Two Florida urologists have completed a marathon drive from Florida to California in a Tesla to raise awareness about men’s health, arriving at Keck Medical Center of USC in the early afternoon on June 20.
As the USC Trojan Marching Band … Read More »
A capacity crowd of almost 400 ophthalmologists and optometrists participated in a June 19 symposium that marked the Department of Ophthalmology’s 40th anniversary at USC.
The gathering at The Huntington in San Marino represented a “who’s who” in ophthalmology from around … Read More »
USC Stem Cell researcher Min Yu, MD, PhD, is one of five early-career scientists to be named a 2015 Pew-Stewart scholar for cancer research. As part of this honor, she will receive $240,000 over four years to advance the understanding … Read More »
A USC project to visualize and analyze connectivity networks in the mouse brain is among 15 new awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) tied to the development of biomedical Big Data applications.
Hong-Wei Dong, PhD, associate professor of Neurology … Read More »
Kathryn Challoner, MD, FACEP, voluntary faculty in the department of emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was recently awarded the 2015 Humanitarian Award by the California Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Challoner spent several … Read More »
Spending an afternoon playing cards with friends is something many of us would eagerly do without much of a second thought. But for patients awaiting heart transplants at Keck Hospital of USC, a couple of hours outside the 4th floor … Read More »
It’s a story that began with a conversation on a treadmill, led to an operating room table and ended with the gift of life.
For veteran Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies Javier Tiscareno and Jorge Castro, it’s a story of friendship, … Read More »
Theresa Murphy, RN
A Keck Medicine of USC nursing veteran has returned to the organization to lead USC Verdugo Hills Hospital’s nursing staff.
Theresa Murphy, RN, MSHA, CENP, joined USC-VHH … Read More »
Continuing a family tradition that spans six decades, USC Trustee Jane Hoffman Popovich BS ’65 and her husband, J. Kristoffer Popovich BS ’65 MBA ’70, have pledged $4 million to create the Jane and Kris Popovich Chair in Cancer Research … Read More »
Timothy Wen, a third-year medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named as a Medical Student Fellow by the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS).
The organization is dedicated to advancing neurosurgery by inspiring and facilitating scientific … Read More »
The Etz Chaim Tree of Life Award of Compassionate Care, made possible thanks to a generous gift from Etan Chaim Milgrom, MD, MS, was presented for the first time during recent commencement ceremonies at the Keck School of Medicine of … Read More »
Entrepreneur and industrialist Norbert Gehr lost his battle with leukemia in February at age 74, but his family foundation’s $20 million gift to the Keck School of Medicine of USC for research may help others fight their own.
Gehr was the … Read More »
Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, was elected as the 2015-16 president of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) during its annual meeting June 6-10 in Baltimore.
Jadvar, an associate professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the Keck School … Read More »
John Louie Go, MD, has been inducted as a fellow in the American College of Radiology (ACR).
The induction took place at a convocation ceremony during the ACR meeting May 17–21 in Washington, D.C.
Go is director of head and neck imaging … Read More »
Maria de Fátima Reyes of the Keck School of Medicine of USC is among 21 outstanding U.S. medical students to receive 2015 Minority Scholars Awards from the American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation.
The program promotes diversity, encourages the elimination of health … Read More »
An 18-member team of physicians and nurses from Keck Medicine of USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) recently led an international collaboration to separate a pair of six-month-old conjoined twins in Haiti, the first such operation ever performed in … Read More »
They came together to celebrate survival in the face of fear and uncertainty.
For the hundreds of cancer survivors who gathered at the Keck Medical Center of USC on a recent Saturday morning, the Festival of Life was more than that: … Read More »
Business leader and USC Trustee Rick J. Caruso and his wife, Tina, have donated $25 million to endow and name the USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, one of the nation’s largest and … Read More »
Working alone, a scientist or university can only make so much progress in finding answers to basic questions or new treatments for diseases ranging from HIV to cancer to diabetes. That’s why almost 300 scientists from USC, UCLA and UCSF … Read More »
A small patch of green space behind Keck Hospital of USC’s administrative offices has been transformed into a lush, soothing viewing garden thanks to the generosity of gracious donors.
The Keck Hospital of USC Garden was dedicated during a special ceremony … Read More »