Administration, Boards & Faculty

Administration of The Louisiana State University System

Dr. F. King Alexander
President

Dr. F. King Alexander was recently named the incoming president and chancellor of Louisiana State University, which has an annual budget of $3.3 billion and more than 43,000 students.

 Prior to being named the incoming president, Dr. Alexander was president of California State University, Long Beach (2005-2013) one of the nation’s largest public universities located in southern California. During his more than seven-year tenure at California State University, Long Beach, Dr. Alexander was twice named the California State University Student Association (CSSA) “President of the Year,” which represents all 23 California State Universities and its over 440,000 students.

Prior to becoming president of California State University, Long Beach, Dr. Alexander was president of Murray State University in Kentucky (2001-2005) and was a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he was the director of the graduate higher education program.

A Kentucky native who grew up in north Florida, Dr. Alexander received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in higher education administration with a focus on finance and educational policy analysis, and a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford, Oxford, England in comparative educational studies.

As a teacher and administrator, Dr. Alexander has received many honors, including the University of Wisconsin- Madison School of Education Alumni Achievement Award (2002) and has research university faculty affiliations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for the Study of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) and Cornell University Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI).

Dr. Alexander also has been asked to represent public higher education colleges and universities on numerous occasions to the United State Congress on issues of college affordability, student indebtedness, and institutional efficiency and effectiveness in efforts to address many of the growing challenges facing American higher education. Due to his national recognition and involvement on higher education issues, Dr. Alexander has served on numerous U.S. higher education and statewide organizational leadership boards where he remains very active.

Dr. Alexander and his wife, Shenette, have three children: Kylie, Savannah and Madison.

Administration of The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport

The Board of Supervisors Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

The Board of Supervisors of Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College serves as the management board for the Louisiana State University System. The Board is composed of 16 members who serve overlapping terms of six years.

Two members are appointed from each congressional district and one member from the state at large. As provided by the Louisiana Constitution, the Board also has a student member who serves a one-year term.

Chair

Ann D. Duplessis, 2nd Congressional District

Chair-Elect

Raymond J. Lasseigne, 4th Congressional District

Past Chairman

Robert “Bobby” Yarborough, 6th Congressional District

Board Members

Scott Ballard, 1st Congressional District

Stanley J. Jacobs, 1st Congressional District

J. Stephen Perry, 2nd Congressional District

Scott Angelle, 3rd Congressional District

Garret “Hank” Danos, 3rd Congressiona District

Jim McCrery, 4th Congressional District

Raymond J. Lasseigne, 4th Congressional District

R. Blake Chatelain, 5th Congressional District

James W. Moore, Jr., 5th Congressional District

Ronald R. Anderson, 6th Congressional District

Rolfe McCollister, Jr., 6th Congressional District

Jack E. Lawton, Jr., 7th Congressional District

Lee Mallett, 7th Congressional District

Brandon Crain, Alexandria (student-member)

For Board of Supervisors information, please contact:

Carleen N. Smith,
Administrative Secretary

3810 W. Lakeshore Dr., Rm. 104

Baton Rouge, LA  70808                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

(225) 578-2154
(225) 578-5524 fax

www.lsusystem.edu

The Board of Regents for Higher Education of The State of Louisiana

The Board of Regents for Higher Education of the State of Louisiana was created by the Constitution of 1974 with 15 members on the Board, as prescribed in the Constitution. A student member was added by constitutional amendment in 1980. Fifteen of the members are appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate for overlapping terms of six years, and the student member serves a one-year term beginning June 1 of each year after being selected from the Council of Student Body Presidents-Elect of the colleges and universities under the jurisdiction of the Board. The Board of Regents has the power to revise or eliminate existing programs, departments and divisions; to study and/or recommend the creation of a new higher-education institution or management board; to formulate and revise a master plan for higher education; to recommend budgets for all institutions of higher education to the Governor and the Legislature; and to perform all other duties as prescribed by law. (Constitution of 1974, Article VIII, Section 5; Act 313 of the Louisiana Legislature, 1975 Regular Session.)

Commissioner of Higher Education

Joseph C. Rallo, Ph.D.

Chairman

W. Clinton “Bubba” Rasberry, Jr., Shreveport

Vice Chair

William “Bill” Fenstermaker, Lafayette

Secretary

Albert D. Sam, II, Baton Rouge

Members

http://www.regents.louisiana.gov/

Biographic Profile of The Chancellor

Chancellor Robert A. Barish, M.D., M.B.A., assumed leadership of the LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport in April 2009 following a distinguished 24-year career in academic medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center. It was in Maryland where he founded a nationally recognized emergency medicine program before rising to Vice Dean of Clinical Affairs at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

After earning his medical degree from New York Medical College in 1979, Dr. Barish interrupted his residency training for one year to help care for malaria victims and starving children in refugee camps in Cambodia and Somalia. Returning to the United States, he completed his internal medicine residency training and subsequently completed a second residency in emergency medicine. He became one of the youngest chiefs of emergency services at a university hospital in the nation.

Dr. Barish received his M.B.A. from Loyola College and B.A. from the University of New Hampshire. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, a Fellow of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and is a Distinguished Eagle Scout and the recipient of numerous teaching awards. Following the 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina to the Gulf Coast, he helped lead a medical regiment dispatched by the State of Maryland that delivered emergency care to more than 6,000 hurricane victims in Jefferson Parish. A former lieutenant colonel and flight surgeon in the Maryland Air National Guard, Dr. Barish in 1992 was among a select group invited to become a NASA astronaut candidate at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

Faculty Senate Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport

LSU Health Shreveport Organizational Chart

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Endowed Chairs and Professorships

Endowed Chairs:

Malcolm W. Feist Endowed Chair in Diabetes - Sushil Jain, Ph.D.

E. Earle Dilworth, M.D. Endowed Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology - Lynn J. Groome, M.D.

Jack W. Gamble, M.D. Endowed Chair in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - G.E. Ghali, D.D.S., M.D.

John C. McDonald, M.D. Endowed Chair in Surgery - Benjamin Li, M.D.

Jack W. Pou, M.D. Endowed Chair in Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery - Frederick Stucker, M.D.

Willis-Knighton Medical Center Endowed Chair in Molecular Biology - Dennis J. O’Callaghan, Ph.D.

Professorships:

Albertson’s Distinguished Professorship in Allied Health Sciences - Mary Pannbacker, Ph.D.

James A. Ardoin, M.D. Memorial Professorship in OB/GYN - Rose Brouillette, M.D.

H. Whitney Boggs, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in Colon and Rectal Surgery - Philip Cole, M.D.

Randy Bryn, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Pulmonary - D. Keith Payne, M.D.

Stafford and Marianne Comegys Professorship in Medical Library Science -

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in GYN Surgery - James Unger, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Continuing Education - Gary Brooks, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Faculty Enhancement - Steve London, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Faculty Recruitment -

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Oncology Continuing Education - Destin Black, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Reproductive Endocrinology - David Vandermolen, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Resident Education

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Resident Education Enhancement - James Unger, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Resident Recruitment - Rose Brouillette, M.D.

Edward J. Crawford, Jr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in OB/GYN Technology Enhancement - Rose Brouillette, M.D.

E. Earle Dilworth Professorship in Obstetrics and Gynecology for Excellence in Teaching, Research and Patient Care -

Joe E. Holoubek, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Medicine - Pratrap Reddy, M.D.

George Khoury and Donald Mack, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Oncology - Majed Jeroudi, M.D.

Charles D. Knight, Sr., M.D. Endowed Professorship in General Surgery - Quyen Chu, M.D.

Mary Louise and Ben Levy Endowed Professorship in Neurosurgery - Anil Nanda, M.D.

Donald Mack, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Oncology - Majed Jeroudi, M.D.

Joanna Gunning Magale Professorship in Neurology - Stephen Jaffe, M.D.

W.R. Matthews, M.D. Professorship in Anatomical Pathology - James Cotelingam, M.D.

Edward and Frieda Green Professorship in Surgical Oncology - Roger Kim, M.D.

Brad and Kay McPherson Professorship in Child Psychiatry - Rita Horton, M.D.

Archibald Bell Nelson Endowed Professorship in Orthopedics -

Thomas Norris, M.D. Professorship in Orthopaedic Resident Support - Richard E. McCall, M.D.

Y.K. Reddy, M.D. Professorship in Allergy & Immunology - Sami Bahna, M.D.

Dr. Bipin and Dr. Mrunalini (Mina) Shah Professorship in Anesthesiology Education Enhancement - Ashok Rao, M.D.

Albert Sklar Endowed Professorship in Surgery - F. Dean Griffen, M.D.

Albert G. and Harriet G. Smith Endowed Professorship in Pathology - Guillermo Herrera, M.D.

Eugene St. Martin, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Urology - John A. Mata, M.D.

Burdette E. Trichel, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Urology - Dennis Venable, M.D.

J. Woodfin Wilson, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Internal Medicine - Gunjan Kahlon, M.D.

Paul Winder, M.D. Endowed Professorship in Dermatology -

Robert E. Wolf, M.D., Ph.D., Professorship in Rheumatology - Samina Hayat, M.D.

Nathan Endowed Professorship in Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery

Selber Endowed Professorship in Endocrinology - Steven Levine, M.D.

George Khoury and Donald Mack, M.D. Endowed Professorship for the St. Jude Clinic at the LSUHSC-S

Dr. Mingyu Ding Memorial Endowed Professorship in Microbiology - Lindsey Hutt-Fletcher, Ph.D.

Edward and Freda Green Endowed Professorship for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery - David Kim, M.D., D.D.S.

Dr. George and Sandra Bakowski Foundation Endowed Professorship in Aero Digestive Malignancies - Glenn Mills, M.D.

Ike Muslow Endowed Chair in General Internal Medicine

Donald and Kathryn Smith Endowed Chair in Spinal Treatment

Nancy Jane Sentell Seale Professorship for Cancer Palliative Care - Jay Marion, M.D.

Edna Sherling Boatright Professorship in Cancer Care - Gary Von Burton, M.D.

Faculty Membership

Full-time members of the faculty have the same academic status as members of the faculty of other institutions of The LSU System.

The four faculty academic levels are, in the ascending order of their rank: Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor.

Full-time academic personnel of the Health Sciences Center whose primary role is related to a clinical setting but who do not hold tenure at the rank indicated are designated by the word “Clinical” following their academic rank.

Full-time academic personnel of the Health Sciences Center whose primary role is related to a research setting but who do not hold tenure at the rank indicated are designated by the word “Research” following their academic rank.

Part-time academic personnel whose primary role is related to a clinical setting are designated by the word “Clinical” preceding their academic rank.

Part-time academic personnel whose primary role is related to a non-clinical setting are designated by the words “Part-time” following their academic rank.

Faculty primarily involved in activity outside of The LSU System are designated by the term “Adjunct”.

Retired faculty members may be designated by the term “Emeritus”.

The term “Visiting” indicates a courtesy title held by a visiting full-time faculty member.

The title “Special Lecturer” is authorized and limited to part-time appointments without rank or designation and is restricted to specialists and professional people whose primary occupation is the practice of their profession.

Boyd Professorships, authorized by the LSU Board of Supervisors in 1952, are The LSU System’s highest designated professorial rank, awarded only to faculty scholar-researchers who have attained singular international recognition in their respective academic disciplines. The Professorships honor brothers who were presidents of The LSU System, David French Boyd (1865-1880) (1884-1886) and Thomas Duckett Boyd (1896-1927).

A total of four Boyd Professorships have been awarded to LSU Health Sciences Center at Shreveport faculty, as follows:

D. Neil Granger, Ph.D., Boyd Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology; May 29, 1998.

Dennis J. O’Callaghan, Ph.D., Boyd Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; April 19, 2002.

Adrian J. Dunn, Ph.D., Boyd Professor of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience; February 21, 2003.

Matthew B. Grisham, Ph.D., Boyd Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology; April 30, 2004.