Press Releases

LSU Health Shreveport held a press conference Monday, April 23 about a surgery that will take place tomorrow for nine and half year old Palestinian boy, Mustufa Khaleel Mahmoud Issa, who suffers from a form of a facial cleft that extends from the lip to the inner canthus of the eye as well as hypertelorism, a condition that is evident by an abnormally large distance between the eyes. These conditions may be attributed to abnormal development of the bones of the forehead and the base of the skill, premature fusion of the bony plates of the skull or a cleft between the bones of the nose or upper face.

Shreveport-Bossier:  The LSU Health Shreveport Department of Neurosurgery is pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Bharat Guthikonda, Associate Professor and Director of Skull Base Research, to Professor with tenure effective July 1, 2018.

Shreveport-Bossier, LA – Faculty members and residents of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Department of Neurosurgery presented at the recent North American Skull Base Society’s (NASBS) 28th Annual Meeting in Coronado, California February 16-18, 2018.

The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Department of Neurosurgery is pleased to announce that Dr. Anil Nanda, 2nd Vice-President of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS) and Director of Fundraising and Grants for the WFNS Foundation, was a key speaker at the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies meeting in Milan, Italy, February 9-11, 2018.

World renowned neurosurgeons will travel from Israel, Canada, and Australia to speak with faculty, staff and members of the medical community in Shreveport-Bossier and the Ark-La-Tex.

LSU Health Department of Neurosurgery’s Dr. Notarianni was recently nominated to serve in 2018 as the President-Elect/1st Vice-President of the Shreveport Medical Society.