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FACULTY

Gordon L. Love, MD

Department Head/Chairman, Department of Pathology
Professor of Clinical Pathology
Jack Perry Strong, MD Endowed Professor of Pathology

Pathology

(504) 568-6031
glove2@lsuhsc.edu
Medicine

Academic Office:

Center for Advanced Learning and Simulation
Department of Pathology
2021 Perdido St., 7th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112

Clinical Office:

University Medical Center - New Orleans
2000 Canal St.
New Orleans, LA 70112

Bio

Dr. Love is Chairman of the Department of Pathology for Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and holds the Jack Perry Strong, MD, Endowed Professorship of Pathology. He is Medical Director of the Clinical Laboratories at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, including its Precision Medicine Laboratory, and at University Medical Center Hospital in New Orleans. He serves as the Service Line Physician Leader of Core Specialties at UMC.

Dr. Love has held the position of Chairman since 2019, having joined LSU in 2016 as Vice Chairman of Pathology following experience running laboratories in California and serving on the faculty of the University of California School of Medicine at Davis.

He is a member of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and a former member of CAP’s Microbiology, Curriculum and Clinical Pathology Education Resource Committees. He has performed more than 60 CAP hospital laboratory inspections across the United States.
As a member of the American Board of Pathology, he served on its Microbiology Test Committee for 13 years as Mycology Expert.

While in California he was Medical Director of the Quest Diagnostics Reference Laboratory in West Hills (North Los Angeles), which processed some 50,000 blood vials daily. Before working in the Los Angeles area, he was a member of Diagnostic Pathology Medical Group in Sacramento.

He is Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, with further board certifications in Cytopathology, Medical Microbiology and Medical Mycology. Besides running LSU’s pathology department, overseeing a 12 member faculty and working with pathology residents, he oversees the UMC Clinical Laboratory and shares in service-work including reading Gynecologic Papanicolaou smears, interpreting electrophoresis, and evaluates fungal cultures and stained preparations.

Dr. Love is the author of multiple books on medical mycology. He also has written several book chapters on hyalohyphomycoses and mucormycoses, and numerous professional articles.

Dr. Love’s professional memberships include:

• Fellow and laboratory inspector, College of American Pathologists
• Member, American Society for Microbiology
• Member, Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine
• Fellow, American Society for Clinical Pathology
• Member, International Society for Human and Animal Mycology

Education

Degree:
Doctor of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA

Residency:
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology Residency
Tulane/Charity Hospital, New Orleans, LA

Board Certifications:
Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Cytopathology
Medical Microbiology
Medical Mycology

Affiliated Hospitals

University Medical Center - New Orleans
New Orleans East Hospital

Publications

Books:

Mycology Benchtop Reference Guide, An Illustrated Guide for Commonly Encountered Fungi, Second Edition, by Love G; College of American Pathologists Press, in preparation for 2026 release.
Color Atlas of Diagnostic Medical Mycology by Mary Klassen-Fischer, Ronald C. Neafie, Gordon L. Love, Randall T. Hayden, ASCP, 2024.
Color Atlas of Mycology by Love G and Ribes J, CAP Press, 2018
Mycology Benchtop Reference Guide, An Illustrated Guide for Commonly Encountered Fungi by Love G; College of American Pathologists Press, 2013.

Research

Infectious disease pathology particularly fungal disease and COVID-19