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Doctors of USC Celebrates Westside Opening
- The Doctors of USC Beverly Hills is located in the Archway Medical Plaza building at 9033 Wilshire Blvd.
- Photo/Steve Cohn
By Imelda Valenzuela on May 18, 2011 2:38 PM
The cardinal and gold flag of USC officially was planted on the Westside of Los Angeles at the opening of the university’s new clinical satellite, The Doctors of USC Beverly Hills.
With more than 100 administrators, faculty physicians, board members and other friends of the Trojan Family in attendance, the opening reception was held on May 10.
“It’s been a dream to come to the Westside for USC,” said Carmen A. Puliafito, dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. “This is the beginning of a new era in USC medicine. We’re here to inaugurate this new outpost of USC medicine on the Westside.”
The Doctors of USC Beverly Hills is located in suites 300 and 500 of the Archway Medical Plaza building at 9033 Wilshire Blvd. The new 14,000-square-foot location offers expertise from specialists in medicine, ophthalmology, urology and cancer care.
Neda Shamie, a leader in corneal transplantation, serves as medical director of the USC Doheny Eye Center, which is affiliated with USC’s nationally ranked Doheny Eye Institute. Puliafito, an expert in macular degeneration, also is seeing patients at the USC Doheny Eye Center.
Oncologist David Agus will see patients in the USC Norris Westside Cancer Center, affiliated with the National Cancer Institute-designated USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Inderbir Gill, executive director of the USC Institute of Urology, sees patients there as well.
Puliafito said that buying USC University Hospital and Norris Cancer Hospital in 2009 “sent a signal that USC is on the move” and that opening the Beverly Hills offices was the next step in USC’s plan for its academic medical center.
“This center on the fifth floor was designed to align the clinical with the academic teaching mission of USC,” Puliafito said, referring to the satellite’s video conferencing center. “We anticipate that this will be a very important location for continuing medical education for physicians, for community outreach and for donor and alumni events for USC.”
USC president C. L. Max Nikias and his wife, Niki, were in attendance after taking a red-eye flight home from another USC event in Philadelphia.
“I am thrilled - it is wonderful to plant the cardinal and gold flag in Beverly Hills,” Nikias said. “Most of all, it is deeply satisfying to be able to provide specialty care that is so vital and so very convenient to those who live and work on the Westside. While we aspire to expand USC’s global reach, we also aspire to build one of the very best academic medical centers right here in Los Angeles.’’
Nikias acknowledged the physicians who practice at the new center, as well as the Keck School and its other doctors.
“At this Beverly Hills location, the doctors practicing here will help heal those suffering from devastating diseases such as cancer and blindness. They will give hope to patients and their families,” he said.
“I’m very proud of USC’s doctors, our professors of the Keck School of Medicine. On the front lines of clinical care, they are healers. In the research labs, they are innovators and scholars. In their specialties, they are pioneers in developing new treatments and surgical techniques.”
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