Opera singers come to campus for Visions and Voices event

Attendees were treated to several operatic performances and a discussion about the ways music affects the mind during “Music and Medicine: Experiments and Explorations,” a Visions and Voices event held March 31 at Mayer Auditorium on the Health Sciences Campus.

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April 19th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Kiran Dhanireddy appointed chief medical officer of USC Care

Keck School of Medicine faculty member and director of Pancreas Transplantation, Kiran Dhanireddy, MD, has been appointed chief medical officer of USC Care. Dhanireddy will serve as the lead clinical administrator, oversee quality and patient safety concerns, create and implement Read More »

April 19th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Scanner delivery stops traffic at Health Sciences Campus

The USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute (INI) received its new research-dedicated Siemens Magnetom 3T Prisma MRI scanner March 21, bringing industry-leading brain imaging technology to the USC Health Sciences Campus.Read More »

April 18th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC Norris Ambassadors hear about importance of lung cancer research

The importance of studying young emergent lung cancer was emphasized recently during a luncheon for the USC Norris Ambassadors on March 24.

Barbara Gitlitz, MD, and Ite Laird-Offringa, PhD, gave a presentation on the genetic predisposition to lung cancer as well Read More »

April 18th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Neuroanesthesiologist recognized for international collaboration

For decades after leaving the former Soviet Union, Vladimir Zelman, MD, PhD, worked to expand and promote the Russian scientific community, organizing international exchanges between scientists and supporting his former colleagues as they advanced in research and medicine.

Now, the Keck Read More »

April 18th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Combination therapy may offer better outcomes for patients with retinoblastoma

Researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) have demonstrated that targeting survivin — a protein that inhibits apoptosis or cell death — enhances the effectiveness of chemotherapy in cells and mouse models of Read More »

April 18th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Interdisciplinary team created to combat sepsis

Keck Medicine of USC is taking a collaborative approach to diagnose and treat sepsis.

Sepsis is the body’s overwhelming and life-threatening response to infection, which can lead to tissue damage, organ failure and death. Sepsis kills about 258,000 Americans each year Read More »

April 15th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Gift from grateful patient to support urology research and innovation

A noted local philanthropist has given a donation to support urology research and innovation at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Grateful patient Joseph “Bud” Cashen, 84, a U.S. Marine who served two tours of duty in Korea and was one Read More »

April 13th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Study: Cutting smog has improved lung health for Southern California children

A USC study that tracked Southern California children over a 20-year period has found they now have significantly fewer respiratory symptoms as a result of improved air quality.

The finding expands on the landmark USC Children’s Health Study, which a Read More »

April 12th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Amgen enters into master research collaboration agreement with USC

Amgen recently entered into a three-year master research collaboration with USC. The agreement consists of a set of pre-defined terms and conditions in order to facilitate and streamline early discovery and translational preclinical research collaborations. It supports Amgen and USC’s Read More »

April 12th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Mel Baron of USC School of Pharmacy promoted to full professor

Melvin F. Baron, PharmD, who has been a full-time faculty member at the USC School of Pharmacy since 1990, has been promoted from associate to full professor.

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April 11th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Smitha Ravipudi named COO of USC Care

Los Angeles area health care executive Smitha Ravipudi, MPH, has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of USC Care and Ambulatory Care Services.

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Ravipudi will be responsible for all Keck Medicine of USC ambulatory operations, including hospital-based Read More »

April 7th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

USC, JPL to launch fungi in quest to develop space medicines

Researchers at USC and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory say they will be the first team in the world to launch fungi into space for the purpose of potentially developing new medicine for use both in space and on Earth.

USC and Read More »

April 6th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Ideas needed for R3 Competition

The Interprofessional Finance Council and R3 Hospital Initiative are hosting an R3 Innovation Competition. This Keck Medical Center of USC competition is an opportunity for clinical staff to submit innovative ideas that will make an impact on resource utilization and efficiency Read More »

April 6th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Jung wins Outstanding Investigator Award from NCI

Distinguished Professor Jae Jung, PhD, chair of the Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology and the director of the USC Institute for Emerging Pathogens and Immune Diseases at the Keck School of Medicine, is among the 2016 recipients of the Read More »

April 6th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Visit the Keck Medicine Health Pavilion at the 2016 LA Times Festival of Books

The Keck Medicine Health Pavilion at the 2016 LA Times Festival of Books offers many activities to maintain a healthy lifestyle. The festival takes place on the University Park Campus.

Saturday, April 9

10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

April 6th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Visionary gift names the USC Roski Eye Institute

Longtime USC benefactors Gayle and Edward Roski have made a landmark $25 million gift to endow and name the USC Gayle and Edward Roski Eye Institute at Keck Medicine of USC, reflecting the institute’s position as one of the nation’s Read More »

April 5th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

PA program travels to Washington, D.C., on advocacy trip

This spring break, students from the Primary Care Physician Assistant Program at the Keck School of Medicine of USC attended the fourth annual Advocacy Trip to Washington, D.C. The experience is intended to promote leadership and inspire students to advocate Read More »

April 4th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

In memoriam: USC President Emeritus Steven B. Sample

Steven Browning Sample, who served as USC’s 10th president from 1991 to 2010 —a time of remarkable transformation at the university — died March 29. He was 75.

During Sample’s 19-year tenure as president, the university ascended the national academic ranks. Read More »

April 1st, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|

Varma named interim dean of the Keck School

Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, holder of the Grace and Emery Beardsley Chair in Ophthalmology and director of the USC Eye Institute, was announced as the interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC on March 24 in an email from Read More »

March 30th, 2016|Announcements, Keck Net Intranet|