Background
Broussard, Elsie Rita was born on January 30, 1924 in Baton Rouge. Daughter of Arny Lawrence and Elsie Marie (Parent) Broussard.
Broussard, Elsie Rita was born on January 30, 1924 in Baton Rouge. Daughter of Arny Lawrence and Elsie Marie (Parent) Broussard.
Doctor of Medicine, Louisiana State University, 1944. Master in Public Health, University Pittsburgh, 1962. Doctor of Public Health, University Pittsburgh, 1964.
Rotating intern Hotel-Dieu Hospital, New Orleans, 1944-1945. Admitting physician Charity Hospital, 1945-1946, 48-49. Resident in surgery Children's Hospital, San Francisco, 1946.
Practice medicine specializing in pediatrics New Orleans, 1949-1951. Assistant county health officer, director metnal health programs Escambia County Health Department, Florida, 1952-1961. Resident in public health Florida Department Health, Pensacola, 1959-1961.
Teaching fellow in general psychiatry University Pittsburgh, 1963-1965, teaching fellow in child psychiatry, 1965-1967, associate professor public health psychiatry Graduate School Public Health, 1966-1971, professor public health psychiatry, 1972—2002, assistant professor child psychiatry School Medicine, 1967-1973, associate professor child psychiatry, since 1974, professor emerita public health psychiatry, since 2002, clinical associate professor psychiatry School Medicine, since 2003. Associate in psychoanalysis Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Institute, 1967-1977, associate in child psychoanalysis, 1971-1981, member faculty, member child analysis committee, 1983-1992, chairman, since 1992. Member staff Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Pittsburgh, since 1969.
Provider mental health services Pittsburgh Public Schools, 1968-1975. Member task panel on prevention President's Commission on Mental Health, 1977-1978.
Director health services division Civil Defense Escambia County, Florida, 1959-1961. Commissioner Pittsburgh Model Cities, 1972-1974. Member professional advisory committee Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, since 1981.
Fellow: American Psychiatric Association (distinguished life) (Lester N. Holheimer award 1973). Member: American Medical Association, American Psychoanalytic Association, American Academy Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Married Francis Patrick Cassidy, January 30, 1945 (divorced June 1956). Children: Jude Anne, Francis Patrick. Married Lloyd Henry Cooper, January 1, 1972 (deceased September 1988).