Archive | January, 2013

This video, hosted by a University of Hawai`i Mānoa student, tells the story of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Department of Native Hawaiian Health and visits the medical school’s Lau Ola Clinic in the Gold Bond Building. Courtesy UH System Media and OC Sports.

The school of medicine’s loss is Leeward Community College’s (LCC) gain as Lionel Shigemura starts the next chapter of his University of Hawai`i career with the Pearl City campus led by Leeward’s Chancellor Manny Cabral. The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Office of Information Technology hosted an ice cream sundae send-off for Lionel [...]

Dr. Sheri Fong, John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) MD graduate (and also a PhD) is being interviewed by Hawai`i News Now reporter Teri Okita, while five of our first-year medical students (Class of 2016) look on. What’s the story? Click on their website to watch the report. By the way, the students began [...]

            The John A. Burns School of Medicine has 462 students enrolled in 2013 in Public Health, Communications Sciences & Disorders, Medical Technology, the advanced biomedical sciences and Medicine. Of the more than 250 medical students, 90% are residents of Hawai`i representing every county in the State. Additionally, another 225 newly minted MDs are employed throughout our State and preparing for licensure and board certification in our public-private [...]

The Centers for Disease Control begins publishing its weekly updates about U.S. flu activity, and there is heightened concern after the city of Boston declared a flu public health emergency because significantly more people are falling ill in that city than they did last year. You can check out the  CDC Weekly Flu Surveillance Report. [...]

From UH System The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center celebrates the grand opening of its new facility in Kakaʻako on Saturday, February 23, 2013. The celebration marks the culmination of a project that broke ground in October 2010 and was completed $16 million under budget and three months ahead of schedule. “There are so many [...]