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Monday, September 19, 2016
The USC Department of Public Safety (DPS) is hoping to build a relationship with children and youth in the Boyle Heights community one book at a time. DPS and Keck Medicine of USC collaborated to bring a Little Free Library to Hazard Park Recreation Center, which sits across the street... Read More »
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Monday, September 19, 2016
USC Correctional Health, a Keck School of Medicine of USC program, won the 2016 Best in Category Achievement Award for Health from the National Association of Counties (NaCo). This is the second prestigious award for the program, which was recognized last year with a Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Award.... Read More »
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Friday, September 9, 2016
On March 6, just shy of his 21st birthday, Kristopher (Kris) Boesen of Bakersfield suffered a traumatic injury to his cervical spine when his car fishtailed on a wet road, hit a tree and slammed into a telephone pole. His parents were warned there was a good chance their son... Read More »
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Friday, September 9, 2016
As a third-generation Hawaiian, USC Stem Cell researcher Justin Ichida, PhD, is equally comfortable with lu’aus and lead guitars as with laboratories. [caption id="attachment_6208" align="alignright" width="300"] Justin Ichida performs at UCLA in 1998. (Photo/Courtesy Justin Ichida)[/caption] As an assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at USC, he... Read More »
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
Flu vaccines will be available to all faculty, nurses and Keck Medicine of USC staff starting Sept. 12 at Employee Health Services Monday through Friday from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the Evaluation & Treatment Clinic, Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 7:45 a.m., weekends and holidays. Preservative-free and... Read More »
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Thursday, September 8, 2016
A new fellowship will allow physicians to study innovative methods to care for high-cost, high-need patients, as the Gehr Family Center for Implementation Science at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and CareMore Health System announced a collaboration to train the next generation of leaders in health care delivery... Read More »
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Wednesday, September 7, 2016
Keck Medicine of USC is a sponsor of the 2016 Los Angeles Heart Walk on Oct. 8 at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. With a fundraising goal of $125,000, Keck Medicine is hoping to engage 1,000 employees to participate in its efforts to help the American Heart Association fight heart disease... Read More »
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Timothy James (TJ) Malseed has been appointed as chief health information officer for Keck Medicine of USC and associate dean for information sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, administrators announced recently. Malseed will lead growth and oversee operations for information systems and support the planning, operating and... Read More »
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6205" align="alignright" width="300"] Willa Tsao speaks during the sixth annual Bridging the Gaps Summer Research Poster Day on Aug. 4 in the Broad CIRM Center. (Photo/Douglas Morino)[/caption] Keck School of Medicine of USC hosted the sixth annual Bridging the Gaps Summer Research Poster Day on Aug. 4 in the... Read More »
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Monday, September 5, 2016
[caption id="attachment_6188" align="alignright" width="225"] Joe Romero, a 2013 graduate of the nurse anesthesia program and a captain in the U.S. Army Reserve, was deployed to Iraq to serve as a nurse anesthetist with the 948th Forward Surgical Team in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. (Photo/Courtesy Joe Romero)[/caption] Although medical students... Read More »
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Sunday, September 4, 2016
Researchers are on a real-life search for what one calls “the ultimate Pokémon”: Zenkerella, an elusive scaly-tailed squirrel that has never been spotted alive by scientists. However, biologists recently found three newly dead specimens that hint at how the “living fossil” has evolved over the past 49 million years. [caption... Read More »