Archive | March, 2011

UH medical students provide needed service for homeless

Dr. Jill Omori (Family Medicine & Community Health) and her students in the HOME Project were featured in a news report on Hawaii News Now (March 1st, Wednesday evening, 2011).  Click on the following link to read the story and view the video. Click Here -> HawaiiNewsNow-Hawaii’s Homeless: A Sheltered Life

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NOVA Profiles work of UH Medical School’s Angel Yanagihara

The John A. Burns School of Medicine is proud to share the news that the prestigious PBS program “NOVA” featured a segment on the work of our Dr. Angel Yanagihara. The program originally aired in Hawaii last week on PBS..but you may now catch it for viewing ON LINE. Dr. Yanagihara’s segment appears at about [...]

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Women’s caucus dedicates 2011 package to UH medical professor who founded clinic for addicted moms

Pictured: Dr. Wright with Baby Tati A University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine program for high risk pregnant women has far surpassed expectations—delivering healthy babies and saving high costs of premature, low weight infants. Perinatal Addiction Treatment of Hawai’i – known as PATH—“is not really a drug treatment program,” said State Rep. Marilyn Lee. “It’s [...]

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Movie brings appreciation to speech therapists

Story by KHON-2, Olena Heu See video and link to KHON-2 story, featuring JABSOM’s Dorothy Craven, Dr. Henry Lew, Dr. Colette Coleman and Communication Sciences & Disorders students (Kimi and Summer). Click here to watch “Movie brings appreciation to speech therapists” “The King’s Speech” took the top award at the Academy Awards last night, and [...]

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