Pasadena Magazine names 500 Keck Medical Center physicians to top doctors list
The number of Keck Medical Center of USC physicians included in an annual ranking of top doctors in the San Gabriel Valley grew in 2014.
Pasadena Magazine included 505 USC physicians in its current roster of notable physicians in the San Gabriel Valley, up from 345 last year and 273 […]
Keck Medicine of USC helps launch new Wellness Center
After years of sitting nearly vacant on the hilltop overlooking the Health Sciences Campus, the former General Hospital is once again a center of healing.
It reopened in March as The Wellness Center at the Historic General Hospital […]
USC surgeons perform novel robotic-assisted prostate cancer operation
Surgeons at the Keck Medical Center of USC became the first in California to use the latest minimally invasive surgical system for prostate cancer when they performed a robotic-assisted procedure in July.
The surgery further cements the […]
LAC+USC Medical Center appoints new chief medical officer
Brad Spellberg, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer of the LAC+USC Medical Center and as professor of medicine and associate dean for clinical affairs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Spellberg joins the Keck […]
USC, UCLA and UCSF seek stem cell-based cures for craniofacial defects
One in every 2,000 babies is born with a skull that can’t grow normally. Sections of these babies’ skulls are fused together at joints called sutures, constricting the developing brain and disrupting vision, sleep, eating and […]
USC faculty help North Korea break ground on new medical school
David Ko, clinical associate professor of neurology, and Ted Yamamori from the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, recently attended the groundbreaking of Pyongyang University Medical School, a new medical school in North Korea. The […]
Keck Medicine of USC urologists offer expert services in Glendale
The world-class expertise of Keck Medicine of USC’s USC Institute of Urology is now available in Glendale, Calif., providing assistance with a variety of urological conditions for patients in a convenient location.
Leo R. Doumanian, MD, and […]
Auditory brainstem implant surgery performed on toddler at CHLA
A Los Angeles team of scientists and surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI) reported that sound registered in the brain of a deaf Canadian boy […]
Keck Medicine of USC adds to its renowned urology team
Continuing its momentum as one of the fastest growing urology programs in the nation, Gerhard Fuchs, MD, an internationally renowned urologic surgeon, researcher and educator who advanced innovative technology to minimize the pain of eliminating kidney […]
International team sheds new light on biology underlying schizophrenia
As part of a multinational, collaborative effort, researchers from Keck Medicine of USC, have helped identify more than 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia. In what is the largest […]
Keck Medical Center of USC Co-sponsors Congenital Heart Walk
The Keck Medical Center of USC co-sponsored the Greater Los Angeles Congenital Heart Walk on June 29 at Griffith Park. The event attracted more than 1,000 people and raised more than $90,000 to support advocacy, research, and care […]
USC Norris cancer patient spurred to fight on by the Trojan marching band
For his last radiation treatment, Russ Enyeart’s doctor told him she wasn’t going to be able to keep his usual 1:30 appointment time and had to push it back to 5 p.m. She was bending the […]