http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow Sun, 19 May 2013 01:21:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/05/16/dean-hedges-md-students-bear-most-of-the-cost-of-their-education/ http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/05/16/dean-hedges-md-students-bear-most-of-the-cost-of-their-education/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 03:32:04 +0000 sheltont http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/?p=2365

Dean Jerris Hedges addressed “the elephant in the room” during May 15′s Convocation Ceremony. That would be the well-publicized potential that the John A. Burns School of Medicine could lose $4 million in state funds in the coming fiscal year. The Dean acknowledged his remarks could be perceived as “a political statement”, but said recent news [...]]]> http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/05/16/dean-hedges-md-students-bear-most-of-the-cost-of-their-education/feed/ 0 http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/05/13/a-message-to-the-md-class-of-2011/ http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/05/13/a-message-to-the-md-class-of-2011/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 00:45:39 +0000 akameda http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/?p=2342

Aloha, members of the Class of 2011. As Dean of JABSOM, I am honored to represent all of our faculty, staff and the students in our other classes when I tell you how proud we are of your accomplishments at JABSOM. You have made lifelong friends, and we hope you will continue a lifelong relationship [...]]]> http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/05/13/a-message-to-the-md-class-of-2011/feed/ 0 http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/02/03/deans-message/ http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/02/03/deans-message/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:00:26 +0000 jerris http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/?p=20

Aloha. This year, the John A. Burns School of Medicine is asking the Hawai’i State Legislature to extend the sunset date on tobacco master settlement agreement monies for continued use by the school until 2015. Monies from the tobacco settlement are helping us reach out to the Islands of Hawai’i in unprecedented ways. Third-year medical students now [...]]]> http://blog.hawaii.edu/uhmednow/2011/02/03/deans-message/feed/ 0