The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at New Orleans has teaching, research, and health care functions state-wide through its six professional schools; as well as the more than one hundred hospitals and other health science related institutions throughout the State, region, nation, and the world, with which they maintain affiliations. The Health Sciences Center provides health care for approximately 75 percent of Louisiana’s indigent population.Component professional schools, each headed by a dean, which now constitute the Health Sciences Center include, in the order of their establishment:The School of Medicine in New Orleans, 1931The School of Graduate Studies of the Health Sciences Center, 1965The School of Dentistry, 1966The School of Nursing, 1968The School of Allied Health Professions, 1970The School of Public Health, 2003This Catalog/Bulletin is an official publication of The Louisiana State University System relating to the professional schools of the Health Sciences Center at New Orleans, compiled, edited, and published by the Office of the Registrar, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, by authority of theOffice of the ChancellorLSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans433 Bolivar StreetNew Orleans, LA 70112-2223