Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine at New Orleans still conducts cruel and outdated “dog labs”—classes in which medical students perform unnecessary surgical procedures on live dogs. According to a whistleblower, 44 dogs are experimented on and killed each lab period.

The labs take place on the following days:

January 18-21, February 1-4, March 8-11, March 29, April 11, and April 26-29.

More than two-thirds of medical schools in the United States, including Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, have replaced their use of live animals in physiology, pharmacology, and surgical-training exercises with humane and effective non-animal teaching methods such as observation of actual human cardiac bypass surgery, patient simulators, cadavers, and sophisticated computer programs. It’s time for LSU to do the same.

Please contact Larry Hollier, dean of LSUHSC School of Medicine, and politely urge him to end the use of live animal labs and join the ranks of the top medical schools in the country by using humane non-animal teaching methods:

Larry Hollier, MD
Dean, LSUHSC School of Medicine
Office of the Dean
533 Bolivar, Ste. 362
New Orleans, LA 70112
504-568-4007
lhholl@lsuhsc.edu

For more information, contact Chris Ford at ChrisF@peta.org or 757-622-7382, extension 8105, or visit our Web site StopAnimalTests.com.

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