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IN MEMORY: Walter F. Char, founding Chair of Psychiatry at the University of...
Pictured: Dr. Char is in the front row, seated, surrounded by, from left, Dr. Naleen Andrade, the late Dr. John McDermott and Dr. Anthony Guerrero, the former and current chairs of psychiatry at...
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BOOKNOTES: University of Hawaiʻi obstetrician Tricia Wright helps pen a new...
Pictured: Portrait of Dr. Tricia Wright. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. The book is meant as a toolkit for care, informed by Dr. Wright’s experience treating addicted mothers in Hawaiʻi. By Marybeth...
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The Dean’s Decade at the helm of JABSOM: An interview with Dr. Jerris Hedges...
Photo: Dean Hedges in the Native Hawaiian Healing Garden on the JABSOM Kakaʻako campus. Photo by Deborah Manog Dimaya. By Kathleen Connelly, PhD, Contributing Editor, Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine and...
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Renaissance palace the setting for a Science and Technology prize awarded to...
Pictured: Dr. Carbone with fellow award winners ceremony guests, from left to right: Dante Ferretti, Jonathan Bober, Michele Carbone, Nicola Piovani, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Paolo Nespoli,...
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Lessons for Living Well: 90 year old scientific legend Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi,...
Pictured: At age 90, Scientist Dr. Ryuzo Yanagimachi, now retired, in his lab, enthusiastic as ever, about his research. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director In...
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Happy New Year! MD students offer up some 2019 resolutions
We have got some quick new year’s resolutions from three of our John A. Burns School of Medicine students. What are your’s?
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University of Hawai’i medical school diversified its nearly $60M research...
Pictured: Albert To, a Zika Vaccine researcher in the Lehrer lab at JABSOM in December, 2018. Deborah Manog photo. The JABSOM research portfolio totaled nearly $60 million in FY 2018 ($59,977,063). By...
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New “Our Care, Our Choice” law prompts education sessions for MDs and...
Pictured: Dr. Steven Pantilat speaks to the Geriatric fellows and faculty at Kuakini Medical Center. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, UH Med Now As of January 1, 2019, Hawaiʻi...
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2003 University of Hawaiʻi MD alumnus performs Oʻahu’s first “DMEK” surgery,...
Pictured: Dr. Wong performing the DMEK procedure. Photo courtesy of The Eye Surgery Center of Hawaiʻi. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director 2003 John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM)...
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1st International Translational Medicine Conference in Hawaiʻi brings...
Pictured: Dr. Loïc LeMarchand working in a cell storage area in the laboratories at UH Kakaʻako. Courtesy UH Cancer Center. By UH Med Now The 1st annual international conference on Translational...
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Calling all college scientists… MHIRT applications due Feb. 1st
Pictured: UH Mānoa undergraduate student Jasmine Padamada at the lab bench (L) and visiting a temple in Thailand (R). Photos courtesy of Padamada. Does traveling across the globe to conduct your own...
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2019: Catching up with leadership changes — promotions from within — at the...
Above, Dr. Gerschenson, Dr. Matsui and Dr. Thompson In 2019, Dean Jerris Hedges and faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Mānoa medical school have new leaders in two departments and a new...
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Applications due March 1 for 2019 Abraham Kagan, MD Endowed Fellowship
Pictured: A JABSOM MD student’s white lab coat. Applications are being accepted until March 1st for the 2019 Abraham Kagan, MD Endowed Fellowship which is eligible for MD resident trainees and students...
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International Translational Medicine Conference launched with high hopes for...
Pictured: Attendees of the 1st International Conference of Translational Medicine at JABSOM. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. By UH Med Now The 1st annual International Conference of Translational Medicine...
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HIV PREVENTION a bright spot as the fight for a cure to HIV infection enters...
Pictured: Dr. Shikuma is at the microphone during a session of the Hawaii 2 Zero HIV Prevention and Cure Conference. The 4th annual Hawaiʻi to Zero HIV Prevention and Cure Conference was held at the...
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Hawaiʻi keiki over three times more susceptible to cat scratch disease,...
Pictured: Feral cats at UH Mānoa Doctors in the University of Hawaiʻi Pediatric Residency Program at Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children examined cases affecting children at one medical...
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Honor of introducing Hawaiʻi-born former U.S. President goes to JABSOM...
Pictured: Dr. Fox and former President Obama embrace after the introduction. Dr. Leanne Kealoha Fox recently became the first “JABSOM” grad we know of to have the opportunity to introduce the former...
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Pops of fun as Internal Giving Campaign celebrates another annual goal EXCEEDED!
Pictured: Three MD students with smiles and bags of warm popcorn. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. Hooray for our faculty and staff who gave once again to support the missions of the University of Hawaiʻi...
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National mentoring award for UH alumna and obstetrician Bliss Kaneshiro
Pictured: Dr. Kaneshiro, wearing blue, is 4th from the left. She is surrounded by a few of her mentees – faculty, fellows, researchers, and residents. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director...
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Hot Ticket: February 2019 Mini-Medical School session has 178 students, with...
Pictured: The first graduating class of the Mini-Medical School on Healthy Aging at JABSOM in 2014, before it was renamed the Dr. Rosita Leong Mini Medical School. One hundred seventy-eight students...
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