The Health Sciences Public Relations and Marketing Office provides connections between Keck School physicians and scientists and the public by working with the news media, and by directly publicizing new research, campus events and happenings and Keck patient care programs. We also produce insightful, award-winning publications and manage special events for the Keck School of Medicine and Keck Medical Center of USC.
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Since taking office last year, USC President C. L. Max Nikias has made it clear that the Health Sciences Campus is a major priority for the university, and a key component of its overall growth strategy. Evidence of this commitment can be found in the newly released Health Sciences Campus Master Plan, a long-range development strategy looking forward to 2035.
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Using the 2008 Beijing Olympics as their laboratory, Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers and colleagues have found biological evidence that even a short-term reduction in air pollution exposure improves one’s cardiovascular health.
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Scientists at the Keck School of Medicine have identified a small number of specific genes that must be silenced in order for cancer cells to survive. Those genes may be good targets for new, more effective cancer treatments.
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The Keck School of Medicine had 130 research project presentations at this year's Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting, the largest gathering of eye and vision researchers in the world.
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Thomas C. Lee, associate professor of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine, joins an elite group of influential honorees.
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USC’s Enrique Cadenas, Charles Krown/Alumni Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Kelvin J. A. Davies, holder of the James E. Birren Chair in Gerontology, have been knighted by an order of the French Republic, among the highest civilian decorations awarded in France.
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New research from the Keck School of Medicine of USC shows that, while stress and depression levels surge when a Chinese teenager thinks he earns less money than his peers, psychological health remains steady when he thinks he earns the same as or more than his peers.
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A high-tech operating room that will help improve patient care debuted at Keck Hospital of USC on April 24, making it one of three Southern California hospitals with such a room, often called a “hybrid OR.”
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Featured Expert
Jeff Victoroff 
Expert on human aggression, the psychology of terrorists, and suicide bombers
Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology and Psychiatry
Expertise:
• human aggression
• neurobiology of violence
• murderers and killers
• psychopaths
• sociopaths
• terrorism
• psychology of terrorism
• suicide bombers
• social factors in the genesis of terrorism
• Israeli/Palestinian conflict
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USC Source Alert:
Whooping Cough
Paul Holtom, M.D., associate professor of clinical medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and hospital epidemiologist at the Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. He is an expert on infectious diseases and healthcare epidemiology and can address how to fight the spread of the disease at school.
Pediatric Medicine
Michael Bryant, M.D., assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Children's Hospital Los Angeles. He can address yearly vaccinations and physicals.
Psychiatry
Jeff Sugar, M.D., visiting associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He can speak about children's separation anxiety on the first day of school or bullies at school.
Vaccinations
Jeffrey Goad, Pharm.D., associate professor of clinical pharmacy at the USC School of Pharmacy. He can address vaccinations children should have before returning to school.
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