Dr. Elder has held the CMO role in an interim capacity since August. An emergency medicine physician by training, he first joined LCMC Health in 2009, according to a Dec. 20 news release.
Alongside his current role at University Medical Center New Orleans, Dr. Elder serves as LCMC’s associate chief officer for emergency management. He is also a clinical associate professor of medicine at LSU Health and co-director of emergency medical services and disaster medicine and an adjunct assistant professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Topical Medicine.