Louisiana State University School of Medicine

What Louisiana State University School of Medicine does

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine is a public, state-funded medical school founded in 1931 and headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, operating under the LSU Health Sciences Center and the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors. It delivers MD-degree medical education to approximately 800 undergraduate medical students across its New Orleans main campus plus regional campuses in Baton Rouge and Lafayette and 20 clinical training sites statewide, supports around 100 graduate students (including 40 MD/PhD and 60 MD/MPH combined-degree students), and trains roughly 900 residents and fellows across 80 Graduate Medical Education programs. The institution organizes its academic and research enterprise through 23 basic and clinical science departments and four Centers of Excellence (Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Cardiovascular, Neuroscience, and Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center), and runs a Level IV Epilepsy Center and the Ernest N. Morial Asthma, Allergy & Respiratory Disease Center as specialty clinical sites.

The school's technology stack centers on an LCME-accredited curriculum delivered through simulation-based training facilities, the Moodle course management system, and a portfolio of certified core research facilities (including the Morphology and Imaging Core, Proteomics and Metabolomics, Translational Genomics, Precision Medicine Laboratory, and Bioinformatics), with iLab used for core facility scheduling and accounting and Clinetic Software for clinical trials management. Recent infrastructure investment includes a nearly 200,000-square-foot renovation of the Medical Education Building to add laboratory capacity. Its business model is non-commercial in the conventional sense: it is funded through a blend of state appropriations, tuition and fees (in-state and out-of-state tiers), federal and extramural research grants (NIH, NSF, AMA, SBIR/STTR), clinical revenue from faculty physicians practicing through the LSU Healthcare Network and affiliated hospitals (University Medical Center New Orleans, Children's Hospital of New Orleans, LCMC Health, Our Lady of the Lake), and private philanthropy via the LSU Health Foundation. Approximately 70% of physicians practicing in Louisiana received some of their training through LSU programs, and 49% of 2026 Match Day graduates remain in Louisiana for residency, underscoring the institution's central role in the state's physician workforce pipeline.

Name

Louisiana State University School of Medicine

Legal name

Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans

Website

https://medschool.lsuhsc.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1931

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Louisiana State University School of Medicine is a public state-funded medical school in New Orleans founded in 1931 that trains approximately 800 MD students, 100 graduate students, and 900 residents/fellows across three campuses and 20 clinical sites, serving as Louisiana's primary physician workforce pipeline through medical education, biomedical research, and clinical care.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Medical Education

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Offices of Physicians (62111), Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (622310)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Medical Schools (MD/DO Granting) (EDAHAGAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Schools of Public Health (EDAHAGAD), Healthcare Clinical Professions (CME/CE for Nurses, Allied Health, Pharmacy) (EDAAALAC)

Keywords

• Medical education
• Graduate medical training
• Biomedical research
• Clinical care services
• Academic medicine

Headquarters

HQ city

Shreveport

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Tuition and Fees: Revenue from medical school tuition and fees charged to undergraduate medical students, with additional revenue from graduate programs including MD/PhD and MD/MPH combined degrees.
2. Graduate Medical Education: Training programs for residents and fellows across 80 Graduate Medical Education training programs, with clinical care provided at affiliated hospitals generating revenue through healthcare services.
3. Research Grants and Contracts: Extramural funding from federal agencies including NIH, NSF, and other research sponsors supporting faculty research programs across basic science and clinical departments.
4. Clinical Care Services: Patient care services provided by faculty physicians through LSU Healthcare Network and affiliated hospital systems, generating clinical revenue.
5. SBIR/STTR Grants: Small Business Innovation Research grants supporting faculty-led commercialization of research discoveries, such as Dr. Luis Marrero's $315,000 Phase I SBIR grant for musculoskeletal fibrosis treatment.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Louisiana State University School of Medicine is a public academic medical school that delivers undergraduate MD degree programs, graduate medical education (residency and fellowship training), biomedical and clinical research, and patient care through its affiliated hospitals and clinics. It also operates specialized research cores, disease-focused centers, and statewide registries that support clinical training and population health initiatives.

Product overview

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine is an academic medical institution providing medical education (MD program with 800 students across 3 campuses), clinical care through affiliated hospitals, and biomedical research through certified core facilities. The institution offers research services through 10 core facilities (including Morphology & Imaging, Bioinformatics, Proteomics), operates specialized clinical centers (Epilepsy Center Level IV, Asthma/Allergy Center, Cancer Center), and provides public health data through the Louisiana Tumor Registry. Educational technology includes Moodle course management and iLab for core facility administration.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Camp Tiger: Student-organized community outreach program for youth
• The Pulse
• SOM Magazine
• Rural Scholars Track
• Research Cafe
• Pipeline Programs for Equity

Products and services

• MD Degree Program

Quantifiable outcome

• 70% of Louisiana physicians received some training through LSU programs
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Tulane University School of Medicine: Direct peer located in New Orleans offering an LCME-accredited MD program, graduate research degrees, and clinical training through affiliated hospitals. Competes head-to-head with LSU for faculty, research funding, students, and residency positions within the same metropolitan market.
• University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences: State's only health sciences university, offering MD education, GME across multiple specialties, and biomedical research. Comparable mission profile focused on physician workforce for an underserved state.
• University of Mississippi Medical Center: Mississippi's only academic medical center, operating the state's MD-granting school of medicine along with GME, biomedical research, and a Level I trauma center. Most comparable peer by mission, scale, and regional-physician-workforce focus.
• LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport: Sister LSU System medical school in Shreveport offering an LCME-accredited MD program, GME training, and biomedical research. Shares branding, faculty collaboration, and statewide physician-workforce mission but operates as a separate, competing regional campus.
• Meharry Medical College: Private mission-driven medical school focused on training physicians to serve underserved and minority populations. Comparable workforce-development mission and emphasis on health equity, particularly relevant given LSU's Center for Health Equity and Value.
• Florida State University College of Medicine: Public community-based medical school with a mission focused on producing physicians for underserved communities in Florida. Strong mission overlap with LSU's emphasis on underserved Louisiana populations.

Broad incumbents

• Ochsner Health: Largest nonprofit academic health system in Louisiana and a major clinical partner/competitor for LSU. Operates extensive GME programs and research infrastructure overlapping with LSU's clinical training footprint.
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine: Large public academic medical center in the same Gulf-South region with MD program, extensive GME, NIH-funded basic and clinical research, and a comprehensive hospital system. Comparable in scale and broader in scope than LSU.
• University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) School of Medicine: Public Gulf-Coast academic medical center operating MD program, GME, NIH-funded biomedical research, and a comprehensive hospital system. Comparable scale, mission, and regional academic medicine focus.

Regional players

• University of Queensland Ochsner Medical School: Four-year MD program operated jointly by the University of Queensland and Ochsner Health in New Orleans. Competes directly for Louisiana-resident applicants and clinical training capacity in the same metropolitan market.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LSUHSCHealth
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCHY3PRHRo952YVxHTy6NkbA/videos
• Facebookfacebook.com/178304895557043
• Instagraminstagram.com/lsu_health_sciences_center
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/lsu-health-sciences-center

Compliance1 record

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries14 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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