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YOU are the story! Help us build a closer JABSOM ʻohana
Pictured: We come together as a community for the annual lūʻau, or at Halloween. But what if we could become closer as a workplace? We would love to introduce YOU to the rest of JABSOM–whether you’ve...
View ArticleMen’s March Against Domestic Violence: Dean Hedges’ Story featured on Hawai’i...
Hawaiʻi News Now interviews John A. Burns School of Medicine Dean Jerris R. Hedges, MD, about his personal experience growing up in a household fractured by domestic violence. Dr. Hedges has served as...
View ArticleVideo: MHIRT Research program at UH Med sends undergraduates for field work...
They spent weeks abroad (in India, Cameroon and Thailand) and when they returned to Hawai’i, they had made strides in their education and research, and made new friends, too. The eight college students...
View ArticleIn the news: Zika CDC funding runs out, as JABSOM tests vaccine
Pictured: Dr. Vivek Nerurkar, who is testing the effectiveness of a Zika vaccine. Researchers and students at the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine have been working to test a Zika...
View ArticleUH RESEARCH: Doctor supply grew by 97 this year; shortage statewide now at...
Pictured: Family Medicine doctor January Andaya, MD, (JABSOM 2016) at the Mililani Physician Center, operated by the JABSOM-affiliated University Health Partners of Hawai’i. The doctor shortage in...
View ArticleUHP — medical school faculty practice — joins with Chow Project to launch...
The CHOW Project, in collaboration with University Health Partners of Hawai’i, the University of Hawai’i faculty practice, launched the State’s first community-based overdose prevention and Naloxone...
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UH plans to recruit O’ahu 9 and 10 year-olds beginning in November for...
The University of Hawai’i Mānoa plans this fall to begin recruiting some 900 school-aged children for a groundbreaking longterm study into brain development during adolescence. Recruitment for the...
View ArticleJABSOM Diversity: Strong in first-generation college students, female faculty
Have you ever wondered how we’re doing in promoting diversity? Today, results of an annual report were shared with the medical school’s Executive Committee, and through this article, we’d like to share...
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RESEARCH: Potential signature of cognitive function identified in people with...
Lishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD, left, with Michael Corley, PhD University of Hawai’i (UH) researchers have identified a unique epigenetic footprint in specific types of immune cells that can identify...
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Hawaiʻi Student Olympics: 1st and 2nd year MD students compete while cooling...
Enjoy our highlights video from Vina Cristobal of UH Med and University Health Partners Communications! The face you make when your team wins the #JABSOMOlympics Here's a same day edit from our first...
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VIDEO: University of Hawai’i medical school is Hawai’i’s Leading Producer of...
Pictured: Some of the 350 physicians selected as “Top Doctors” for 2016, with medical students, at JABSOM-Kaka’ako. Well over half of the Hawai’i physicians identified as “Top Doctors” for 2016 are...
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RESEARCH: University of Hawaiʻi part of $157 million NIH award for research,...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced $157 million in awards in fiscal year 2016 to launch a seven-year initiative called Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO). The...
View ArticleUH researcher will test HIV cure with “Shock and Kill Strategy” ebabled by...
Pictured, Dr. Lishomwa Ndhlovu with Dr. Cecilia Shikuma in the UH Hawai’i Center for AIDS. The laboratory of University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Mānoa Associate Professor Lishomwa Ndhlovu, MD, PhD, has been...
View ArticleUH Medical School helps China establish nation’s first-ever accredited...
The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has helped establish the first-ever accredited speech pathology training program in China, where the demand for speech language and hearing rehabilitation far exceeds...
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UH med school Helpdesk students on team tying for 1st place in challenge to...
Pictured: Team HATS Members: Andrew Abila, Gerome Catbagan, Edward Chang, Kenneth Dedicatoria, Samuel Erwin, Gabriel Farinas, Jayson Hayworth, Neil Knight, Robert Kuakini, Ben Lamosao, Duong Le, Dylan...
View ArticleGift to UH Mini-Medical School of Healthy Aging a lasting one
Pictured: Ricardo and Dr. Rosita Leong (seated) celebrated the new endowment with Dr. Virginia Hinshaw and Dr. Jerris Hedges. Dr. Rosita G. Leong, President & CEO, Bunker Hill Developments, Inc....
View ArticleFall 2016 Mini-Medical School on Healthy Aging gets underway this weekend
Pictured: The inaugural class of Mini-Medical School Graduates in 2014 Hawai’i residents who are ready to learn how to thrive in act two of their lives will spend the next six Saturdays on campus to...
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Medical School and Cancer Center Announce KAKA‘AKO CAMPUS COMPLIANCE WEEK,...
By Rory Kaneshiro JABSOM Director, Risk & Clinical Affairs The John A. Burns School of Medicine and University of Hawai‘i Cancer Center announce the 3rd Annual Kaka‘ako Campus Compliance Week,...
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Student organization urges you to register to VOTE, before it’s too late
The MD student-led Partnership for Social Justice (PSJ) wants you to know Hawai’i’s voter registration deadline for the general election is approaching. PSJ Invites you take action now to make sure...
View ArticleJABSOM Infectious Disease Research highlighted in video at “Future Focus”...
Research at the University of Hawai’i (UH) aimed at conquering disease was featured today at the conference “Future Focus: The Hawaiʻi Innovation Initiative’s Forum on Medical Research, Cybersecurity...
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