Reflects on 40-year career of disaster response, environmental data management, and the Dean’s Office Dr. LuAnn White, a professor at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine for forty years, will step down as senior associate dean effective June 30, 2021, in the first step of a phased retirement. During her tenure at the school, White has served…
Keep Reading Senior Associate Dean LuAnn White to step downMARKING THE OCCASION: For Dean Thomas LaVeist it was an experience like no other graduation he’s ever been a part of. He recorded the moment on stage with a class selfie including the 250 graduating students! In New Orleans, we don’t like to do anything the typical way, and graduation is no different. We believe commencement exercises should be fun,…
Keep Reading FESTIVE CONCLUSION: Graduation 2019EARLIER THIS SPRING, Dr. Thomas LaVeist, dean of the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, announced that Mollye Demosthenidy would become the associate dean for strategic initiatives for the school. Demosthenidy, a clinical associate professor, has been on faculty in the Department of Health Policy and Management for eight years. Her new role took effect on July…
Keep Reading Mollye Demosthenidy Named Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives at Tulane Public HealthOVER THE SUMMER, Dean Thomas LaVeist announced that Dr. Preston Marx would be stepping down from his role as chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine. A search committee has been formed, and Dr. Marx will remain in the position until a new chair has been identified. “I’d like to thank Preston for his leadership,” Dean LaVeist said when it…
Keep Reading Tropical Medicine Chair to Step Down, Search Committee Seeks Candidates