Jon Weiner
Executive Director of HSC Public Relations & Marketing

Jon Weiner leads the department's media relations team, implementing an aggressive media relations program that raises the visibility of Keck School of Medicine programs in the local, regional and national news media. Specific duties involve strategies to keep up with priority news opportunities, tracking media placements and evaluating results, and writing and editing substantive news releases and other materials.

Jon handles crisis communications and works with his staff to respond to media calls from reporters looking for health sciences experts. Jon also works with PR staff at our affiliate hospitals, seizing opportunities for effective collaboration.

In the absence of the associate vice president, Jon gives direction to departmental staff.

Jon has received numerous awards from the Health Care Public Relations and Marketing Association of Southern California including two Golden Advocate awards for media relations campaigns.

He currently sits on the steering committee of the National Cancer Institutes’ Public Affairs Network and is a member in good standing of the Public Relations Society of America and the National Association of Science Writers.

He has spoken at numerous national meetings including the Council for Advancement and Support of Education and the Association of American Medical Colleges on the topic of media relations.

Jon joined the Public Relations and Marketing office in 2000 as media relations manager. In 2003 he was promoted to director and in 2005, was named executive director. Jon received his bachelor’s degree from UC Davis in international relations and his master’s degree in journalism from USC.

Prior to joining the USC staff, Jon worked for 10 years in the broadcast news business, as a television news producer and assignments editor for CBS News in Miami and Los Angeles and at several CBS and NBC affiliates around the country.

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