Archive | April, 2012

When Dr. Steven Minaglia and Dr. Scott Harvey suggest exercise as a way to reduce stress and promote good health, they are speaking from experience. The two swam from Moloka`i to Lana`i on May 12, 2012 in under six hours, braving swells, the stings of Portuguese man-of-war and bad sunburn. Fortunately, they’re not novices at [...]

Two abstracts from the John A. Burns School ohf Medicine and The Queen’s Medical Center research group, funded in part by Specialized Neuroscience Research Program (SNRP), [U54 NS56883], received special merit awards from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). With a multidisciplinary membership of over 6,000 including clinicians, physicists, engineers, etc., ISMRM [...]

“A great success” is how Dr. Mariana Gercheson describes April’s two-day Biomedical Symposium at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).  It was a success on several fronts: more posters than ever, as well as the participation of two undergraduate students at Kapio’lani Community College (KCC) and two students from the University of Hawai’i at [...]

University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Dean Jerris Hedges, MD was in Washington, D.C. this week to meet with members of Hawai`i’s Congressional Delegation.   Dr. Hedges met with U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye and many of his staff, in between the Senator’s extremely busy schedule chairing hearings of the Senate’s Appropriations Committee. [...]

The director of University of Hawai`i Mānoa’s Office of Public Health Studies (OHPS), Jay Maddock, Ph.D., has been accepted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Health Behavior (AAHB). The AAHB, founded in 1997, is a research home for health behavior scholars and researchers whose primary commitment is to excellence in research and improving [...]

Medical students Brad Kamitaki, Huy Do, Yvonne Lum, and Hezhi Gan are in the Onelauena homeless shelter, surrounding a man with care.  This spot, on O`ahu’s leeward coast, is probably the last place in the world the man expected to find young University of Hawai`i medical students. They encircle him, working together to clean and [...]