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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|

Keck Medicine of USC adds to its renowned urology team

Continuing its momentum as one of the fastest-growing urology programs in the nation, the USC Institute of Urology recruited Gerhard Fuchs, MD, an internationally renowned urologic surgeon, researcher and educator who advanced innovative technology to Read More »

July 22nd, 2014|Announcements|

International team sheds new light on biology underlying schizophrenia

As part of a multinational, collaborative effort, researchers from Keck Medicine of USC, have helped identify more than 100 locations in the human genome associated with the risk of developing schizophrenia. In what is the largest genomic study published on Read More »

July 22nd, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medical Center of USC Co-sponsors Congenital Heart Walk

The Keck Medical Center of USC co-sponsored the Greater Los Angeles Congenital Heart Walk on June 29 at Griffith Park. The event attracted more than 1,000 people and raised more than $90,000 to support advocacy, research, and care for patients with congenital Read More »

July 21st, 2014|Announcements|

USC Norris cancer patient spurred to fight on by the Trojan marching band

For his last radiation treatment, Russ Enyeart’s doctor told him she wasn’t going to be able to keep his usual 1:30 appointment time and had to push it back to 5 p.m. She was bending the truth.

Leslie Ballas, MD, assistant Read More »

July 21st, 2014|Announcements|

Keck School professor’s research yields new look at origin of lymphoma

Michael Lieber, MD, PhD, professor at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has spent years studying the origin of lymphoma by tracing the onset of the problem to the most elemental of levels by looking at what went wrong Read More »

July 21st, 2014|Announcements|

NIH awards CHLA $4 million to map developing lung

A team of Keck School of Medicine of USC investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been awarded $4 million over five years by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) for LungMAP, an Read More »

July 18th, 2014|Announcements|

USC Stem Cell researcher targets ‘seeds’ of breast cancer metastasis

For breast cancer patients, the era of personalized medicine may be just around the corner, thanks to recent advances by USC Stem Cell researcher Min Yu, MD, PhD, and scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

In a July Read More »

July 18th, 2014|Announcements|

Amgen CEO to speak at USC Aug. 13

The second season of the Keck School of Medicine Dean’s Distinguished Lecturer Series will feature Robert A. Bradway, chair and CEO of Amgen, the world’s largest independent biotechnology company.

Bradway will speak at 4 p.m. on Aug.13 in Mayer Auditorium on Read More »

July 18th, 2014|Announcements|

It’s Elementary

The “Molecular and Social Systems: Learning through Creative Exploration” exhibit opened July 12 at the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Institute for Genetic Medicine, melding art, medicine and social activism that promotes physical and social healing. The exhibit runs through Oct. Read More »

July 18th, 2014|Announcements|

Hospital-bound patient attends son’s graduation via technology

Keck Hospital of USC patient Jim McDermott and Fox 11 News reporter Christine O’Donnell watch McDermott’s son graduating from Orange County School of the Arts on June 12. McDermott, who is awaiting a heart transplant, watched the graduation remotely Read More »

July 18th, 2014|Announcements|

Archstone Foundation funds research on depression among elderly Latinos

Archstone Foundation awarded $122,000 to expand a USC mental health research study aimed at addressing depression among older Latinos suffering from a chronic illness.

Led by Isabel Lagomasino, MD, assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Cuerpo Read More »

July 16th, 2014|Announcements|

USC Stem Cell scientists lay a TRAP for disease

USC Stem Cell scientists have set a “mouse TRAP” to capture the early signs of kidney failure, as described by a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. Their new transgenic mouse line uses a technique called TRAP Read More »

July 16th, 2014|Announcements|

Amar Desai named CEO of USC Care

Keck Medicine of USC has appointed seasoned physician executive Amar Desai, MD, MPH, as chief executive officer of USC Care and Ambulatory Care Services, effective Aug. 1.

Desai is an experienced health-care executive with significant expertise leading health systems to improved Read More »

July 16th, 2014|Announcements|

$1 million gift celebrates work of late Keck School urologist John Stein

Jane Centofante came to understand the expertise of the urologists at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center in an all too personal way. In 1999, her father Albert Centofante, was treated for bladder cancer at USC Norris by Donald G. Read More »

July 16th, 2014|Announcements|

Keck Medical Center of USC improves its national rankings in cancer, urology and geriatrics

Keck Medical Center of USC, one of only two university-based medical systems in Los Angeles, maintained its No. 3 ranking as the top hospital in the Los Angeles metro area and No. 8 in California but also moved up in Read More »

July 15th, 2014|Announcements|