UH medical professor Chien-Wen Tseng appointed to influential, prestigious...
Chien-Wen Tseng, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.E.E., University of Hawaiʻi (UH) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) associate professor and associate research director of family medicine and community...
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Alumni News: Kevin Lum, MD and ʻEkahi Health System celebrate a milestone
Pictured: The ʻEkahi Ornish Reversal Program celebrates its first year in Hawai’i. Dr. Kevin Lum (JABSOM 1997) is Medical Director and chief quality officer for ‘Ekahi Health System’s ‘Ekahi Urgent...
View ArticleAPPLAUSE: Dr. Megan Kuba wins national “Young Investigator in Training” award...
Pictured: Dr. Kuba and Dr. Izuka with dignitaries at the conference. They say it is rare for lightning to strike twice. Well, how about three times? Dr. Megan Kuba, already a two-time award winner at...
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TAKE PRIDE: Video features overall achievements at University of Hawaiʻi
Pictured above: Family medicine residency program MDs training using sonograms in the JABSOM SimTiki Center, led by Family Medicine Residency Program Director Dr. Steven Hankins, second from right. The...
View ArticleIN THE NEWS: Keiki explored the world of medicine at Teen Health Camp
Photographed: Student learning how to apply a cast at the “CASTing Call” workshop The University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine hosted the annual Teen Health Camp, an interactive one-day...
View ArticleNEW VIDEO! Teen Health Camp to interest youth in health careers draws record...
The University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa and its John A. Burns School of Medicine hosted students from as far away as Lānai for the 2016 Fall Teen Health Camp on Saturday, November 19 at the John A. Burns...
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Former JABSOM instructor, AIDS activist Dr. Charles Lyden posthumously...
Pictured: Charles Lyden From the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health – HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) Harm Reduction Services Branch is pleased to announce the 2016 Annual...
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WORLD AIDS DAY Dec. 1: On-campus update from UH-JABSOM Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS
Pictured: The Clinics at Kakaʻako, on the JABSOM campus, where the UH Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS cares for patients. On World AIDS Day, Dec 1, 2016, the Hawai’i Center for AIDS (HICFA), John A. Burns...
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UH medical researcher aims to understand how the Zika virus is spread through...
Dr. Saguna Verma of Tropical Medicine has received Hawaiʻiʻs first Zika virus research grant. She will tackle a perplexing invasion of an organ usually protected from viral infection. If you began to...
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Team building includes confectionary house construction
You’ll be seeing some gingerbread houses in the cafeteria soon, and they’re not just any old cookie dough structures. The houses were a project of the first-ever Administration, Finance, and Operations...
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Celebrating a Decade of “Healing with Compassion through Selfless Giving”
More than 300 community advocates gathered at the Waīkīki Aquarium to celebrate a decade of serving Hawaiʻi’s homeless at the annual Hawaiʻi Homeless Outreach and Medical Education (H.O.M.E) Project’s...
View ArticleStudy participants sought for Native Hawaiian dementia care givers
SEE THE BALAZ FLYER Pokiʻi Balaz is a Native Hawaiian Doctor of Nursing Practice student who has been mentored by John A. Burns School of Medicine Professor Dr. Winnie Lee. Balaz is recruiting...
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News from Capitol Hill: Passage of 21st Century Cures Act, ECHO
From Senator Brian Schatz and Senator Mazie Hirono’s offices President Obama is shortly to sign the 21st Century Cures Act, a comprehensive bill to accelerate medical research, which passed the Senate...
View ArticleInteractive Christmas Tree in the Lobby, for messages about real-life...
Our medical students from the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Gold Humanism Honor Society have set up an interactive Christmas tree in the Medical Education Lobby. The tree, in the corner of...
View ArticleVIDEO: New graduates, new name for University of Hawai’i Mini-Medical School...
Pictured, the “Dr. Rosita Leong Mini-Medical School for Healthy Aging” Class of Fall, 2016. The University of Hawai’i medical school’s Mini-Medical School for Healthy Aging has a new name, and in...
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MD and Grad Students: UH Mānoa instructor discusses upcoming brain mapping...
Dr. Jonas Vibell, and instructor with the UH Mānoa Department of Psychology, wants biomedical students to know about an upcoming course he will lead examining the tools, techniques and technologies to...
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IN MEMORY: MD students honor Will Henderson with a ceremony at sea
Pictured: Will Henderson’s puʻolo is lowered to the surface of the sea by MD 2020 student Gavin Ha. With great care, medical students Leimomi Kanagasuku (MD 2018), Gavin Ha (MD 2020) and Nina Beckwith...
View ArticleFREE! MD student-led Community Health Fair returns to UH Med Kaka’ako on...
Make plans to spend time on Sunday, January 15, 2017 to have fun and learn about community programs that can help you get healthier in 2017! Plus there will be fun…and opportunities to see YOUR medical...
View Article“An honor”, says University of Hawaiʻi’s Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng, of appointment...
Pictured: Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng of UH Family Medicine By Tina Shelton, UH Med Now The New Year will bring significant changes in the country’s political power structure, and with it, some uncertainty for...
View ArticleChina university professors visit Hawaiʻi, continuing collaboration that...
Pictured: Kunming Medical University and University of Hawaiʻi medical school faculty signal a “thumbs up” during a visit to the John A. Burns School of Medicine in December, 2016. by Vina Cristobal,...
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