Student Achievements
Leon Sanders III, Class of 2023, has been awarded the 2022 Dr. Breen Student Scholarship from the Southern
Medical Association. The scholarship is awarded based on multiple criteria, including
need, community service, and leadership. Sanders accepted his award during the Southern
Medical Association 2022 Annual Scientific Assembly hosted at the Black Fox Lodge
in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee earlier this year.
In his acceptance speech, he said, "It is with great honor and thanks that I accept the Southern Medical Association's Dr. Breen Student Scholarship. As a father of two girls who live across the country in Minnesota, this award will go a long way to defraying the costs of Christmas gifts and my travel to be reunited with my children. I have been blessed to be able to participate in and oversee a number of community service projects in the city of New Orleans and in the future I plan to continue these efforts. It is my sincere goal to increase the number of matriculating and graduating African-American males in medical school programs so that my city's patients are met by physicians who look like them, understand them on a cultural level, and are trained to provide the best care medically possible. I thank you all for seeing and approving of my vision and I look forward to continuing to make you proud as I begin my residency training in Internal Medicine and create and sustain programs that are designed to bring my dreams from the depths of the ether out into reality."
Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (CIPECP) Gabrielle Nguyen has been selected as a member of the national IPE case competition team representing LSUHSCNO, hosted by CLARION at the University of Minnesota.
Logan Roberts made two presentations at the 2022 Nexus Summit.
Conner Tipton and Jared Robinson presented at the 2022 American Speech-Language-Heating Association Annual Convention
Erin Baudoin, Kelly Chau, Abigail Hess, Andrew Longanecker, Eva Mace, Connor Maginnis, Hannah Malinosky, Meghan McCord, William Melito, Margaret Mena, and Luke Thomas had posters at the 2022 Nexus Summit.
Internal Medicine
PGY-3 Pavana Sakhamuri (Lafayette) won the presentation award at the Rheumatology Alliance of Louisiana
conference held recently in New Orleans. She presented a case of Strongyloides Hyper-infection
Syndrome.
Orthopaedics
Greg Benes presented “Disparities in Elective and Nonelective Total Hip Arthroplasty” at the
2022 Ortho Summit in Boston on Friday, September 23. (G Benes, V Dasa, PC Krause,
D Jones, L Leslie, AG Chapple)
Physiology
Kourtney Weaver is an MD/PhD student and received a travel award to give an oral presentation at Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group. Kourtney will also have a poster presentation at the Society of Leucocyte Biology.