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Monday, August 18, 2014
For 187 fresh-faced new medical students from the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Class of 2018, the act of putting on a white coat signified the beginning of their lives as health-care professionals. At a ceremony held on Aug. 15, 2014 in the Harry & Celesta Pappas Quad, these... Read More »
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Friday, August 15, 2014
Community service officers (CSOs) on USC’s campuses are sporting new uniforms, swapping green hues in favor of blues. Charles Holloway, healthcare security director, said that on July 28, the USC Department of Public Safety (DPS) CSOs began wearing uniforms consisting of a light blue shirt and navy blue pant as... Read More »
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Friday, August 15, 2014
African-Americans bear a heavier burden of diabetic macular edema (DME), one of the leading causes of blindness in diabetic patients in the United States, according to research by Keck Medicine of USC ophthalmology scientists. The research, published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association Ophthalmology, indicates a higher... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Barbara Gitlitz, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and members of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is leading a new clinical study to understand why lung cancer occurs in adults under 40 who are athletic, were never smokers and do not exhibit... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
This current era of technological innovation is also creating to an explosion of medical data, which means medical students must take in more information than ever before. “By 2020, the amount of information that our students will have to learn is going to double in the first 73 days,” explained... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
When the first report from the United States Surgeon General on smoking was released in 1964, it was held until a Saturday over fear that the information might lead to a stock market crash. Jonathan Samet, MD, MS, chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of... Read More »
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
David M. Carrera, an accomplished advancement professional who helped plan and implement one of the largest fundraising efforts in the history of academic medicine, has been named vice president for USC Health Sciences Development, effective August 1. In this role, Carrera will oversee the advancement activities for Keck Medicine of... Read More »
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Monday, July 28, 2014
After years of sitting nearly vacant on the hilltop overlooking the Health Sciences Campus, the former General Hospital is once again a center of healing. It reopened in March as The Wellness Center at the Historic General Hospital and now houses several like-minded nonprofit organizations with the common goal of improving... Read More »
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Friday, July 25, 2014
The number of Keck Medical Center of USC physicians included in an annual ranking of top doctors in the San Gabriel Valley grew in 2014. Pasadena Magazine included 505 USC physicians in its current roster of notable physicians in the San Gabriel Valley, up from 345 last year and 273... Read More »
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Surgeons at the Keck Medical Center of USC became the first in California to use the latest minimally invasive surgical system for prostate cancer when they performed a robotic-assisted procedure in July. The surgery further cements the Los Angeles-based university hospitals’ position as a global center of excellence for robotic... Read More »
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Friday, July 25, 2014
Brad Spellberg, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer of the LAC+USC Medical Center and as professor of medicine and associate dean for clinical affairs at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Spellberg joins the Keck School of Medicine of USC from the David Geffen School of Medicine at... Read More »