Keck School of Medicine of USC

Keck School of Medicine of USC
Type Private
Established 1885
Dean Rohit Varma
Location Los Angeles, California
Campus Urban
Website keck.usc.edu

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California teaches and trains physicians, biomedical scientists and other healthcare professionals, conducts medical research, and treats patients.[1] Founded in 1885, the Keck School of Medicine (formerly the USC College of Medicine) is the oldest medical school in Southern California.[2]

It is located on the university's Health Sciences campus in northeastern Los Angeles which is adjacent to the Boyle Heights and Lincoln Heights neighborhoods.[3]:34

In July 1999, the W. M. Keck Foundation donated $110 million to the USC School of Medicine. The school was then renamed the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. The school committed to raising $330 million in matching funds, and used a large portion of the gift to expand research efforts, including the Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute.[4]

USC Health is an affiliated system of hospitals, clinics, and primary care providers and as of 2013, USC Health included three hospitals, some campus-based specialty clinics, five community-based ambulatory care clinics, and USC Care Medical Group, which is the physician practice of doctors who are on the faculty of the Keck School of Medicine.[5] Hospitals and clinics include the Keck Hospital of USC and the cancer center, which USC acquired from Tenet Healthcare in 2009 for $275 million after three years of litigation between the parties,[6] Children's Hospital Los Angeles,[7] and the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale.[5]

In 2015, Paul Aisen, who leads the US Alzheimer's Disease Cooperative Study (ADCS) and its approximately $100 million in funding, left University of California San Diego and joined the faculty of Keck. Aisen had been recruited to USCD from Georgetown in 2007 to run the ADCS which UCSD had established in 1991.[8] Aisen left UCSD because he was unhappy with the level of support that UCSD was providing him and due to the offer from USC.[9] UCSD and USC ended up in litigation over control of the program. USC rented space for Aisen in a San Diego office park, where Keck's Alzheimer's Therapeutic Research Institute is located under Aisen's direction.[10][11] Some aspects of data management were temporarily settled in 2016;[12] as of 2017 the litigation was ongoing.[13][14]

A report in Nature noted that Keck had been recruiting from San Diego, hiring four scientists from Scripps Research Institute after a proposed merger fell through, and that Keck had recruited the director of the UCSD Health System to run its Children's Hospital.[15]

In March 2016 Carmen Puliafito resigned as dean and Rohit Varma became the interim dean,[16] and was named dean in November of that year.[17]

The Los Angeles Times reported in July 2017 that while Puliafito served as dean and USC professor, he "kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them."[18] The reporters reviewed video and photographs of Puliafito engaging in these activities in hotel rooms, apartments, and the dean's office.[18] According to the newspaper, a 21-year-old prostitute had overdosed while taking drugs with Puliafito in a Pasadena hotel room on March 4, 2016; the article included a recording of a conversation between a 911 operator and Puliafito. The report said that police had found methamphetamine in the room.[18] Puliafito resigned as dean three weeks afterwards.[16] Immediately following the publication of the Los Angeles Times report, USC announced that Puliafito had been placed "on leave from his roles at USC, including seeing patients."[19]

References

  1. ↑ http://keck.usc.edu/education/
  2. ↑ Thermos, Wendy; Silverstein, Stuart (5 October 2005). "USC to Mark 125th Anniversary of Its Founding With Festival". Los Angeles Times.
  3. ↑ Graf, Marlon (2016). "Exploring Sources of Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy The Case of Los Angeles" (PDF). RAND Corporation.
  4. ↑ "Keck School History". usc.edu. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
  5. 1 2 USC. July 16, 2013 Press release: USC closes deal to purchase Verdugo Hills Hospital
  6. ↑ Girion, Lisa (2009-02-11). "USC buys 2 disputed hospitals on campus". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2016-07-23.
  7. ↑ "Best Medical Schools - Top Medical Schools - US News Best Graduate Schools - US News".
  8. ↑ Garde, Damian (August 5, 2015). "Judge orders a halt to Alzheimer's spat as Eli Lilly chooses sides in dispute". FierceBiotech.
  9. ↑ Fikes, Bradley J. (5 July 2015). "UC San Diego sues USC and scientist, alleging conspiracy to take funding, data". Los Angeles Times.
  10. ↑ Fikes, Bradley J. (2 August 2015). "Next steps for scientist in eye of UCSD-USC Alzheimer's spat". San Diego Tribune.
  11. ↑ Wang, Shirley S.; Loftus, Peter (14 October 2015). "Alzheimer’s Research Effort Is Ensnared in Legal Dispute". Wall Street Journal.
  12. ↑ Potter, Matt (January 11, 2016). "Deal gives UCSD "read only" rights to Alzheimer's data". San Diego Reader.
  13. ↑ "Case 3:15-cv-01766: The Regents of the University of California v. Aisen et al (3:15-cv-01766), California Southern District Court". PacerMonitor. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Case 8:17-cv-00721: The Regents of the University of California v. Aisen et al (8:17-cv-00721), Maryland District Court". PacerMonitor. Retrieved 15 June 2017.
  15. ↑ Check Hayden, Erika (16 July 2015). "Alzheimer’s data lawsuit is sign of growing tensions". Nature. pp. 265–265. doi:10.1038/nature.2015.17932.
  16. 1 2 Song, Jason (March 28, 2016). "Dean of USC's Keck School of Medicine steps down". Los Angeles Times.
  17. ↑ "Press Release: Noted physician, scientist Rohit Varma named dean of Keck School of Medicine of USC". University of Southern California. November 9, 2016.
  18. 1 2 3 Pringle, Paul; Ryan, Harriet; Elmahrek, Adam; Hamilton, Matt; Parvini, Sarah (July 17, 2017). "An overdose, a young companion, drug-fueled parties: The secret life of USC med school dean". Los Angeles Times.
  19. ↑ Adam Elmahrek, Sarah Parvini, Paul Pringle & Matt Hamilton, Former USC medical school dean no longer seeing patients; Pasadena police discipline officer, Los Angeles Times (July 17, 2017).

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