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TRAINING SITES

The following is a list of our training locations.

• Medical Center of Louisiana in New Orleans- University Hospital and Clinics
• Ochsner Medical Center
• Community Mental Health Centers
• Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the Behavioral Sciences Center
• New Orleans Adolescent & Adult Hospital
• New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute

   

The Department of Psychiatry is associated with a variety of academic facilities and teaching hospitals that provide clinical care.

OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER

 

 

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

University Hospital, formerly the private Hotel Dieu Hospital, is a 300-bed general hospital and Level 1 Trauma Center. University Hospital treats a wide variety of medical and surgical illnesses. University Hospital is in close proximity to the LSU Health Sciences Research Center that houses the offices and research labs of the Stanley Scott Cancer Center, Neuroscience Center and other research areas.  It is also close to the Medical Educational Building.

 

 

OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER

Ochsner Medical Center is widely recognized as a leader in education, patient care, and research.  The 441-bed teaching hospital serves the needs of the New Orleans community, the Gulf South region, as well as a large international population.  Ochsner Clinic is one of the nation’s largest multi-specialty health care groups with more than 30 locations throughout Southeast Louisiana.  Over 500 physicians and 5,000 employees treat an estimated one million patients annually.  Ochsner boasts a broad array of services from primary to specialty care, including many pediatric, surgical, and cardiovascular subspecialties.

The hallmark of Ochsner care is a multispecialty approach to solving patients’ problems.  The close collaboration between clinicians and skilled scientists helps bring medical discoveries from the laboratory to the bedside.  Over the years, U.S. News and World Report has consistently named Ochsner one of America’s Best Hospitals.  Ochsner has also received the National Research Corporation’s Consumer Choice Award for the New Orleans region, and Ochsner Clinic was honored as Consumer Choice for outstanding heart care services. 

In completing its 500th heart transplant, the Ochsner Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation Program reached a medical milestone in 2000, and joined the ranks of only five other transplant programs nationwide.  Today, Ochsner cardiologists are in the forefront of such nonsurgical treatments as stints, laser, radiation, and imaging procedures.

Dean Hickman, M.D.
Associate Training Director
Ochsner Department of Psychiatry

The Ochsner Multi-Organ Transplant team continues to be a leader in organ transplants in the Gulf South.  Ochsner hepatologists are leading the nation in clinical research, while surgeons are breaking new ground by performing Louisiana’s first split liver transplant and leading the region in reduced-size liver transplants and living-related liver transplantation.

The Ochsner Cancer Institute offers progressive clinical therapy and a multidisciplinary approach to cancer patient care.  Highly trained, specialized physicians and nurses work with a broad range of support staff dedicated to addressing the needs of the cancer patient and family.  This team concentrates on achieving success in the fight against cancer in all facets of patient care.

2001 marks the opening of the Lieselotte Tansey Breast Center at Ochsner, the first of its kind in the Gulf South Region.  The Center combines outpatient breast diagnostic services (mammogram, ultrasound, core biopsy) with surgical consultation, and allows radiologists and surgeons to work side by side to provide women with rapid diagnosis.  The Center also offers a breast prosthesis fitting service and a health and information service.

Autumn 2000 inaugurated the Ochsner Critical Tower, which houses the new Emergency Department, Intensive Care, and Surgery Units.  This facility offers the latest in breakthrough, high-level technology, including digital x-ray stations, wireless patient registration, and an electronic medical record system.

Ochsner Clinic and Hospital’s dedication to research, patient care, and education continues into the future.

 

NEW ORLEANS PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE

One of about 40 institutes under the auspice of the American Psychoanalytic Association, the New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute is the oldest in the South.  The Institute was established in 1949 and consists of 30 active members who practice in the New Orleans area and contribute to continuing education seminars. A few members are full time academic faculty at the medical schools, but most are in private practice.

3624 Coliseum Street - The Institute’s physical location is in an historic house in the tree-lined Garden District. It offers both traditional psychoanalytic and psychotherapy training.
 

LSUHSC BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES CENTER
3450 CHESTNUT STREET, 3RD FLOOR
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA  70115

The Behavioral Sciences Center is a facility that provides a full range of clinical alternatives for adults and children with emotional or behavioral problems.  Working within a multidisciplinary team, our physicians are able to provide state-of-the-art diagnostic evaluations and effective interventions for a wide variety of psychiatric disorders.  The range of expertise available by our staff allows them to match the optimum form of treatment to each person’s particular problem.  Available treatment modalities include pharmacotherapy, short and long term psychotherapy, individual/couples/group psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and hypnosis.  Members of our staff include nationally recognized experts in the fields of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy.