Student News
LSU School of Medicine students had many notable accomplishments over the quarter:
Graduating medical student Alexandra Bartholomew received the Leonard Tow Award, presented annually to one graduating medical student by the Gold Humanism Honor Society (GHHS) who is an exemplar of humanism in the care of patients and families. Awardees are selected through a nomination process and vote by the student body.
Orthopaedic Surgery
Students Erik Piedy and Grace Brandhurst were listed as authors on the article Characterizing Biomarkers of Muscle Damage in Collegiate Football Players: A Prospective,
Repeated Measures Study that was published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine.
Students Erik Piedy and Callie Dickinson were listed as authors on the article Wearable Devices and Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Perioperative Care in Total Knee Arthroplasty that was published in Orthopedic Clinics of North America.
Students David St. Etienne, Matthew Bratton, and Clifton Daigle were listed as authors in Relationship Between Intraarticular Injections on Patient-reported Outcomes in Total Knee Arthroplasty published in JAAOS Global Research and Reviews.
Pediatrics
The department was well represented at the annual COMSEP conference in Vancouver.
Fourth year medical students Beau Goodreaux and Toni Henry presented their poster "Reducing Bias in Pediatric Clerkship Didactics: A Quallity
Improvement Project." Future residents Anne Caffrey and Afryea Dunbar as well as Clerkship Director Dr. Callie Roth also contributed to the project.
Pathology
Carson J. Hebert was awarded the College of American Pathologists Distinguished Medical Student Award.
The award was presented to Hebert on behalf of the department by Dr. Rachna Jetly,
Vice Chair, Department of Pathology and Dr. Grace Athas, Associate Professor of Clinical
Pathology.
Hebert was nominated for the CAP Distinguished Medical Student Award by the department. Hebert had expressed interest in pathology even during his medical school admission interview after shadowing a community-based pathologist practice during COVID. He was one of the first students to complete a one-week preceptorship his freshman year over the winter holiday break. He demonstrates a strong pathology focus by exceling in course work, creating pathology-related enduring teaching concept maps for his peers in the hematology and neuroscience blocks, and presenting a poster titled “Transient Pseudo-Pelger Huet Anomaly Associated with Zanubrutinib Treatment in a Patient with Chronic lymphocytic Leukemia” at the ASCP 2025 meeting. Hebert is also an active and key member of the student pathology interest group and tutors freshman and sophomore medical students. (Image: left to right - Dr. Rachna Jetly, Carson J. Hebert, and Dr. Grace Athas)