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Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Progress in AIDS vaccine research from team with JABSOM, island ties

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports on the breakthrough efforts of scientists, including John A. Burns School of Medicine Clinical Professor Jerome Kim, who are seeking an AIDS vaccine. Dr. Kim, a Colonel in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and deputy director for science at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program, is leading an international research program [...]

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PSYCHIATRY RESIDENCY PROGRAM Joins IHS in Homeless Outreach

The Residency Program in the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry is helping to launch a new medical outreach to homeless people on O’ahu. Physicians training in the department’s residency program (part of The Hawaii Residency Programs will be dispatched to help assess mental health needs of homeless who are living on the [...]

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PUBLIC FORUM NOV. 30–AIDS: What we have done together, where we are going

(Nov. 28 Posting) Our scientists with the John A. Burns School of Medicineʻs Hawaiʻi Center for AIDs will present findings this week from several of their clinical trials, making the case for continuing research with an even sharper focus into their major finding: that HIV appears to cause early aging. The problems are significant: everything [...]

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Preview for WORLD AIDS DAY: Update from Hawai’i Center for AIDS November 30

(Published Nov. 28) This yearʻs World AIDS Day December 1st is an opportunity to share the latest on treatment and the search for a vaccine and cure for the disease and dedicated researchers and students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine are embracing that opportunity. Investigators with the Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS will present [...]

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Graduates Return as MDs in OB-GYN RESIDENCY Training Session

Several familiar faces from the Class of 2011 returned to the Medical Education Building September 30 wearing scrubs, to continue their hands-on training as MD Residents in the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s SimTiki (simulation) Center. Dr. Michael Aaronoff, Associate Program Director for JABSOM’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health (OB-GYN), led the [...]

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NEW in the HAWAII MEDICAL JOURNAL: JABSOM’s Efforts to Prevent, Treat Harm from Tobacco

Dr. Jill Omori and Dr. Kenton Kramer are co-authors of an article in this month’s Hawaii Medical Journal, outlining how tobacco prevention, cessation and treatment efforts are woven into the curriculum of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). JABSOM’s Kaka’ako complex was built with state revenue bonds — the principal and interest on [...]

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