Ernest Olander Svenson

Background

Svenson, Ernest Olander was born on October 16, 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota, United States. Son of Ernest G. and Mabel A. (Benson) Svenson.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Wayne State University, 1948. Doctor of Medicine, Wayne State University, 1952. Bachelor, Augustana College, 1948.

Career

Intern Gorgas Hospital, Canal Zone, 1952-1953, staff physician, 1953-1954. Resident in psychiatry medicine Charity Hospital, New Orleans, 1954-1957. Psychoanalytic trainee New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute, 1958-1962.

Private practice New Orleans, since 1958. Associate professor psychiatry Louisiana State University, 1962-1980, clinical professor psychiatry, since 1980, senior advisory committee department psychiatry, 1991. Chairman department psychiatry Touro Infirmary, 1973-1976.

Member Governor's Advisory Committee, Mental Health, 1971-1972. Consultant Southeast Louisiana State Hospital, 1958-1961. Senior visiting physician, Charity Hospital, 1965-1990.

Clinical professor psychiatry Tulane University Medical School, since 1983. Senior clinical advisory committee department psychiatry Louisiana State University Medical School, since 1992. Advisory committee University New Orleans, since 1997.

Advisory board directors University New Orleans, since 1997, deans advisory board, since 1997. Member Post Traumatic Stress Disorder treatment unit Veterans Administration Hospital, New Orleans, 1994-1998.

Achievements

• Ernest Olander Svenson has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist, psychoanalyst by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board directors New Orleans Area/Bayou River Health Systems Agency, 1978-1982, executive committee, 1979-1982, chairman project review committee, 1978-1979. Member Area Health Planning, 1971-1982. Dean's advisory board University New Orleans, 1997.

Senior advisory committee department psychiatry Louisiana State University Medical School, since 1990. Board directors University New Orleans. Fellow American Psychiatric Association.

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychoanalytic Association (committee new training facilities 1988-1992), International Psychoanalytic Association, Louisiana Medical Association, American College Psychiatrists, New Orleans Mental Health Association (board directors 1975-1977), New Orleans Area Psychiatry Association (president 1969-1970), Louisiana Psychiatric Association (president 1969-1971), New Orleans Psychoanalytic Society (president 1971-1973), New Orleans Psychoanalytic Institute (secretary-treasurer 1975, training supervisor analyst since 1972, president 1983-1985, chairman education committee 1983-1985), New York Academy of Sciences, Alpha Omega Alpha.

Connections

Married Raquel Lefevre, 1954 (divorced 1965). Children: Ernest E., Stuart K. Married Shirley Zupancic, 1982.

Father:

Ernest G. Svenson

Mother:

Mabel A. (Benson) Svenson

Spouse:

Shirley Zupancic

Spouse:

Raquel Lefevre

child:

Ernest E. Svenson

child:

Stuart K. Svenson