The John A. Burns School of Medicine is proud to share the news that the prestigious PBS program “NOVA” featured a segment on the work of our Dr. Angel Yanagihara. The program originally aired in Hawaii last week on PBS..but you may now catch it for viewing ON LINE. Dr. Yanagihara’s segment appears at about [...]
Archive | External News RSS feed for this section
Movie brings appreciation to speech therapists
Story by KHON-2, Olena Heu See video and link to KHON-2 story, featuring JABSOM’s Dorothy Craven, Dr. Henry Lew, Dr. Colette Coleman and Communication Sciences & Disorders students (Kimi and Summer). Click here to watch “Movie brings appreciation to speech therapists” “The King’s Speech” took the top award at the Academy Awards last night, and [...]
Read full story • Comments are closed
Maui News Editorial supports medical school funding
Short-term view, long-term damage? February 25, 2011 One of the unfortunate aspects of budget crunches like that being faced by Hawaii right now is that worthwhile organizations find themselves fighting each other for scarce funds. The John A. Burns School of Medicine currently gets $4 million per year from the federal government’s settlement of a [...]
Read full story • Comments are closed
Up in smoke! Legislators might take the tobacco settlement money that UH uses to educate new doctors
The University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine could lose up to $4 million a year, or 4 percent of its budget, if the state Legislature does not restore tobacco settlement funding set to expire in July. The school is fearful that if it loses the steady income for operations, it will no [...]
Read full story • Comments are closed
Grant creates matrix for meaningful health research
RMATRIX leaders, from left, Bruce Shiramizu, Pamela Bullard, Louise Fujisue, Jerris Hedges, Tammy Ho, Todd Seto University of Hawaiʻi researchers are teaming up with community groups, clinics and hospitals under a $12.6-million effort dubbed RMATRIX that supports interdisciplinary and translational research on health disparities among isle residents. The goal is to improve the health of people [...]
Read full story • Comments are closed
