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LSU health school,
speech clinic merge
By SALLY REESE
Times Medical Writer
4-23-80
The mission of LSU Medical Cen-ter
took on new significance Tuesday
with formal announcement of the
merger of the Mollie E. Webb Speech
and Hearing Clinic with the medical
center's School of Allied Health Pro-fessions.
Dr. Allan A. Copping, chancellor of
the LSU medical system, said the
merger adds a new dimension to the
medical center in that it introduces a
broader scope in professional train-ing
and services to the area.
It will advance Shreveport as a
regional health center, he said.
Dr. Stanley H. Abedie, dean of the
School of Allied Health, said the
school recognizes that total health
care must draw upon personnel, tal-ents
and techniques in a broad range
of disciplines.
The field of allied health pro-fessions
encompasses audio and
speech pathology, medical technolo-gy
and respiratory therapy, which
the medical center already has, and
, X-ray technology, anesthesiology,
physical therapy, cytol technology
and rehabilitation counseling, which
it plans to add before May 1981.
Copping said the medical center
also hopes to add a residency pro-gram
in dentistry.
The cooperative arrangement with
the Mollie E. Webb center will pro-vide
clinical training for the medical
school's students of audiology and
speech pathology, said Dr. James M.
Pekarthy, assistant dean of the
School of Allied Health.
It also will increase the impact of
the center's existing services, he
added.
Abedie said medical residents will
rotate through the speech and hear-ing
center. "This will provide train-ing
for our students and physician
input for the center," he said.
By integrating the allied health
disciplines with the School of Medi-cine,
the medical center will be pro-viding
common learning experiences
with students in other disciplines,
said Pekarthy. He called the former
"medicine's partners."
Both he and Abedie said the LSU
system's aggressive move into the
allied health field was in response to
signals from medical students and
the community's physicians that
they wanted it.
Leonard Selber, president of the
Caddo Foundation for Exceptional
Children, joined Copping in announc-ing
the merger. Mollie E. Webb
Clinic provides speech and hearing
services to children, adults and the
elderly who have speech and hearing
problems.
Object Description
| Title | LSU Health School, Speech Clinic Merge |
| Creator |
Reese, Sally |
| Subject |
Mollie E. Webb Speech and Hearing Center (Shreveport, La.) Louisiana State University School of Allied Health Professions (Shreveport, La.) |
| Publisher |
Shreveport Times |
| Date | 1980-04-23 |
| Identifier | See reference URL on the navigation bar. |
| Source | Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport Medical Library (http://lib.sh.lsuhsc.edu) |
| Language | en |
| Relation | http://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/cdm4/index_LSUHSCS_NPC.php?CISOROOT=/LSUHSCS_NPC |
| Coverage-Spatial | Shreveport (Caddo, La.) |
| Rights | Physical rights are retained by Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. |
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