Amar Desai named CEO of USC Care

Keck Medicine of USC has appointed seasoned physician executive Amar Desai, MD, MPH, as chief executive officer of USC Care and Ambulatory Care Services, effective Aug. 1.

Desai is an experienced health-care executive with significant expertise leading health systems to improved Read More »

July 16th, 2014|Announcements|

$1 million gift celebrates work of late Keck School urologist John Stein

Jane Centofante came to understand the expertise of the urologists at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in an all too personal way. In 1999, her father Albert Centofante, was treated for bladder cancer at USC Norris by Donald G. Read More »

July 16th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medical Center of USC improves its national rankings in cancer, urology and geriatrics

Keck Medical Center of USC, one of only two university-based medical systems in Los Angeles, maintained its No. 3 ranking as the top hospital in the Los Angeles metro area and No. 8 in California but also moved up in Read More »

July 15th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medicine of USC scientists discover immune system component that resists sepsis in mice

Molecular microbiologists from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have discovered that mice lacking a specific component of the immune system are completely resistant to sepsis, a potentially fatal complication of infection. The discovery suggests that blocking Read More »

July 14th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck School professor awarded $250,000 for Parkinson’s disease research

The National Parkinson Foundation recently awarded Giselle Petzinger, MD, assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and Beth Fisher, PhD, associate professor in the division of biokinesiology and physical therapy, a $250,000 Read More »

July 10th, 2014|Announcements|