NEW ORLEANS – Students from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans’ six professional health schools will graduate during its 149th Commencement on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at 10:00 a.m. at the University of New Orleans Lakefront Arena. Graduates include students from LSU Health New Orleans’ schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, Public Health, Graduate Studies, Dentistry, and Medicine. Dr. Steve Nelson, LSU Health New Orleans Interim Chancellor, will preside over the ceremony.
Mr. Jimmie M. Woods, of the LSU Board of Supervisors, will confer degrees. The Honorable John Bel Edwards, Governor of Louisiana, will deliver the Commencement Address.
Nearly 900 students completed degree requirements this academic year.
“As the state’s most comprehensive health university, LSU Health New Orleans educates Louisiana’s health care providers, research scientists, educators and other health professionals,” notes Dr. Steve Nelson, Interim Chancellor. “As our graduates enter the health care workforce, they will immeasurably improve the quality of life throughout Louisiana.”
The 149th Commencement will bring the total number of degrees and certificates awarded by LSU Health New Orleans since its founding to 44,515.
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans educates Louisiana’s health care professionals. The state’s flagship health sciences university, LSU Health New Orleans includes a School of Medicine with campuses in Baton Rouge and Lafayette, the state’s only School of Dentistry, Louisiana’s only public School of Public Health, and Schools of Allied Health Professions, Nursing, and Graduate Studies. LSU Health New Orleans faculty take care of patients in public and private hospitals and clinics throughout the region. In the vanguard of biosciences research in a number of areas in a worldwide arena, the LSU Health New Orleans research enterprise generates jobs and enormous economic impact. LSU Health New Orleans faculty have made lifesaving discoveries and continue to work to prevent, advance treatment, or cure disease. To learn more, visit http://www.lsuhsc.edu, http://www.twitter.com/LSUHealthNO, or http://www.facebook.com/LSUHSC.
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