A graduate of the Master of Science in Global Medicine program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Ara Bakian hails from Newport Coast. He began volunteering at local dental clinics during his undergraduate years at the University of … Read More »
Annie Yang will graduate this May with both a Master of Science in Global Medicine and a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention from the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Yang earned both degrees as part … Read More »
A two-time Trojan, Ani Misirian became interested in global health after completing a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Armenia. During her year abroad, she volunteered in different health-related nonprofit organizations and witnessed firsthand how various economic and sociocultural issues contribute … Read More »
A $10 million gift from Allen and Charlotte Ginsburg will provide critical funding for innovative research at USC into debilitating neurosensory diseases.
The donation will establish a research fund at the USC Institute for Biomedical Therapeutics. In the … Read More »
Edwin Enwia always enjoyed the medicine in his 10 years as a paramedic and firefighter. He would arrive on scene, conduct his assessment and drop the patient off at the hospital. However, Enwia felt frustrated that he often had no … Read More »
When Roneisha Joyner was applying for physical therapy schools across the nation, she noticed there weren’t a lot of people in the profession who looked like her.
It’s an observation borne out by the data. A little more than 5 percent … Read More »
Luke Snyder remembers the moment he realized the power of physical therapy.
He was a high-school, cross-country runner in Thousand Oaks when he began suffering from knee pain. In physical therapy, his therapist had him doing hip strengthening exercises — something … Read More »
When Esther Leon’s grandfather suffered a severe stroke, the then-9-year-old girl wanted nothing more than for him to get better so he could again take her to the park like they always used to.
Maybe out of a sense of helplessness, … Read More »
On Christmas Day 2009, when Brandon Hsu was 18 years old, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Five months into treatment, he was in bed watching Modern Family when both of his calves started cramping, followed by his hamstrings. When he … Read More »
“Say yes to everything.”
That’s the advice of Kelcie Kadowaki, MA, after looking back on the past year in the doctorate of occupational therapy degree program at the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. OTD students like Kadowaki … Read More »
Amid the hustle and bustle of studying for her “final finals” of graduate school, Melody McKay continues to seek the same work-life balance she has been mastering since her first day in the master’s degree in occupational therapy program at … Read More »
In the home stretch before graduation, Carol Haywood has her share of lessons learned from her journey to earning her PhD in Occupational Science from the USC Chan Divison of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.
“The type of research you do … Read More »
He was trapped. And the fire department couldn’t get him out.
Hector Ruiz had climbed into a confined space inside a hopper at the iron foundry where he worked, to clean and unblock the huge auger screw conveyor at the bottom. … Read More »
Every week, Sammy Cohen heads to Skid Row, the part of Downtown Los Angeles known for its large homeless population.
Roughly 5,000 folks live on the streets there, according to a 2017 count.
Working at homeless shelters, Cohen, 21, stands … Read More »
It’s well known that exposure to extremely loud noises — whether it’s an explosion, a firecracker or even a concert — can lead to permanent hearing loss. But knowing how to treat noise-induced hearing loss, which affects about 15 percent … Read More »
Melissa Gerald was never encouraged to attend college.
“People like us do not go to college,” her father would tell her. “College is for the rich, the privileged. Where we come from, people just work to survive.”
In fact, all that Gerald’s … Read More »
A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has been awarded two grants totaling more than $4 million to support osteoarthritis research. A $3.4 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund … Read More »
Researchers at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute are one step closer to understanding how autism affects the human brain across the lifespan. One of the largest-ever brain morphometry studies of autism, led by the … Read More »
I’m one of those people who always wanted to be a doctor, but fell into software engineering in high school because I was good at it. In college, I got an internship at Google in the mid-2000s, which turned into … Read More »
Anders Ericsson, PhD, Conradi Eminent Scholar and Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, has spent his career studying how people from musicians to chess champions to athletes achieve superior performance in their chosen fields. His most recent book, Peak: … Read More »