UH Med Weekly
Have a proud & happy Juneteenth!
JABSOM proudly recognizes June 19, 2021 as Juneteenth or Freedom Day
Jerris R. Hedges, MD, MS, MMM
Professor & Dean
Barry & Virginia Weinman - Endowed Chair
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii - Manoa
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Congrats to the 2021 ʻImi Grads!
Grad student is one of AAUWʻs Spring 2021 Grant Awardees
Congratulations to the University of Hawaii's 2021 tenure and promotion recipients!
This year JABSOM is proud to announce that 13 of our faculty were promoted or tenured this year, they will be featured in a special faculty spotlight in an upcoming JABSOM newsletter. We are proud to share the accomplishments of our ʻohana who continue to strengthen our school with their expertise and dedication.
VIDEO: Vax Facts!
Free mental health telemedicine program for rural Hawaiʻi
Read the full story at UH Med Now & UH News.
See also: University of Hawaii receives $320,000 for telehealth project launch
UH project spearheads new model for safer school reopenings
JABSOM Faculty share op-ed in local newspaper
Midweek Hot Shots: $5M gives program shot in the arm
Gov. Ige faces growing calls to veto bill eliminating an anti-tobacco trust fund
What's New in PubMed?
1. Single Versus Double-Sided Hypotheses and Probabilities.
2. Long term observation of hydrogel buckle intrusion without vision loss.
3. An Unusual Foreign Body-Caused Chondral Lesion of the Talar Dome: A Case Report.
5. Sweet tooth: DNA profiling of a cranium from an isolated retained root fragment.
See more entries at pubmed.gov
June is #HIGOTVACCINATED month
Health Career Panel Sign Ups; New speakers every week
AHEC is launching its healthcare career series workshops! Every week until the end of July we will be having guest speakers either working in healthcare career or a student pursing a healthcare career. Feel free to ask them any questions who have whatsoever about their journey in healthcare! Click the image below to sign up.
6/24: Free Webinar: Quest Starlight Lecture: "Cancer & Diabetes"
"Cancer & Diabetes"
Quest for a Cure: Progress in Cancer Research
Starlight Lecture Series
Thursday, June 24, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Gertraud Maskarinec, MD, PhD
"Type 2 Diabetes and Cancer: What is the Connection?"
Professor & Program Director, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center
Loic Le Marchand, MD, PhD
"What Have We Learned from Studies on Overnutrition and Cancer?"
Professor & Associate Director for Ethnic Diversity, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program (Cancer Epidemiology), University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center
Randall F. Holcombe, MD, MBA
Director, University of Hawai'i Cancer Center
The John A. Burns School of Medicine
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