Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - Shreveport (LSUHSC-S) serves a metropolitan area of over 300,000 in an attractive, progressive city in Northwest Louisiana. LSU University Hospital is a Level 1 Trauma Center, Organ Transplantation Center, and major tertiary medical referral center for East Texas, Southern Arkansas, and the northern half of Louisiana. The Health Sciences Center has full-time department heads in all clinical services with accredited residency training programs. There is also a strong basic science faculty with separate departments who work closely with the clinical services. A 10-story Biomedical Research Center adjoining LSUHSC-S opened in 1994. Construction of a new Comprehensive Cancer Center, Women's and Children's Center, and an Ambulatory Care Center has begun and is due for completion in the later part of this year.

The full-time urologic academic faculty is dedicated to resident and student teaching and supervision. Several clinical and basic science research programs have developed with emphasis in the areas of urologic oncology, endourology, stone management, voiding dysfunction / urodynamics, female urology & pelvic recontructive surgery, and pediatric urology. The Department of Urology has administrative offices and adjacent research space in the LSU Medical School building. The clinical service is headquartered in LSU University Hospital and has an in-patient ward, a busy outpatient facility, and pediatric urology, female urology, and urologic oncology sections. The clinical Urodynamic Research Laboratory and Endourology Suites are equipped with the latest state-of-the-art fluoroscopic tables and ultrasonographic and urodynamic equipment, and the latest generation lithotripsy technology. A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Scanner and radiopharmaceutical cyclotron are located in the adjacent Biomedical Research Building and are available for both clinical and research use. The training program also utilizes the nearby Overton Brooks Veterans Affairs Medical Center, which is supervised by the full-time Urology faculty. Additional clinical material for resident training is available on the Urology services maintained at the Willis Knighton Health System Hospitals and Christus/Schumpert Medical Center, all of which are full-service private hospitals.

The Urology Department includes a fully accredited Urology Residency Training Program. The approved training format consists of one year of pre-urology surgical training followed by four years of Urology, i.e., a "1 + 4" format. The program is approved for eight residents in its four-year program with two residents at each level of training. The residents rotate among the various teaching hospitals for planned training activities, with weekly Grand Rounds, Teaching Rounds, Monthly Seminars, Death and Complication Conferences, and Journal Club Reviews.

Dennis D Venable, MD Professor & Chairman

New Zealand Medical Council Licensure  -  1989

  

Fellow   American   College of Surgeons, 1985

 Specialist Certification in Urology, 1989 - ( New Zealand Medical Council and Australasian   College of Surgeons)

 
Program Director's Resume

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