Teaching, Research, Patient Care
The LSU Health Sciences Center provides an outstanding academic training program for cardiovascular
disease (cardiology). Louisiana is the only state with a complete charity hospital system.
LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport provides a large portion of the tertiary cardiac
care for that system. This provides a large influx of patients with a wide variety of cardiac
conditions for whom the cardiology fellow (under the supervision of the cardiology faculty
attending) can assume a major responsibility for care. The combination of a public hospital,
a veteran's hospital, and a private hospital which serve as tertiary care cardiac centers,
a full time, medical school-based cardiology faculty with a wide variety of expertise and
excellent facilities for cardiac care and research (including a PET scanner and cyclotron)
provide an excellent educational environment.
Specifically, the outstanding or special
features of the cardiovascular training program at the LSU Health Sciences Center are:
- The large number of patients each cardiology
fellow is exposed to and for whom they are responsible for by direct, supervised care.
- The wide range of cardiac pathology
which is represented by this patient population so that each cardiology fellow becomes familiar
with the broad spectrum of disease in this specialty.
- As a corollary, the large number of
cardiac procedures the cardiology fellows all perform "hands on" during their training.
- The advanced level of expertise which
is represented in all of the major areas of cardiology by the faculty (invasive and interventional
cardiology, cardiomyopathies and congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias
and electrophysiology, nuclear cardiology, echocardiography). Clinical research is ongoing
in most of these areas. Three didactic conferences per week teach a core curriculum.
- The outstanding support from state-of-the-art
hospitals and their administration; the department of medicine and the excellent expertise
represented by the other subspecialties; and the other top notch departments in the medical
school, especially the internationally prominent department of Physiology, with whom relations
are very collaborative and supportive, and with whom research is performed.
Training Locations
- LSU Health Sciences Center
- Overton Brooks VA Medical Center
- Willis-Knighton Medical Center
Number of Trainees, per year
- 3-4 per year, years 1-3, which comprises
the basic cardiology fellowship
Total number of Trainees:
10
Total number of Faculty: Currently
7, with 3 openings, for a total of 10 when fully staffed
Chairman of Department of Internal
Medicine: Daniel Banks, MD
Chief of Cardiology Section:
Pratap C. Reddy, MD
Program Director: Pratap C. Reddy, MD
Fellowship Coordinator:
Liz Antee, Cardiology Section,
LSUHSC, 1501 Kings Hwy.
Shreveport, LA 71130
Phone (318) 675-5941,
Fax (318) 675-5686,
Email: lantee@lsuhsc.edu