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COVID-19, suicide and substandard medical care driving high rate of death among ICE detainees
Deaths among ICE detainees increased sevenfold since April 2018 despite far fewer people being in custody, a USC study shows. (Originally posted at USC News.) By Leigh Hopper Thirty-five people have died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since April 2018, with a sevenfold increase in… Read More »Latest News

COVID-19, suicide and substandard medical care driving high rate of death among ICE detainees
January 21st, 2021Deaths among ICE detainees increased sevenfold since April 2018 despite far fewer people being in custody, a USC study shows. (Originally posted at USC News.) By Leigh Hopper An ICE Enforcement and…

Keck School faculty make Business Journal’s ‘Top Docs in L.A.’ list
February 3rd, 2020Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles | Photo credit: Ricardo Carrasco III Eighteen members of the faculty at Keck School of Medicine of USC were included in the Los Angeles…

Students learn to stop the bleeding
April 3rd, 2018First-year medical student Jeremy Uang participates in a Stop the Bleed event on March 30. A person who is bleeding can die from blood loss within minutes. In fact, according to BleedingControl.org,…

Professor fights opioid epidemic with award-winning app
January 31st, 2017Talib Omer, MD, assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine and director of emergency ultrasound medical student elective at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was part of a team of entrepreneurs…

Keck School program receives national honor for health services
September 28th, 2016USC Correctional Health, a Keck School of Medicine of USC program, won the 2016 Best in Category Achievement Award for Health from the National Association of Counties (NaCo). This is the second prestigious…

New technology revolutionizes educational experience for both faculty and students
February 24th, 2016Sean Nordt demonstrates the Lightboard.Lessons at the Keck School of Medicine just got more engaging. Using open-source plans from Northwestern University, a team of Keck School of Medicine faculty and staff built…

Emergency medicine leader is recruited to the Keck School
August 19th, 2015Carl R. Chudnofsky, MDCarl R. Chudnofsky, MD, has been recruited from the Albert Einstein Medical Center to lead the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Emergency Medicine, effective Aug. 1….