Pictured: Dr. Ryder Onopa, JABSOM Class of 2014
In the September 2017 edition of the Hawai’i Journal of Medicine and Public Health features a study that examines risk factors impacting sedentary behaviors among Chuukese with diabetes living in Chuuk and Hawai‘i; and a case report of left atrial mass.
In the Medical School Hotline, relive two speeches delivered to John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) students and alumni in 2017. The Insights in Public Health column discusses efforts to improve reproductive life planning in Hawai‘i, and the Scripts column discusses pharmacogenomics.
Finally, the Journal ends this month’s issue with a short essay on humanist medicine by the late Dr. Ryder Onopa (JABSOM MD 2014).