The Hawaiʻi Journal of Medicine & Public Health has issued its first edition, marking a new collaboration between the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health (DOH). “This new partnership is intended to improve communication among the medicine and public health communities, [...]
Washington, D.C., February 13, 2012—AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement on the Obama administration’s FY 2013 budget proposal: “The AAMC is deeply concerned about the impact the president’s budget will have on the nation’s health. The cuts to teaching hospitals through the plan’s drastic [...]
The National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health, has invested more than $1.5 million in projects involving the University of Hawai`i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) this year, including “STEP-UP”, which is successfully recruiting high school students into careers in biomedical research. STEP-UP allows ten high [...]
Hundreds of Island residents obviously interested in health and wellness attended the 2012 Community Heath Fair organized by first and second-year students of the University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), on January 6. Some guests even showed up at the Kaka’ako campus early, ten or fifteen minutes before the [...]
In 1987, working in California, Rebecca Cann and her colleagues gained widespread attention for identifying an ancestral mother of all living humans. The past few decades, Cann, a faculty member in the Department of Cell & Molecular Biology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, has been teaming with University of Hawai’i Manoa Zoology [...]
The field of bioengineering is rapidly growing nationally and globally due to engineering technology advances that facilitate breakthroughs in medicine and biology. Bioengineering is currently the fastest growing occupation in the US. At the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, there is a Bioengineering cluster of twenty engineering and John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) [...]