Editor's Pen
Denise Flock-Williams
I look forward each quarter to sharing all the awards, publications, grants, and first-of-its-kind procedures and research breakthroughs that have taken place since the last issue. I also really enjoy when I get to see the more personal side of those who work here, like when Dr. Charles Chappuis and Dr. Karen Curry summited Mt. Kilimanjaro (see the Surgery section). Our students also traveled the world, to Peru through the Global Health Elective and to Guatemala through the Clinical Medical Spanish Elective. Here at home, our students hosted the perennial favorite, Camp Tiger.
Students, residents, fellows and post-docs had many opportunities to share their research this past quarter, through summer internships, the SUN program, Medical Research Day, Pediatric Research Day, and the Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Forum. These emerging clinicians and researchers have so many faculty and staff to look up to, including this year's Faculty Assembly Award winners, Dr. Rivera’s advanced limb-lengthening care, and Drs. Samarpan Majumder and Rinku Majumder's recent NIH grant which received a rare perfect NIH impact score of 10.
I hope you enjoy this issue, and I look forward to seeing what is next! Please continue to share your work! You can email Denise at dflock@lsuhsc.edu anytime with an idea for a story, information or pictures that we can share.
As always, this issue would not be possible without the efforts of the team made up of Assistant Editor Dr. Judy Crabtree, Todd LaGrange, and Dr. Stephanie Taylor.