For Media
In the fight against COVID-19, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø has a number of faculty experts available to speak with media. Below is a short list. We have many outstanding faculty in our College of Nursing and Health, College of Law, College of Business, College of Music and Media and College of Arts and Sciences.
Please contact at 504-352-8775 for assistance.
Higher Education and Distance Learning
is the 17th president of Loyola New Orleans and the first woman and layperson to lead Loyola since the university was founded in 1912. She is a native New Orleanian, a former federal prosecutor and expert in domestic violence and race issues, and civically involved resident. On the university front, she can address the thinking and preparation that faced higher ed in recent weeks, quick decisions to move to online instruction (and similarities to hurricane planning!), how a small university works to keep its community closely engaged as students work remotely from all over the country, how Loyola is responding to the crisis facing New Orleans, issues facing higher education and pending federal legislation regarding relief for higher education, among other topics.
See President Tetlow interviewed in Forbes. Hear her on Louisiana Talk Radio.
Crime
is an expert on crime and criminal justice in disaster. She is prepared to speak about crime trends and foreseeability of crime, as well as proposed timelines, in the wake of disaster.
is the former Superintendent of Police of the City of New Orleans.Ìý A leading criminologist and media resource, he serves as executive director of the high-profile
Nursing
is a longtime acute and clinical care nurse, with vast experience in disaster response, urban emergency rooms and rural health care (in general – and particularly in Louisiana and Mississippi.)
, is a night-shift emergency room nurse in New Orleans working on the front lines in the fight against COVID-19. By day, he is an instructor at Loyola, experienced in acute and clinical care nursing. A family nurse practitioner, Dr. Battley has worked in neuro surgery both as a first assistant in surgery and a clinician, primary care, free community clinics and the urgent care setting and currently practices in local emergency rooms across the greater New Orleans area.
, is a family nurse practitioner with deep understanding of the front lines in the fight against COVID-19. As a nurse practitioner, she works at hospitals and medical centers caring for patients from beginning to end by completing a detailed assessment, providing a diagnosis, and creating a detailed health care plan for either an acute problem or preventative health measures.
, is president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners and a national media resource in the fight against COVID-19. She is located here in New Orleans.
is a board-certified family nurse practitioner. He currently works at St. Thomas Community Health Center in New Orleans, LA. He provides primary and specialty care; and education and prevention services to adolescents and adults at risk for and/or living with a wide array of infectious diseases. He serves on the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.
Sociology
examinesÌýthe effect of social inequalities on health-related outcomes utilizing a broad variety of methodological approaches, such as longitudinal analysis, multilevel modeling, and a case-oriented approach to regression analysis. He currently serves on the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force.Ìý
Psychology
teaches psychology of disaster at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø and is an expert on trauma. She has spoken about collective trauma and impact on genetics and offspring. Her research has her working specifically with wounded warriors and other victims of trauma. She has taught about impacts of Katrina and other disasters and can speak various effects, including shared bonding through collective trauma.
has a special focus on neuroscience. She is an expert on the physiological impacts of stress.
specializes in social and personality psychology. Favorite topics include: individual well-being and factors influencing it, particularly those factors that individuals have relatively more control over and 2.) collective well-being (social, environmental, etc.) and factors contributing to thriving communities/societies, positive intergroup relations, and environmentally sustainable human behavior. At Loyola, he teaches a course on happiness.
Counseling
, director of Loyola’s University Counseling Center, is an expert on anxiety, stress, grief counseling and couples counseling and their impact all sorts of people, especially college students. The UCC has developed a series of anxiety management workshops for college students, Loyola’s Women’s Leadership Academy and other groups. Look to us for coping skills, self-care in a time of isolation, being social in isolation, concrete tips on increasing focus and motivation while working from home.
, chair of Loyola’s Counseling Department and founder of the , is a clinical mental health expert and expert in family therapy; he has had great experience counseling a wide variety of clients, including at-risk youth.
, director and founder of the Play Therapy Center here at Loyola, can share parent/ caregiver tips and provide parent education to the legions of parents now home schooling their children. Some of her topics could include: anxiety in children and teens, games and coping strategies, 6 rules for families during COVID-19, facilitating cooperation, the power of play in parenting, limit setting that works, helping your child be responsible for their choices, using choices effectively in parenting,Ìý using praise effectively, and more.
Communication
, a former television producer, is a digital media expert, always prepared to discuss news trends and news cycles – and the role and impact of social media.
Music
Loyola music faculty -- particularly our music therapy faculty -- can address how music can be a source of solace, relieve anxiety or simply uplift people during times of stress. They can even get technical talking about primal needs, what happens in your visual cortex, and music's power to soothe or evoke memories. (Did you know that lullabies are written in three-beat measures?) They can also talk about "entrainment" - what happens when we listen to or perform music together - whether in a choir on in our living rooms.Ìý And what's missing - or added - when we listen alone.
, a music therapy professor at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø, is a great interview. her research specialty is music therapy and geriatrics.
Dr. , currently teaches at Loyola - and works with the children's psych department at River Oaks psychiatric facility.
, professor of music theory, is another wonderful professor well-versed in these topics.
Law
Ìýteaches the Community Justice section of the Law Clinic at Loyola. ÌýShe and her clinic students represent on cases such as: landlord-tenant, post-disaster housing, housing discrimination, and on other civil rights matters. She can address all issues related to landlord rights, tenants' rights and evictions.Ìý
director of Loyola's ,Ìýis helping area residents to cope with workforce impacts caused by COVID-19. ÌýFounded in late 2005 to meet the legal services needs of mostly immigrant low-wage workers, the WJP as its mission seeks to build resources and enforce workers’ rights, cultivating legal and economic opportunities to uphold and respect the dignity of all workers.
, a Constitutional Law scholar, has recently written about Louisiana stay at home orders vis-a-vis Constitutional Law and is happy to speak on the subject.
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