Welcome Newcomers!

We’d like to extend a warm welcome to the following faculty members who have
joined the School of Medicine Family between the dates August 1 – October 31, 2019!

Family Medicine

Vernon Palmisano, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Medicine:

Medicine – Cardiology

Scott Laura, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Mehnaz Rahman, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Medicine – Nephrology

Sarah Struthers, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Christy Cycotte, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Orthopaedics

James Kinnett, MD - Clinical Assistant Professor

Paul Phillips, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Otorhinolaryngology

Nathan Grohmann, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

James Walker, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Pediatrics

Hannah Bauer, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical

Tamara Bradford, MD – Associate Professor, Clinical

Ashley Farge, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Monica Hajirawala, MD – Instructor, Clinical Specialist

Rachel Hansen, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Colleen LeBlanc, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

LaTasha Lewis, MD - Assistant Professor, Clinical

Jordan Lim, MD – Instructor, Clinical Specialist

Nathalie Medeiros, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Shannon Powell, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Psychiatry

Stephen Giepert, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Jean Simpson, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor

Jennifer Velander, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Surgery

Patrick McLaren, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

Urology

Jennifer Reifsnyder, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

LSU-Baton Rouge

Medicine

Serena Aunon Chancellor, MD – Clinical Associate Professor

Psychiatry

Jessica Berthelot, MD – Assistant Professor, Clinical

LSUNO:

Genetics

Hyejin Kim, MD – Assistant Professor, Research

Qiang Shen, MD, PhD – Professor, Research

UMC-Medicine

Melisa Harrington, MD – Clinical Assistant Professor

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