Archive | October, 2011

  University of Hawai‘i President M.R.C. Greenwood has announced the members of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Chancellor Search Advisory Committee and the timeline for selection of the next chancellor of UH Mānoa, four of whom have ties to the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).   The committee includes Dean Jerris Hedges, [...]

This month’s Hawai’i Medical Journal features an article focusing on how tobacco taxes and settlement monies have been appropriated by the Hawai’i State Legislature to improve our citizens’ health. The article, co-written by John A. Burns School of Medicine Communications Director Tina Shelton and Dean Jerris Hedges, is the second of two articles in back-to-back [...]

Psychiatry Residents raised more than $5,000 to help fight the stigma associated with mental illness as they took part in last month’s National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) benefit walk. The team, pictured here, gathered up more than 100 individual donations, and exceeded their total fundraising goal by $2,000. (The team tee shirts they are [...]

University of Hawai’i Cancer Center spokeswoman Kellie Tormey reports that construction of the UH Cancer Center, next to the John A. Burns School of Medicine at Kaka’ako, is ahead of schedule. In fact, Tormey said, crews reached a major milestone by “topping off’ the building. That term means workers completed the highest point on the [...]