Abstracts due March 16 for 2018 Biomedical Sciences and Health Disparities...
Pictured: 2017 Symposium. The 2018 Biomedical Sciences and Health Disparities Symposium is on April 18 and 19, sponsored by the John A. Burns School of Medicine and the University of Hawai’i Cancer...
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Molokaʻi gets first-ever Teen Health Camp; 51 youngsters try out health...
Pictured: Molokaʻi teens pose as a group at the first-ever Teen Health Camp held on Molokaʻi. Teen Health Camp Molokaʻi made its debut on the Friendly Isle on Saturday, February 17, 2018, bringing...
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World experts in heart failure meeting at UH medical school to forge “New...
Pictured: Researchers and presenters at the conference. Deborah Manog photos. The 2018 New Frontiers in Cell Death Signaling and Heart Failure meeting has brought experts together from the University...
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Geriatric Medicine’s Katherine Kim honored for lasting service to the...
Pictured: Dr. Kamal Masaki, Katherine Kim, and Dr. Aida Wen. Katherine Kim says she has had the privilege over 30 years of getting to know and working with some of the brightest and most committed...
View ArticleUH Family Medicine’s Dr. Tseng explains how too much texting can become a...
Pictured: Dr. Tseng being interviewed by KHON2 News Videojournalist Elyssa Arevalo. T.Shelton photo. The KHON2 News turned to Family Medicine Associate Professor Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng to discuss how too...
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Early Registration open, Call for Abstracts for 2019 Cross-Cultural Health...
Pictured: Questions from the audience at the 2015 Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference in Waikīkī. Arnold Kameda photo. It is time to save the date! The 6th Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference:...
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H.O.M.E. Project volunteers present at Student-Run Free Clinics Conference in...
Pictured: (L to R): Dr. Jill Omori, Charmaine Milla, Jason Huynh, Taylor Sinn, Chloe Liu, Kayla Murata and Chris Tokeshi. By Deborah Manog, UH Med Now Dr. Jill Omori and a group of volunteers from the...
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Alumni Basketball Event: MD alumni shout, “Go ‘Bows!”
By Tina Shelton, UH Med Now The University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Men’s Rainbow basketball team lost their last home game of the season at the Stan Sheriff Arena on Saturday night, but it sure wasn’t for the...
View Article“Project ECHO Hawaiʻi” links geriatric, mental health care specialists with...
Photo and story courtesy of Kaiser Permanente and JABSOM AHEC. Patients who would normally have to fly from a neighbor island to see a geriatrician or psychiatrist in Honolulu might have a better...
View ArticleVideo: Longtime admissions director Dr. Satoru Izutsu is the “Guest of Honor”...
Pictured: Dean Jerris Hedges and Dr. Izutsu hold a framed artwork made of golden folded paper cranes. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, UH Med Now Honolulu obstetrician Dr. Thomas Kosasa donated $600,000 to...
View ArticleContinuing Medical Education is required by law for Hawaiʻi doctors–and...
Photo: The ACCME accreditation mark which the JABSOM CME Program earned in 2016. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director Many people do not recognize that Continuing Medical Education (CME) is...
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History of Medicine now includes MD Class “Time Capsules” in the Library
Different Looks: MD 2020 went for colorful while MD 2021 went warp speed on its Time Capsule box. Tina Shelton photo. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director Your first few days of medical...
View ArticleOfficial Commendation from Governor thanks medical school Dean Jerris Hedges...
Pictured: The Dean with some of his office staff on March 1, 2018. “Selfie Stick” photo by Deborah Manog, up front, of JABSOM Communications. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director On March 1,...
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Brain Injury Awareness Month: Free screening of “Concussion” here this...
Pictured: The image of a child’s brain captured at The Queen’s Medical Center-UH Magnetic Resonance Center, 2016. News from the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH) Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is...
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MATCH DAY 2018: The MD March Madness Begins!
Pictured: Two MDs in the Class of 2017 on Match Day, 2017. Amanda Shell Photo. The National Resident Matching Program (NMRP) expects the 2018 Main Residency Match to be the largest in history,...
View ArticleJitters at JABSOM as #Match2018 approaches!
Pictured: Members of the MD Class of 2018 at their White Coat Ceremony in 2014, when they began their studies. Amanda Shell photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya and Tina Shelton, UH Med Now As Match Day 2018...
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63 future physicians “MATCH” into post-medical school “MD Residency” training...
Pictured: The MD Class of 2018 at JABSOM immediately after the Match Day ceremony. Deborah Manog Photo. By By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director Sixty-three members of the University of...
View ArticleU.H. medical school is among top accredited medical schools, outperforming...
Pictured: Members of the JABSOM MD Class of 2021 last July. Amanda Shell photo. By UH Med Now On the heels of a successful Match Day, in which its most recent MD Candidates matched into training...
View ArticleUS News & World Report ranks University of Hawaiʻi medical school #41 in...
Pictured: The 2019 rankings of JABSOM among 177 medical schools, according to U.S. News & World Report JABSOM faculty out-perform many top ten research schools in NIH funding per full-time faculty...
View ArticleWiki Video: Recent advances in weight loss may involve the microbiome
Pictured: Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers gives a special lecture at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. Tina Shelton photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, UH Med Now Director of the National Institute of Diabetes...
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