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January 2012:
Keck Medicine Celebrates Keck Foundation Gift, New Era in Medicine
The W. M. Keck Foundation's recent, transformative $150 million naming gift serves as the lead gift for the Keck Medicine Initiative, which was announced by USC President C. L. Max Nikias at the event on the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad. Read full article »New Outpatient Building to Expand Cancer Care on USC Health Sciences Campus
USC announces an expansion of cancer care facilities made possible by a $15 million donation from the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation. Read full article »November 2011:
American Cancer Society Awards Highest Honor for Outstanding Contributions to Cancer Fight
The American Cancer Society has awarded Peter Jones, director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, its highest honor for his contributions in fighting cancer.Read full article »Keck Medical Center of USC targets health care market in China as key
The Keck Medical Center of USC is extending its reach into the Far East. Read full article »Home is Where the Heart Is
Tammy Lumpkins, 46, leaves Keck Hospital of USC Nov. 9 as the first person on the West Coast to go home with a total artificial heart implant.
Read full article »New Name in World-Class Medicine Introduced in Los Angeles
Keck Medical Center of USC is the new name of the private research university's academic medical center
Read full article »October 2011:
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Read full article »July 2011:
U.S. News & World Report ranks USC hospitals among top national hospitals in 10 specialty areas
Read full article »USC oncologists present research at American Society of Clinical Oncology Conference
Read full article »Eric L. Chang named chair of Department of Radiation Oncology
Eric L. Chang has been appointed professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, effective Sept. 26, Dean Carmen A. Puliafito has announced.
Hip Replacement Has USC Patient on the Pitcher's Mound for Dodgers Game
Chuck Lerette, 53, of Moorpark, Calif., threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Colorado Rockies game on Monday, July 25. Lerette, a hip replacement patient, represented USC University Hospital where he received care.
Read full article »USC Hip Replacement Patient to Throw First Pitch at July 25 L.A. Dodgers Game
Read full article »USC Hospitals Ranked Among Top National Hospitals in 10 Specialty Areas
USC University Hospital and USC Norris Cancer Hospital placed among the best hospitals in the nation in the 2011-12 U.S. News & World Report magazine's rankings of "America's Best Hospitals."Read full article »June 2011:
USC colorectal cancer survivor throws first pitch at L.A. Dodgers game
Read full article »Minimally invasive surgery has patient in top form for Dodgers first pitch
Colorectal cancer survivor Dan Kanne threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Los Angeles Dodgers - Houston Astros game on Saturday, June 18.
Read full article »Looking back: Twelve years of progress thanks to W.M. Keck Foundation's historic gift
Read full article »USC receives $150 million naming gift from W.M. Keck Foundation
USC academic medical enterprise to be named Keck Medicine of USC
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