Three Trojans on the ballot in American Occupational Therapy Association’s 2024 elections

USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy faculty members Arameh Anvarizadeh, OTD, OTR/L and Sarah Bream, OTD/OTR/L, and alumnus Bryant Edwards, OTD, MA (both from USC Chan), OTR/L, BCP, MPH, are running for volunteer Read More »

January 31st, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Study shows how gene activity enhances immune cell production in mice

A study from USC Stem Cell’s Rong Lu Lab has discovered 40 genes that play different roles in building and maintaining the body’s various immune cells.

The findings, published in Science Advances, could serve as Read More »

January 30th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Dementia diagnoses increased after Medicare risk adjustment

A new study from the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics confirms that dementia diagnoses increased across the United States after Medicare Advantage (MA) began calculating plan payments to account for Read More »

January 30th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Panel recommends financially sound ways for hospitals to evolve

A new white paper released by the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics and the Aspen Institute’s Health Medicine & Society Program offers recommendations for how hospitals can evolve to meet Read More »

January 24th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Artificial intelligence could assist in earlier autism detection, therapeutic interventions

In a recent study from the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, three groups of children — neurotypical children, those with developmental coordination disorder and others diagnosed as autistic — colored and played games Read More »

January 23rd, 2024|Announcements|

Pharmacy product vending machines return to University Park Campus

University Student Health and USC pharmacies — owned by the USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences — and  have successfully added two pharmacy vending machines to the University Park Campus. While the first Read More »

January 23rd, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Researchers explore possibilities for laryngeal imaging without surgery

At some point in the future, Brillouin microscopy — which creates images by measuring viscoelasticity — may be able to be used in lieu of surgery to diagnose certain vocal trauma in professional singers and speakers.

Michael Johns, Read More »

January 22nd, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Study reveals the importance of precise DNA condensation patterns within cell nuclei

In a new paper published in Nature Communications, USC Stem Cell scientists from the Bell Lab have released a study on DNA condensation in human cell nuclei and how variations in its loop-like Read More »

January 17th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Novel approach to collaboration accelerates multidisciplinary research

Steve Kay, PhD, head of convergent research initiatives for the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has created a new approach to developing collaborations between academic disciplines. Last year, he brought medical researchers together with computer and Read More »

January 17th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC research spending surpasses $1 billion for the first time

The latest federal Higher Education Research and Development Survey puts USC within an exclusive pack of 13 private universities whose research expenditures top $1 billion annually, with a significant portion of expenditures coming from the Keck School of Read More »

January 17th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Clinical study aims to decrease clinician burnout

Keck Medicine of USC and its Care for the Caregiver program have partnered with USC Dornsife Public Exchange and the Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research to address physician burnout, a widespread problem currently impacting thousands of clinical care Read More »

January 17th, 2024|Announcements, featured, Keck Net Intranet|

Jeana Rettig honored by Becker’s Hospital Review

Becker’s Hospital Review has named Jeana Rettig, chief marketing and communications officer for Keck Medicine of USC, one of “60 hospital and health system chief marketing officers to know” for 2023.

In a statement, Becker’s said, “These bold strategic leaders drive Read More »

January 10th, 2024|Announcements, Commencement 2023, featured|

USC Arcadia Hospital announces updates to executive team

On Jan. 2, Ike Mmeje, MHSA, president and CEO for USC Arcadia Hospital, announced several updates to the hospital’s executive team, all effective this month.

“USC Arcadia Hospital has been serving the community for more than a century, yet each year Read More »

January 10th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC Verdugo Hills Hospital and USC Arcadia Hospital welcome New Year’s babies

A woman in a hospital bed cradles a newborn beneath a hand-knitted baby blanket Left to right: Mandi Rub, RN, Annie Nguyen, MD, Theodore, Andy Nguyen. Blanket knitted by Rub. (Photo/Courtesy of USC-VHH) Read More »

January 10th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Game-changing organoid model developed to study the human brain

In a first for USC Stem Cell scientists, the Quadrato Lab has pioneered a novel human brain organoid model that generates all the major cell types of the cerebellum, a brain region predominantly made Read More »

January 4th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Hearing aids may help people live longer

According to a new study from the USC Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, adults with hearing loss who regularly use hearing aids have a 24% lower risk of early death than those who Read More »

January 4th, 2024|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|