Narsing Rao receives International Gold Award of Chinese Ophthalmological Society 2020

Narsing Rao, MD, Professor of Ophthalmology and Interim Dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was awarded the 2020 International Gold Award by the Chinese Ophthalmological Society on Nov. 20. The gold award is Read More »

November 30th, 2020|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Alumnus recalls ophthalmology residency, shares advice for aspiring clinicians

Charles Manger III, MD, graduated from the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s ophthalmology program in 1980. He subsequently founded the Saddleback Eye Center in Laguna Hills, where he has performed approximately 89,000 LASIK surgeries since Read More »

November 25th, 2020|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Master of Public Health alumna thrives amid disasters

Back in December 2017, when she was applying to graduate school, Nicole Mercado Anazagasty had much more on her mind than being accepted into her dream program: Master of Public Health at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

She was Read More »

November 25th, 2020|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

New funding boosts brain development, disorder research by USC Stem Cell trio

The human brain is an incredibly complex organ to study in its living tissue form. Researchers cannot experiment on human tissue directly, and animal models are often too different to human physiology to be effective.

For this reason, in the last Read More »

November 24th, 2020|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Seniors susceptible to scams show brain differences, are more frail

Scams and fraud exact a heavy toll on older adults, with estimates of yearly losses ranging from $3 billion to $36 billion in the U.S. alone.

Lasting damage can occur. Because many seniors live off of resources accumulated across their working lifetimes, such Read More »

November 23rd, 2020|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|