Closing out Women’s History Month, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center held the Henrietta Lacks Symposium on Friday, March 28 with panels, a Q&A session with author Rebecca Skloot (“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”) and members of the Lacks family including grandchildren, David Lacks, Jr., Jeri Lacks Whye and great granddaughter, JaBrea Rodgers.
Noted photographer Michael J. Christopher transitioned on Feb. 22, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Known as a talented photojournalist, Michael provided photography and videography services for celebrities such as Stevie Wonder and Five Star.
Gerald Freeny will once again be riding down Colorado Boulevard in the 133rd Annual Tournament of Roses Parade. However, this year unlike in 2019 when Freeny rode in the parade as the Tournament President, this year he will be riding as an organ donor recipient on the Cedar Sinai DonateLife Float.
Golfer Tiger Woods said today he has been released from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is recuperating at home from severe leg injuries suffered in a rollover crash in Rancho Palos Verdes.
Arraignment was postponed today to Aug. 24 for two young men charged with killing rapper Pop Smoke during a robbery at a Hollywood Hills home nearly five months ago.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of Los Angeles, California, to purchase equipment for the Cedars-Sinai Biomanufacturing Center. According to grantee estimates, the project is expected to create 444 new jobs and spur $47 million in private investment.
Charles Johnson IV, the son of television judge Glenda Hatchett, has filed a lawsuit against Cedars Sinai Medical Center and a group of its staffers for what they say was the wrongful death last year, of Kiyra Dixon, Johnson’s wife and the mother of his two children.