David Ko, MD, clinical associate professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, chaired the 31st Annual Korean American Medical Association (KAMA) Scientific Convention meeting in Las Vegas. Held with the World Korean Medical Organization on July 4-6, the meeting included presentations by 11 USC faculty and two USC MD/PHD graduates. … Read More »
By Sara Reeve
Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded nearly $4 million for two ovarian cancer research project grants from the National Institutes of Health. Both projects utilize the multicenter Ovarian Cancer Association Consortium (OCAC) to perform a large population-based analysis of ovarian cancer patients and their tissues. … Read More »
By Leslie Ridgeway
The common refrain about health care is that it’s a broken system. The Galaxy Health model, which debuted at Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center in 2012, demonstrated a favorable effect on both patients and medical residents, according to a UCLA/USC study published online Sept. 2 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)’s Internal Medicine.
The goal of Galaxy Health was to substantially improve a medical residents’ clinic at LAC + USC and demonstrate to county officials how some intuitive and inexpensive interventions could dramatically improve patient care and the morale physician and staff. The project was funded primarily by a three-year, $750,000 grant from the UniHealth Foundation. … Read More »
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Stephen B. Gruber (far right), MD, MPH, director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses his thoughts about the discovery of the BRCA1 breast cancer gene at … Read More »
Top honors for USC’s Wallace Coulter Foundation Award went to a team of collaborators from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
The $100,000 award, which will fund the design and development of a photo-acoustic imaging device, will be shared by Jacques Van Dam, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (clinical scholar), division of gastroenterology and liver disease at the Keck School; and Qifa Zhou, PhD, research professor, and Thomas Cummins and doctoral candidates Teng Ma at the Medical Ultrasonic Transducer Resource at USC Viterbi. … Read More »