Contact Media Relations
Please contact our media relations team to coordinate interviews, photo shoots or filming with Keck Medicine of USC physicians or clinical researchers. Our team is available to assist you with requests for specific medical departments or areas of research no matter your deadline.
Please note that stories involving patients require advance HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) consent, as required by federal law. In addition, any visit to our facilities requires advance approval and an escort by a member of our team.
For COVID-19 requests, please visit our expert database or click here for news and updates.
Meg Aldrich
Associate Administrator, Corporate Communications
- Corporate communications
- Executive communications
- Hospital operations
- Issues management
Media Relations Team
Cynthia Smith
Senior Manager, Media Relations
Cynthia.Smith@med.usc.edu Phone (323) 442-3811
- Cardiology
- Ear, nose and throat
- Dermatology
- Gastroenterology
- Hepatology
- Internal medicine
- Neurology
- Ophthalmology
Mary Dacuma
Manager, Media Relations
Mary.Dacuma@med.usc.edu Phone: (323) 865-7839
- Anesthesiology
- Cancer
- Endocrinology and diabetes
- Geriatrics
- Hematology
- Infectious diseases
- Palliative care
- Men’s health
- Nephrology
- Radiology
- Rheumatology
- Toxicology
- Urology
- USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
Gabriella Robison
Specialist, Media Relations
Gabriella.Robison@med.usc.edu Phone: (323) 865-7657
- Emergency medicine
- Orthopaedics
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonology
- Sleep medicine
- Spine
- Surgery
- Transplants
- Women’s health
Alison Bell Rainey
Specialist, Media Relations
Alison.Rainey@med.usc.edu Phone: (323) 865-7793
- Special projects
- Writer/editor
For Film & Television Filming Requests
Jessica Reynolds
Filming Coordinator, Media Relations
Contact Keck School of Medicine of USC Media Relations
To coordinate interviews pertaining to Keck School of Medicine student events, issues, Office of the Dean or other faculty queries at the Keck School, please visit this page.