JUNE 17 • 2011 SPECIAL ISSUE: KECK NAMING GIFT TheWeekly 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. 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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.