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Featured Event
“Artistic Expressions” Exhibit
presented by the Adult Sickle Cell program at Ochsner LSU Health—Feist-Weiller Cancer Center
In 2023, the Adult Sickle Cell program at Ochsner LSU Health—Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC) launched “Artistic Expressions: June 19 is World Sickle Cell Awareness Day” to raise awareness and celebrate the creative voices of sickle cell warriors, caregivers, providers, and community artists. The month-long art exhibit features painting, photography, mixed media, pottery, and more and can be viewed throughout FWCC.
Left: “Together We Are Stronger” by Julie Burton
Painted by patients and volunteers in the Arts in Medicine program at FWCC.
On display now at FWCC through July 18!
At Feist-Weiller Cancer Center (FWCC), oncologists, hematologists, surgeons, radiologists, therapists, and researchers collaborate to offer preeminent cancer care, research, and educational programs. FWCC is the only academic cancer center in the northern half of Louisiana, an area with immense need and some of the highest incidences of cancer in the nation. This reality provides us the opportunity to better serve our communities and make an incredible difference in cancer research and treatment.
The faculty and staff at Feist-Weiller are developing a patient-centered, multidisciplinary approach aimed at improving clinical outcomes through the use of precision medicine and customized treatment plans. This includes enhancements to our clinical infrastructure and expanding cancer services in Shreveport and Monroe. FWCC also boasts the Partners in Wellness program – a mobile cancer screening program that delivers critical screening and education to rural areas in north Louisiana.
Read more about the FWCC here.
Your gift to Feist-Weiller Cancer Center supports the life-saving treatment, research, and academic initiatives taking place at our Center of Excellence each day. Together we are creating a path toward better health, longer lives, and a future where cancer is eliminated entirely.
THE MCDADE HOUSE AT FEIST-WEILLER CANCER CENTER
The LSU Health Sciences Foundation is working to renovate the McDade House to serve as a hospitality house providing temporary lodging for Feist-Weiller patients undergoing treatment.
Your gift powers our vision and helps the LSU Health Science Center in Shreveport remain at the forefront of healing, learning and discovering. Your generosity is helping to transform medicine and lives.
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