SB GOOD TO KNOW
BY SEVA MAY
DAVID L. CALLECOD NAMED INTERIM CEO OF OCHSNER LSU HEALTH Leaders from Ochsner Health and LSU Health Shreveport announced David L. Callecod, FACHE as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Ochsner LSU Health System – North Louisiana effective December 1, 2021. Callecod brings more than 25 years’ experience as a healthcare CEO. From 2008 to 2020, Callecod led Lafayette General Health System, which merged with Ochsner Health in October 2020. The seven-hospital system includes the only two teaching hospitals in the Acadiana region, Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center and Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics, and an additional six clinical affiliate hospitals. Demonstrating his commitment to ensure every person has access to high-quality healthcare regardless of insurance status or ability to pay, Callecod has been a consistent champion for the importance of safety-net hospitals. The move follows the recent relocation of Charles D. “Chuck” Daigle to his hometown of Baton Rouge, La., where he takes the position of Ochsner Health Regional Chief Executive Officer – Baton Rouge and Lake Charles. THREE PRINCIPALS OF THE YEAR NAMED TO REPRESENT BOSSIER SCHOOLS IN STATE COMPETITION Three Bossier Parish school principals were surprised by Superintendent Mitch Downey and an entourage of well-wishers when they learned they had been chosen as the 2022-23 Principals of the Year. Andrea Spinney was chosen as Bossier Schools’ Elementary Principal of the Year. Spinney is principal at Haughton Elementary. Judy Grooms, principal at Cope Middle School, is the Middle School Principal of the Year; and David Haynie, principal at Haughton High School, was selected as the district’s High School Principal of the Year. Each of these educators met a stringent list of criteria established by the state Department of Education and were chosen by a Bossier Parish School Board District Principal of the Year Committee. The three now advance to the state level to compete among candidates from school districts throughout Louisiana for the overall title of 2022-23 Principal of the Year.
located inside Chamber Plaza. Morant, a Southern University graduate, joins the NWLA PTAC most recently from Caddo Parish Public Schools following a distinguished career in retail and marketing. BPCC LIGHTS BALL FIELDS WITH HELP FROM FOSTER CAMPBELL AND LPSC EFFICIENCY PROGRAM The ball fields at Bossier Parish Community College sport new LED lighting thanks to an energy-efficiency grant from Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell. The $650,000 grant to BPCC in 2021 funded the installation of high-efficiency LED lighting for the sports fields. Musco Lighting, a leading national sports-lighting manufacturer, rovided the components and Camus Electric of Shreveport did the installation. The LPSC Energy Efficiency program for public entities and political subdivisions is an offshoot of the commission’s “Quick Start” Energy Efficiency program, which has helped residential and commercial utility customers lower their power consumption across Louisiana since 2013. Participating utilities are SWEPCO, Entergy and CLECO. LSUS’ DR. ALEXANDER MIKABERIDZE WINS PRESTIGIOUS NATIONAL BOOK PRIZE Louisiana State University Shreveport professor of history, Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze, the Ruth Herring Noel Endowed Chair and curator of the James Smith Noel Collection, was recently announced as the winner of this year’s Gilder Lehrman Military History prize for his book The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History (Oxford University Press, 2020). “The Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History is of international prominence and is highly competitive,” said Mikaberidze. “This year it featured over 70 titles, many of them by esteemed historians whose work I greatly admire. I am deeply honored and humbled.” The prize-winning book, which has also garnered the Society for Military History’s 2021 Distinguished Book Award, looks at the Napoleonic Wars from a more holistic worldview. The Gilder Lehrman award is bestowed annually to an author of military history whose work was published in English during the last calendar year. The $50,000 Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History is an effort by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the New-York Historical Society to highlight works distinguished by scholarship, contribution to the literature, and a broad appeal to both a general and an academic audience.
GREATER SHREVEPORT CHAMBER NAMES CRYSTAL MORANT AS NWLA PTAC PROCUREMENT SPECIALIST
LSU SHREVEPORT/LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROGRAM RANKED #1 IN LOUISIANA, #27 NATIONALLY AS MOST AFFORDABLE
The Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce that Crystal Morant has been hired as the second business counselor at the Northwest Louisiana Procurement Technical Assistance Center (NWLA PTAC),
The LSU Shreveport (LSUS)/LSU Health Shreveport (LSUHS) Master of Public Health (MPH) Program has been named first in Louisiana and 27th in the nation on EduMed. org’s 2021 Most Affordable Online MPH Program ranking.
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