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Seeking volunteer tutors for medical students
Medical student teaching opportunity: PBL small group facilitators (aka, “PBL tutors”), call for volunteers A message from Dr. Richard Kasuya: Dear JABSOM MD Alumni, I know many of us have considered...
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The Class of 2018 thanks the JABSOM Alumni Association with a gift
Pictured: The John A. Burns School of Medicine welcomes (JABSOM) 64 new physicians to the JABSOM Alumni Association. We know their hearts are dedicated to improving the health of Hawaiʻi and the world...
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Helping Hands: JABSOM Family Physician among those from UH helping out in...
Pictured: Dr. Tseng is shown on the far left, with the other volunteers who helped when East Honolulu was drenched by rain and covered by mud. By Tina Shelton, UH Med Now When heavy rains triggered the...
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VIDEO & PHOTOS: Celebrating 6 new physicians of Native Hawaiian ancestry...
Pictured R to L: Dr. Dee-Ann Carpenter, JABSOM Assistant Professor in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health, ties the kīhei for Dr. Nina Beckwith, JABSOM MD 2018. Deborah Manog Dimaya Photo. By...
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Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS scientist Brooks Mitchell earns Koenig Foundation...
UHMed Now Photos of Brooks Mitchell by Deborah Manog “HIV…it’s been around for decades. But there is still a lot of work to be done,” said Brooks Mitchell, JABSOM HIV/AIDS Researcher. By Tina Shelton ,...
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New logo, new Dr. Parsa painting for Surgery Department
Pictured: Dr. F. Don Parsa, Plastic Surgery chief, with his latest painting. Photo by Junji Machi, MD. The University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Department of Surgery has a new logo. It was designed by the...
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Waiola Cafe food service suspended July 1 for renovations lasting through...
Pictured: The Waiola Cafe, June 2018. By UH Med Now The wonderful vendors in the Waiola Cafe at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) will shut down food service starting July 1st so that they...
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Faculty Snapshot: Frozen poi and more, with Native Hawaiian Health’s N. Kauʻi...
Pictured: N. Kauʻi Baumhofer, Assistant Professor in the Department of Native Hawaiian Health Aloha, Kauʻi! Can you describe what you do at JABSOM? I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of...
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MD Student hoping for help to save unfunded summer camp for kids with...
Pictured: Children at a Muscular Dystrophy Summer Camp in California. By MD 2020 Candidate Brittni Kam Please Help Us Save Camp! For the past 20 years, there has been an annual Summer Camp on Oʻahu’s...
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Care urged in reporting on the tragedy of suicide; Emphasis needed on seeking...
University of Hawaiʻi Department of Psychiatry faculty member, Prevent Suicide Hawaiʻi Task Force chair, offers her expertise regarding CDC report showing rising national trend in suicides By Tina...
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Zika researcher Saguna Verma gets new funding, forges cross-country...
Pictured: Dr. Saguna Verma. Amanda Shell photo. By Tina Shelton JABSOM Communications Director Zika researcher Dr. Saguna Verma has received nearly half a million dollars in new funding to extend her...
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Apply now for Robert Wong Lectureship! Deadline is July 31, 2018
Pictured: A bust of Robert T. Wong, MD, by artist Dora Fugh Lee. The bust is in the Health Sciences Library at JABSOM. Photo by Amanda Shell. Applications are due July 31, 2018 for the semi-annual...
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JABSOM’s more than 1,200 volunteer medical professors to qualify for new...
Pictured above: Dr. Melanie Arakaki, (JABSOM MD 1998) is a preceptor to medical students rotating through her offices in Hilo. Dr. Arakaki is pictured in the center, when she received the first Award...
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In the news: Legionnaires’ disease case in Hawai’i, Assistant Clinical...
From the Hawai’i State Department of Health: The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) is currently investigating a confirmed case of legionellosis, commonly known as Legionnaires’ disease, in an adult...
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Faculty Snapshot: Dr. Craig Thomas, Emergency Medicine and world traveler
Pictured: Dr. Craig Thomas aboard Hōkūleʻa in the Indian Ocean, 2015. What is your name and position title? Craig Thomas, MD FACEP. I am a clinical faculty member in the University of Hawai’i John A....
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Training doctors from critical, under-represented populations: Military...
Pictured:Dr. Kellerman is shown congratulating Lt. Gabriel Lapid, MD, at the JABSOM 2018 Convocation Ceremony where Dr. Lapid received his commission. Dr. Lapid will train in residency at Navy Medical...
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Hawaiʻi lagging behind many states in gene match program to advance...
Pictured: Staff members at the Hawaiʻi Pacific Neuroscience Center demonstrate the cheek swab. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director More than 65,000 people in U.S. have enrolled in The...
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ʻImi Hoʻōla students break through socio-economic barriers, earn acceptance...
Pictured: The newest MD 2020 Class members and 2018 ʻImi Hoʻōla Program graduates. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, UH Med Now Through a University of Hawaiʻi post-baccalaureate program, students from...
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UH professor Dominic Chow is presented Alumni Achievement Award in HIV/Aids...
Dr. Chow speaks during the scientific presentation at SUNY. Director of the Clint Spencer Clinic Professor, Dept. of Medicine Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics By UH Med Now The Downstate...
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Women 65 and older SHOULD be screened for osteoporosis, says US Preventive...
Image of a hip scan, courtesy of WEB MD. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for osteoporosis to prevent fractures in women ages 65 and older, says task force member Chien-Wen...
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