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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA) named Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC Professor Roseann Mulligan, DDS, the recipient of the 2014 Saul Kamen Award during the 26th annual SCDA meeting in Chicago, April 11-13. The Kamen Award is the SCDA’s highest honor and is named after Saul Kamen, a... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The International Menopausal Society recently honored Frank Z. Stanczyk, PhD, professor of research in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Preventive Medicine for his contributions to the field of menopause science. The society presented Stanczyk with the Henry Burger Prize at the 14th World Congress on Menopause in Cancun, Mexico,... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Nanomedicine studies at USC received a boost thanks to the USC Ming Hsieh Institute for Research on Engineering–Medicine for Cancer. The institute recently announced three USC proposal grant awardees for 2014. The USC Ming Hsieh Institute helps fund proposals for new nanomedicine research projects that show exceptional promise for translation... Read More »
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Coreen Rodgers will step down as chief operating officer of the Keck School of Medicine on Aug. 1 to assume the role of chief financial officer and vice president at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Gardens in San Marino, CA. She will be responsible for the management of a... Read More »
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Thursday, May 22, 2014
Continuing its tradition of excellence and innovation in the clinical neurosciences, Keck Medicine of the USC has established the USC Neurorestoration Center, a multi-institution collaboration for breakthrough discoveries that, for the first time, bring together neural engineering, neuroscience and neurorehabilitation to restore neurological function in the human brain. The center... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The national anthem has been sung thousands of times before at the USC Galen Center. But on May 17, the familiar tune celebrated medicine, heralding the opening of commencement ceremonies for the MD and MD/PhD graduates of the Class of 2014 of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Distinguished... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Keck Medical Center of USC hosted the first annual “Solutions for Complex Care” Symposium on May 8, aimed at teaching case managers and medical directors from managed care organizations about new cost effective approaches and innovative therapies to treating patients with complex diagnoses. The all-day event included 14 presentations from Keck’s... Read More »
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
How can scientists make more accurate predictions about which potential drugs will effectively treat disease — before launching expensive and laborious human clinical trials? USC’s new Choi Family Therapeutic Screening Facility offers one answer: through the “disease in a dish” approach. At the grand opening on May 2, researchers thanked Kin-Chung... Read More »
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Friday, May 16, 2014
The more cups of coffee a person drank, the lower the risk for developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common type of liver cancer, according to results presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2014, help in April in San Diego. This study found that compared with those who consumed fewer... Read More »
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
Larissa V. Rodríguez, MD, a noted expert in female pelvic medicine with more than 15 years of clinical and research experience in urology, joined Keck Medicine of USC on May 1. Rodríguez joins an elite group of faculty urologists at the USC Institute of Urology as professor of urology at... Read More »
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Zul Surani has joined USC’s Civic Engagement team as director of community partnerships on the Health Sciences Campus. His role will be to direct outreach and partnership activities for the Health Sciences Campus and work with outreach stakeholders on campus to provide coordination and leadership in implementing the university’s priorities.... Read More »