LSUHSC Shreveport Chancellor gone.

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SHREVEPORT, La. - The leader of LSU’s medical school in Shreveport has resigned after months of pressure from an LSU Board member.

David Guzick, who has been chancellor of LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport since January 2023, sent a letter of resignation Wednesday to the system Board of Supervisors, spokesman Todd Woodward confirmed to the Illuminator.

His resignation follows months of speculation about his potential dismissal after LSU Board member Esperanza Moran called for his dismissal at a board meeting in September. Moran has not spoken publicly about why she supported ousting Guzick.

Moran was at the State Capitol on Wednesday for LSU Day at the Legislature. When a reporter approached for comment on Guzick’s exit, she waved her hand and walked away.

News of Guzick’s departure comes the same day as confirmation that LSU Provost Roy Haggerty will leave his position at the flagship campus. They become the third and fourth high-level administrators to leave the university this year. Kimberly Lewis, executive vice president for finance and chief administrative officer, announced in February she would step down. LSU’s top attorney, Winston DeCuir, relinquished his general counsel role in January, though he will remain a faculty member at its law school until.

Guzick had wide support from LSU leadership, including LSU System President William Tate and his top staff at the Shreveport campus. Click here for the statement released Wednesday evening by Tate. Guzick was praised for getting the medical school removed from probation by its accrediting body.

That accomplishment was described as a “grand slam home run in the bottom of the 9th to win” by his top staffers in a letter they sent to Tate in March, urging his support for Guzick. A similar letter was sent by 17 department chairs to the LSU Board of Supervisors last month, when the LSU Health Shreveport Faculty Senate approved a resolution in support of Guzick.

The Illuminator asked Tate, who was also at the Capitol Wednesday, why Guzick resigned.

“Who?” answered Tate, who did not respond to further questions.

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