Press Releases

Brain Tumor Patient Goes on to Play College Baseball, Featured on Local News.
Tonight, KPLC television in Lake Charles, Louisiana is airing a success story featuring college baseball player, Austin Nelson.

The Department of Neurosurgery held it’s fourteenth annual Levy Conference on Friday, April 7, 2017.
Dr. Anil Nanda, Department Chair, warmly welcomed world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Frederick A. Boop, who gave a lecture on his experience with pediatric brain tumors and the growing need for worldwide neurosurgical care.

Texarkana resident Bobby Redmond, 51, spent the first day of 2016 in the hospital to be treated for dizziness and blurred vision that he thought was related to his diabetes.

Department of Neurosurgery Chairman and Professor Dr. Anil Nanda lectured at the University in Bern, Switzerland on Thursday, February 16, 2017.

Dr. Anil Nanda was invited to speak at the Mississippi Neurological Society’s annual meeting in Oxford, Mississippi over the weekend of January 20-22.

Dr. Richard Menger, PGY-5 resident for the Department of Neurosurgery, wrote an opinion/editorial, “Getting Military Surgeons the Practice They Need to Stay Sharp” for the Wall Street Journal. The piece was published March 11.

University Neurosurgery will host the 13^th Annual Mary Louise and Ben Levy Visiting Professorship in Neurosurgery April 8. University of Utah Professor and Chairman Dr. William T. Couldwell will lecture on the “Evolution of Skull Base Surgery” at 10 a.m. in Room 1-400 of LSU Health Sciences Center.