Major gift supports research of pre-leukemic diseases

Entrepreneur and industrialist Norbert Gehr lost his battle with leukemia in February at age 74, but his family foundation’s $20 million gift to the Keck School of Medicine of USC for research may help others fight their own.

Gehr was the Read More »

June 15th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC’s Hossein Jadvar is new president of nuclear medicine society

Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, was elected as the 2015-16 president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) during its annual meeting June 6-10 in Baltimore.

Jadvar, an associate professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the Keck School Read More »

June 15th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Go inducted as ACR fellow

John Louie Go, MD, has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR).

The induction took place at a convocation ceremony during the ACR meeting May 17–21 in Washington, D.C.

Go is director of head and neck imaging Read More »

June 15th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Medical student honored by AMA Foundation

Maria de Fátima Reyes of the Keck School of Medicine of USC is among 21 outstanding U.S. medical students to receive 2015 Minority Scholars Awards from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation.

The program promotes diversity, encourages the elimination of health Read More »

June 12th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Conjoined twins in Haiti separated by team of Keck and CHLA surgeons

An 18-member team of physicians and nurses from Keck Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) recently led an international collaboration to separate a pair of six-month-old conjoined twins in Haiti, the first such operation ever performed in Read More »

June 9th, 2015|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|