Message from the Chairman
I have served as Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at LSUMC for the past 27 years. The Department is committed to the finest quality medical student education, post-medical school training for residents and fellows in all aspects of psychiatry: general psychiatry, infant, child and adolescent psychiatry, emergency and administrative psychiatry, and consultation liaison psychiatry. We also provide excellent graduate and post-graduate training in social work and psychology. The department provides major leadership in research spanning our field and makes important advances in the understanding of psychopharmacology and neuroscience, developmental disorders, psychodynamic psychiatry, and treatment of children and families exposed to community and family violence. It plays key roles related to transmission and treatment of HIV infection, prevention of school failure and incarceration among high risk youth and maintaining mental health in our senior citizens, to name but a few areas. Our nationally recognized Harris Infant Mental Health Center trains professionals in several states to understand and treat the most vulnerable of our children and their families during the first three years of life.
Howard J. Osofsky, M.D., Ph.D.
Chairman
Department of Psychiatry
Coming to this clinic was the best decision I've ever made...
- 26 Year Old Female
I have to thank everyone so much for all of the help you have given me. I now have something I will take with me forever and I plan to pass on the love and care to others.
- 26 Year Old Female
For everything you've done, and for being the special people that you are, thank you so very much.
- Grateful Family
The LSU program provides mental health services to a number of different facilities in the city and surrounding areas.
Partnerships and Affiliations
Listed below are some of the many institutions that are affiliated with the LSU Psychiatry Residency Program.
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