In a hearing on how to balance incentives for medical innovation with patient access, USC Schaeffer Center Director of Research Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, shared findings demonstrating that “expanding prescription drug coverage is worth the cost … Read More »
The USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy has announced that Emma Stokes, PhD, will deliver the commencement keynote address for their class of 2023. Stokes is one of the most famous physical therapists … Read More »
The USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ 2023 commencement ceremony will feature keynote speaker Janet S. Wright, MD, director of the CDC Chronic Disease Center’s Division for Heart Disease and … Read More »
The core mission of the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (Stevens INI) is to answer urgent questions about the human brain. Part of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, and led by Director … Read More »
Los Angeles County Medical Center (LAC+USC) will now be known as Los Angeles General Medical Center (LA General), hospital and city leaders announced today.
The 600-bed hospital in Boyle Heights is a Level 1 trauma center and an academic teaching hospital … Read More »
Francesca Mariani, PhD, has been selected for the 2023 Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching.
The director of the Mariani Lab at USC Stem Cell also serves as the faculty director of USC’s master’s program … Read More »
Tammy Capretta, RN, MPH, chief transformation and risk officer for Keck Medicine of USC, has been named the 2023 Los Angeles Woman of Impact by the American Heart Association (AHA).
Each year, nominees begin their … Read More »
The Keck School of Medicine of USC’s multidisciplinary Class of 2023 will end a milestone phase of their careers on May 12 and 13 at their respective commencements. Each school will host nationally renowned leaders in their field who will … Read More »
On Friday, April 14, over 150 members of the Keck Medicine of USC community gathered on the Health Sciences Campus to attend Keck Medical Center’s first-annual quality symposium.
The theme of the symposium was “Embrace, Engage, Empower,” and the event was … Read More »
A new white paper from the USC Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics has found that Medicare coverage for new classes of weight loss drugs would result in $1 trillion saved by Medicare and … Read More »
Erna Imperatore Blanche, PhD, has been selected as the keynote speaker at the USC Chan Division’s 2023 commencement ceremony. She earned her PhD from the division and has served there as a professor of … Read More »
Jeffrey Klausner, MD, MPH, a clinical professor of population and public health sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has conducted research in southern Africa since 2009 with a focus on sexually transmitted diseases.
His current … Read More »
A new study lead by a team of researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has shown that younger brain age — a neuroimaging-based assessment of brain health — is associated with better post-stroke outcomes. The findings could … Read More »
This March the USC Surgical Skills and Education Center welcomed fifth- and sixth-grade students from Emma W. Shuey Elementary School in Rosemead.
At one learning station, students practiced moving small objects using laparoscopic surgical tools. At another, kids took ultrasounds of … Read More »
Each year, graduating students of the Keck School of Medicine of USC vote for an educator to receive the Kaiser Permanente Excellence in Teaching Award for Basic Science Years. This year Joe Hacia, PhD, was selected for … Read More »
The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, in collaboration with Auransa Inc., is about to begin a phase 1 clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a new medical treatment for cancers of the liver. In pre-clinical trials, … Read More »
Keck Kindness, part of Keck Medicine of USC’s Care for the Caregiver program, recently celebrated a major milestone. On March 24, 2023, the program announced that it had officially provided over $1 million in grants to enterprise … Read More »
The results of a multi-institutional clinical trial led by Keck Medicine of USC show that surgically removing abdominal lymph nodes impacted by seminoma can treat the illness as effectively as chemotherapy and radiation, which … Read More »
Bold ideas, smart investments and strong compassion helped USC navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, and those assets are key to future growth in health sciences, USC President Carol L. Folt said Wednesday in the second of two annual … Read More »
Keck Medicine of USC has been recognized as one of 150 top places to work in health care by Becker’s Healthcare, which publishes Becker’s Hospital Review.
The award is given annually to hospitals and health systems that invest in employees by … Read More »