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      <title>Keck Medicine celebrates lead gift for initiative</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Amid festive Trojan fanfare, USC faculty, staff and friends gathered on the university’s Health Sciences Campus on Jan. 30 to celebrate the W. M. Keck Foundation’s recent transformative $150 million naming gift. The donation serves as the lead gift for the Keck Medicine Initiative, which was announced by USC President C. L. Max Nikias at the event on the Harry and Celesta Pappas Quad.]]></description>
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      <title>Sy named hospitals interim chief nursing officer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Annette Sy has been named interim chief nursing officer for Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Shawn Sheffield has been appointed to the new position of chief strategy and business development officer for the Keck Medical Center of USC, effective Feb. 27. Sheffield will report to Senior Vice President and CEO for USC Health Tom Jackiewicz, who made the announcement to Keck Medical Center faculty and staff.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[While he may have been on the job for a grand total of 55 days, Stephen Gruber, director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, outlined a clear vision for the future at his first State of the Cancer Center presentation on Jan. 24.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since Julius Caesar’s 49 B.C. crossing of a small river in Northern Italy, “crossing the Rubicon” has come to signify reaching the point of no return. That’s where surgeons find themselves in treating thoracic aortic injuries, according to Demetrios Demetriades, professor of Surgery at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.]]></description>
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      <title>Readers weigh in on The Weekly coverage and content</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In an online survey conducted in December and January, readers of The Weekly gave the publication generally good marks for news content and presentation, but called for refinements in coverage, physical distribution on campus and online availability.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A redesigned Keck Medical Center of USC intranet has launched featuring links to IT self-help applications and a new Virtual Help Desk.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Meeting with invited staff leaders from throughout the Keck Medical Center of USC, Senior Vice President and CEO for USC Health Tom Jackiewicz outlined plans to build on nearly three years of accomplishments since the University’s acquisition of the two hospitals nearly three years ago.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Effective Jan. 20, Scott Evans has assumed the role of interim chief executive officer of Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital—in addition to his role as the chief operating officer of the hospitals.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new definition of health and how to achieve it is the subject of a new book written by David B. Agus, a faculty physician and researcher in the Keck School of Medicine.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[USC president C. L. Max Nikias has appointed Mark Humayun as a new University Professor, an honor reserved for faculty members who have displayed significant accomplishments in several disciplines.]]></description>
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      <title>Medical students benefit from observing contemporary art</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Imagine a group of students discussing the meaning of a contemporary sculpture in an art gallery. Now imagine that group using similar language and techniques to discuss a medical diagnosis.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 100 medical students from throughout the region flocked to the Health Sciences Campus on Jan. 21 for a women’s health symposium that included a wide range of lectures and hands-on surgical workshops.]]></description>
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      <title>Norris Foundation gives $15 million for clinical care center</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The University of Southern California has announced an expansion of cancer care facilities made possible by a $15 million donation from the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.]]></description>
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      <title>USC professor elected to Russian Academy of Sciences</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Vladimir Zelman, clinical professor and co-chair of anesthesiology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) in December at the academy’s annual meeting. He was nominated by the academy’s medical and biological division in recognition of his outstanding contributions to medical science.]]></description>
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      <title>Bending of cell membranes explored at Zach Hall Lecture</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Researchers have known that cell membrane structures are constantly—and often dramatically—being reshaped. Researchers also know that proteins play a role, but have not known the exact mechanisms that fuel these changes. Disruption of these mechanisms, however, can cause a variety of diseases.]]></description>
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      <title>Take The Weekly readership survey</title>
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      <title>In Memoriam</title>
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      <title>USC-led team finds functional gene mutation that increases risk for lupus</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An international team of researchers led by Chaim O. Jacob, associate professor of medicine and molecular microbiology & immunology at the Keck School of Medicine, has identified a gene mutation involved in causing lupus, a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the skin, joints and organs.]]></description>
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      <title>Nobel Laureate speaks on virology, immunology at USC symposium</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Outdoing nature through the use of its own immune response tools is next to impossible. But speaking at a recent symposium, Nobel Laureate Rolf M. Zinkernagel of the University Hospital Zurich told a crowd of Keck School of Medicine students, faculty and researchers that new tools such as antibiotics, antivirals and autoantibodies can make for significant breakthroughs.]]></description>
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