Hanners named chief operating officer of Keck Medicine of USC and CEO of Keck Medical Center

A Los Angeles-area health care executive with significant experience in health systems leadership has been appointed as the chief operating officer of Keck Medicine of USC.
Rod Hanners will also serve as CEO of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Read More »

April 30th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

2015 Nursing Week, May 6-13

Wednesday, May 6

Nursing Awards Reception: Celebrate yourself and your colleagues as we recognize all your hard work. 2:30 p.m., Hoffman Café at Keck Hospital

Thursday, May 7      

Nursing Excellence Fair: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. and 9 – 11 p.m., Silver Read More »

April 28th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Group convenes to foster community engagement at HSC

Longtime community outreach services providers and stakeholders have been convened by HSC Community Partnerships in Civic Engagement at HSC to meet regularly and exchange ideas, discuss best practices and form collaborations.

Represented are the School of Pharmacy, Keck Medicine of USC, Read More »

April 27th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Maternal gestational diabetes linked to autism risk for offspring

Children are more likely to develop autism if their mothers were diagnosed with gestational diabetes early in pregnancy, a new study shows.

Women who receive a new diagnosis of gestational diabetes by the 26th week of pregnancy were 42% more likely Read More »

April 25th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

ICD-10 transition begins at Keck Medicine of USC

Keck Medicine of USC will soon begin information and training sessions related to a new coding system for reporting of medical diagnoses and in-patient procedures set to begin Oct.  1.

The ICD-10, the latest edition and 10th revision of the International Read More »

April 24th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Medical student to participate in international ethics program

Lisa Schamber of the Keck School of Medicine of USC is one of 14 medical students chosen to participate in a two-week ethics program this summer in New York, Germany and Poland.

Now in its sixth year of operation, the Fellowships Read More »

April 24th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Unihealth gift to help children with hearing loss

A new project will promote early intervention services for children with hearing loss.

UniHealth Foundation has awarded a $500,000 grant to a USC-Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles unit that provides audiology and speech language pathology services to children with hearing loss Read More »

April 24th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Norman Levan leaves remarkable legacy

When Norman Levan, MD, passed away at the age of 98, he left a gift totaling $12 million to the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

Levan, a professor emeritus and former chief of Dermatology at the Keck School, left $10 Read More »

April 23rd, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Possible link between early childhood nutrition and obesity identified

The long-term risk for obesity and its complications, including Type 2 diabetes, may be established during a critical period between birth and weaning, according to scientists at Keck Medicine of USC.

The research, published April 2, in the peer-reviewed journal Public Read More »

April 22nd, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Urgent-start peritoneal dialysis curbs infections, boosts survival 

A protocol for urgent-start peritoneal dialysis results in less blood stream infections and appears to reduce mortality when compared to urgent-start hemodialysis, according to research presented at the National Kidney Foundation’s 2015 Spring Clinical Meetings in Dallas, TX.

Most patients who Read More »

April 20th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Everyday pollutants hurt the environment — and a baby’s brain

A powerful relationship exists between prenatal exposure to a common pollutant and disturbances in parts of the brain that support information processing and behavioral control.

The findings were made by researchers at the Institute for the Developing Mind at Children’s Hospital Read More »

April 20th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Faculty physician Roberta Williams is Presidential Medallion recipient

Standout students, faculty and administrators celebrated the heights of Trojan scholarship at the 34th annual Academic Honors Convocation on April 15.

USC President C. L. Max Nikias presented the Presidential Medallion, the university’s highest honor, to Roberta G. Williams, MD, and Read More »

April 20th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck team climbs to the top at Lung Association fundraiser

A group from Keck Medical Center of USC was the top fund-raising team in the Fight for Air Climb, a stair-climbing event held April 11 in downtown Los Angeles. The Keck Medical team was also the largest group, with 46 Read More »

April 20th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Health Pavilion is a centerpiece at Festival of Books

More than 150,000 book lovers descended on the University Park Campus this past weekend for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, an annual event considered the largest public literary celebration in the country.

Held at USC since 2011, the two-day Read More »

April 20th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Medicine of USC-led study finds genetic predisposition for noise-induced hearing loss

In a new genome-wide association study, an international team led by Keck Medicine of USC neuroscientists has found evidence that some people may be more genetically susceptible to noise-induced hearing loss than others.

Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most Read More »

April 17th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC Norris study could impact efforts to bolster infection immunity

Using herpesvirus, molecular immunologists from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a cellular process that activates a critical immune defense against pathogens, which could have implications for developing drugs to bolster one’s immunity to infection. Some herpesvirus infections Read More »

April 17th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Unintentional art, presented without explanation

At first glance, it’s hard to tell that the photos of Bill Wishner’s “I Don’t Explain” collection aren’t, in fact, paintings themselves. But looking beyond the colorful collages of painted characters, scrawled phrases, and peeling poster images reveals the bricks, Read More »

April 14th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC researcher plucks hair — to make it grow

If there’s a cure for male pattern baldness, it might hurt a little.

A team led by USC Stem Cell Principal Investigator Cheng-Ming Chuong, MD, PhD, has demonstrated that by plucking 200 hairs in a specific pattern and density, they can Read More »

April 13th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Neighborhood residents serve the community as health educators

Over the last few months, the Ramona Gardens housing development in the Boyle Heights neighborhood has been home to a community-wide movement led by local residents-turned-health educators, known in Spanish as promotoras.

As part of an evidence-based health education program Read More »

April 13th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Stephenson family’s $10 million gift will further cancer fight

 

In Las Vegas, where good luck is everyone’s dream, a chance meeting in 2013 put two men — one a successful entrepreneur and philanthropist, the other a renowned physician and author — on a path that they hope will change Read More »

April 13th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|