Fellowship Overview

Functions of the Division of Hematology within the USC Department of Medicine:

Clinical

• To provide hematologic consultation and primary hematologic care to inpatients and outpatients of all departments LAC+USC Medical Center, USC/Norris Cancer Hospital, and USC/University Hospital

• To provide continuing care for all adult outpatients with serious hematologic problems through the operation of the adult Hematology Clinics at LAC+USC.

• To operate an 18-bed hematology ward and a Day Hospital for patients with hematologic disorders at the LAC+USC Medical Center.

• To operate a clinical service coagulation laboratory for the work-up of inpatients and outpatients with suspected hemorrhagic or thrombotic disorders.

• To provide autologous and allogeneic stem cell transplantation services for the patients referred to USC/Norris Cancer Hospital.

Teaching

• Graduate teaching

To teach the hematology course in the first year (three weeks) and second year

   (two weeks) of Medical School.
To provide a 6-week clinical elective period for third and fourth year medical

   students, during which they work with residents and Fellows on the hematology

   consultation service, attend clinics and attend the conferences and rounds of the

   section.

• House staff, Fellows and other post-graduate teaching.

• The Division has been awarded a National Cancer Institute (NCI) Training Grant for the education of fellows in HIV disease

Research

• The research interests of the Hematology Section are diverse. They includes basic and clinical research in hemostatic mechanisms and their alterations in disease, sickle cell disease and other hemoglobinopathies, malignant lymphoma and other hematologic neoplasms, and hematologic disorders associated with AIDS. Research programs are carried out in various laboratories:

• The hematology research laboratory that occupies an entire floor of the Raulston Research Building on the Medical School Campus.

• The clinical coagulation research laboratory that is located in the USC/Norris Cancer Hospital. This laboratory is used for training in clinical coagulation techniques.

• A Bone Marrow Transplantation/Hematopoiesis Laboratory at the Norris Cancer Hospital.

• An Angiogenesis Disease Laboratory at the Norris Cancer Hospital.

• A laboratory, located at the Norris Research Tower, focused on the epigenetics of cancer, studying demethylation as a means of treating various hematologic malignancies.

• Several collaborating laboratories are also studying the relationship between viral infections and lymphoma – including HCV, HIV, HHV8, HTLV I, and others.

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