Dr. Ghali has lived and practiced in Shreveport for the past 23 years. He and his wife, Hope, have four children.  Dr. Ghali’s practice spans from primary cleft repair to cosmetic surgery to head and neck cancer. His professional interest lies in the treatment of pediatric craniofacial deformities including craniosynostosis, cleft lip and palate, and dentofacial deformities. However, his surgical and teaching interests also include dentoalveolar surgery, dental implants, cosmetic surgery, head and neck oncology, and trauma.

Dr. Ghali is the Professor and Chairman of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, and in October, 2016 he was named Chancellor and Dean of the Health Sciences Center.  He is very active in resident, fellow, and student education. He also has appointments to countless hospital committees helping to keep LSU Health Shreveport at the forefront of medical care in Louisiana. He continues to serve on national and international organizations for the AAOMS, ABOMS, and IAOMS.  Dr. Ghali’s association with these organizations has helped shape the profession of oral and maxillofacial surgery as well as provided international recognition for the LSU Shreveport residency and fellowship programs.

Dr. Ghali has had numerous research interests including clinical and basic science research. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, written many book chapters and has edited textbooks that are vital to the knowledge base of many in the specialty.

Dr. Alan David Kaye is the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. Prior to coming to LSU 2005, he was Professor and Chairman of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Department of Anesthesiology in Lubbock, Texas. He has also served as the Medical Director of the Greater New Orleans Surgical Center, the Director of Resident Recruitment, Acting Program Director and an Attending Staff of the Department of Anesthesiology at Tulane University Medical Center in New Orleans. He is Board Certified as a Consultant in Anesthesiology and has a special certificate in Pain Management for the American Board of Anesthesiology. He is also a Diplomate of the American Board of Pain Medicine and the American Board of Interventional Pain Physicians He is editor-in-chief of the journal Pain Physicians and is on the FDA Advisory Board on Anesthetics and Analgesics. 

Dr. Lieblich is a graduate of Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He completed his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Kings County/Downstate Medical Center in New York and was an Assistant Professor 1984-88 of the University of Connecticut. Currently, he is in private practice in Avon, CT and maintains a part-time teaching appointment at the U. Connecticut as Clinical Professor. Dr. Lieblich has been a contributor to 20 textbooks and has published 45 papers and abstracts. He lectures widely

on ambulatory anesthesia, dental implants, and dentoalveolar surgery. Stu has served as President of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology and the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He is on the editorial boards of Anesthesia Progress; Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine Oral Pathology and the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. He serves on many local, state and national committees and is a member of the ADA’s Commission on Accreditation and the AAOMS Parameters of Care Committee.

Dr. Jannicke Mellin-Olsen is a Norwegian anaesthesiologist and the president of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists, which unites hundreds of thousand anesthesiologists in 150 countries. She was the driving force of the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology and also sits on the Board of Directors of the Patient Safety Movement Foundation.