Wyatt · July 25, 2024
Recruited by Cedars-Sinai to be the new chair of surgery, Dr. Cristina R. Ferrone moved from Boston to Windsor Square a year and a half ago. She spent her main growing-up years in Scarsdale, right near (fittingly) Larchmont, New York. Ferrone is the first female chair of surgery at Cedars. Ferrone graduated from the University […]
Chronicle Staff · March 4, 2020
Hundreds of teenagers choose to drive, each week, to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Grove. As part of the hospital’s Teen Volunteer Program, these teenagers don blue-and-white striped jackets and step into the bustling hospital campus to assist with clerical and clinical tasks. With over 2,000 total volunteers helping hospital staff, teen volunteers make up […]
Suzan Filipek · July 28, 2016
When Regina Chung saw a home for sale in Windsor Square in 1984, she had barely ventured into the neighborhood, mostly admiring its tree canopy-lined streets from afar. Interest rates were a whopping 18 percent, but Regina and her husband Jim were undeterred, and with help from relatives, they were able to raise enough money […]
Billy Taylor · September 15, 2015
Twenty-one students were chosen from local high schools to work with stem cells inside a Cedars-Sinai laboratory during a recent weeklong program. The fourth annual Research Week program at the Cedars-Sinai board of governors Regenerative Medicine Institute is a learning opportunity that provides students with a basic understanding of stem cell research. The students spent […]
Chronicle Staff · July 31, 2014
During her first trip to a public housing development, Michele Rigsby Pauley discovered five-year-old children there had never been immunized because the clinic down the road sat in rival gang territory. Suddenly, the need for a mobile health unit became crystal clear. “I am very proud that I can be a part of something that’s […]
