Frank Culicchia, M.D., FAANS
Professor and Chairman

Graduate/Medical School: 
Doctor of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine 
New Orleans, LA 

Residency:
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA  

Fellowship: 
Fellow, Barrow Neurological Institute
St. Josephs Hospital and Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ 

John Steck, M.D.

Program Director, Clinical Associate Professor

Graduate/medical
Doctor of Medicine
Louisiana Health Science Center New Orleans
New Orleans, LA

Internship
General Surgery
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Residency
Resident Neurosurgery
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL

Cole Lewis, M.D.

Assistant Program Director, Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX

Residency:

Neurological Surgery
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, TX

Kelsey Hundley, M.D.

Assistant Program Director, Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Louisiana State University Health Science Center
New Orleans, LA

Residency:

Neurological Surgery 
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR

Gabriel Tender, M.D.

Clinical Specialist - Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Craiova Medical School
Craiova, Romania

Residency:

Neurosurgery 
Insitute of Cerebrovascular Diseases
Bucharest, Romania

Neurosurgical
Louisiana State University Health Science Center
New Orleans, LA

Adam Podet, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Louisiana State University Health Science Center
New Orleans, LA

Residency: 

Neurological Surgery
Louisiana State University Health Science Center
New Orleans, LA

Young Lee, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN

Residency:

Neurological Surgery
University of California
San Francisco, CA

L. Luciano Ponce Mejia, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Universidad Autonoma San Luis Potosi
San Luis, Potosi, SLP, Mexico

Residency:

Neurology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Bryan Payne, MD

Clinical Professor 

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
University of Louisvlle, School of Medicine
Louisville, Kentucky

Residency:

Louisiana State University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA

Fellowship:

University of Virginia, Department of Neurosurgery

Lars Leksell Radiosurgery

Emory University, Division of Neurosurgery
Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery 

Alan Velander, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor 

                                
Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
University of Michigan Medical School
Ann Arbor, MI

Residency:

New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical College
New York, NY

Fellowship:

Neurocritical Care

New York Presbyterian Hospital       

Oritsejolomi Adetola Roberts, M.D.

Clinical Specialist - Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina

Residency:

University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado

James Matthew Dupree, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine 
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Oklahoma City, OK

Residency:

Neurology
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, NY

Matthew Hart, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine 
St. James School of Medicine 
Anguilla BWI

Residency:

Neurology Resident Program: Categorical
Geisinger Medical Center, Neuroscience Institute
Danville, PA

Graduate/Medical School: 

Medical University School, Novosibirsk, Russia  

Fellowship: 

Cerebral Vascular Disease Research Center, Department of Neurology

University of Miami School of Medicine   

Balveen Kaur, PhD

Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Neurosurgery

Associate Director, LSU-LCMC Health Cancer Center

Graduate/Medical School:

PhD
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

Yazmin Odia, M.D.

Associate Professor and Kelsey Bradley Favrot Chair, Department of Neurosurgery

Director of Neuro Oncology, LSU-LCMC Health Cancer Center

Graduate/Medical School:

Doctor of Medicine
Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Master's in Clinical Research
Mayo Graduate School
Rochester, MN