Department of Pathology - School of Medicine

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Department of Pathology
LSUHSC School of Medicine
1901 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: (504) 568-6031

Welcome to the Department of Pathology

The Department of Pathology is comprised of physicians and laboratory scientists who engage in teaching, research, and clinical services. Pathology is a specialty of medicine that focuses on the causes, mechanisms and effects of disease. For this reason, it is a field of study that has always been at the nexus of medicine, basic science, and technology. Pathology as a branch of the practice of medicine has two broad categories: anatomic pathology and clinical pathology. Each of these broad categories has many sub-specialties of special expertise.

The Department of Pathology provides education and training programs for medical students, pathology residents, pathology fellows, and graduate students. The Pathology Department conducts two major courses, general and systemic pathology, and clinical pathology to medical students in their second year of study and special elective courses for senior medical students. Our pathology residency educational program is centered at the Medical Center of Louisiana and its University Hospital Campus and also enjoys educational programs for residents at Children's Hospital, West Jefferson Hospital and Ochsner Hospital. We offer a fellowship in surgical pathology. The department offers a program of graduate study and research in the basic science of pathology with tracks for an MS and PhD degree.

Research is a key component of education and our department has been internationally recognized for decades for work in the investigation of atherosclerosis and cancer. These two programs involve a host of specialty areas and techniques, including gross and microscopic morphology and morphometry, immunohistochemical and other specialized human-tissue staining, and laboratory analyses of tissues and fluids.

In addition to teaching and research, our department faculty members are board certified in a wide range of subspecialty areas, providing consultative expertise and clinical services to the medical center hospitals and many associated community institutions.

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Jack P. Strong, MD
Boyd Professor and Head