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LAC+USC Medical Center appoints new chief medical officer

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 Read More »

July 25th, 2014|Announcements|

USC, UCLA and UCSF seek stem cell-based cures for craniofacial defects

One in every 2,000 babies is born with a skull that can’t grow normally. Sections of these babies’ skulls are fused together at joints called sutures, constricting the developing brain and disrupting vision, sleep, eating and IQ. For these young Read More »

July 25th, 2014|Announcements|

USC faculty help North Korea break ground on new medical school

David Ko, clinical associate professor of neurology, and Ted Yamamori from the USC Center for Religion and Civic Culture, recently attended the groundbreaking of Pyongyang University Medical School, a new medical school in North Korea. The school is designed to Read More »

July 25th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medicine of USC urologists offer expert services in Glendale

The world-class expertise of Keck Medicine of USC’s USC Institute of Urology is now available in Glendale, Calif., providing assistance with a variety of urological conditions for patients in a convenient location.

Leo R. Doumanian, MD, and Mike M. Nguyen, MD, Read More »

July 24th, 2014|Announcements|

Auditory brainstem implant surgery performed on toddler at CHLA

A Los Angeles team of scientists and surgeons from Keck Medicine of USC, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) and Huntington Medical Research Institutes (HMRI) reported that sound registered in the brain of a deaf Canadian boy for the first time Read More »

July 22nd, 2014|Announcements|