Recent News

Study shows hospitals have steadily boosted stipend pay to contracted providers for 20 years
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
A new study led by the USC Schaeffer Center shows that California hospital spending on supplemental payments to contracted medical groups has steadily grown in key specialties over the past two decades. The findings were published in the journal Health Affairs. Hospitals across the country use these stipends to help... Read More »

USC Brain Tumor Center advocacy leads to official proclamations for May 2025
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County and the State of California have proclaimed May 2025 as Brain Tumor Awareness Month. The decision was a result of longstanding advocacy and outreach efforts from the USC Brain Tumor Center, part of Keck Medicine of USC. On May 1, Assemblymember Mike... Read More »

Keck School’s Kidney Research Center receives new name and new director
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
We are pleased to share that the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Kidney Research Center was recently named the Vito M. Campese, MD/UKRO Kidney Research Center of USC. Campese, the center's new namesake, is an international leader in nephrology and a lifelong Trojan, having worked with USC for nearly... Read More »

Keck Medicine kicks off Pride Month 2025 with Pride flag raising
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
On the morning of June 2, faculty, staff and students from Keck Medicine of USC and the Keck School of Medicine of USC came together at Keck Medical Center for the health system’s annual flag-raising ceremony in honor of Pride Month. Earlier that day, USC Arcadia Hospital held its third... Read More »

Physical therapy professor named 2025 National Athletic Trainers’ Association Fellow
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Lori Michener, PhD, PT, ATC, SCS, professor-clinical scholar of physical therapy for the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, has been recognized as a 2025 Fellow of the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA), a distinction awarded to only the most accomplished scholars contributing to the athletic training profession. The designation... Read More »

USC study reveals link between type 2 diabetes and brain health in older adults
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
A new USC-led study has uncovered a significant link between type 2 diabetes mellitus and cortical thickness in older adults from various populations. Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI), the University of North Texas Health Science Center... Read More »

USC Mann class of 2025 looks to the future with purpose
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Bringing together hundreds of graduates, family members, friends, and loved ones, the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences celebrated its 118th commencement ceremony honoring the class of 2025 on Friday, May 16 at the McCarthy Quad on the University Park Campus. Pharmaceutical industry executive and USC... Read More »

Keck Medicine of USC supports Altadena school through book drive and grant
Friday, May 23, 2025
On May 22, Keck Medicine of USC employees made a very special delivery to students of Pasadena Rosebud Academy, a transitional kindergarten-8th grade school that was destroyed in the recent Eaton fire and is being temporarily housed at a nearby school. Keck Medicine staff presented the school’s founder and executive... Read More »

NIH to award $8 million for new USC Superfund Center to address ‘forever chemicals’
Monday, May 19, 2025
A team of scientists from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering has been awarded an $8 million, five-year grant from the the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, part of the National Institutes of Health, to launch the Southern California Superfund Research... Read More »