Bio

Miranda Mitchell is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center’s (LSUHSC) Baton Rouge Regional Campus. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from Xavier University of Louisiana and her M.D. from LSUHSC School of Medicine in New Orleans. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency with LSUHSC Internal Medicine Residency in Baton Rouge at the former Earl K. Long Hospital. Following residency, she worked as a private hospitalist with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center (OLOL) Hospital Medicine Service. After a brief career in private practice, she joined the academic faculty of the LSU Internal Medicine program in Baton Rouge. Currently she instructs resident physicians and medical students in the inpatient and ambulatory settings at OLOL.

In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she is the Director of the Office of Community Engagement for the LSUHSC Baton Rouge Regional Campus. From 2016 to 2022, she served as Medical Director for the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at OLOL with the last two years of this term Chairing the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System Antimicrobial Stewardship Program. She also previously served as the lead physician in the OLOL Sickle Cell Disease Clinic. Dr. Mitchell serves on many local, regional and state committees including the School of Medicine’s Admission Committee. Dr. Mitchell is passionate about mentoring future/current physicians, primary prevention in the ambulatory care setting and fostering community pipeline programs. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.