UH Med Weekly
Hawaiʻi & Liberia partner in infectious disease efforts
CDC grant awarded to support University of Hawaii, University of Liberia collaboration to improve infectious disease response, rebuild health and research workforce
Hawaii-Liberia Research Partnership
And click play, above, to watch amazing video featuring University of Liberia students interacting with and learning from UH student scientists.
MD students in the HOME Project help your ANGEL TREE gifts get wrapped and ready for Santa’s delivery
Final exams are pau so why are MD students still pulling back-to-back days in the library? They are wrapping scores of holiday gifts headed to keiki at nine centers serving the homeless on Oʻahu. The initiative was covered by KITV4 News last night. Thank you to all who participated in the Angel Tree Project and to all the HOME donors who are angels year-round. Read more at UH Med Now.
HOME Project gifts HD 1080p
And mahalo for supporting HOME's Craft Fair & Bake Sale
Nomination to local book awards for a collection featuring contributors from the JABSOM Department of Native Hawaiian Health
Hoʻi Hou Ka Mauli Ola: Pathways to Native Hawaiian Health, which includes over thirty contributors from JABSOM's DNHH has been nominated in the Ka Palapala Poʻokela Awards in the category of Hawaiian Language, Culture and History. Pictured are co-editors Mele Look and Dr. Winona Lee. Read more at UH Med Now.
Once again, Honolulu Marathon runners aided by University of Hawaiʻi medical students & faculty
Lucia Amore, MD 2021 Candidate, was one of the medical students who spent all day Sunday offering aid to runners of the Honolulu Marathon. This was her second year volunteering. Dr. Tony Katras, University of Hawaii Clinical Professor of Surgery, who was supervising volunteers under the first aid tent, said JABSOM was well-represented, offering amazing help for the race participants.
Fukuyamas Honor Life’s Work of Island Medical Pioneer
University of Hawaiʻi Foundation highlights Dr. Richard Kekuni Blaisdell, founding chair of the JABSOM Department of Medicine and celebrates the endowed fund in his name, established by Dr. Osamu and Mrs. Edwina Fukuyama. Read more about the fund, which supports the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence, HERE.
JABSOM residency program director finds balance in boxing
Caring for patients, volunteering with the community and overseeing the UH JABSOM Family Medicine Residency Program can be overwhelming. How does Dr. Lydia Rolita de-stress from her responsibilities? University Health Partners of Hawaiʻi's Vina Cristobal reports, HERE.
Having witnessed cancer’s toll in her own family makes this researcher’s fight for better cancer detection personal
Meet Dr. Melissa Agsalda-Garcia and read about her research and the motivation behind her efforts towards improving cancer-screening techniques at UH Med Now.
Inaugural Diabetes Symposium Feb. 4, 2020
Find out more information at our JABSOM events page and register, below.
WALK WITH A FUTURE DOC -- NEXT WALK ON DECEMBER 22 INVOLVES COOKIES!
The John A. Burns School of Medicine
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