Robert M. Post, MD

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health

Daughters of Charity
111 N. Causeway Blvd.
Metairie, LA 70001
(504) 482-0084 
rpost@lsuhsc.edu

Degrees

MD
University of Missouri

Bio

Robert M. Post, MD, is jointly appointed with LSUHSC School of Medicine-New Orleans as Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and in the School of Public Health. He completed his medical degree at the University of Missouri and his residency training and faculty development in Family Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. After moving to New Orleans, he served four years as Medical Director of a community health center located in the Fischer Housing Development, an urban area with a shortage of health professionals.

Dr. Post serves as the Medical Director for Daughters of Charity Services-New Orleans, which provides a variety of primary-care, preventive, and outreach services to underserved populations in New Orleans. This includes the Daughters of Charity Health Center at Carrollton, which provides primary-care and preventive services to more than 25,000 patients; the Neighborhood Health Partnership, which provides community health nursing in social-service centers; the Seton Resource Center for Childhood Development, which provides comprehensive school health services in inner-city schools; the Integrated Mobile Assessment Team, which provides medical outreach to the homeless in shelters throughout the city; and the Latino Health Access Network, which provides coordinated health services to Spanish-speaking patients through volunteer physicians.

Dr. Post's major grant activities are focused on developing an integrated system of care for the uninsured("PATH"), reducing chronic homelessness ("IMPACT"), and reducing the effects of obesity, diabetes, and asthma ("STEPS"). Past activities include a school-based asthma program in inner-city schools, a diabetes intervention program tailored to the individual's stage of readiness, and breast-cancer outreach to black women.

His teaching activities are focused on prevention and population-based medicine. Dr. Post directs the COPC curriculum for the residency, including monthly seminars on primary and secondary prevention and a HRSA-funded training program. He also works with the pre-doctoral programs through the SPM Clinical Forums. Elective rotations in community medicine and capstone placements are available through any of the programs mentioned above that may be of interest to students.

Research Interests

Prevention and population-based medicine