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 2020 Feb; 68(2): 462.
6. Chavez, M., Abu-Farsakh, F., Ali, L., Pattabhi, R., Reske, T.M., & Aguilar, E.A.
A missed case of osteomyelitis. Journal of Investigative Medicine. 2020 Feb; 68(2):
547.
7. Aguilar, E.A., Barry, S., Chavez, M., Chapple, A., Ducote, R., Johnson, A., Ali,
L., Pattabhi, R., Poudel, P., & Reske, T.M. Assessment of depression and anxiety in
residents of a continuing care retirement community during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine.
Journal of Investigative Medicine. 2021 Dec; 487-488.
8. Aguilar, E.A., Barry, S., Chavez, M., Chapple, A., Ducote, R., Johnson, A., Ali,
L., Pattabhi, R., Poudel, P., & Reske, T.M. Depression and anxiety in residents of
a retirement community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Family Medicine. 2021
Dec; 8(9): 1281.
9. Cardiac amyloidosis in an elderly patient- A challenging disease to differentiate
and diagnose T. Reske, R. Panicker, L. Ali, R. Pattabhi, E.Aguilar. Department of
Medicine-Geriatric Section. LSU Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Poster
presentation at the AGS annual conference
10. Conic, J. Z., Chetty, A., Chen, L., Marsh, A., Barry, S., Pattabhi, R., ... &
Ali, L. (2025). Effect of Steroids on the Progression of Alzheimer's Dementia: A Retrospective
Chart Review. Aging Medicine, 8(1), e70004.
11. Ali, L., & Brown, C. J. (2024). Promoting Mobility in the Acute Care Setting.
In G. M. Sullivan & A. K. Pomidor (Eds.), Exercise for Aging Adults: A Guide for Practitioners
(2nd ed., pp. 131-144). Springer Nature