Edgar Hull News Today

Shreveport, La. – On Saturday, 145 LSU Health Shreveport School of Medicine second-year medical students participated in a traditional rite of passage known as the “White Coat Ceremony” which signifies

View Comments One of the most remarkable and memorable experiences of my teenage years in the mid-1960s occurred when my uncle started a project that was to involve a year’s long commute from his home in New Orleans to Shreveport.  Uncle Edgar’s mission: spearhead the formation of a medical school in Shreveport. Dr. Edgar Hull, MD, was already a legend amongst physicians who had trained at LSU Med School in New Orleans where he was associate dean. He was also known as being very persuasiv...