The LSU Health Sciences Foundation returns with its annual fundraising gala, An Evening for Healers, on Thursday, September 11, 2025. Now in its 14th year, the event has served as a platform to honor and celebrate the Shreveport-Bossier community’s first responders, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and other healthcare providers who each played a vital role in saving the lives of patients at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (OLHS), North Louisiana’s only Level 1 Trauma Center, while raising mission-critical funding for LSU Health Shreveport.

Since the event’s inception, 29 moving patient stories have been shared, more than 930 dedicated first responders and healthcare heroes have been honored, and more than $4 million has been raised for LSU Health Shreveport.

Funds raised through An Evening for Healers help LSU Health Shreveport recruit and retain top faculty, acquire cutting-edge technology and equipment, and support programs for students at all three LSUHS schools – the School of Medicine, School of Allied Health Professions, and the School of Graduate Studies.

Ramey Benfield, PHD
Campus Federal Credit Union
Cardinaux Wealth Advisors, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC
Marianne and Stafford Comegys
Cross Keys Bank
Dermatology & Skin Surgery, Inc.: Dr. David Clemons, Dr. Donald Posner, Dr. Anne Bryan, Dr. Laura Haynie, Dr. Jason Romero, & Dr. Cooper Heard
Dethloff & Associates, Inc.
Sharon L. Dunn, PT, PhD, Dean, School of Allied Health Professions
Dr. Jonathan and Kasey Eaton
Dr. John and Meredith Evans
Fire Tech Systems
Fred L. Phillips Foundation
Leigh and Kevin Flood
Garden Park Nursing & Rehab Center
Patty and Mark Garrett
Gastrolntestinal Specialists, AMC
Heard, McElroy & Vestal, LLC
Hummingbird, King, & Butler
jweinland Group Benefits, an Alera Group Company
Keith D. Peterson & Co., Inc.
Drs. Mary and David Kim
LAMMICO
Louisiana Blue
LSU Health Shreveport Department of Neurosurgery
LSU Health Shreveport Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
LSU Health Shreveport Department of Pediatrics
LSU Health Shreveport Department of Radiology
LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine Class of 1973
LSUS Chancellor Dr. Robert T. Smith
Margaritaville Resort Casino
Clare & George Nelson
Oceans Healthcare
Tom and Sheryl Ostendorff / Southern Research Co., Inc.
Parish of Caddo
Powers Foundation
Ashley and John Prince
Regal Plastics
Inna and Dr. Oren Rom
Romph Pou Agency
RoseStone Wealth Advisors
Drs. Peter and Jennifer Seidenberg
Mike and Susanne Sewell
Shreveport Bossier New Car Dealers Association
Sutton Beebe Babin Architects, LLC
WK Spine & Pain Specialists
Qihui "Jim" Zhai, MD, FCAP