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Joe
Piscopo, Jay Leno, Dr.
Inderbir
Gill, Executive Director, USC Institute of Urology |
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The USC Institute of Urology,
one of the nation’s top-ranked urology programs, honored
Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks
major league baseball franchise, a native son of Los Angeles
and a prostate cancer survivor and advocate, with the
inaugural Louis Zamperini Courage Award at its annual
“Changing Lives and Creating Cures” gala, Thursday, Nov. 20,
at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, raising more
than $2 million. The event hosts included C. L. Max Nikias,
president of the University of Southern California (USC);
Carmen A. Puliafito, M.D., MBA, dean of the Keck School of
Medicine of USC; Jeff Small, president and chief operating
officer of DreamWorks Studios; and Inderbir S. Gill, M.D,
executive director of the USC Institute of Urology. The
evening’s presenting sponsors, Tom and Holly Gores with
Platinum Equity, were joined by Tina and Rick Caruso and
Randy and Ken Kendrick
as honorary co-chairs.
The highlight of the evening
was the presentation of the inaugural Louis Zamperini
Courage Award to Derrick Hall. Luke Zamperini, the son of
Louis Zamperini, the famous USC alumnus, U.S. Olympian,
World War II P.O.W. survivor and prostate cancer patient of
the USC Institute of Urology, presented Hall with the award
named in honor of his father, joined by DreamWorks’ Jeff
Small, Puliafito and Gill. For more information, go to
www.urology.keckmedicine.org
or visit
www.keckmedicine.org/beyond
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