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In the Eye of Katrina: Surviving the Storm and Rebuilding an Academic Department of Psychiatry

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, LSU Health Sciences Center, 719 Camp Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130, USA

    Howard J. Osofsky M.D., Ph.D. (Kathleen and John Bricker Chair of Psychiatry and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry)

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Osofsky, H.J. In the Eye of Katrina: Surviving the Storm and Rebuilding an Academic Department of Psychiatry. Acad Psychiatry 31, 183–187 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.31.3.183

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