Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, holder of the Grace and Emery Beardsley Chair in Ophthalmology and director of the USC Eye Institute, was announced as the interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC on March 24 in an email from … Read More »
The 2016 Keck Scholarship Gala on March 12 was a sold out event, with more than 300 alumni, current scholarship recipients, parents, donors, and other friends of Keck School of Medicine of USC gathering to honor two renowned alumni and … Read More »
Los Angeles Times columnist and Guggenheim Fellowship winner Meghan Daum will join USC palliative medicine physician and writer Sunita Puri, MD, in a conversation about how humans encounter and survive serious illness.
In “Diary of a Coma,” the final essay in … Read More »
The USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery held an interdisciplinary continuing medical education course at the Huntington Library in San Marino on March 19, targeting physicians and allied health professionals.
The welcome address was given by … Read More »
The best laid plans of mice and men are a bit different — at least when it comes to kidney development. Compared to a mouse, a human has nearly 100 times more nephrons, the functional units of the kidneys. Humans may … Read More »
Building on its relationship with the Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Center located in Mumbai, the USC Institute of Urology led an international urology symposium at the hospital Feb. 20-21. The symposium focused on advances in robotic … Read More »
Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD, a principal investigator with USC Stem Cell and The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, has received a $7.1 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Translational Research program to develop … Read More »
The physicians of Keck Medical Center of USC will take center stage on March 30.
The National Doctors’ Day Celebration Breakfast will be held at Keck Medical Center of USC on Wednesday, March 30 from 7 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. All … Read More »
University Kidney Research Organization (UKRO) honored USC academic and scientific leaders at its sixth gala dinner March 18 at The Beverly Hilton, with 300 attendees. This group of vocal champions of kidney disease research included Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Michael … Read More »
The next generation of scientists is turning to stem cells to advance our understanding of systems ranging from the blood to the brain, from the liver to the lungs. Six of these scientists presented their research at the Junior Faculty … Read More »
Recently released rankings from U.S. News & World Report show USC’s health sciences graduate schools remain among the best in the nation, improving or maintaining their prestige in the annual lists.
The Keck School of Medicine of USC, the USC Chan … Read More »
Loud cheering echoed through the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad at 9:01 a.m. March 18 as 163 Keck School of Medicine of USC seniors simultaneously ripped open envelopes that told them where they are spending the next few years of … Read More »
Students will be putting their public health knowledge to the test nearly 10,000 miles from Los Angeles this summer — in the rural Ugandan district of Mpigi.
Students from all degree programs are eligible to participate in … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC has reached a new level of completion with its electronic medical record (EMR) system, as HIMSS Analytics recently announced the medical group achieved Stage 6 on the EMR Adoption Model (EMRAM).
The model is a methodology for … Read More »
A delegation of officials from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the primary institution for training the country’s civil service elite, signed a partnership agreement with three USC schools March 2 to facilitate research, student exchanges … Read More »
All USC Transportation shuttles, including Circuit Tram, Soto, Alhambra, Union Station, and Intercampus Shuttle, will now be picking up and dropping off passengers at a designated “Bus Zone” on Eastlake Avenue southwest of Biggy Street starting Monday, March, 21.
This … Read More »
Heather Bresch will be the inaugural speaker in the USC John Biles Speaker Series on Leadership at USC School of Pharmacy at 5 p.m. March 31.
Bresch is the chief executive officer of Mylan, one of the world’s leading … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC showed its heart on Valentine’s Day.
Physicians, nurses and staff members across the health system purchased more than 2,000 Valentine’s Day grams for $1 each, showing appreciation for their colleagues while generating money to support the local … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine USC recently hosted an inaugural one-day resident and fellow training on the comprehensive management of subcortical lesions using the NICO BrainPath Approach, a tool developed by the NICO Corporation for removing deep-seated brain tumors using … Read More »
While medical home care may be improving primary care for children, these youngest patients may be disadvantaged by this team-based health care approach in other ways, according to a new study.
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC examined … Read More »