We Have a Winner!

Congratulations to Arun Prasad, M.D., class of 2003 for submitting the winning entry - TALK (The Alumni Link for Keck). Dr. Prasad will receive two tickets to this year's Homecoming football game! We had many outstanding suggestions and it was dificult to pick one winner. Thanks to all those who participated in the contest!

Brian Henderson, M.D.
Named Dean of Keck School

World-class cancer epidemiologist Brian E. Henderson has been named dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

He joined the school in 1970 as an associate professor of pathology and has since served as founding chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine, director of the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and director of the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute. He briefly left USC in the mid-1990s to be president of the San Diego-based Salk Institute.

One of Henderson's first priorities as dean of the Keck School is focusing on developing a new strategic plan for the school's clinical mission. This plan will be shaped by a strategic planning group which will work in close collaboration with other Department Chairs and interested faculty members on a number of issues including the planning for the transition into the LAC+USC Medical Center replacement facility.

Henderson succeeds Dean Stephen J. Ryan, who led the school for 13 years and now returns to teaching and research.

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In conjunction with the USC vs. Stanford football game, a cocktail reception for Dean Henderson will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday, September 24. The reception will take place at the Westin St. Francis Hotel from 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. If you are in the area, please join us. Please RSVP to ksomalum@usc.edu or the Alumni & Constituent Relations Office at (323) 442-3292.

Telfer B. “Pete” Reynolds, M.D.
1921 - 2004

Telfer B. "Pete" Reynolds, a renowned liver specialist and longtime professor of medicine at USC's medical school, died June 5 of lymphoma; he was 82.

Approximately 430 colleagues and friends attended his July 30 memorial service in Mayer Auditorium, where Reynolds was described as a skilled educator and an unabashed "workaholic" clinician who demanded excellence from his students as well as himself.

Reynolds started a hepatology program at USC at a time when few such programs existed in the world, establishing himself as an astute diagnostician. In 1971, he first described a form of liver disease that is now known as Reynolds' syndrome.

During his decades of service to USC, he trained more than 100 liver specialists, many of whom are now working in dozens of countries worldwide.

Born in Regina, Canada, Reynolds moved to Los Angeles at an early age and graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1937. He completed his undergraduate education at UCLA in 1941 and received his medical degree from USC's school of medicine in 1944. Reynolds served as chief resident at the LAC+USC Medical Center and became an instructor for USC's school of medicine the same year, later rising to assistant professor and, in 1960, professor of medicine.

Reynolds, who resided in Valley Village, is survived by his wife Kit, a son, a daughter and five grandchildren.

Donations to honor Reynolds' memory may be made to: USC-Telfer Reynolds, Clinical Liver Disease Unit, c/o DJ Burke, 1420 San Pablo St., PMB A-304, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9054.

Dr. and Mrs. Gail V. Anderson Sr., Support Emergency Medicine with Gift Annuity

Dr. Gail V. Anderson Sr., and his wife, Alice, have again made a significant contribution to the university to support emergency medicine. Dr. Anderson is the former chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. Praised as a great leader by his colleagues, Dr. Anderson held the first chair and professorship in emergency medicine in the country, and played a leading role in transforming the field of emergency medicine from an academic backwater into a well-respected specialty of its own.

Now retired, Dr. and Mrs. Anderson are leading by example once again, and hope that this most recent gift along with their previous gifts, will “serve as incentive for other people.” The Andersons gave this gift by creating a charitable gift annuity through which a donor provides the university with a tax-deductible gift and receives a portion of the gift back in the form of an annual annuity for life. The charitable gift annuity provides an easy way for people to support their chosen departments or areas of interest.

Annuity agreements are backed by the full faith and credit of the University of Southern California, and can be created by donating cash, securities, or real estate.

For more information on making a charitable gift annuity, contact the Office of Planned Giving, at (323) 442-3277, or via email, tanyalop@usc.edu. All inquiries are kept in strict confidence.

USC Celebrates Opening of Modern HCC II Patient Care Building

The new Healthcare Consultation Center II (HCC II) is open for patient care.

The $49-million, 238,000-square-foot medical office building is located on San Pablo Street at the entrance to the Eamer Medical Plaza. The five-story building is roughly twice the size of the original Healthcare consultation Center located next door.

The building’s new tenants include physicians in internal medicine, orthopaedics, psychiatry, anesthesia’s pain management program, neurology, head and neck, neurosurgery, radiology and cardiothoracic surgery.

HCC II includes a state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging facility, including MRI and CT scanning, a multi-disciplinary medical clinic for special programs and services and clinic space for a number of specialties. All clinic spaces are wired for digital charting and electronic record keeping.

The outdoor plaza of the Healthcare Consultation Center II (HCC II) has been named the Kennedy Family Plaza in honor of Jack Kennedy II and his wife, Nancy. Jack, a 1957 graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business, served on the Keck School of Medicine Board of Councilors and is an avid supporter of the Trojan swimming program where he swam for the varsity team in 1955 and 1956.

LAC+USC Medical Center Replacement Facility

The LAC+USC Medical Center Replacement Facility project is scheduled to open in 2007, and center officials are mapping out plans for the facility’s day-to-day operations and departmental space allocation.

The $820 million facility is described as the largest capital construction project ever undertaken by the County of Los Angeles. The 600-bed, 1.5 million-square-foot facility will include a seven-story outpatient building, an eight-story inpatient tower, a five-story diagnostic and treatment building and a central energy plant.

The facility will encompass less total space than the older facility, but the efficiency of design and the technological advances built into the project will more than make up for the difference.

For example, it will rely on broadband Internet connections to deliver digital X-rays and other medical records instantaneously to operating rooms or conference rooms. This technology will eliminate the time-consuming task of physically carrying records from place to place and also reduce the need for record storage space.

For more information see: http://www.lacmt.org