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Monday, April 4, 2016
This spring break, students from the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC attended the fourth annual Advocacy Trip to Washington, D.C. The experience is intended to promote leadership and inspire students to advocate for their profession and patients. This year 18 students traveled... Read More »
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Friday, April 1, 2016
Steven Browning Sample, who served as USC’s 10th president from 1991 to 2010 —a time of remarkable transformation at the university — died March 29. He was 75. During Sample’s 19-year tenure as president, the university ascended the national academic ranks. USC became a highly selective undergraduate university, recruited many... Read More »
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
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 Provost Michael Quick, PhD. Varma, who serves as chair of... Read More »
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
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 one esteemed faculty member. The event raised close to $300,000... Read More »
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Monday, March 28, 2016
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 her masterful collection, The Unspeakable, Daum recounts her own unexpected... Read More »
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
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 Rick Caruso, CEO of Caruso Affiliated, pictured above with... Read More »
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Friday, March 25, 2016
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 owe these abundant nephrons to a gene called SIX1, according... Read More »
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Friday, March 25, 2016
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 surgery for urology cases and featured live surgeries, case study... Read More »
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
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 a cellular therapy for the treatment of nerve disorders of... Read More »
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Thursday, March 24, 2016
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 Keck Medicine of USC physicians are invited. National Doctors’... Read More »
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
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 Quick, PhD; scientist Andrew McMahon, PhD; surgeon Robert Selby, MD; and... Read More »