Our health sciences center is home to the School of Medicine, School of Graduate Studies and School of Allied Health Professions. More than 800 students are enrolled in the degree programs at any one time. Additionally, nearly 600 residents and fellows are trained each year.
We are proud of our state-designated Centers of Excellence in cancer, cardiovascular disease and rheumatology. At the heart of it all is a strong faculty that includes a number of nationally and internationally-acclaimed physicians and scientists. More than 600-strong, they lead our research efforts, educate our students and provide primary and specialty care to patients throughout the region.
Patient care and training take place at four partner hospitals: University Health, Willis-Knighton, Shriners Children's Hospital, and the Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Students and residents also rotate through rural hospitals and clinics in the region. University Health operates our teaching hospitals and clinics in Shreveport and Monroe, which include the area's only Level 1 Trauma Center and the Feist-Weiller Cancer.
LSU Health Shreveport has strong community support. The LSU Health Sciences Foundation raises money for campus initiatives. Educational partnerships include an MD/PhD program with Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, a Master of Public Health program with LSU Shreveport and joint Respiratory Therapy program with Bossier Parish Community College and two community colleges.
The primary mission of Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport (LSUHSC-S) is to teach, heal, and discover, in order to advance the well being of the region and beyond. LSUHSC-S encompasses the Schools of Medicine, Graduate Studies, and Allied Health Professions in Shreveport. In implementing its mission, LSUHSC-S is committed to:
Our health sciences center includes five basic science and 19 clinical departments in the Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, along with seven departments in the School of Allied Health Professions. Administrative departments can assist with questions about employment, academic issues, financial aid, legal questions and campus security.
Faculty, staff and students at LSU Health Shreveport are actively engaged in research in a variety of biomedical areas, with concentrations in cancer, cardiovascular sciences, virology and neuroscience. It is a core part of our institution's mission. Research on campus runs the gamut from in the lab to more translational research and testing the latest treatments in clinical trials.
Our faculty and staff provide outpatient care at three School of Allied Health Professions clinics: the Children’s Center which provides developmental and psychological testing and treatment for children; Mollie E. Webb Speech and Hearing Center and the Rehabilitation Clinic for physical therapy. Referrals to the services come from LSU Health Shreveport faculty physicians as well as other sources in the community.
Patients from a wide area, who need both primary care and complex medical or surgical services, are referred to the talented physicians on our faculty, who see and treat patients at Willis-Knighton Health System, Veterans Administration Hospital, CHRISTUS Health and Shriner’s Hospital for Children, as well as the University Health hospitals and clinics, which are the primary teaching hospitals for the School of Medicine.
After more than 150 years as a state-operated hospital, LSU Health’s Shreveport hospital along with the E. A. Conway Medical Center in Monroe made an historic transition in 2013 to private operation. Known today as University Health Shreveport and University Health Conway, the hospitals are operated by the Biomedical Research Foundation Hospital Holdings. They remain the primary teaching hospitals for the LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine.
Our roots date back to 1876, when a Charity Hospital was established in Shreveport. It was renamed Confederate Memorial Medical Center and moved to the hospital’s current location at Kings Highway and Linwood Avenue in 1953. This hospital became the foundation for what was to become a full academic medical center.
Confederate Memorial became part of the LSU System in 1976 making our School of Medicine the first state school to operate its own teaching hospital in Louisiana. EA Conway Medical Center joined the LSU Health Sciences Center in 2003 further expanding patient care and medical educational opportunities in north Louisiana.
On October 1, 2013, after more than 150 years, the hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe transitioned from public to private entities. Under the management of the Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, the hospitals were renamed University Health Shreveport and University Health Monroe.
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