Archive | November, 2011

The Board of Trustees for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has awarded $500,000 to the Department of Native Hawaiian Health (DNNH) at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Over a two year period, the grant is expected to help up to 500 Native Hawaiians on O’ahu, Maui, Moloka’i and [...]

The Hawai’i H.O.M.E. Project hosted its annual H.O.M.E. for the Holidays Craft Fair December 2 at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).  In addition to finding terrific holiday presents, shoppers helped support the volunteer medical outreach to homeless families performed by our MD students. Hot items this year included “bling”–sparkling lanyards. [...]

The newest medical students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, the Class of 2015, have come up with a new idea for their fundraising project, and it’s one many people will find handy beginning in January. The product is a 2012 JABSOM Calendar.  Each month features photographs of people who help make the [...]

It’s usual for medical students to be harried, but now some of them were both harried and hairy during November. The men, particularly, who grew moustaches and beards to take part in “Movember“, the nationwide movement to raise awareness and money to promote men’s health. Pictured are supporters who contributed to the cause, some by growing [...]