Second annual Southern California LGBTQ Health Conference to educate health professionals on queer patient care. When Darby Osnaya visited an Inland Empire dental office, the dental assistant would often offer the 27-year-old more than a professional opinion. “The negative feedback I would get from her would range from judgmental looks and scoffs when I […]
A $3-million gift from the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation makes the clinic on wheels possible. Above: Vibrant visuals accompany soothing music to make for a tranquil, spa-like experience. (Photo by Glenn Marzano) At 48 feet long —just five feet shy of a standard semi trailer — and 22 feet wide, it’s the largest mobile dental clinic […]
Drs. Roseann Mulligan and Glenn Clark provide endowed funding source for Ostrow’s Special Patients Clinic. Ostrow’s Special Patients Clinic has received a financial boost — and a new name — thanks to a generous donation made by Drs. Roseann Mulligan MS ’87 and Glenn Clark. Dean Avishai Sadan DMD, MBA made the official announcement […]
Above: Xiang Li, Chinese Gymnast More than 100 Ostrow faculty, staff and students provided free comprehensive dental care last week to athletes as part of the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Program. It was the first time such comprehensive care — including extractions, restorations and root canals — had been offered to the athletes with intellectual […]
The research competition is USC’s largest event dedicated solely to scientific inquiry and discovery. Above: Omar Kholaki DDS ’16 discusses his research presentation titled “Dental Related Incidents” at the Emergency Department at USC (2011-2013) Research took center court at the USC Galen Center on March 25 as the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC […]
The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC will hold its annual Research Day on Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at the USC Galen Center. The day-long event dedicated to scientific inquiry and discovery is open to all Ostrow students and faculty members, including those from the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy as well […]
The $20 million gift also establishes an occupational therapy initiative in China USC Trustee Ronnie C. Chan MBA ’76 and his wife Barbara have dedicated $20 million to USC’s pioneering occupational science and occupational therapy program. Given in honor of Chan’s mother, the gift endows and names the division, which will be known as […]
Above: Claudia Castellanos receives a free dental checkup for son Joseph Pacheco, 2, from Ostrow Assistant Professor of Clinical Dentistry Vanessa Beer. In an effort to foster multidisciplinary community outreach, the Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation will give $3 million to establish the Hutto-Patterson Institute for Community Health at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC […]
Twenty USC undergraduate students left the University Park Campus and saw a very different side of Los Angeles on March 27, traveling by bus to Downtown’s Skid Row to visit the Union Rescue Mission. Above: WRIT 150 students speak with Santosh Sundaresan, Community Health Programs Section Chair at the Ostrow School of Dentistry, in the […]
The Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC participated in an Interprofessional Education Day on April 7 for nearly 800 students from dentistry, occupational therapy, and other health care fields to prepare them for collaborative patient care. Interprofessional Education (IPE) refers to occasions when professionals from different disciplines interact to learn from and about each […]
