The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Training Program at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center is a two-year, multidisciplinary training program for individuals with an interest in Intensive Care Medicine and at least three years of postgraduate training in Internal Medicine.

The fellowship is based at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Hospital, with the elective rotations at Overton Brooks Veterans Administration Medical Center and Willis Knighton health systems. The rotations at LSUHSC include the medical intensive care unit, the surgical intensive care unit, the pediatric intensive care unit, the trauma/surgical critical care service, the neurosurgical service, the cardiovascular surgery service, anesthesiology, nutrition support, and non-invasive cardiology. Training is also provided in bronchoscopy and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Up to six months of the second year is allocated to research. Elective rotations include transplantation medicine, transfusion medicine, and burn critical care.

The program provides training for up to four critical care fellows, with up to two fellows accepted each year.

The training program has a multidisciplinary faculty. Faculty members have formal training in numerous disciplines, including critical care medicine, pulmonary medicine, pediatric critical care, trauma surgery, surgical critical care, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, burn surgery, transplantation medicine, and transfusion medicine.

The program director is Steven A. Conrad, MD Ph.D. FCCM. The training program is administered through the department of Medicine, chaired by Daniel Banks, M.D. For further information, contact the program director at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at the following address:

Steven A. Conrad, MD PhD
1501 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 7110

Phone 318-675-6885
FAX 318-675-6878
E-mail: sconrad@lsuhsc.edu