NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
Professor Hong-Wei Dong leads a team working on an ambitious NIH-funded Mouse Connectome Project at the USC Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC. The first major milestone research paper entitled “Neural Networks of the Mouse Neocortex” was published in Cell in the Feb. 2014 issue (Zingg et al., 2014, Cell, 156). This article was selected as one of the Top 10 research articles in Cell: Best of 2014. This paper is also on the 40 years of Cell timeline as one of only two landmark papers in 2014 .
More information on the Mouse Connectome Project can be found at http://www.mouseconnectome.org/.
ACADEMY & SOCIETY FELLOWS
CHENG-MING CHUONG
Professor of Pathology
Fellow — American Association for the Advancement of Science
SRVANTHI REDDY
Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
Fellow — American Society of Emergency Radiology
HISHAM TCHELEPI
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology
Fellow — Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound
INTERNAL AWARDS
JOHN BRIERE
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Teaching Award, PGY1 Residents — KSOM
ROB COBB
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
Outstanding Teacher of the Year — Psychiatry Department, KSOM
ISABEL LAGOMASINO
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
Outstanding Teacher Award — Department of Psychiatry, KSOM
YARA SALMAN
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Teacher’s Award, PGY II Residents — USC Psychiatry Residency Program
ERICA SHOEMAKER
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
Dean’s Teaching Award, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
CLIVE TAYLOR
Professor of Clinical Pathology
Faculty Teaching Award I — KSOM
ANNA XIAO
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
Faculty Teaching Award — KSOM
Psychiatry Residency Program Appreciation Award — LAC+USC
NATIONAL AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
OMID AKBARI
Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Careers in Immunology Award — American Association of Immunologists
CHENG-MING CHUONG
Professor of Pathology
Elected to Board of Governors — Society of Investigative Dermatology
AMIR GOLDKORN
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Outstanding Investigator Award — Western Section, American Federation for Medical Research
JOSEPH LANDOLPH
Associate Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Member of the Carcinogen Identification Committee — reappointed by California Governor Jerry Brown
HEINZ-JOSEF LENZ
Professor of Medicine
Outstanding Investigator Award — Western Society of Clinical Investigation
WILLIAM MALLON
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Outstanding Contribution in Education Award — American College of Emergency Physicians
MEGAN L. MCCAIN
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
“35 Innovators Under 35” — MIT Technology Review
JONATHAN SAMET
Professor of Preventive Medicine
Luther L. Terry Award — American Cancer Society, Distinguished Career category
SEAN SASSANO-HIGGINS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry & the Behavioral Sciences
Resident Recognition Award — The American Psychiatric Association