Here are four things to know:
1. USC Trustee Daniel Epstein and his wife Phyllis Epstein made the donation.
2. Specialists at the USC Epstein Family Center for Sports Medicine will collaborate with USC Athletics and Keck Medicine of USC, in Los Angeles.
3. The new funding will allow the Los Angeles-based USC Keck School of Medicine’s orthopedic department to recruit more experts in areas, such as ligament and tendon repair, and to launch a national search for a director of the sports medicine center.
4. The gift will create a unit dedicated to collecting and analyzing data and managing clinical trials to improve patient outcomes. The USC Epstein Family Center for Sports Medicine also plans to build a surgical simulation laboratory to train sports medicine specialists.
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