Archive | October, 2012

More than 400 friends and colleagues have joined the Botticelli family and University Health Alliance (UHA), in funding an endowment at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) to memorialize the legacy and impact of academic medicine pioneer, Dr. Max G. Botticelli. In a ceremony at the medical school [...]

Emergency pediatrics physician Alson Inaba is always finding ways to challenge his pediatric medicine residents to learn. As an associate professor at the University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), Dr. Inaba set a lifesaving lesson to music as he led medical rounds at the Kapi`olani Medical Center for Women and Children [...]

University of Hawai`i medical students Kristin King (who hails from Kalaheo High School) and Justin Grubbs (Punahou) traveled to Yap this summer as part of the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s summer elective program known as MD5. We asked Kristin to fill us in on the journey. Where did you go; how did you [...]

For more than a decade, Dr. John Houk as championed the concept of the “Patient-Centered Medical Home”. During a ceremony in which he was named “Physician of the Year” by the Hawai`i Medical Assocation, Dr. Houk said patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is ushering in “rebirth” of primary care. “A Doctor’s Doctor” In his introduction to [...]

The American Medical Association (AMA) Minority Affairs Section is meeting through Nov. 10 at the Hawai`i Convention Center in Waikiki, and it asked Associate Professor Dr. Kalani Brady to be its keynote speaker on November 9. Dr. Brady is with the John A. Burns School of Medicine Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research. [...]

You might want to turn on the radio or sing along to “Gangnam Style”, our microphone didn’t pick up the sound of the song as well as the lens captured the dances. (Though we could hear all the audience squeals of joy!) What a super bunch of student dancers! Enjoy the enthusiastic moves by the [...]