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Shane Morita, M.D., assistant professor for the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), clinical faculty member at the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center and surgical oncologist at The Queen’s Medical Center, has received an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Faculty Scholar Award. Dr. Morita hopes that this research in thyroid cancer will [...]

Two members of our newest class of medical students are from the tiny, Friendly Isle of Molokaʻi. The Molokaʻi Dispatch covered the excitement felt by our students, Dayton Wong and Kaimana Chow—and by people on the Island. Our picture shows our 2 Molokaʻi students and the six from Maui who are in the newest medical [...]

The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) was particularly well represented at this year’s meeting of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine in Las Vegas. Half a dozen JABSOM grads from the Class of 2008 bumped into each other at a session for Internal Medicine MDs who have been selected to serve [...]

Pictured left to right are Imi Ho’ola graduates Kyle Watanabe, Kaimana Chow, Aldrich Ricalde, Emmanuel de Jesus, Genia Taitano and Steven Gonsalves. The next stop is the White Coat Ceremony for six graduates of the Imi Ho’ola (“Those who seek to heal”) Post-Baccalaureate Program at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). [...]

Virginia “Ginny” Tanji, Librarian V, MSLS, MEd, Director of the Health Sciences Library at the University of Hawai’i Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), has been elected to serve as Chair of the Board of Regents of the National Library of Medicine (NLM).  Her appointment comes as national library prepares to celebrate its [...]

Dr. Bruce Shiramizu brings energy and experience with him every day, as he goes to work alongside team-members at the the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Hawai’i Center for AIDS. Dr. Shiramizu has been researching the virus for more than 20 years. This week, interviewed by Hawai’i News Now, Dr. Shiramizu talked about how people [...]