UH Med Now - Community Outreach

MD students in the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) medical school Class of 2021 spent part of this busy day meeting representatives of community organizations who are interested in partnering with students or just wanted to introduce themselves the new class. The students began a week of orientation at the John A. Burns School of Medicine […]

Pictured: In Kalihi, Dr.Seiji Yamada (Family Medicine and Community Health), Dr. Michael Walter, Kalihi-Pālama Health Center Medical Director, and donation drive organizers Joel Sabugo, Arcelita Imasa (and baby) and Gabriel Lapid, UH medical students. The children’s book drive organized by students of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) exceeded its goal. Six hundred […]

Twenty-four Hawai’i schoolteachers will prepare to go “back to school” this week by learning the latest in scientific research methods at the University of Hawai’i medical school. This is the sixth time that the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has hosted the teachers by using a grant from the National Institutes of Health […]

Story and Photos by Amanda Shell, UH Med Now On Saturday April 8, 2017, medical students from the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) warmly greeted the loved ones of 152 “silent teachers”, those who selflessly willed their bodies to medicine, at this year’s Willed Body Memorial Service.   Displays donning […]

The John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) dedicated the first on-campus clinical translational research space, the University of Hawaiʻi Clinics at Kakaʻako on December 5, 2015 with a blessing and the untying of a kukui leaf lei followed by an Open House. On Friday, December 2, staff members from the Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS […]

Pictured: MD students release lei and cremains into the ocean off Waikīkī The enticing sounds of bagpipes consume the air. The music combined with the cooling ocean breeze unites the crowd with an honest sense of ʻOhana. Families are gathered on the shore of Magic Island, their lei in hand as they wait for the […]