Archive | May, 2011

UH Med doctor helps victims in Japan disaster zone

JABSOM’s Dr. Nobuharu Harada, an Assistant Clinical Professor of Geriatric Medicine at Kokua Kalihi Valley Health Center, has been helping Japan victims of the March 11 tsunami. KITV4 News interviewed him on location. Dr. Nobu Harada of Kokua Kalihi Valley Center & UH traded his white coat for orange emergency pants and a winter jacket to work [...]

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Dr. Vivek Nerurkar and team featured researching West Nile Virus

JABSOM’s Dr. Vivek Nerurkar and his team researching West Nile Virus are featured in the cover story of the new edition of NCRR Reporter. The magazine is published by the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Research Resources. Click here for story in the NCRR Reporter

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Winners of Biomedical Sciences Symposium Announced

Hsin-I Tong has been awarded to top prize, Best Overall, in the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s 2011 Biomedical Sciences Symposium awards. To put the honor in perspective, there were a huge number of entrants (97) from faculty and departments across the UH-Manoa campus in the competition held April 19 and 20. Tong was [...]

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JABSOM Faces Funding Challenge, will strive to find additional resources beyond tuition

A bill allowing the John A. Burns School of Medicine to use all of the Master Tobacco Settlement Agreement funds the state has allocated to the school failed to make it to a vote — along with several other key measures — as of Friday, April 29′s legislative “decking” deadline. The JABSOM measure appeared to [...]

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