School of Medicine

The Pulse

Welcome Newcomers!

We'd like to extend a warm welcome to the following faculty and staff members who have joined the School of Medicine Family between the dates May 1 - July 31, 2021!

Administration - Office of Medical Education

  • Julie Cain - Graduate Medical Education Coordinator

Anesthesiology

  • Eisha Mohiuddin - Department Coordinator
  • Richard Pino, MD - Department Head

Family Medicine

  • Susan Quinn - Department Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Oncology

  • John West, PhD - Professor

Medicine

  • Cynthia Brown, MD, MSPH - Department Head
  • Debbie Ford - Department Coordinator
  • Ian Scott - Assistant Business Manager

    Gastroenterology

  • Catherine Hudson, MD, MPH - Assistant Professor, Clinical 
  • Jason Stibbe, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical
  • Nisha Loganantharaj, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical

    Hospital Medicine

  • Jason Dubuc, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical    
  • Hope Oddo Moise, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical
  • Katherine Oakden, MBBS - Assistant Professor, Clinical

    Pulmonary/Critical Care

  • Aline Zaparte, PhD - Postdoctoral Researcher

Neuroscience Center of Excellence

  • Megan Cothern - Research Associate 2
  • Inga Kristaponyte, PhD - Clinical Trials Coordinator

Orthopaedics

  • Amit Bhandutia, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical
  • Tierra Strange - Research Associate 2

Otorhinolaryngology

  • Terrence Murphy, MD - Associate Professor, Clinical

Pediatrics

  • James Connick, MD - Instructor, Clinical Specialist
  • Zachary Daniels, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical
  • Vibha Robinson - Department Coordinator
  • Sarah Short, MD - Instructor, Clinical Specialist
  • Hannah Simon, MPH - Program Manager
  • Sun Youn - Department Coordinator

Psychiatry

  • Rahn Bailey, MD - Department Head
  • Eric Kramer, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor

Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center of Excellence

  • Nadejda Jenkins, MBA - Data Manager

Surgery

  • Jake Fontenot - Research Associate 2
  • Hayley Everitt - Residency Coordinator
  • Adam Hauch, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical
  • Catherine Powell - Clinical Trials Coordinator
  • John Stewart, MD, MBA - Center Director of the LSU Health New Orleans/LCMC Health Cancer Center
  • Tiffany Thomas - Student Clerkship Coordinator

Urology

  • Mary Westerman, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical

Baton Rouge Regional Campus:

       Medicine

  • Logan Leblanc, MD - Instructor, Clinical Specialist
  • John Marston, MD - Instructor, Clinical Specialist
  • Jacob Peoples, MD - Instructor, Clinical Specialist

Lafayette Regional Campus:

  • Ellen Leonards - Department Coordinator

       Medicine

  • Janice Heintze, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical    
  • Rebecca Lee, DO - Assistant Professor, Clinical

LSUNO:

       Anatomy

  • Shenell Mack - Department Coordinator    

       Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology

  • Yawen Hu, PhD - Postdoctoral Researcher

    Physiology

  • Samhita Basavanhalli - Research Associate 1    
  • Jessica Miller - Research Associate 2