Faculty & Staff

PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH CLINIC PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS: 

Rita Horton, MD

• Acting Chair - LSU Health Shreveport, Department of Psychiatry
• Clinical Associate Professor
• Director - Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
• Board Certified in General Psychiatry and in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Program Director - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program
• Chair - Institutional Review Board, Panel 2
• Specializes in psychiatric disorders of children, adolescents, and adults

Marc Colon, MD

• Associate Professor of Psychiatry, LSU Health Shreveport, Department of Psychiatry
• Director - Forensic Services
• Specializes in Forensic Psychiatry
• Board Certified in Psychiatry and Neurology

Mary Jo Fitz-Gerald, MD

• Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, LSU Health Shreveport, Department of Psychiatry
• Vice Chair for Psychiatry
• Distinguished Life Fellow, Association for Academic Psychiatry (AAP)
• Director - Psychosomatic Fellowship Program
• Director - Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service
• Board Certified in Psychosomatic Medicine and Board Certified by the American Board of Addiction Medicine

James Patterson, MD, PhD

• Professor, LSU Health Shreveport, Department of Psychiatry
• Director - Laboratory of Biological Psychiatry
• Director - Emergency Psychiatry
• Director of Psychiatry Residency Training 
• Board Certified in Psychiatry
• Director - PET Neuroimaging Research, PET Imaging Center, Biomedical Reserach Foundation

 Lee Stevens, MD

• Clinical Professor, LSU Health Shreveport, Department of Psychiatry
• Director - Psychiatric Inpatient Child and Adolescent Services
• Specializes in psychiatric disorders of children and adolescents, geriatrics and addiction disorders
• Board Certified in General Psychiatry, Child and Adolescent, and Geriatric Psychiatry

PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY RESEARCH CLINIC STAFF

Barbara Roggero, BA, Certified Clinical Research Coordinator, Administrative Director

Barbara Adger, BA, Administrative Assistant III

Angela Benedetto, MA, Clinical Research Recruiter & Outreach Coordinator

Kelly Hoffman, BS, Certified Clinical Research Coordinator

Cassandra Reynolds, BS, Clinical Research Coordinator

Stephanie Lafitte Saunders, MA, Clinical Research Coordinator