Doctors Pioneer Robotic Surgery for Tumor Removal
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SPECIAL TWO-PAGE INSERT: COMMENCEMENT 2017 MAY 5 • 2017 PUBLISHED FOR THE USC HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS COMMUNITY VOLUME 4 • NUMBER 9 Doctors pioneer robotic surgery for tumor removal By Mary Dacuma likely die instantly. Even in surgical team at Keck successful surgeries, patients Medicine of USC pushed require several quarts of blood theA boundaries of clinical care transfusion and have a 1 in 20 by performing the first-ever chance of dying during the robotic, minimally invasive procedure. surgical removal of a stage IV The use of robotic surgery tumor thrombus — a kidney techniques significantly cancer tumor that extends into reduced trauma to the patient the heart. and minimized blood loss by The nearly 10-hour more than five-fold. Because Steve Cohn Steve the surgery incisions were Rick Caruso, left, receives the Asa V. Call Award from USC President C. L. Max Nikias. procedure, which required painstaking precision from small, the patient’s hospital stay three renowned surgeons, a was just six days, as opposed to critical care anesthesiologist the typical two to three weeks Rick Caruso receives most and a radiologist, reduced the after open surgery. Overall patient’s risk of sudden death recovery time also was reduced from the tumor breaking off significantly. distinguished alumni honor into the heart and lungs. Such multidisciplinary Typically, this kind of collaboration lays the By USC News staff Otolaryngology, the USC Caruso Catholic surgery is both traumatic and groundwork for using advanced SC honored Trustee Rick J. Caruso, ’80, Center and Our Savior Parish church. With risky, requiring the patient’s technology to build higher with its most distinguished alumni honor, inspired generosity, Rick and his wife, Tina, chest and abdomen to be standards of patient care, even theU Asa V. Call Award, at its 83rd annual are putting into practice their philanthropic opened completely while the in the most complex cases. Alumni Awards on April 22. vision, which will benefit Trojans for many anesthesiologist monitors the “This exciting feat promises The Asa V. Call Award is given to alumni generations to come.” patient and the thrombus. to redefine the boundaries who have shown exceptional commitment “I am so honored to receive this award from If the tumor or thrombus of what is surgically possible to the university and the community by USC,” the honoree said. “My years at USC break from the inferior vena through skill, collaboration cava and the heart during generously giving their time, energy and fundamentally changed my perspective on See SURGERY, page 2 leadership. what it means to be part of a community, and surgery, the patient will “Rick Caruso’s immense pride for USC what my responsibilities are as a member of is unsurpassed, and his love of the school is that community. There isn’t a better university visible across our campuses,” USC President that changes the lives of young people so C. L. Max Nikias, PhD, said. “That includes significantly, and they have won my respect, the Tina and Rick Caruso Department of commitment, devotion and gratitude.” The Carusos have donated more than $50 “ Rick Caruso’s immense pride million to USC, most recently $25 million to endow the USC Tina and Rick Caruso for USC is unsurpassed, and Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, one of the nation’s largest and his love of the school is visible highest-ranked facilities for research and treatment of diseases of the ear, nose and across our campuses.” throat. He is the CEO and founder of Caruso, one of the largest, privately held real estate — USC President development companies in the U.S., which has C. L. Max Nikias, PhD See CARUSO, page 5 Ricardo Carrasco III Carrasco Ricardo A team of physicians from Keck Medicine of USC are seen, from left: Namir Katkhouda, Vinay Duddalwar, Duraiyah Thangathurai, Mark USC-VHH promotes patient safety Cunningham and Inderbir Gill. with new robot named ‘Luna’ By Mary Dacuma Keck Medicine partners with n eighth-grade student from a local middle Amgen Tour of California schoolA has made her mark at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, eck Medicine of USC is the official after her entry was chosen hospital of the Amgen Tour of as the winner in a naming California,K America’s largest and most contest for a new disinfection prestigious professional cycling event. robot at the hospital. The cycling course will cover more Chloe A. of Rosemont than 575 miles of iconic highways and Middle School entered coastlines through 12 host cities from a recent contest among May 11 to May 20. Spectators can students in the community Weirick Deborah Courtesy watch the race along the course, at the to name the hospital’s Xenex Mary Virgallito, director of patient safety at USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, finish line or live on the Tour Tracker, at robot, winning a $100 gift teaches a class of Rosemont Middle School students about antibiotic amgentourofcalifornia.com/watch-live/ card for her submission of resistance superbugs during a recent visit. tourtracker. “Luna.” Keck Medicine will host a booth at several finish lines during The Xenex robot is a been cleaned by traditional first hospital in the Glendale the Lifestyle Festival, including in Santa Clarita, Mt. Baldy, no-touch disinfection device methods. This added layer of area to use the Xenex robot. Big Bear Lake and Pasadena. Volunteers are needed for the that uses UV radiation protection lowers the risk of Chloe was among the finish lines. Contact [email protected] for details. to zap superbugs after a infection by more than 50 dozens of local students For more race information, visit amgentourofcalifornia.com. patient room has already percent. USC-VHH is the See ROBOT, page 5 MAY 5 • 2017 2 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Reception at Keck shares story of success at lecture Hospital celebrates By Amanda Busick n extensive collection of donated artwork noteworthy photos from By Douglas Morino Medicine of USC, hospital recentA history were the cen- reception held at leaders and staff. terpiece of a lecture by David Keck Hospital The iPhone Photo Project, Hume Kennerly, renowned ofA USC in early April which hangs in the Cardinal photojournalist, at the Seventh celebrated donated art from lobby of Keck Hospital, Annual Vladimir Zelman, photographer Katherine is intended to show the PhD, MD Distinguished and Keck. versatility of the smartphone Endowed Lectureship, held The images, taken in Los camera, Keck said, and in Aresty Auditorium on the Angeles, San Francisco and its ability to capture clear, Health Sciences Campus. other cities across the globe detailed images. Kennerly won the Pulitzer by Keck on her iPhone, Keck said she hopes the Prize for Feature Photography adorn the walls of the images in her new exhibit in 1972 for his portfolio of sub- hospital’s Cardinal Lobby. capture the attention, if only jects that included the Vietnam Ricardo Carrasco III Carrasco Ricardo Keck shares close ties with for a brief moment, of those War, East Pakistani refugees From left, Vladimir Zelman, David Hume Kennerly and Holly Muir are seen Keck Medicine of USC. Her who walk past. near Kolkata and the famous after the Seventh Annual Vladimir Zelman, PhD, MD Distinguished and son, Stephen M. Keck, is “I am hopeful that patients “Fight of the Century” boxing Endowed Lectureship. on the Board of Overseers and staff members can look match between Muhammad of the Keck School of at the photographs on the Ali and Joe Frazier. He was with your camera as kind of a important events around the Medicine of USC. wall and will have some 25 at the time he received the passport, to see things that you world from the Jonestown Her two other sons, respite,” Keck said. “These award, and two years later was wouldn’t normally get to see. massacre to the 2016 presi- William and Ted, are photos can broaden their appointed photographer to the I’ve always wondered what was dential campaign and received members of the W. M. Keck perspective and take their president for Gerald Ford. happening right around the many of the top honors Foundation. minds off pressing problems Kennerly said that his career corner. And I still do.” awarded to photographers. He Keck was joined at the and give them a sense of success stems in part from Throughout his career, has also written six books and reception by friends of Keck relief.” inquisitiveness about the world Kennerly has photographed produced several films. around us. “I’ve been extremely every U.S. president since The Guilford and Diane lucky. And it’s all about curios- Richard Nixon, been at the Glazer Foundation sponsored ity and the idea of being able, forefront of documenting the April 19 event. SURGERY: Team hopes to set new standard of care Continued from page 1 cancer had spread. Then Mark Cunningham, and technology,” said Inderbir S. Gill, MD, MD, associate professor of clinical surgery, put Distinguished Professor and chair of urology, the patient on a heart-lung bypass machine and associate dean for clinical innovation at to create a bloodless environment and opened the Keck School of Medicine of USC, who led the patient’s heart using a minimally invasive the multidisciplinary team that performed the incision through the rib cage. surgery. “Our hope is that we can now propel Cunningham and Gill worked quickly and Cohn Steve by Photos the field at large to turn such futuristic robotic simultaneously from the chest and abdomen Katherine Keck discusses a photo with Rod Hanners, above, and as surgery into our present standard of care.” to remove the tumor thrombus from the part of a lecture, below, during a reception for her artwork held April 6.