Commencement Program

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
MEDICAL CENTER

School of Allied Health Professions

School of Graduate Studies
School of Medicine in Shreveport

COMMENCEMENT

Strand Theatre
1:00 RM., Saturday, August 16, 1997

PROGRAM

"The audience is requested to remain seated until
the academic procession is complete"

PROCESSIONAL

PRESIDING

GORDON H. SCHUCKERS, Ph.D., EXECUTIVE ASSOCIATE DEAN
School of Allied Health Professions, Shreveport Program

NATIONAL ANTHEM

INVOCATION

PAULA CLICK-FENTER, MHS, PT, GCS, ACTING PROGRAM
DIRECTOR, Department of Physical Therapy

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

IKE MUSLOW, M.D., VICE CHANCELLOR and INTERIM DEAN
Louisiana State University Medical Center

JOHN R. SNYDER, Ph.D., DEAN
School of Allied Health Professions

ADDRESS

RONALD B. GEORGE, M.D., FACP
Chair, Department of Medicine, LSUMC

PRESENTATION OF CANDIDATES

IKE MUSLOW, M.D., VICE CHANCELLOR AND INTERIM DEAN
Louisiana State University Medical Center

ROBERT CHERVENAK, Ph.D., ASSISTANT DEAN
School of Graduate Studies, LSUMC

JOHN R. SNYDER, Ph.D., DEAN
School of Allied Health Professions

CONFERRING OF DEGREES

DR. JOHN R DAVIS
LSU Board of Supervisors

BENEDICTION

PAULA CLICK-FENTER, MHS, PT, GCS

RECESSIONAL

JIM WILLIAMS, organ

CANDIDATES FOR DEGREES

LSU MEDICAL CENTER

1997

DOCTOR OF MEDICINE

Tara Odom Mercer1

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Ming Chen

Department: Microbiology and Immunology

Major Professor: Dennis O'Callaghan, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: "The ICP22/ICP27 Hybrid Gene in Equine Herpervirus One

Defective Interfering Particle-Enriched Infection"

Pankaj Sikka f

Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Major Professor: Kenneth McMartin, Ph.D.

Dissertation Title: "Characterization of Folate Transport in Cultured Rat Proximal

Tubule Cells"

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Deidra S. Atkins+
Department: Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Major Professor - Nicholas E. Goeders, Ph.D.

Adam S. CockrelF
Department: Microbiology and Immunology
Major Professor - Martin Muggeridge, Ph.D.

Tolvert E. Fowler

Department: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Major Professor - Myron Cran Lucas, Ph.D.

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE

CARDIOPULMONARY SCIENCE

Natalie Felice Adams
Wendy Wiggins Ayscue
Madalyn Rene' Busch
Mark William Casanova
Donnie Ray Flint
Linda Colette Gilmartin
Christopher Michael Moore
Michael Kiley Morris
Bradley Earl Parker
Janet Lynell Sykes

MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

Wendy Rene Atnip
Karrie Lynn Bourgeois
Mary Emily Byrd
Regina Coats Galloway
Angela Seeliger Hernandez
Twila North Magee
Amy Katherine McCune
Eva Marie Myers
Laura Smith Perkins
Arthur Bryce Turnley, Jr.
Rebecca R. Vercher

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

*Karen Yvonne Butler

Winn R Cantrell

Jeannell Boudreau Casanova

Margaret Word Finley

Mary Elizabeth Gleason

Elizabeth Rachel Gutierrez
* Bryan Howard Hensley

Amal M. Johnson

Elizabeth Ha Jones

George Hamilton LaCour II
*Rhonda H. Lane

Stephanie Holley Lynn

Scott James Meche

Rae Ann Najolia
*Celeste Hymel Powell

Catherine Laifoung Ung

Joyce Rozalia Vegh
**Katy Kristen Wall

PHYSICAL THERAPY

Nicole Rene' Bessonet
Janet Roberts Bolton
Kerry Jennifer Cockerham
Janet L. Crawford

**Sarah Elizabeth Davis
*Jacquelyn Bowers Ewing
Sheryl Stanley Foster
Shannon Catherine Gavin
Kelly Lee Hammons
Stephanie Renee Howell
Eric Raul Lambousy
*Gina Louise Manuel

** Alexandra Lee Marceaux
Jason T Merritt

**Gretchen Tara Miller
Ondrell Sherard Moore

**Colette Ann Mott
Glenn Lawrence Richardson

**Deena Marie Rogers
*Lisa Rae Saylor
Latonya Lafaye' Smallwood
Jay Michael Stilley
Christie Lauren Sullivan

**Leah Kathryn Wilson

PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT

Jeri Sue Akins
Shane Thomas Broussard
Daniel K. Crook
Charles Wayne Culpepper
Nathan Carl Freeman
Daniel Te-Kai Huang
Ronald Frank Marascalco
* Ly T. Nguyen
Judy M. Niell
Ernest Edward Opitz
Dallas Moss Pomeroy
Joseph Merrial Porche Jr.
Ryan Weston Risely
Rafael L. Rodriguez

** Maria Kay Smith
Christi Ann Stafford
Connie Sterritt
Cheryl Cline Stough

***Terry Lynn Strain
Jon Christopher Teacle
Donna Ball Terry
Charles Girard Tisdale
Shelley Elizabeth Tucker
Jeffrey King Turner

f In Absentia

MASTER OF COMMUNICATION
DISORDERS

Kristen Kitchens Black1
Christine Renee' Breaux
Stephanie Alyce Crouch
Dorothy Jean D'Water
Kimberly Fuller Ensmingerf
Nanette Jolie Gauthier
Amy Ignozzitto Grogan
Stephanie Rae Hutson
Michael David McGill
Kirsten Ann McGee Russell

MASTER OF HEALTH
SCIENCES

Marie Alejandra Vazquez

MARSHALS

Michael Houston, B.S., RRT

John S. Davis, MBA, MT(ASCP)SC, DLM

Debra Judd, Ph.D., LOTR

Joseph McCulloch, Ph.D.

Valgene Valgora, PA-C, MS.Ed

Mary Pannbacker, Ph.D.

*** Indicates Summa Cum Laude
** Indicates Magna Cum Laude
* Indicates Cum Laude

LSUMC School of Allied Health Professions

Commencement

1997

RONALD B. GEORGE, M.D., FACP

Dr. Ronald B. George, a native Louisianian, was born in the small
northwest Louisiana town of Zwolle. His grandfather, who graduated from
Tulane Medical School in the 1800s, was a family practitioner in southwest
Louisiana. Dr. George received his undergraduate education at the University
of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and his M.D. from Tulane University School of
Medicine. Dr. George moved to Shreveport in 1972 as associate professor
and chief of the section of pulmonary diseases in the newly established
department of medicine at LSU Medical School. During the next 20 years
his section became recognized as one of the outstanding training programs
in pulmonary medicine in the United States.

Dr. George has been a Fellow of the American College of Physicians
since 1966, and served as Governor-Elect of the Louisiana Chapter of ACP
from 1990 to 1991, and as Governor from 1991 to 1995. He is the author
of 139 published papers, 28 chapters in medical textbooks, over 90 published
abstracts, and an editor of four major textbooks of pulmonary and critical
care medicine. He is currently consulting editor of Respiratory Care, editor
of the ACCP Pulmonary and Critical Care Update Series, and a member of
the editorial boards of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences and
Chest. He is also an editor of Current Pulmonoloqy and the upcoming
publication, Atlas of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. From 1988
through 1994, he served as a member of the Pulmonary Subspecialty Board
of the American Board of Internal Medicine, and was a contributor to the
internal medicine board examinations.

Dr. George was promoted to the rank of professor of medicine at LSU
School of Medicine in Shreveport in 1974, and became chair of the
department in 1992. In addition to his responsibilities in the University Hospital
and School of Medicine, Dr. George served within the School of Allied Health
Professions as Medical Director for the Department of Cardiopulmonary
Science for 15 years and currently serves as medical director for the
Department of Physician Assistants. The Ronald B. George Award, in his
honor, is presented annually to an outstanding graduating student in
Cardiopulmonary Science.

In 1992 Dr. George became President-Elect of the American College of
Chest Physicians and served as President of that College from 1993 to 1994.
His accomplishments as a physician, educator, and author, and his service
exemplify the Laureate Award bestowed on him by the American College of
Physicians.

The Louisiana State University Medical Center School of Allied Health
Professions was established by the LSU Board of Supervisors April 2, 1970,
and became operational July 1, 1970. The School now incorporates eight
academic departments: Cardiopulmonary Science, Communication Disorders,
Medical Technology, Occupational Therapy, Ophthalmic Medical Technology,
Physical Therapy, Physician Assistants, and Rehabilitation Counseling &
Services.

In addition, the Master of Health Sciences Degree Program integrates
multidimensional graduate-level curricula in health professions education,
administration, supervision, and advanced clinical practice.

The School also includes educational, diagnostic, treatment, and
service components through the Children's Center in Shreveport, and the
Human Development Center in New Orleans.

ACADEMIC HERALDRY: THE SYMBOLS OF LEARNING

The college or university commencement procession, in the United States
and abroad, is a pageant, alive and bright with dress and ceremony. Its history
can be traced to medieval European universities of the eleventh and twelfth
centuries. Continued recognition of the need to preserve scholarly dignity and
meaning resulted in universities establishment for academic dress. American
universities agreed on a standard system in 1895 and designed a suitable code
for academic dress for the colleges and universities of the United States. In
1932, the American Council on Education presented a revised
code which governs the style of academic dress today.

The principal features of academic dress are three: the gown,
the cap, and the hood.

The Gown. The flowing gown originated during the twelfth century. It
has become symbolic of the democracy of scholarship. As such, it completely
covers any dress of rank or social standing. It is black for all degrees, with pointed
sleeves for the Bachelor's degree; long, closed sleeves for the Master's degree;
and round open sleeves for the Doctor's degree. The gown worn for the Bachelor's
or Master's degree has no trimmings. The gown for the Doctor's degree is faced
down the front with velvet and has three bars of velvet across the sleeves, in the
color distinctive of the faculty or discipline to which the degree pertains. For
certain institutions the official colors of the

college or university may appear on the gown or its decorations.

The Cap. The freed slave in Ancient Rome won the privilege of wearing a
cap. Thus, the academic cap is a symbol denoting the freedom of scholarship
and the responsibility and dignity with which the wearer is endowed. Old poetry
records the cap of scholarship as a square to symbolize the book. Other authorities
claim that the cap, or "mortar board" is a symbol of the masons, a privileged
guild. The color of the tassel denotes the discipline, although a gold
tassel may be worn with a doctoral gown.

The Hood. The heraldic design of the hood symbolizes an inverted shield
with one or more secondary color chevrons on the background color of the
college or university. The color of the facing of the hood denotes the discipline
represented by the degree, and the color of the lining designates the college
or university from which the degree was granted.

COLORS DISTINCTIVE OF DISCIPLINES AND PROFESSIONS

Dark Blue: Philosophy Green: Medicine

Yellow: Science Lilac: Dentistry

Light Blue: Education Apricot: Nursing

NATIONAL ANTHEM

Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous flight,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bomb bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Francis Scott Key