Impact Report 2022: Fierce for the Future Campaign Wrap Up

IMPACT REPORT 2022

FIERCE FOR THE FUTURE CAMPAIGN WRAP UP

FOUNDATION BOARD

Armand Roos, Board Chair

Tom Ostendorff III, Vice Chair

Valarie Jamison, Secretary

Ray Lasseigne, Treasurer

David Abdehou, MD

Lee Abraham III, MD

Shane Bridges

Michael Busada

Bill Comegys III

John Evans, MD

Mark Garrett, CPA

Nancy Germany, MD

Patrick Harrison

James Hobley, MD

Jerry Jones, MPT

Rob King III, CPA

FOUNDATION STAFF

Bobette Black, Disbursement Accountant

Apryl Bundy, Director of Development Services

Katie Bursley, MBA, Director of Donor Relations and Events

Margo Clendenin, Director of Development for Feist-Weiller Cancer Center

Mary Cobb, Director of Alumni Relations

Marianne Comegys, Alumni Relations

Viki Fentress, Office Manager

Evans Knight, Director of Development

Sarah Lynch, MBA, Accounting Manager

Samantha Roberts, Director of Marketing and Communications

www.lsuhsfoundation.org

Kevin Flood President and CEO

Brigette Rose, CPA Executive Vice President/ Chief Financial Officer

Jesse Gilmore Vice President for Development

Susan Moffitt Dennis O’Callaghan, PhD Donald Posner, MD Ashley Prince Bubba Rasberry

Director Emeritus Don Horton Ex-Officio David Lewis, MD, MBA Interim Chancellor

LSU Health Shreveport Foundation FIERCE FOR THE FUTURE IMPACT REPORT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Donor Contributions ii

Noel Foundation

A Legacy of Philanthropy iii

White Coat Scholarship Campaign . . . . . . . iv

White Coat Scholar Spotlights . . . . . . . . . . v

Center for Medical Education vi

A Legacy of Service, Compassion, and Generosity vi-vii

Endowments

viii-ix

LETTER FROM THE

LSU Health Sciences Foundation BOARD CHAIR

In June 2022, LSU’s $1.5 billion fundraising campaign achieved its goal three years early. The Fierce for the Future campaign marked LSU’s first comprehensive fundraising campaign. For the first time, all of the university’s campuses throughout the state were invited to join in the excitement and energy of the campaign by raising funds for their own initiatives. As Chair of the LSU Health Sciences Foundation, I was thrilled to see LSU Health Shreveport not only met our campus goal of $52.5 million, but exceeded it. Our generous donors raised $77.6 million in support of LSU Health Shreveport during the Fierce for the Future campaign. How about that!

Raising big gifts requires big ideas, and we have no shortage of those at LSU Health Shreveport. We also need continued dedicated supporters whose passions align with those big ideas. In this publication, you will find the stories and people behind the generosity that made this campaign successful. We’ll also introduce some of those impacted most by the transformational philanthropy we’ve received at LSU Health Shreveport over the past few years.

Roos Chair, LSU Health Shreveport Foundation

I would be remiss not to mention our hardworking people at the Foundation. Kevin Flood, President & CEO, has assembled a great team. During this campaign, they continued to earn donors’ trust and show them the impact of their generosity. As a result, LSU Health Shreveport’s success in the Fierce for the Future campaign was a victory for our campus and community.

Above all else, I’d like to thank our donors – alumni, parents, grateful patients, community partners here in Louisiana and throughout the country, and LSU Health Shreveport’s own faculty, staff, and students. You stayed with us during these challenging exciting times and invested in the future of LSU Health Shreveport. Our success is due to you.

Thank you for all you do.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the staff of the LSU Health Sciences Foundation, Armand Roos Chair, LSU Health Sciences Foundation

Armand

LSU Health Shreveport Foundation FIERCE FOR THE FUTURE IMPACT REPORT

LSU Health Shreveport Foundation FIERCE FOR THE FUTURE IMPACT REPORT

LSU’s $1.5 billion Fierce for the Future Campaign reached $1,594,464,658 as of June 30, 2022, surpassing the campaign goal three years earlier than anticipated. The campaign, which publicly launched three years ago, united donors in support of every LSU campus, and at that time, was the largest fundraising campaign for higher education in the history of Louisiana.

LSU Health Shreveport set a campaign goal of $52.5 million and identified key fundraising priorities focused on expanding the medical student class size, increasing access to medical education through scholarships, and supporting faculty recruitment and enhancement. Ultimately, LSU Health Shreveport surpassed its goal with donors contributing $77.6 million in support of LSU Health Shreveport.

Over the past four years, the Noel Foundation has become a generous partner in advancing educational opportunities at LSU Health Shreveport. Their support encompasses many campus initiatives, while touching countless lives now and into the future. The Foundation and campus leadership was pleased to honor the Noel Foundation at a reception on October 3, 2022 to celebrate the impact of their philanthropy.

LSU Health Shreveport received its first grant from the Noel Foundation in 2019 to support the School of Allied Health Professions’ “Geaux Up State Technology Expansion” project. The grant has enhanced the learning experiences for students across all SAHP programs, as well as aided in the recruitment of new students to each of the eight programs. The Noel Foundation has also supported the Occupational Therapy Workshop fund and equipment for the Faculty Rehab Clinic at the SAHP.

In 2021, the Noel Foundation gave $100,000 to the Center for Medical Education, and will have a first-floor classroom named in their honor. In the same year, the Noel Foundation made its first gift in support of the White Coat Scholarship Campaign, which funds scholarships for medical students.

“We are happy to contribute to the construction of the Center for Medical Education and to provide

scholarships for medical students who will study there. We believe contributing to this cause is one of the most worthwhile endeavors in which our Foundation may participate to not only improve LSU Health Shreveport, but to contribute to the economic advancement and well-being of the Shreveport-Bossier community,” said Merritt B. Chastain, President of the Noel Foundation.

Most recently, the Noel Foundation established the first endowed professorship in support of the Center for Brain Health. The Noel Foundation, Inc. Endowed Professorship Honoring Dr. Robert C. Leitz, III in Parkinson’s Disease Research will expand the study of age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia and fund neurological training equipment for graduate and medical students studying at LSU Health Shreveport. The endowed professorship honors the Noel Foundation’s former president, Dr. Robert C. Leitz III, who has courageously battled Parkinson’s disease for many years. Dr. Elizabeth Disbrow, Director of the Center for Brain Health, is the inaugural holder of the professorship.

The LSU Health Sciences Foundation is grateful for our continued partnership with the Noel Foundation. We look forward to what we will accomplish together in the coming years.

L to R: Dr. David Lewis (Interim Chancellor); Huy Nguyen (White Coat Scholar); Stacy Williams (Noel Foundation board member); Claire Adkins Sevier (Noel Foundation board member); Delton Smith (Noel Foundation Vice President); Shelby Smith (Noel Foundation founding board member); Merritt B. Chastain (Noel Foundation President); Dr. Alexander Mikaberidze (Noel Foundation board member); Rich Lamb III (Noel Foundation board member); Oliver Jenkins (Noel Foundation board member); Prerana Ramesh (White Coat Scholar)

L to R: Dr. David Lewis (Interim Chancellor); Merritt B. Chastain (Noel Foundation President); Kevin Flood (LSU Health Sciences Foundation President and CEO)

OPENING DOORS

for the Next Generation of Physicians

Launched in June 2021, the White Coat Scholarship Campaign was established to ease the burden of debt and expand access to medical education at LSU Health Shreveport as the first general scholarship fund for medical students. In its inaugural year, the campaign raised more than $200,000 from more than 200 medical alumni, medical student parents, faculty, staff, and generous community supporters, with an average gift of $825. Thank you to every donor who has supported this important initiative and made an impact on the lives of our future physicians.

In January 2022, ten first-year medical students from the Class of 2026 were awarded $20,000 four-year scholarships to attend LSU Health Shreveport. These inaugural White Coat Scholars hail from every corner of Louisiana, throughout the country, and as far as Vietnam and India. Many are first-generation college students, and all will be the first physician in their families. While they each have diverse backgrounds and experiences, they all share one thing: they chose LSU Health Shreveport to pursue their dream of becoming a doctor. These deserving and hardworking students are our future healthcare leaders and are essential in providing quality healthcare for the citizens of North Louisiana and beyond.

Kathy and Roy O. Martin III

Grow Opportunities for Medical Students through Scholarships

Kathy Kilpatrick Martin and Roy O. Martin III are both graduates of LSU in Baton Rouge and have been loyal supporters of LSU campuses throughout the state for many years. They have given to many LSU initiatives statewide, both privately and through their family-owned company, RoyOMartin. Roy O. Martin III currently serves as Chairman, CEO, and CFO of RoyOMartin, a lumber company based in Alexandria, LA. Through Mr. Martin’s role as a third-generation business leader, the Martin family knows the longterm impact of investing in LSU students who train throughout the state.

In the summer of 2022, Kathy and Roy O. Martin III made the largest private gift to the White Coat Scholarship Campaign. Their generous $120,000 gift will fund full-tuition scholarships for four Louisiana residents to attend LSU Health Shreveport. These scholarships will be awarded in January to the incoming Class of 2027. Supporting the next generation of Louisiana’s workforce is nothing new to the Martins and RoyOMartin. They have funded more than 120 undergraduate scholarships for the children of RoyOMartin and its subsidiaries’ employees.

Through their gift to the White Coat Scholarship Campaign, the Martins have opened doors for students who wish to pursue a medical education to become tomorrow’s physicians. They have also made healthcare more accessible for their employees and their families. RoyOMartin established Legacy Health & Wellness and Legacy Pharmacy, which provide personalized and preventative care to their employees and families, as well as needed medication.

The Martins have had two nephews graduate medical school from LSU Health Shreveport: Ben Kilpatrick (2017), a cardiology resident, and Matthew Kilpatrick (2019), a pathology resident.

The Foundation thanks Kathy and Roy for their generous support!

LSU Health Shreveport Foundation

WHITE COAT SCHOLAR SPOTLIGHTS

Prerana Ramesh, MSI

Hometown: Seattle, WA, Undergraduate: LSU Shreveport

Prerana Ramesh is originally from Seattle, WA but grew up in India with her maternal grandparents. She came to Shreveport to attend LSU Shreveport, where she graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. Prerana was the recipient of the Louisiana Scholarship, Bill Harwell Memorial Scholarship, and the Dr. Jon Cheek College of Sciences Scholarship, and won the 2019-2020 Outstanding Student Organization Leader award as an undergraduate at LSUS. She has held leadership positions in the student chapters and volunteered with the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), Doctors Without Borders (MSF), pre-health honor society Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), and the Minority Association of Pre-health Students (MAPS) at LSUS. Prerana is the first in her family to attend medical school.

What made you choose LSU Health Shreveport for medical school? “My professors at LSUS encouraged me to apply to the Louisiana Biomedical Research Network’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (LBRN SURP), which became the start of my involvement in research at LSUHS. During my time working here, I really enjoyed the feeling of community and belonging fostered by everyone, and I can always trust that I can approach any of the LSUHS faculty or students for advice. I was beyond excited to be accepted into the LSUHS family as a medical student. I look forward to exploring new ways of helping the community through being involved in student organizations and participating in clinical research.”

What impact will your scholarship have on your time at medical school? “It is an honor to be selected as a White Coat Scholarship recipient. My scholarship will help relieve a significant financial strain and is a source of motivation for me to continue to do my best and give back to LSUHS and the community that placed their faith in me. I am incredibly thankful for the support of the LSU Health Foundation and the donors who made it possible for me to be here.”

Driskell Greene, MSI

Hometown: Baton Rouge, LA. Undergraduate: LSU Baton Rouge

Driskell Greene was born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and attended LSU Baton Rouge, where he majored in Sociology and minored in Business Administration and Political Science. His family works primarily in the legal field, and he has volunteered on numerous political campaigns. Until his junior year of college, Driskell planned to attend law school and follow in his family’s footsteps. However, after shadowing a physician during spinal surgeries, he decided to pursue his medical education at LSU Health Shreveport.

Why did you choose LSU Health Shreveport to pursue your medical education? “I look forward to meeting new people and moving to a new place! I’ve never lived outside of Baton Rouge so the new chapter in my life will be great in more ways than one. I chose LSU Health Shreveport because of the faculty and everyone here who is committed and invested in the students. From the first time I was on campus to all of the correspondence I’ve received from faculty to all the times I’ve called the school with any questions, every single experience was positive. I feel the school is on my side and wants me to succeed both here and beyond. I am honestly not accustomed to having people so eager to help me and wish me the best, but it is the largest reason I chose to go to school here.”

What would you say to the donors who made your scholarship possible? “The value of my scholarship is much more than just monetary. I just think of the nights I will be able to sleep better, the groceries I will be able to afford, the time I will save to focus on school instead of trying to finance my future, and especially the donors who made all of that possible for me. It takes a person of conviction and courage to part with their hard-earned money for someone they have never met. The largest message I wish to convey to the donors of my scholarship is one of gratitude, while also saying that their money will not be wasted on me. I will use my scholarship to become the best physician and person I can be, so I may hopefully pay my way forward one day and help put others in the future.”

Health Shreveport Foundation

M.

The Deas Family has a deep connection to LSU Health Shreveport. Dr. Thomas M. Deas, Sr. was among the founding members of the School of Medicine and served as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Comprehensive Care for many years. Both his sons, Dr. Thomas M. Deas, Jr. and Dr. David C. Deas, are 1978 graduates of the School of Medicine who had the opportunity to train under their father.

When Dr. Tom Deas, Sr. passed away in 2020 at the age of 104, his son, Dr. Tom Deas, Jr. knew he wanted to honor his father’s memory with a lasting gift to LSU Health Shreveport. In the summer of 2021, he made a generous $50,000

gift to the Center for Medical Education and will name the Technical Skills Lab in the late Dr. Deas’s remembrance. “Having my father’s legacy in the Center for Medical Education at LSU Health Shreveport means so much to me”, shared Dr. Deas. “He was so influential in establishing the School of Medicine and he would be so proud to see how far it has progressed since his time there.”

Dr. Deas and his father share not only a commitment to patient care, but used their compassion and expertise to serve their country. After graduating the LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1941, Dr. Tom Deas, Sr. served in World

a legacy of SERVICE, COMPASSION, and GENEROSITY

Dr. Thomas

Deas, Jr. Honors Late Father with a Gift to the Center for Medical Education

at LSU Health Shreveport

CEVT Lab Exam Corridor Multi Event

LSU Health Shreveport Foundation

FUTURE the of LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT

Thanks to the generosity of more than 400 donors and the State of Louisiana, the Center for Medical Education is fully-funded and will open in the late summer of 2023. The Center for Medical Education was the signature project for LSU Health Shreveport throughout the Fierce for the Future Campaign and broke ground in July 2021. This $84 million public-private partnership was a bold venture that will be remembered as one of the most impactful projects at LSU Health Shreveport.

The support from the North Louisiana community, including lead gifts from Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and Ochsner Health, as well as significant funding from the City of Shreveport and Caddo Parish, was instrumental in the venture’s success. The innovative new center will be more than just a new building on campus - it will allow LSU Health Shreveport to increase its medical student class size to 200 in order to address the healthcare shortage in north Louisiana and throughout the state, ultimately driving lasting economic growth for our region.

“The Center for Medical Education is a transformational project as it will not only expand our medical education and research opportunities but will create our first common gathering space for all faculty, staff, and students. We are confident this project will strengthen our recruitment of students, faculty, and staff all of which positively impact the economy of our beloved community. On behalf of our faculty staff, and students, I offer my deepest thanks to every donor, the state of Louisiana, and the federal government for their investment in this exciting project,” shared David Lewis, MD, Interim Chancellor and Dean of the School of Medicine at LSU Health Shreveport, at the Topping Out Ceremony held in March 2022.

War II as Regimental Surgeon in the South Pacific. For bravery above and beyond the call of duty, he received several awards and decorations, including the Silver Star and Bronze Star. When he returned, he continued that same dedication to the community of Homer, LA for 36 years in family practice.

Dr. Tom Deas, Jr. served in the United States Air Force for 20 years. After graduating from LSU Health Shreveport in 1978, he completed his Internal Medicine Residency at Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center (WHMC) in San Antonio and subsequently a GI Fellowship. He retired from the

USAF in 1991, but practiced for a total of 33 years in internal medicine and gastroenterology. After retiring from clinical practice, Dr. Deas now works with medical students as a Physician Development Coach at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU. Through his mentorship, Dr. Deas helps cultivate a new generation of empathetic, engaged, and resilient physicians positioned to transform patient care.

Dr. Deas looks forward to when LSU Health Shreveport students will begin to train in the new Center for Medical Education, and is grateful to know his father’s memory will be preserved there for generations to come.

DONORS GIVE $5.1 Million

in Endowed Support for Faculty, Departments, and

Students

Throughout the Fierce for the Future Campaign, more than 200 benefactors contributed to 34 new endowments. Endowments provide foundational dollars in perpetuity and ensure LSU Health Shreveport remains at the forefront of teaching, healing, and discovering for generations to come.

Endowed Chairs and Professorships

Alice Coleman Endowed Professorship in Pediatric Rheumatology

Charles Richard Parks Professorship in Neurological Rehabilitation

Clarence H. Webb, MD Endowed Professorship in Pediatrics

David N. Cole Endowed Professorship for Community Health Initiatives

Dr. Richard J. Courtney Endowed Professorship in Virology

Dudley R. Isom, DDS Professorship in Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Malcolm W. Feist Endowed Chair in Interventional Cardiology

Max M. Morelock Endowed Professorship in Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery

Medical Center Clinics Endowed Professorship in Radiology

Noel Foundation, Inc. Endowed Professorship Honoring Dr. Robert C. Leitz, III in Parkinson’s Disease Research, Center for Brain Health

O’Callaghan Family Endowed Professorship in Microbiology

Tilakram & Bhagwanti Devi Endowed Professorship in Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery and Training

Endowed Scholarships and Awards

Charles G Hargon Jr Memorial Scholarship

Reid Chadwick Memorial Award

Jay Marion, MD Award for Compassionate Care

Joan Blondin, MD Outstanding Internal Medicine Resident Award

Lester Wayne Johnson, MD Family Endowed Scholarship

Margaret Shehee Cole Endowed Scholarship for Inclusion, Diversity, and Excellence

Ronald B. George, MD Memorial Endowed CHEST Award

Sandra and Jerry Martin Endowed Scholarships for Medical Students

Tommy Brown, MD Memorial Endowed Scholarship for Medical Students

Endowed Lectureships

Patten Family Endowed Lectureship at the Center for Brain Health

Posner Endowed Lectureship for Dermatology and Skin Care

General Endowments

Center of Excellence for Emerging Viral Threats General Endowment

Joseph McCulloch, PhD Endowment for Educational Excellence

Marion Endowment for Compassionate Care

Medical Centers Clinics Endowment in Graduate Medical Education Storment Technology in Medicine Endowment

Zadeck Family Foundation Endowment for the Center for Brain Health

Dr. Disbrow’s Investiture Ceremony

On October 3, 2022, the formal investiture ceremony was held for Elizabeth Disbrow, PhD as inaugural holder of the Noel Foundation, Inc. Endowed Professorship Honoring Dr. Robert C. Leitz, III in Parkinson’s Disease Research at the Center for Brain Health. Dr. Disbrow received her PhD in 1996 from the University of California, Davis in Neuroscience. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of California, San Francisco in the Department of Radiology to study brain imaging. After training, she joined the faculty of both UC Davis and UCSF. For more than ten years, she studied tactile and motor processing in healthy people, receiving several federal grants to support this work. She then became interested in the pathophysiology of Parkinson’s disease (PD), especially motor planning and cognitive decline. Dr. Disbrow was awarded several federal grants to study cognitive dysfunction and rehabilitation in PD. She is currently a member of the Department of Neurology, as well as the Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neuroscience. Dr. Disbrow led the effort to obtain Board of Regents approval for the LSU Health Shreveport Center for Brain Health in 2017, which she directs.

The Noel Foundation, Inc. Endowed Professorship Honoring Dr. Robert C. Leitz, III in Parkinson’s Disease Research at the Center for Brain Health will expand the study of age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as PD and dementia and fund neurological training equipment for graduate and medical students studying at LSU Health Shreveport.

More than 80 donors contributed to the Joseph McCulloch, PhD Endowment for Educational Excellence throughout the campaign. In May 2022, the fund supporting students across all eight programs at the School of Allied Health Professions crossed the $25,000 threshold for an endowment. The endowment will now exist in perpetuity to enhance the student experience, while honoring Dr. McCulloch, the former dean of the School of Allied Health Professions.

Dr. Ronald B. George CHEST Award

In 2022, Joan George Kane, sister of the late Dr. Ronald B. “Ronnie” George, made a generous gift to create the Ronald B. George, MD Memorial Endowed CHEST Award. The gift honors Dr. George’s legacy of dedication to the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) and the students, residents, and pulmonary fellows he trained as founder and chief of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division at LSU Health Shreveport.

Dr. George was a beloved professor at the LSUHS School of Medicine and a nationally renowned pulmonologist known for diagnosing complex lung disease cases. He was appointed Chairman of the Department of Medicine in 1992 until his retirement in 2000 and served as Emeritus Chairman of the department until his passing in July 2021.

The award will be bestowed each year to a current LSU Health Shreveport fellow who has exhibited excellence in patient care, research, and service to the Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Division. The award will fund the fellow’s attendance at the annual CHEST conference.

Dr. George was a firm believer in the benefits of attending the annual CHEST conference. In 1993, he was elected president of CHEST. In 2001, he was selected as a Master Fellow of CHEST, an elite honor that has only been given to forty CHEST physicians in the past 42 years.

Dr. George’s family, friends, and colleagues hope to inspire others who worked alongside or trained under him to support the endowment so it can benefit pulmonology fellows for years to come. Gifts in Dr. George’s honor can be made at lsuhsfoundation.org/georgechestendowment.

The Joseph McCulloch, PhD Endowment

LSU Health Shreveport Foundation FIERCE FOR THE FUTURE IMPACT

The LSU Health Sciences Foundation’s mission is to inspire donors to invest in LSU Health Shreveport and steward contributions toward its support.

Our job at the Foundation is to connect donors and alumni to LSU Health Shreveport and support the teaching, healing, and innovative research that happens in our own backyard every day. We want to ensure that our supporters, their families, and our entire community continue to benefit from all that LSU Health Shreveport offers for generations to come.

Your gift ensures LSU Health Shreveport remains a steadfast pillar in North Louisiana. Your generosity transforms medicine and lives.

LSU Health Sciences Foundation 920 Pierremont Rd, Suite 506 Shreveport, LA 71106 318-861-0855