USC Receives $150 Million Naming Gift from W. M. Keck Foundation

JUNE 17 • 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: KECK NAMING GIFT The Weekly theweekly.usc.edu PUBLISHED FOR THE USC HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS COMMUNITY VOLUME 17 • NUMBER 21

USC receives $150 million naming gift from W. M. Keck Foundation

In a photo illustration, a banner welcomes patients to the new Keck Medical Center of USC, which will include USC University Hospital, to be renamed Keck Hospital of USC, and USC’s faculty practice, which will be renamed the Keck Doctors of USC, as well as USC Norris Cancer Hospital. While the name changes are not yet in effect, university ofﬁ cials are developing a plan for implementing them with new signage, logos, stationery and more. USC academic medical enterprise to be named Keck Medicine of USC

USC has received a $150 and advance the human improve quality of life for for Regenerative Medicine million naming gift from the condition.” vast numbers of people,” and Stem Cell Research at W. M. Keck Foundation to In recognition of this said Robert Day, chair and USC, the Institute for Genetic ‘This $150 accelerate groundbreaking transformative gift, USC’s CEO of the W. M. Keck Medicine, the USC Norris medical, clinical and academic medical enterprise Foundation. “This gift Comprehensive Cancer million gift translational research and will be named Keck Medicine refl ects our commitment to Center, the National Science education. This is the second of USC in perpetuity. It will bringing cutting-edge science, Foundation Engineering from the Keck transformative gift the Keck comprise the Keck Medical medicine and engineering Research Center devoted to Foundation has made in Center of USC and Keck together to fi nd new and Biomimetic Microelectronic Foundation will recent years to USC’s medical School of Medicine. The Keck better ways forward.” Systems, the USC Institute for enterprise, following its Medical Center will include “The Keck Foundation’s Health Promotion & Disease have a profound historic $110 million gift in USC University Hospital, directors and offi cers have Prevention Research and 1999 to the Keck School of which will be renamed Keck demonstrated exceptional the USC Institute for Global impact on our Medicine of USC. Hospital of USC, and USC’s foresight and generosity Health. “This $150 million gift from faculty practice, which will be in making such strategic The gift will promote community the Keck Foundation will renamed the Keck Doctors of gifts, adding to an already further progress in medicine have a profound impact on USC, as well as USC Norris unsurpassed legacy of through more effective and our world, our community and our world, Cancer Hospital. USC Norris leadership in benefi ting interplay between a rising today and for generations to Cancer Hospital will not be countless millions, here in private medical school and a today and for come. It will be a catalyst renamed. Southern California and, top-fl ight private academic for dramatic discoveries and The Keck Foundation’s gift indeed, around the nation and medical center, capitalizing generations to developments in medical carries a unifying purpose. the world,” Nikias said. on a research culture that research, teaching and patient By designating the medical With this gift, the Keck encourages collaboration come.’ care,” President C. L. Max enterprise, the academic Foundation and members of among medical faculty and Nikias said. “As we enter an medical center, USC the extended Keck family their colleagues in engineering era that demands nothing University Hospital and the have donated nearly $300 and the physical, life and less than a global revolution Doctors of USC with the Keck million to USC, placing them social sciences. Researchers —USC President in the medical sciences, name, USC brands its medical among the most generous at the intersection of the Keck Foundation has enterprise as a cohesive whole. benefactors to the university. these disciplines foster C. L. Max Nikias invested powerfully in such “We believe that this Keck Medicine of USC innovation that spurs critical a revolution, helping USC’s partnership with USC will includes pioneering research breakthroughs in medicine. academic medical center take fund outstanding research centers such as: the Zilkha Such a culture was a major a momentous leap forward to expand the boundaries Neurogenetic Institute, the competitive reason behind the in its efforts to improve of medical knowledge and Eli and Edythe Broad Center See KECK, page 2 JUNE 17 • 2011

‘This is a marvelous day for the University of Southern California, the Keck School of Medicine and the entire USC academic medical enterprise. ... By extending its name to the entire USC academic medical enterprise, the W. M. Keck Foundation is accelerating the progress of our clinical and scientific faculty, our students and trainees, and our staff in all areas of our mission.’

—Keck School of Medicine Dean Carmen A. Puliafito

‘This is truly a momentous day for Ziva Santop/Steve Cohn Photography

USC President C. L. Max Nikias and Keck Foundation President and Chair Robert Day sign the official documents in front of the model of the everyone touched by our academic 1952 Drilling Barge of W. M. Keck Sr. medical center—our hospital KECK: Gift will help propel research, spur medical breakthroughs

and clinic staff, our physicians, Continued from page 1 2010 decision by the National macular degeneration. programs. The Keck School the patients we serve and their Institutes of Health to award About USC and Keck of Medicine receives more $57 million to USC to fund Medicine of USC than $275 million in annual families. This single act of enormous the only Clinical and Transla- Founded in 1880, USC sponsored program awards. tional Science Institute in Los is one of the nation’s most More than 500 Keck School Angeles. The CTSI addresses selective private research of Medicine physicians are generosity will transform our clinical an array of health needs of the universities. USC’s academic members of the Keck Doc- area’s diverse population. medical center comprises a tors of USC, a private fac- environment into a collaborative, Other recent research medical school, many research ulty clinical practice offering grants include NIH awards centers and institutes, two everything from complex innovative and pioneering medical of $16 million for a physical university-owned hospitals therapies to primary care for science oncology center and with more than 400 private the entire family. The Keck enterprise.’ $9 million to create an atlas beds, renowned physicians Doctors of USC are inter- for genes. In addition, the and clinical care satellites in nationally known for their California Institute for Regen- the community. USC physi- expertise in clinical areas, erative Medicine awarded $16 cians serve over one million including: urology, neurology —Hospitals CEO Mitch Creem million to fund the develop- patients annually, and Keck and neurosurgery, orthopedics, ment of a stem cell-based Medicine’s state-of-the-art pulmonology, cardiology and treatment for age-related facilities on USC’s Health Sci- cardiovascular surgery, trans- ences Campus attract patients plant surgery, gynecology, and from around the world. ophthalmology. The Pediatric patients are seen About the W. M. Keck Weekly Next Issue: June 24 by USC physicians at Chil- Foundation dren’s Hospital Los Angeles, The W. M. Keck Founda- which has been affiliated with tion was established in 1954 The Weekly is published for the faculty, staff, students, volunteers and visitors in the Univer- the Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles by William sity of Southern California’s Health Sciences Campus community. It is written and produced since 1932. In addition, USC Myron Keck, founder of The by the Health Sciences Public Relations and Marketing staff. Comments, suggestions and physicians have provided Superior Oil Company. One story ideas are welcome. Permission to reprint articles with attribution is freely given. care for patients at the public of the nation’s largest philan- Los Angeles County+USC thropic organizations, with as- Associate Senior Vice President, Health Sciences Public Relations Medical Center for more than sets of more than $1.2 billion, and Marketing: Jane Brust 100 years, building one of the W. M. Keck Foundation the largest academic training supports outstanding science, Executive Director of Communications: Ina Fried programs in the country. engineering and medical Assistant Director of Publications: Sara Reeve The Keck School of research and undergraduate Editor: Jon Nalick Medicine of USC, the oldest education. medical school in Southern The Foundation also Contributors: Tania Chatila, Amy Hamaker, Carol Matthieu, Leslie Ridgeway California, enrolls 670 medical maintains a program within students, 292 Ph.D. students Southern California to support Senior Vice President, University Relations: Martha Harris and 300 master’s students in arts and culture, education, more than 25 research and health and community service clinical programs, and trains projects and programs. Phone: (323) 442-2830 Fax: (323) 442-2832 900 medical residents in 52 Email: [email protected] Web: theweekly.usc.edu RSS: http://www.usc.edu/hscw For more information, visit: specialty or subspecialty www.wmkeck.org. SPECIAL ISSUE: KECK NAMING GIFT Keck Medicine of USC by the numbers ‘The expansion of • More than 500 Keck Doctors of USC scientifi c research • Two USC-owned private hospitals with over 400 beds efforts with the fi rst • Over 1,000,000 patient appointments annually Keck Foundation • 9,000 patients enrolled in clinical trials gift will be greatly • 1,300 faculty physicians and scientists enhanced by this new • 900 medical residents – one of the largest residency programs in the U.S. gift, which will allow • 200 fellows and interns us to compete for • 670 medical students, 292 Ph.D. students, 300 master’s students those transformative • More than $300 million in research funding scientists who are leaders in their respective fi elds of Looking back: Twelve years of progress medical research, thanks to W. M. Keck Foundation’s historic gift and who want be at

By Amy Hamaker centrate on questions underlying a range of disorders. Major an innovation-driven The recently announced gift of $150 million from the research emphasis was placed on degenerative diseases of the W. M. Keck Foundation to USC is part of a long history of brain, including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson’s disease and medical center.’ the Keck Foundation creating a substantial transformation in psychiatric diseases such as manic depression, schizophrenia USC’s medical education and research program. Keck’s previ- and addiction disorders. ous gift of $110 million to the Keck School of Medicine of Steven B. Sample, USC president at the time, noted that USC in 1999 was not only a historic event, it created growth neurological and psychiatric illnesses affl icted more than —Pat Levitt, director of both in medical and clinical research and in 50 million Americans the community as well. and had a $600 billion the Zilkha Neurogenetic A Historic Gift per year impact on the Twelve years ago, the economy, and called the Institute Keck Foundation began Keck gift “of inestimable a partnership with USC importance to USC and to strengthen and expand the nation.” the scope of USC’s medical “Now the [Keck] education and research. On Foundation is anticipat- ‘I am extremely optimistic September 17, 1999, USC ing the growing number celebrated the donation by of elderly who will that we will continue the Keck Foundation of overwhelm our public $110 million, at the time the services unless we can to grow as a leading largest gift ever made to a make serious inroads in medical school. The gift also the prevention and care made USC the fi rst uni- of the many neurode- academic medical center versity in history to secure generative diseases that three gifts of $100 million or affl ict people of all ages, for patients seeking the more. but particularly the In recognition of the Keck elderly,” Sample added best in medical care, Foundation’s generosity, at the time. USC’s medical school was Thanks to that clinicians seeking an renamed the Keck School of fi rst gift, the focus Medicine of the University on neurogenetics environment of innovation of Southern California. The has expanded to renaming was accompanied include pioneering and excellence, students by the creation of a Board research centers at of Overseers to advise the the Keck School of seeking an outstanding USC president and the Keck Medicine such as the School dean on matters of pol- Zilkha Neurogenetic education, and scientists icy and operation, and to take Institute, the Eli and the lead in raising the $330 Edythe Broad Center seeking a fertile million in matching funds for Regenerative called for by the agreement. Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC and the Institute environment for their Keck Foundation Board of Directors Chairman and Presi- for Genetic Medicine. dent Robert A. Day (who still serves in this capacity) said Community Impact ideas.’ that the gift was given to “recognize the excellence that USC Stephen J. Ryan, dean of the Keck School in 1999, be- has built in its medical school … [and to] help propel USC lieved that the direct economic impact on Southern Cali- into the fi rst ranks of medical research not just nationally, but fornia and East Los Angeles would be substantial. Plans internationally as well.” included investing close to $1.5 billion in medical research —Edward Crandall, Neurogenetic Focus and health care facilities at and near the East Los Angeles chair of the At the time, much of the $110 million gift was to be USC Health Sciences Campus. Part of the $110 million gift invested in neurogenetics, with a focus on the then-new was also set aside to increase the school’s endowment and Neurogenetic Institute at the Keck School of Medicine of strengthen support for underfunded programs, particularly Department of Medicine USC. This neurogenetic initiative would focus its efforts on in the form of educational support such as scholarships for bringing together basic and clinical neuroscientists to con- medical students. JUNE 17 • 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: KECK NAMING GIFT

‘The continued support of the Keck Foundation will allow us to further invest in the recruitment of new physicians and also invest in our academic commitment to innovative research and teaching, advancing our mission and Keck bolstering the reputation of our Medicine Keck School of Medicine and of of USC the University as a whole.’ in photos

—Vaughn Starnes, All of the faculty, staff and chair of the students of Keck Medicine Department of Surgery of USC are dedicated to and surgeon-in-chief excellence in patient care, of the USC hospitals research and education. W. M. Keck Foundation spurs progress in sciences, arts ‘This is such an The W. M. Keck effort to promote arts, culture, • National Academies Keck stimulate interdisciplinary amazing time for Foundation was established education, health and com- Futures Initiative—a program scientific and technological in 1954 in Los Angeles by munity service projects that of the National Academy research; and USC. It’s exciting William Myron Keck, founder will have a significant impact of Sciences, the National • KCET—community that we are getting of The Superior Oil Company. in addressing complex issues Academy of Engineering, and television programming for Taking risks to invest in and problems. the Institute of Medicine to Southern California. this recognition emerging technologies, Keck In addition to the substan- and that people are enabled the company to tial gifts to USC, the W. M. become a global leader in the Keck Foundation supports USC Health Sciences Public Relations and Marketing Non-Profit Organization exploration and production of several large-scale initiatives. 1975 Zonal Ave. KAM 400 U.S. POSTAGE PAID willing to invest in University of Southern California oil and gas. Under his guid- These include: Los Angeles, CA 90033 what we do. This ance, the company pioneered • W. M. Keck gift is going to new exploration and drilling Observatory—home of methods, including the first the world’s largest optical push our clinical successful use of directional telescope, located near the drilling in California (1930), summit of Mauna Kea on the research forward. the first use of a reflection island of Hawaii; We’ll make medical seismograph to aid in locating • Keck Graduate Institute hydrocarbons (1933) and con- of Applied Life Sciences— breakthroughs, struction of the first offshore a graduate school in the oil platform off the coast of Claremont College Consor- and those Louisiana (1938). tium, offering integrated life breakthroughs will In 1954, Keck established science/engineering/business the charitable foundation curriculums; have a ripple effect bearing his name, with • Institute for Space in how our doctors, the vision of providing Studies—an institute of far-reaching benefits to the California Institute of our nurses and the humanity through imaginative Technology that combines the grants supporting scientific brainstorming of new ideas on rest of our hospital discoveries and new space science and technology staff treat our technologies. The overarching with follow-up research and mandate of the W. M. Keck development; patients.’ Foundation is to support pioneering discoveries in science, engineering and —Briana Sosa, nurse medical research. In case of an emergency... The foundation supports recruiter in the outstanding science, engineer- Call the Emergency Information Phone: (213) 740-9233 The emergency telephone system can handle hospitals’ Human ing and medical research, 1,400 simultaneous calls. It also has a backup system on the East Coast. Resources Department and undergraduate education. In Southern California, Visit the USC Web: http://emergency.usc.edu This page will be activated in case of an emergency. the foundation takes special Backup Web servers on the East Coast will function if the USC servers are incapacitated.