LSUHSC hitches onto Obama’s vet program

January 27, 2012
Lea Ciskowski
Contributing Writer for The Daily Reveille
 

First Lady Michelle Obama and Second Lady Jill Biden’s “Joining Forces” initiative to support and medically treat the nation’s veterans is spanning medical schools nationwide, and while LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans is among them, the initiative has been in place there for four years, thanks to Paul Harch.

The initiative, announced Jan. 11, combatted post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, in veterans. 

Harch, clinical associate professor and director of LSUHSC New Orleans’ Hyperbaric Medicine and Wound Care Department, has been treating veterans suffering from PTSD and TBI with hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, since 2008.

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Health pioneer Dr. Paul G. Harch, associate clinical professor of medicine at Louisiana State University in New Orleans, will participate in the White House’s Joining Forces Initiative. The program will teach medical schools better ways to train new doctors to care for veterans’ needs, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy treatment (HBOT), the premier therapy for brain injuries and PTSD.

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Research from health pioneer (and former ANH-USA board member) Dr. Paul G. Harch published in the Journal of Neurotrauma indicates that hyperbaric oxygen therapy, or HBOT, is able to dramatically help veterans with post-concussion syndrome (a form of traumatic brain injury) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Harch is an associate clinical professor of medicine at Louisiana State University in New Orleans.

LSUHSC Joins Forces With White House to Combat TBI/PTSD in Veterans

As part of First Lady Michelle Obama's Joining Forces initiative, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) committed to creating a new generation of doctors, medical schools, and research facilities that will make sure our heroes receive the care worthy of their service. Recognizing veterans and their families' sacrifice and commitment, LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans pledged to mobilize its uniquely integrated missions in education, research, and clinical care to train the nation's physicians to meet veterans and their families' unique health care needs, including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).

METAIRIE, LOUISIANA

THE OFFICE OF

WILLIAM M. DETWEILER

PAST NATIONAL COMMANDER

September 30, 2011

The enclosed September and October issues of The American Legion Magazine contain a series of two articles growing out of the investigation and findings of the TBI/PTS Ad Hoc Committee. I serve as the Chairman of the Committee. The Committee was appointed for one year, but will be re-appointed by our newly elected National Commander next week at our National Executive Meetings in Indianapolis.

This was to be a two part series. However, the November issue will contain an article based on a study that has been ongoing for decades on the psychological effect of combat experience.

The American Legion is deeply committed to seeing that our veterans who are suffering from these injuries receive the care they deserve. As such, we have called for meetings of the House Veterans Affairs Committee and the Committee Chairman, Congressman Jeff Miller, Florida, has instructed his staff to work with us in preparation for the meetings.

Stay tuned.