{"id":241,"date":"2015-06-04T01:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T08:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/usc-receives-25-million-gift-from-usc-trustee-rick-j-caruso-and-his-wife-tina\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:16:15","slug":"usc-receives-25-million-gift-from-usc-trustee-rick-j-caruso-and-his-wife-tina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keck.usc.edu\/news\/usc-receives-25-million-gift-from-usc-trustee-rick-j-caruso-and-his-wife-tina\/","title":{"rendered":"USC Receives $25 Million Gift from USC Trustee Rick J. Caruso and his wife, Tina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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USC Receives $25 Million Gift from USC Trustee Rick J. Caruso and his wife, Tina<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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Business leader and USC Trustee Rick J. Caruso and his wife, Tina, have donated $25 million to endow and name the USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology \u2013 Head and Neck Surgery, one of the nation\u2019s largest and most highly ranked for research and treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and throat.
\nThe Carusos\u2019 exceptionally generous gift also names and endows the department\u2019s affiliated treatment center for young children with severe hearing loss. This funding for the USC Caruso Family Center for Childhood Communication will enable the center to expand its leadership as the region\u2019s top resource for testing and therapies that enable children to hear.
\nThe USC Caruso Department serves patients facing a range of conditions affecting the head and neck, such as cancer, thyroid disease, facial paralysis, chronic sinusitis and tumors of the cranial base. As a key program within the Department, the Caruso Family Center\u2019s life-changing technologies and services allow children to experience sounds\u2014from their parents\u2019 voices to music, laughter and nature\u2014often for the very first time.
\nFor the Caruso family, these advances carry great personal significance. With a daughter impacted by hearing loss at birth, the Carusos have experienced first-hand the challenges of early-onset hearing loss. Inspired by their experiences, the family has steadfastly supported pioneering research, health care and education. With this gift, Rick and Tina Caruso build on that legacy of support, and align this specific philanthropic focus with the research and treatment advances taking place at USC.
\n\u201cThis gift reflects the Caruso family\u2019s far-reaching and passionate commitment to USC,\u201d said USC President C. L. Max Nikias. \u201cAs benefactors, Rick and Tina Caruso inspire so many throughout Los Angeles and our nation, and we should all warmly applaud their philanthropic vision, their dedication to medical discovery, and the profound breadth of their generosity.\u201d
\nRick Caruso, a highly respected business and community leader, is the founder and chief executive officer of one of the nation\u2019s largest, privately held real estate companies, Caruso Affiliated. The company\u2019s holdings include The Grove, The Americana at Brand, The Commons at Calabasas, The Promenade at Westlake, Waterside at Marina del Rey and 8500 Burton Way, among others. He graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree with honors from the USC Marshall School of Business and joined the USC Board of Trustees in 2007. He serves in several leadership positions with the USC board, including chairing the board\u2019s personnel committee, and serves on the executive, development and campus planning committees. He also serves on the board of councilors for the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy.
\nThe Caruso\u2019s teenage daughter, Gianna, was born with mild to moderate hearing loss, and doctors and therapists have worked closely with her ever since. Although Gianna could hear some sounds with assistance, she relied on reading lips to ensure she understood what was being said. This presented challenges in daily life, including in the classroom. This all changed as Gianna experienced a miracle last year, Caruso said, when she saw the team of USC doctors who provided her with a new highly sensitive hearing device that was inserted into her ear canal.
\n\u201cThe minute the hearing device went in, there was a huge difference. Gianna immediately started crying\u2014all of us started crying,\u201d Caruso said. \u201cIt was a life changer.\u201d
\n\u201cIt is so profound how hearing loss affects everything in your life,\u201d Caruso said. \u201cI still can\u2019t fully appreciate all of the challenges, even though I saw Gianna live with it every day. And it also was what she was missing\u2014she had never heard a bird chirping before receiving this device.
\n\u201cThere have been some profound moments for our family, like a few months ago, when it rained in L.A., we were sitting at home watching a movie and she said, \u2018Dad and Mom, I hear rain outside.\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, it\u2019s raining.\u2019
\n\u201cShe said, \u2018No, Dad. I hear the rain.\u2019\u201d
\nThat\u2019s the promise and the potential to impact lives, Caruso says.
\nCaruso said he believes that with the endowment, USC has the potential to help thousands of children, perhaps millions of people who have suffered hearing loss to hear for the first time, or to ultimately cure hearing loss altogether. Gianna plans to work with kids at the Center as well.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been very fortunate in our lives,\u201d Caruso said. \u201cThis is obviously a very personal mission for us. It has affected Gianna in so many difficult ways, but it also has been a blessing in many ways. It\u2019s made our family sensitive to so many needs of others, and we have been inspired by Gianna\u2019s courage and successes.\u201d
\n\u201cThis gift is going to help kids that wouldn\u2019t otherwise have the ability to afford these technologies or have access to this level of health care,\u201d he said.
\nThe Caruso name is already well known in USC life. The couple\u2019s latest gift builds on a broad legacy of support to USC that spans nearly four decades and includes more than $35 million in philanthropic gifts. Their previous naming gift established the USC Caruso Catholic Center, and was the lead gift to build the Center and Our Savior Parish Church, which provide spiritual support for many USC students.
\nThrough the Caruso Family Foundation, the family has focused on education and healthcare causes that improve the lives of children.
\nAbout the USC Caruso Department<\/strong>
\nThe USC Tina and Rick Caruso Department of Otolaryngology \u2013 Head and Neck Surgery ranks among the top 10 nationwide in federal research funding. Its research, training and patient care focus on the wide range of conditions affecting the head and neck.
\nThe department is led by John K. Niparko, the holder of the Leon J. Tiber and David S. Alpert Chair in Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He is an internationally renowned otoneurologic surgeon and researcher recruited to USC in 2012 from The Johns Hopkins University. A national expert on hearing technologies, Niparko has built USC\u2019s otolaryngology group into one of the nation\u2019s finest, recruiting 44 outstanding researchers from around the country and spearheading a long-running national clinical trial of treatments for children with hearing loss.
\nThe Carusos\u2019 endowment support will bolster the depth of the department\u2019s research and help expand treatment options for hearing loss\u2014the third most-common diagnosis affecting mankind, behind arthritis and hypertension. About 30 million Americans suffer hearing loss of varying severity.
\nWith regional and national recruits, Niparko founded and directs the newly named USC Caruso Family Center for Childhood Communication. The center assists more than 5,000 children and their families who are coping with hearing conditions and disease. Profound hearing loss affects one in every 1,000 children at birth, and one in 500 by age five.
\n\u201dEarly intervention is critical to ensure that children with hearing loss develop their speech and language skills,\u201d Niparko explained. \u201cThere is an early window of opportunity when sound exposure empowers a child to learn to comprehend and connect information from speech and the environment. Tina and Rick Caruso have a profound understanding of these concerns and are compassionate believers in the importance of this work. Generations of children will bear the imprint of their generosity.\u201d
\n\u201cHearing loss is a shared disability. And one thing that we have learned from the Caruso family is that digital hearing devices are responsive and nimble devices that restore tonal hearing. But when paired with the awareness and support of family and friends, the results can be extraordinary,\u201d Niparko said.
\nNiparko and Rick A. Friedman, a leader in treatment of acoustic neuromas and one of the nation\u2019s top ear surgeons, oversee patient care at the USC Caruso Family Center.
\nThe Carusos\u2019 gift will help expand the center\u2019s services through the establishment of satellite clinics, expanded educational programs, professional training opportunities and an effort to raise public awareness of hearing-related disease and conditions.
\nMuch like the Caruso Family Foundation, which supports organizations that improve the lives of children while advancing health care and education, the USC Caruso Department and Center operate in tandem to assist families from the region and around the world, regardless of financial circumstances.
\nUSC Caruso Center experts offer novel interventions to help children use their restored hearing to further develop their language and literacy skills. The center\u2019s audiologists, educators and speech and language therapists provide children and their families with training and educational outreach that take hearing technologies to their fullest potential. Those services include expertise in pediatric cochlear implants, bimodal fittings, and the effects of multilingualism on speech and language development of children who have cochlear implants.
\nAlthough the cochlear implantation has become the standard of care for deafness and advanced levels of hearing loss, Niparko notes that researchers are looking beyond that technology for advances in areas such as stem cell therapies. He and others believe there may be a way to prompt, through a biologic treatment utilizing stem cells, the regeneration of hair cells within the inner ear that are critical for sensitive hearing.
\n\u201cWe are on a path of triggering reprogrammed cells to undergo a metamorphosis\u2014a sort of caterpillar to butterfly change that can resupply the ear with the cellular machinery needed to recover hearing,\u201d Niparko said.
\nAchieving a biological breakthrough for treatment of hearing loss would rank among the greatest and most enduring legacies of the Caruso family\u2019s gift.
\nThe Carusos\u2019 generous gift further advances The Campaign for the University of Southern California, a multiyear effort that seeks to raise $6 billion or more in private philanthropy to advance USC\u2019s academic priorities and expand its positive impact on the community and world. 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