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The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs will host its Third Annual Suicide Prevention Summit virtually on Friday, September 18 at 9:00 a.m.

Each year across the nation, September serves as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. The Louisiana Department of Veterans Affair’s Third Annual Suicide Prevention Summit will feature speakers that will address safe firearm storage, safety planning as an effective form of intervention for suicide prevention and preventing suicide by firearms or other...

LSU Health Foundation New Orleans Announces the Promotion of Kelly Gervais to Operations Manager of Business Ventures

LSU Health Foundation New Orleans is pleased to announce Kelly Gervais’ promotion to Operations Manager of Business Ventures. “Kelly joined the Foundation on June 17, 2019, as a Business Ventures Associate, “ said Executive Director of Business Ventures Benjamin Caplan, “She came to us with over 25 years of experience...

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine’s Rohan Walvekar, MD, Takes an Entrepreneurial Approach to Spreading Positivity

Dr. Rohan Walvekar, ENT and Head Neck Cancer Surgeon with LSU Health Sciences, has always been a problem-solver. He learned from his parents, both doctors, to strive for a life rooted in the belief that in working to spread positivity, people will send positivity back to us. He came to...

Mental Health Support Hotline Fund

The LSU Health Department of Psychiatry provides essential training and treatment services through rural and urban parishes and responds to critical needs of the state following catastrophic events. First responders are the backbone of rescue and recovery from these events. Firefighters, EMTs, and law officers protect the general public often...