Pictured: Some of the JABSOM team helping at the Kapiolani Women’s Center “See, Test & Treat” event.
University of Hawaii Pathology residents — including John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) alumna Alana Taniguchi (JABSOM MD 2016) — helped Kapiolani Women’s Center put together a free breast cancer and cervical cancer screening event that served nearly 50 women this month.
The JABSOM volunteers included more than half of the UH Pathology Program Residents, Pathology Faculty Karen Thompson, MD (Chair) and Jeff Kileen, MD, along with a handful of OB-GYN Residents led by Dr. Ann Chang, Associate Program Director, with several JABSOM OBGYN clinical faculty members and Dr. Laura Peterson, a surgery clinical faculty member. Also on hand, MD students from the second, third and fourth-year classes and several MD students from the Homeless Outreach and Medical Education (HOME) Project who performed Blood pressure and glucose screening, supervised by Family Medicine’s Dr. Jill Omori. Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum, head of JABSOM Graduate Medical Education, was there representing Family Medicine and Community Health, too.
Photos courtesy of Dr. Karen Thompson.
According to Hawaii Pacific Health, the event was held through a grant from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Foundation as part of the See, Test & Treat program. The free cancer screening and health education program is designed to remove barriers to early cancer detection in underserved populations and to empower women to take charge of their own health and well-being.
Dr. Buenconsejo-Lum said the results were a great collaborative effort with mostly positive feedback, from key community members and healthcare partners.
Read more about the event from our valued academic medicine partner, Hawaii Pacific Health: