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VIDEO: “Kaka’ako: Our Kuleana” project by UH Mānoa Urban & Regional Planning...
(Photo credit: Jeffrey Warner) From University of Hawai’i System A walk through Kakaʻako reveals that the area’s landscape is undergoing some major changes. With several construction sites and...
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IN THE NEWS: UH Psychiatry Department Youth Suicide Prevention partnership
Fighting suicide: Youth council leaders and their supportive adults at the E Malama ‘Ola Workshop on February 20, 2016. A council of teens and young adults is continuing the peer-to-peer work to reach...
View ArticleKamehameha Schools Students learn about health career training opportunities...
Many school and public groups visit our John A. Burns School of Medicine campus every year. See our campus though the eyes of a group of Kamehameha Schools students who came to learn about the...
View ArticleOverwhelming number of UH Mānoa “R-01” grants held by JABSOM, UH Cancer...
Photo above: Inside a Tropical Medicine & Infectious Disease Lab, by Amanda Shell Eighty-four percent of the “gold standard” National Institutes of Health grants at the University of Hawaiʻi at...
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Minority Fellowship awarded to Psychiatry MD Resident Raissa Tanqueco
Dr. Tanqueco is pictured visting Osaka Castle on April 5, 2016 Raissa Tanqueco, MD (UH Psychiatry resident, second year) been selected for the 2016-2017 American Psychiatric Association Minority...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday Video: Washing your hands can reduce illness
Today, World Hand Hygiene Day, CDC is launching the new “Clean Hands Count” campaign urging healthcare professionals, patients, and patients’ loved ones to prevent healthcare-associated infections by...
View ArticleDr. Marjorie Mau to receive rank of “Mastership” by American College of...
University of Hawaiʻi Native Hawaiian Health Professor Marjorie Mau, MD, is being honored by the American College of Physicians annual meeting for internal medicine May 5-7, 2016 in Washington, D.C....
View ArticleSen. Schatz welcomes new FDA rule regulating E-Cigarettes, Smoking Age...
HONOLULU – U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), a member of the Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, today welcomed the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) release of a...
View ArticleGovernor Ige voices support for UH Cancer Center, will seek funds from the...
Governor David Ige firmly expressed his support for the University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center, during a news conference Tuesday, May 4, in which he “graded” lawmakers in the 2016 session of the Hawai’i...
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Hawai’i Addictions Conference will address opioid addictions, new treatments...
Video above: Hawai’i News Now Sunrise video, interview with Dr. William Haning, addictions specialist and Professor of Psychiatry, John A. Burns School of Medicine. Direct link. Experts in addictions...
View ArticleMEET the new SURGERY MD RESIDENTS and more in the Surgery Newsletter
We’re proud to share the Department of Surgery’s excellent news roundup with you, courtesy of Chair Dr. Kenric Murayama, Dr. Maria Chun and the Surgery Department staff! UHM DEPT OF SURGERY NEWSLETTER...
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Mother’s Day: Professor’s mom is a “living textbook” of challenges growing up...
Pictured above: Hannah Ni Lew with Dr. Albert Chen and her son, Dr. Henry Lew (right) By Henry Lew, MD, PhD, Chair of Communication Sciences and Disorders Special for UH Med Now My mother just...
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OB-GYN administrator receives Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Service
Who says hard work isn’t rewarded? An employee with more than two decades of service to the University of Hawai’i medical school is so well-appreciated that she has been named a winner of the 2016...
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VIDEO: 2016 Keiki Health Camp: Chicken Dance, Brain Hats and More!
Our video above features the 2016 Keiki Health Camp. The chicken dance, brain hats and fruit and yogurt parfaits delighted community youngsters at the 2016 Keiki Health Camp, sponsored by University of...
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MD 2016 Senior Lūʻau: Slideshow and Overview Video
Here is our first video from the John A. Burns School of Medicine Senior Lūʻau held at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa Campus Center Ballroom on Saturday May 7, 2016. This is an overview piece, with...
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WOMEN’S HEALTH WEEK: University of Hawaiʻi ranks high in numbers of women in...
Pictured: Some of the women in the MD Class of 2019. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) is a national leader among medical colleges for the number of women...
View ArticleFriday, May 13: “Be Somebody, Be Specific,” a presentation by Utah medical...
Vivian S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., is Senior Vice President, University Health Sciences and CEO, of the University of Utah Health Care, and Dean of it Utah’s School of Medicine. She is the keynote...
View ArticleHula Performance: Medical students dance kahiko at the 2016 Senior Lūʻau
Medical students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) dance to a mele inoa written for King David Kalākaua. Performed at the 2016 MD Senior Lūʻau, May 17, 2016. Kumu hula Jessica Warmoth,...
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MD seniors create kīhei in advance of joyful ceremony
On May 13, 2016, three new kauka (physicians) will stood proud, to be draped in a ceremonial garment, the kīhei, in a ceremony that marks their entry into the field of medicine. More than that, the...
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VIDEO and SLIDESHOW: “THEY DID IT!”
The University of Hawai’i MD Class of 2016 marched with pride into the Stan Sheriff Arena today at 2:30 p.m., as the Advanced Degree ceremony began with “Pomp and Circumstance.” The Class of 2016 from...
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