Archive | January, 2013

Enjoy the sights and sounds of our MD student-run Community Health Fair. Mahalo to our sponsors, vendors, elected legislators and you, our students’ future patients!

Click here to see the non-flash version of the slide show (iPad friendly). The medical students of the University of Hawai`i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) sponsored the 8th Annual JABSOM Community Health Fair on January 4, 2013, from 12 PM to 3 PM on the grounds of the medical school, at 651 Ilalo [...]

Friday’s community health fair, sponsored and organized by University of Hawai`i medical students, is getting plenty of publicity. And it’s because of the work of the students leading the media campaign, including Chadwick Council, a first year medical student at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Chadwick, a graduate of Kaimuki High School, [...]

John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Dean Jerris Hedges has been named one of America’s most “awesome” deans in Public Health. JABSOM’s Public Health program offers Master’s Degrees in epidemiology, health policy and management, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Health and social and behavioral health sciences. The department also awards doctoral degrees, including those focusing [...]

The PMAG-UH JABSOM Medical Professionalism Essay Contest was established to promote professionalism among physicians and physicians in training at the University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine. The contest is being generously funded by PMAG (Pacific Medical Administrative Group, Inc.), which is one of Hawai`i’s leading IPAs (Independent Physician Associations), made up of more than [...]

The first Developmental and Reproductive Biology Graduate Program Students Retreat is happening on the University of Hawai`i Mānoa Campus this Friday, March 1, 2013. It will be hosted by the Institute for Biogenesis Research (IBR), in the Biomedical Sciences Building. During the retreat the DRB students will present their research highlights for discussion with peers and faculty. Thirteen [...]