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ÃÛÌÒAPP alumni make up 2 of every 3 Louisiana physicians, dentists, and veterinarians. With two health sciences centers in New Orleans and Shreveport and a research center dedicated to biomedical research—Pennington Biomedical—working alongside our Flagship and other campuses throughout the state, ÃÛÌÒAPP is in the business of saving and improving lives and tackling our biggest health challenges, such as cancer, obesity, and diabetes.

Pennington Biomedical’s Study of Assumption Parish Shares Initial, Surprising Data

One of the key takeaways so far is this: Your health is strongly tied to your education level—and much more so than to your income or age. For example, residents who didn’t graduate from high school are more than twice as likely to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol than those who went to college.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Health New Orleans’ Rural Track Scholars Program for Dentists Impacts Communities Across the State

Whether it’s at Walmart or high school football games, Dr. Mason Liles’ conversations quickly turn from prices and plays to cavities and root canals. As a dentist serving patients in rural Louisiana, Dr. Liles is always on the job.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Health Shreveport Expands Rural Residency Program Across North Louisiana

ÃÛÌÒAPP Health Shreveport is expanding its successful rural residency program across north Louisiana. Partnering with Franklin Medical Center and Ochsner ÃÛÌÒAPP Health Monroe, the program will place its first residents in the small town of Winnsboro this summer.

ÃÛÌÒAPP Research Enables Better Flood Protection for Homes

For decades, Louisiana has been building homes to an elevation standard where 4 out of 10 are expected to flood at least once in 50 years. Shocked? Then you’re not alone, says ÃÛÌÒAPP Professor Carol Friedland. She leads a team that just helped set a new, national elevation standard for construction.

ÃÛÌÒAPP and Ochsner Health Expand Partnership, Leadership in Dementia Care

Louisiana ranks fifth in the nation for Alzheimer’s disease, which mostly impacts older adults and is among the leading causes of death. But thanks to a unique partnership between ÃÛÌÒAPP and Ochsner Health, dementia care is improving.

ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Pennington Biomedical Brings Science-Backed Program Into 32 Louisiana Schools, Preschools

Greaux Healthy is a comprehensive, new program supported by the State of Louisiana that translates 35 years of Pennington Biomedical research into practical tools to prevent and treat childhood obesity.

Meet Gracie Chatman: First to Pursue ÃÛÌÒAPPE’s Surg Tech Program at ÃÛÌÒAPPA

In all operating rooms, there are surgical technologists who work elbow-to-elbow with surgeons to make sure they have the right instruments at the right time, and everything in and near the patient remains sterile. Now, ÃÛÌÒAPP Eunice and ÃÛÌÒAPP Alexandria are leveraging the strength of the statewide university to bring surgical technology training to Central Louisiana.

Meet Julia Cazabon: First to Attend Medical School for Free on the ÃÛÌÒAPP Health New Orleans Beer Scholarship

Julia Cazabon, a medical student at ÃÛÌÒAPP Health New Orleans, is the first to receive full support through the Marcia and Billy Beer Endowed Scholarship Fund to attend all four years of medical school for free, thanks to a historic $7.5 million leadership gift—the largest ever to the ÃÛÌÒAPP Health New Orleans Foundation.

Meet Myron Lard: First to Investigate Soil Samples in Colfax, Louisiana, and East Palestine, Ohio

For the first time, Lard was able to make a new connection between environmentally persistent free radicals and cancer-causing dioxins using real-world samples.

ÃÛÌÒAPP and Our Lady of the Lake Health Pioneer New Sepsis Test, Saving Lives, Cost

In hospitals nationwide, more people die from sepsis than from anything else. It’s more deadly than opioid overdoses, breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. But since August, a new sepsis test based on ÃÛÌÒAPP and Our Lady of the Lake Health research and advances in microfluidics is saving lives and cost at Our Lady of the Lake Health in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Fighting Hunger and Disease, One Strain of Rice at a Time

The ÃÛÌÒAPP AgCenter is Louisiana rice farmers’ MVP, or most valued partner, in research and crop variety development. From creating a new market for jasmine rice, to producing varieties of rice that are better for diabetics and more sustainable and resilient to changes in the environment, ÃÛÌÒAPP has been critical to the Louisiana rice industry for more than 100 years.

Driving Agricultural Innovation by Growing People First

Innovation isn’t always about the latest technology. Sometimes it’s about transforming an organization by making its people happier, healthier and more successful. At RoyOMartin, Louisiana’s largest landowner and maker of wood products, ÃÛÌÒAPP alumna Donna Bailey and ÃÛÌÒAPP/ÃÛÌÒAPP Health Shreveport alumnus Dr. Brian Elkins have helped build an educational system as well as a healthcare system—within the company—to support RoyOMartin employees and their families.

Caring for People in Central Louisiana

As head of nursing at Rapides Regional Medical Center in Alexandria, ÃÛÌÒAPPA nursing alumna Barbara Griffin is not only providing critically needed medical care for people in Central Louisiana, but also ensuring jobs and professional advancement for hundreds of ÃÛÌÒAPPA nursing alumni.

Optimizing Military Health and Performance

Scientists Claire Berryman and Stephen Hennigar joined ÃÛÌÒAPP’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center to build on three decades as the leading academic provider of nutrition science for the Department of Defense.

Building a Pipeline for Dental Care

With $520K in state support, ÃÛÌÒAPP is expanding the ÃÛÌÒAPP Health New Orleans dental hygiene program to ÃÛÌÒAPP Alexandria to address acute workforce needs in central Louisiana.