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The Queen’s Medical Center (QMC) has honored named its 2013 Outstanding Physicians of the Year, and both are alumni and current faculty of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Kentaro Nishino, M.D. (JABSOM Geriatrics Fellowship Program, 2003-2005) and Kathleen L. Mah, M.D. (JABSOM MD Class of 1991) were selected as the 2013 Ke Kauka [...]

Judges had 130 posters to choose from, and have announced the top awards in nine categories from the 2013 Biomedical Sciences and Health Disparities Symposium held April 8 and 9 at the University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Our story features a slideshow you may view if you have Flashplayer. If [...]

John A. Burns School of Medicine student Jacques Ambrose helped organize a symposium in April on one of Hawai`iʻs most complex problems: homelessness. “The issue of homelessness is so overwhelming that we, unfortunately, often become paralyzed, either with helplessness or fear of the unknown,” said Ambrose, a third year medical student and co-President of the [...]

Here’s what’s new in the May 2013 edition of the Hawai`i Journal of Medicine and Public Health: A Review of Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery for Hawai’i, by Ming Chen MD, MSc, FACS Case of Levodopa Toxicity from Ingestion of Mucuna gigantea, by Gary G. Tse MD; Brian B. Kim MD; Aaron M. McMurtray MD, PhD; and [...]

Congratulations to Tetine Sentell, PhD, Assistant Professor in the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Office of Public Health Studies, and winner of the 2013 Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Sentell teaches Health Policy and Management, specifically US Health Policy and the US Health Care System. The excitement she brings to teaching shines through [...]

Researchers at The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), University of Hawai`i Mānoa have found the MD shortage statewide is worsening. Our state is an estimated 747 physicians short of the number we should have currently treating patients, based on Hawai`i’s population. There are currently 2,894 physicians practicing in Hawai`i. One third of them [...]