Archive | February, 2013

There’s a new fundraiser in the works for our medical students’ homeless outreach, and it’s going to get a lot of people pumped! It’s a 6.4 mile bike ride planned for Saturday, March 23, beginning at 9 a.m. (Ride begins at 10 sharp.) Second-year medical student Huy Do launched a bicycle ride fundraiser called “Perpetual [...]

Dr. William Haning has been elected to a four-year term as a Director of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. In addition to Hawai`i, he will represent Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. Dr. Haning is tenured Professor, Associate Chair for Education, and the [...]

“Life changing”,  ”a dream maker”… these are just some of the descriptions being used at the Hawai’i State Capitol by MDs and aspiring MDs as they talk about programs the University of Hawai’i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine offers through the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence (NHCOE). The NHCOE reaches out to more than [...]

MD students, practicing MDs and others who have benefitted from programs of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence and the Department of Native Hawaiian Health (DNHH) told their stories to members of the Senate Committee on Health on February 4, in a hearing at the State Capitol. Those [...]

To Kaka’ako Offices: The Hawaiian Telcom, 2013 white and yellow pages will be available for pickup in the Medical Education Building and Bio-Sciences Building on Monday, February 11, 2013 through Friday, February 22, 2013. Please bring your old phone books down to the lobby in either the MEB or BSB, we will be collecting old [...]

The Hawai`i Healthy Aging Partnership (HHAP) has received the 2013 Multicultural Aging award from the American Society on Aging, achieving national recognition for the partnership’s critical role in improving the health of our states multiethnic elderly population. HHAP is a statewide coalition that includes representatives of the University of Hawai`i, the Executive Office on Aging, [...]