Leaders of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa have announced plans to create a School of Global and Community Health to build on and expand the work of the former School of Public Health, which was closed in 1999 for fiscal reasons. In a joint statement, Mānoa Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, Dean of the John A. [...]
Archive | March, 2012
UH Mānoa news release: Plans for School of Global and Community Health
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MEMORIAL FUND established to honor Dr. Max Botticelli, academic medicine pioneer at the University of Hawai’i
The family of academic medicine pioneer Dr. Max Botticelli has told the school that instead of flowers, it encourages donations in his honor be made to the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). [...]
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REMEMBERING Max: Faculty recollections of “JABSOM Giant” Dr. Botticelli
From the Dean of Medicine at the University of Hawaii to faculty and staff, there are fond memories of Dr. Max Botticelli, who served as Professor of Medicine from 1985-1996. Dr. Botticelli died March 22. “I owe my career in academics to him.” Some, like Dr. Marjorie Mau of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health [...]
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A JABSOM FIRST: Brother & Sister become MDs together in Class of 2012
Aaron and Naomi Karlen are the first brother and sister to graduate in the same year at the University of Hawai’i’s John A.Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Vice Dean Satoru Izutsu, with decades of service under his belt at the medical school, noted that fact during JABSOM’s Match Day ceremony on March 16, 2012. The [...]
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LIVE VIDEO-Match Day 2012: “The Moment”
Our MD Class of 2012 celebrates “Match Day” at the University of Hawai’i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine. Together, they open envelopes (along with some 16,000 4th-year medical students around the country today) to learn where they will spend the first years of their lives as physicians, training in specialty disciplines under “Residency Program” [...]
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Class of 2012–SLIDESHOW and Residency Match List
Our University of Hawai’i medical school’s Class of 2012 helped break a three decades old record today. More than 95 percent of U.S. medical school seniors—the highest rate in 30 years— matched to residency positions according to new data released on March 16, 2012 by the National Resident Matching Program® (NRMP®). These individuals make up the [...]
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