Archive | February, 2013

By Maria Chun, PhD, Associate Chair, Administration and Finance for the Department of Surgery The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Department of Surgery held its 3rd Cross-Cultural Health Care Conference on February 8-9, 2013 at the Ala Moana Hotel. Reflective of its theme of collaborative and multidisciplinary interventions, over 200 professionals and trainees [...]

We are happy to announce that over 2,300 participants united together and joined us at the 14th Annual Step Out Walk to Stop Diabetes event on Saturday, March 16, 2013. Mahalo to our walk teams, sponsors, health fair vendors, entertainment, and wonderful volunteers! The aloha that was shown to our family and friends who have [...]

Hawai`i citizens had the opportunity this month to learn first-hand about the treatment options and effects of chemoradiation therapy on speech, swallowing, and hearing directly from the State’s best-trained scientists in the field: those in our faculty and on staff at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Communications Sciences and Disorders (CSD) department. Dr. [...]

The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) is part of a partnership to fight cancer which involves three of Hawai’s major health care providers and The University of Hawai`i Cancer Center. In this 22 minute video program produced by the UH Cancer Center, JABSOM Dean Jerris Hedges and the leaders of the other partners [...]

The MD students in the Women’s Interest Group (WIG) is sending a big “mahalo shout-out” those those who took part in their Valentine’s Day fundraiser. People bought single red cali “sweetheart roses”  for $4 per rose and candy grams for $4 per box. Best of all, for only $1 each, hugs were delivered by the [...]

From Governor Neil Abercrombie’s Office The Hawaii State Department of Health (DOH) is launching a new teen-focused multi-media campaign to combat obesity. The campaign is part of a comprehensive set of interventions being implemented by the DOH to address obesity prevention. Students, legislators, media and obesity prevention advocates were provided a preview of many of [...]