With 92 full-time primary faculty, 30 dual-appointment faculty, 75 voluntary faculty and 41 residents and fellows in training, the Keck USC Department of Pathology is one of the largest pathology departments in the United States. The Department provides diagnostic laboratory services for the LAC+USC Medical Center, the USC University and Norris Cancer Hospitals, the Doheny Eye Institute, and through its reference laboratories, the USC Clinical Laboratory Group.
Pathology is a study of disease: its etiology, pathogenesis and pathophysiology, and its morphologic expression at organ, tissue, cellular and ultrastructural levels. The spectrum of research interests of our faculty includes basic molecular mechanisms of cell function and vertebrate development, as well as translational studies on disease mechanism, diagnosis and treatment. Pathology is a medical specialty that provides the scientific foundation for all medical practice. The pathologist works with each of the clinical specialties, using the tools of laboratory medicine to provide information essential to problem solving in clinical practice. As such, the pathologist is the "doctors' doctor."
Pathology is the only discipline that can be classified as both a basic and clinical science. As such, it provides for our medical students an indispensable bridge between the basic science and the clinical relevance and application of this information. Pathology provides a rich environment for graduate education in which our students can receive comprehensive training in as many areas of both the basic and clinical sciences as they relate to pathologic mechanisms.
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Dr. Michael Lieber is among several USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers who have made important discoveries in the 40 years since the National Cancer Act was passed.
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Keck School of Medicine of USC researchers have singled out the rat mesenchymal stem cell as an effective cell model to study the virus that causes Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common cancer among AIDS patients.
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The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center looks back on important discoveries and breakthroughs made at the center in the 40 years since the National Cancer Act was passed, on Dec. 23, 1971.
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The University of Southern California’s renowned doctors and nationally ranked private hospitals have a new name effective November 1: Keck Medical Center of USC.
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