Good Neighbors Campaign awards $1.4 million to community partners

USC’s Good Neighbors Campaign continued its tradition of local support by awarding $1.4 million to community partners and educational partnership groups.

“You are all making a difference,” said Carolina Castillo, campaign director for the Good Neighbors Campaign, to a room of … Read More »

September 9th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Officials celebrate Toyota Sports Performance Center partnership with ribbon-cutting

Officials celebrated a new partnership on Sept. 4, as Keck Medicine of USC, the Los Angeles Kings and Meyer Institute of Sport held a ribbon-cutting for the Toyota Sports Performance Center in El Segundo, a new sports medicine and athletic … Read More »

September 6th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Verdugo Hills community benefits from hand, wrist orthopaedic surgery specialist

Hands are one of the more useful parts of the body. They help make coffee, send emails, do laundry, answer the phone and put on clothes. When they are injured or develop chronic problems like arthritis, getting through daily tasks … Read More »

September 6th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Pelvic pain researchers receive federal grant to continue groundbreaking study

More than 10 million people in the United States live with urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS), a cluster of disorders that includes interstitial cystitis and bladder pain syndrome in women and chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome in … Read More »

September 4th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Choi nursing award winner aims to serve patients holistically

For Christina Garcia, BSN, RN, CCRN, care is a reciprocal relationship, one in which both the patient and the care provider learn and grow from each other.

“I learn a lot from my patients and their families,” Garcia said. “These are … Read More »

September 4th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Amytis Towfighi recognized for stroke prevention work

On July 29-30, the division of neurocritical care and stroke at Keck Medicine of USC  hosted Amytis Towfighi, MD, as the James and Dorothy Williams Stroke Scholar and the eighth recipient of the Roxanna Todd Hodges … Read More »

September 3rd, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Professionalism Program expands to nursing staff

Keck Medical Center of USC has expanded the Keck Professional Program to the nursing staff, administrators announced recently. A Sept. 3 memo from Annette Sy, DNP, RN, chief nursing officer of Keck Medical Center, detailed the program’s inaugural expansion that … Read More »

September 3rd, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

How USC is working to promote affirmative consent and prevent sexual violence

Since the second-wave feminist movement of the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s to the debate over reproductive rights and the global phenomenon of #MeToo, a number of social and political factors have brought increased attention to issues of sexual violence and … Read More »

August 30th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Fad diets could contribute to liver disease known as a ‘silent killer’

If you’re looking to shed a few pounds, you might be tempted to try out popular new approaches like the keto diet or fasting.

But you might be unwittingly worsening a problem you don’t even know you have: a fatty liver.

Doctors … Read More »

August 29th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

As Salton Sea shrinks, experts fear far-reaching health consequences

In the string of small farm towns that stretches south from California’s Salton Sea toward the border with Mexico, pretty much everyone knows someone with asthma.

As many as three of every 10 people report having the disease in … Read More »

August 29th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Institute names new director of education

Meredith Braskie, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, has been named director of education for the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (INI) effective Aug. 1. Braskie, who studies … Read More »

August 28th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Researchers develop tool to standardize clinical outreach to homeless

Researchers from the street medicine team at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed “HOUSED BEDS,” the first published tool designed specifically to help outreach teams clearly assess the situation of unsheltered homeless patients. This … Read More »

August 28th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet, Press Page|

Higher education administrator, engineer Charles Zukoski named USC provost

USC President Carol L. Folt announced the selection of Charles F. Zukoski as the university’s provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, effective Oct. 1. He will hold the Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Provost’s Chair.

A skilled administrator, researcher … Read More »

August 27th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Street Medicine team brings the hospital to the homeless

Nurse Gabrielle Johnson grabs a backpack bursting with medical supplies from the backseat of her Chevy Colorado and jogs across under a freeway overpass in Boyle Heights to see her first patient. Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C, a … Read More »

August 27th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Can the circadian clock in cancer cells help defeat a deadly brain cancer?

Scientists at USC and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have discovered a potential novel target for treating glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer that took the life of U.S. Sen. John McCain and kills 15,000 Americans a year.

The target … Read More »

August 27th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Keck Medicine of USC named official orthopaedic medical partner of Los Angeles Kings hockey team

Keck Medicine of USC is proud to be named the official orthopaedic medical partner of the Los Angeles Kings hockey team. Esteemed physicians from the USC Epstein Family Center for Sports Medicine at Keck Medicine will treat … Read More »

August 27th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet, Press Page|

Augmented reality glasses may help people with low vision better navigate their environment

Nearly one in 30 Americans over the age of 40 experience low vision — significant visual impairment that can’t be corrected with glasses, contact lenses, medication or surgery.

In a new study of patients with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited degenerative … Read More »

August 26th, 2019|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet, Press Page|

White Coat Ceremony 2019 marks beginning of pharmacy students’ journey

Taking their first steps in the journey to become Doctors of Pharmacy, the 197 members of the Class of 2023 walked into the annual USC School of Pharmacy White Coat Ceremony on the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad on Aug. … Read More »

August 26th, 2019|Announcements|

New Doctor of Physical Therapy students welcomed to the profession at 2019 White Coat Ceremony

The USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy’s Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) Class of 2022 donned their white coats for the first time at the 2019 White Coat Ceremony on Aug. 22. The ceremony, held on the Broad Lawn … Read More »

August 26th, 2019|Announcements|

Occupational therapy students don white coats at annual ceremony

On Friday, Aug. 23, at USC’s Health Sciences Campus, 161 Trojan occupational therapy graduate students donned white coats for the first time and pledged an oath to uphold professional values during the USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational … Read More »

August 26th, 2019|Announcements|