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The Keck School of Medicine educates the nation's future physicians and biomedical scientists. From day one, medical students help care for patients as part of an innovative curriculum that integrates basic and clinical sciences, technology and communication, the latest medical advances and the oldest healing arts. Students train in one of the largest teaching hospitals in the nation, gaining experience with the diverse, urban population of Los Angeles. Graduate and medical students play leading roles in the creation of new knowledge as part of the Keck School's vibrant research community.

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Physician assistant student receives national scholarship

Michelle Lagua has been named one of six National Medical Fellowship, Primary Care Leadership Program Scholars.

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  • The Baxter Foundation visits the Keck School of Medicine of USC

    Directors of the Donald E. and Delia B. Baxter Foundation visited the USC Health Sciences campus to hear formal presentations of the nominees for two junior faculty members to receive funding.

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  • Laboratory of Neuro Imaging Moves to USC

    Cluster hire of institute with more than 100 faculty, researchers and multi-disciplinary staff headlined by eminent scientists Arthur W. Toga and Paul Thompson

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  • USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center studies target immune system, women's cancers

    The USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center has recently begun recruiting female participants for three new clinical trials studying breast, ovarian and cervical cancer immunotherapies. It is scheduled to open recruitment for a second ovarian cancer study over the summer. No other facility in California provides patients with access to all four of the trials.

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  • Years later, psychological effects of Chernobyl linger

    A new report authored by USC researchers has estimated that millions of people may still be suffering from mental and physical health problems related to the 1986 accident.

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  • USC researchers create model to help develop sustainable healthcare delivery model and primary care resident training

    Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine believe they may have a solution to some of the challenges of the Affordable Care Act, which they recently put into practice through a merger of the Family Practice and Family Medicine Residency involving the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the California Hospital Medical Center and the Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center.

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  • Children’s Hospital Los Angeles names National Cancer Institute Pediatric Oncology clinical director as head of its Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases

    Internationally renowned pediatric hematologist-oncologist, Alan S. Wayne, is joining USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after serving 14 years as clinical director of the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

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  • Health topics garner attention at Festival of Books

    To call the party dedicated to the written word on the University Park campus a “Festival of Books” is like calling the beach a “festival of sand.” Sure, it was still a bibliophile’s dream world—there were booths dedicated to the printed word as far as the eye could see. There were book readings, book signings and author discussions. There were publishers, booksellers and book clubs.

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