Barbara Gitlitz, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and members of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, is leading a new clinical study to understand why lung cancer occurs in adults under 40 … Read More »
This current era of technological innovation is also creating to an explosion of medical data, which means medical students must take in more information than ever before.
“By 2020, the amount of information that our students will have to learn is … Read More »
When the first report from the United States Surgeon General on smoking was released in 1964, it was held until a Saturday over fear that the information might lead to a stock market crash.
Jonathan Samet, MD, MS, chair of the … Read More »
David M. Carrera, an accomplished advancement professional who helped plan and implement one of the largest fundraising efforts in the history of academic medicine, has been named vice president for USC Health Sciences Development, effective August 1.
In this role, Carrera … Read More »
After years of sitting nearly vacant on the hilltop overlooking the Health Sciences Campus, the former General Hospital is once again a center of healing.
It reopened in March as The Wellness Center at the Historic General Hospital and now houses several … Read More »
The number of Keck Medical Center of USC physicians included in an annual ranking of top doctors in the San Gabriel Valley grew in 2014.
Pasadena Magazine included 505 USC physicians in its current roster of notable physicians in the San … Read More »
Surgeons at the Keck Medical Center of USC became the first in California to use the latest minimally invasive surgical system for prostate cancer when they performed a robotic-assisted procedure in July.
The surgery further cements the Los Angeles-based university hospitals’ … Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »