Familiar name to lead pediatrics at LSU School of Medicine - New Orleans CityBusiness

Dr. Dedrick Moulton is returning to New Orleans to pb the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine pediatrics department.

Moulton volition besides service arsenic pediatrician-in-chief astatine Children’s Hospital, a quality merchandise said.

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine has based its Department of Pediatrics astatine Children’s since 2005 erstwhile the flooding pursuing Hurricane Katrina inundated its downtown campus.

Moulton volition statesman his caller relation successful February, the merchandise said.

Moulton antecedently led the department’s Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Section and fellowship programme and served arsenic vice seat for diversity, equity and inclusion. He was the Gastroenterology Service Line main astatine Children’s and manager of the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program.

Moulton is presently a prof of pediatrics astatine Atrium Health successful Charlotte, North Carolina. He besides served connected the module of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, wherever helium was subordinate aesculapian manager of the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital astatine Vanderbilt successful Nashville, Tennessee.

Moulton earned his aesculapian grade astatine the University of South Carolina. He completed his pediatrics residency astatine Palmetto Richland Memorial Hospital successful Columbia, South Carolina and some objective and probe fellowships successful gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition astatine St. Louis Children’s Hospital-Washington University successful St. Louis, Missouri.