January 12, 2021
Avishai Sadan, dean of the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC, receives the first dose of his COVID-19 vaccination from Guadalupe Felix. (USC Photo/Gus Ruelas)
As part of phase 1A of the vaccination rollout, health professional students, faculty and staff who are in direct contact with patients or collect specimens have been invited to sign up for their vaccinations at the Lyon Center. Other units included in this phase are the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the USC School of Pharmacy.
Dental faculty, students and staff were invited as the first group to be vaccinated on the University Park Campus. Dean Avishai Sadan and Associate Dean Douglas Solow were on hand to support their students as they were vaccinated. The Ostrow School also actively assisted with the proceedings, sending dozens of dental students to help prepare the vaccines in the USC Student Health immunization clinic and pitch in at the vaccine site.