Louisiana Voice

As the LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport (LSUHSC) is drawn into a brewing legislative battle over the enforcement of NON-COMPETE CONTRACTS with physicians, LSUHSC-New Orleans finds itself defending itself in federal court.

Dr. Ghali E. Ghali, chancellor of the LSU med school in Shreveport, is on administrative leave following allegations that he suppressed students’ sexual harassment complaints and disciplined faculty who support the students.

And as LSU’s TITLE IX PROBLEMS continue to pile up over its mismanagement of sexual harassment complaints, a former Emergency Medicine resident has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the university’s Board of Supervisors over alleged anti-Semitic treatment he was subjected to while serving his residency at LSUHSC-New Orleans.

Eric Greenberg, a native of Michigan, filed his petition in U.S. District Court’s Eastern District in New Orleans pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act after he claimed he was subjected to a pattern of harassment and discrimination at the hands of his immediate supervisor, Salvador Suau, program director of the Emergency Medicine Program.

Greenberg, who is Jewish and who suffers from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD), alleges in his petition that Suau made repeated disparaging remarks about his Jewish heritage, including suggesting at one point that Greenberg was mentally retarded because of his ADHD condition.

Greenberg also claims that Suau, upon learning he was Jewish, in the presence of other residents, said, “Oh, you’re a Jew. You come from Sinai. You should be (doing his residency) at Jewlane,” a reference to Tulane’s School of Medicine. He also said Suau made offensive comments about being circumcised.

Greenberg named LSUHSC-N.O. as a defendant because the administration ignored his repeated complaints about Suau.