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Friday, January 30, 2015
Thomas Jackiewicz, senior vice president and CEO of Keck Medicine of USC, is now also serving as CEO of Keck Medical Center of USC. Jackiewicz is filling the role formerly held by Scott Evans, PharmD, MHA, who is leaving to become senior vice president and chief executive officer for Sharp... Read More »
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Friday, January 30, 2015
The inaugural USC Stem Cell Symposium convened with a straightforward truth about the future of regenerative medicine: “It will take a dedicated community of scholars across the disciplines to have maximum impact,” said Interim Provost Michael Quick, PhD. The Jan. 16 symposium brought together precisely such a community, with speakers... Read More »
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Friday, January 30, 2015
At the Hoyt Gallery, Nily Harel, a USC research lab specialist, was joined by Michelle MacVeigh, a USC research specialist for the opening of an exhibit featuring photographs taken by Harel and other art by Keck School of Medicine faculty, staff and students. The art will be on display on... Read More »
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Keck Medical Center of USC is offering a new option for patients who need bone marrow transplants, but have not found a match. Haploidentical transplants allow patients who can only find partially matching donors to receive potentially life-saving bone marrow transplants. “This greatly expands the donor pool so more patients... Read More »
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Friday, January 30, 2015
Keck Medicine of USC vascular surgeons are the only surgeons in Southern California using a new robotic system with the potential to reduce procedure times, decrease radiation, shorten hospital stays, enhance safety and put patients back on their feet again faster. Whittier resident Paul Toft, 59, was one of the... Read More »
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Friday, January 30, 2015
USC neuroscientists have identified another piece to the puzzle of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at Keck Medicine of USC used high-resolution imaging of the living human brain to show for the first time that the brain’s protective blood barrier becomes leaky with age, starting at the hippocampus, a critical learning and... Read More »
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Friday, January 16, 2015
Scott Petinga, a former Marine, said that being diagnosed with cancer in 2004 changed the way he thought about and acted in life. One of his first bold moves was to launch his own business, marketing firm Akquracy, where he challenged himself and his employees to constantly think differently. He... Read More »
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Friday, January 16, 2015
The life of the WunderGlo Foundation’s late founder Gloria Borges was celebrated and memorialized recently during the presentation of a $500,000 gift toward colon cancer research at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Borges, who died in January 2014, dedicated the last three years of her life to creation of... Read More »
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Friday, January 16, 2015
As a child, Michael Bonaguidi, PhD, dreamed of shaping cities as an architect or engineer. Now he dreams of shaping brains as the newest principal investigator in USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. He started Jan. 1. “Growing up on Legos and Lincoln Logs, I was very... Read More »
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Friday, January 16, 2015
Some artists are inspired to draw or paint by bucolic scenery, but Ben Ferrer, RN, said he believes that being a nurse is what brought out his inner artist. “There are different ways of drawing a portrait and one is to capture their essence,” said Ferrer, a nurse in the... Read More »
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Friday, January 16, 2015
Dilip Parekh, MD, professor of clinical surgery and director of the Department of Surgery’s cancer program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been appointed to the role of director of external outreach and physician network development for the clinical cancer program at Keck Medicine of USC. “This... Read More »