The Department of Pediatrics is composed of 220 faculty members at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), 70 faculty members at Women's and Children's Hospital at Los Angeles County Hospital (LAC+USC) and four faculty members at the College Health facility on University Park Campus. These faculty and their programs provide a broad range of clinical, educational and research programs to advance child health care and academic pediatrics.
The Department is comprised of two distinct programs that interrelate on an educational, clinical and scientific level, but maintain separate divisional administration (except for neonatology) and unique identities. Although they have a common mission, the goals and objectives of each component are focused and appropriate to their facilities and opportunities.
At CHLA, the emphasis is on research, tertiary clinical services and educational programs that are aimed at the development of academic pediatricians and pediatric community leaders. The faculty is large (325 faculty members, including members of other departments), highly specialized and covers a broad range of competencies. There are four Centers at CHLA, representing large-volume, multidisciplinary programs of national prominence. They are: Heart, Cancer and Blood Diseases, Orthopedics and Endocrinology, and Diabetes and Metabolism.
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For the second consecutive year, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is one of only seven children’s hospitals in the nation ranked in all 10 pediatric specialties and named to the national “Honor Roll” of children’s hospitals in the United States in the current U.S. News & World Report rankings released online June 3, 2010.
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A researcher at the Keck School of Medicine of USC has published a study highlighting the importance of physicians listening to parental reports of gastrointestinal problems in their autistic children and screening these children for gastrointestinal dysfunction, or GID.
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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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Dr. Prasadarao V. Nemani and Dr. Rahul Mittal, investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles, published the first report of the role of neutrophils as essential in the development of Escherichia coli K1 meningitis. The paper appears in Nature Communications.
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Scientists at the Children's Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases (CCCBD) and the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, have been awarded a highly competitive translational research grant of $600,000 from The V Foundation for Cancer Research.
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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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Anat Erdreich-Epstein, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and pathology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was awarded a two-year exploratory grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study a newly-discovered gene that slows the growth of malignant brain tumors.
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Research led by University of Southern California (USC) professor Mary Ann Pentz, Ph.D., shows that black middle school students whose close friends drink alcohol are more likely to drink alcohol in high school than their white classmates.
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