Student News
Caitlyn Gallaspy won the Gold Humanism Honor Society’s Humanism in Medicine essay contest with her essay The Fruits of Our Labor. Alexandra Chimento won second place with the essay The Pumpkin on the Perch, and Kim Tran won third place with the essay God Bless You. Gallaspy received a monetary award from the School of Medicine and the honor of reading her essay at the Class of 2025’s GHHS Induction Ceremony as well as to the new first year class at their White Coat Ceremony.
Pediatrics
Second-year medical student William Delahoussaye presented his poster Cleft Lip and Palate Repairs in a Patient with Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex at the national American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association meeting in Denver
recently. Authors: William Delahoussaye (L2), Dr. Zach Buchbinder (Plastics Resident),
Dr. Daniel Yoo (Plastics Resident), Dr. Leslie Slowikowski (CHNOLA Orthodontics),
Dr. India Hill (CHNOLA & LSU Dermatology), Dr. Masoumy (LSU & CHNOLA Plastic Surgery),
Dr. Gregory Kyle Fulton (LSU Pediatrics, Ambulatory Division).
Pediatric Clerkship leaders Leslie Reilly, Amy Prudhomme, and Callie Roth hosted a
4th year medical student bootcamp. Students learned procedures and participated in
workshops on handoffs, informed consent, how to admit and discharge a patient, how
to triage/identify patients that are sick or not sick, and how to call a consult.
