UH Med Now - Geriatrics

JABSOM’s Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng, MD, MS, MPH, and her colleagues of the US Preventive Services Task Force, made recommendations for measuring children’s blood pressure, and advice for adults at risk of CVD. By Paula Bender, JABSOM News Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng, a John A. Burns School of Medicine faculty member, doctor, and researcher is also a […]

Portrait of Dr. Blanchette. Tina Shelton photo. Patricia Lanoie Blanchette MD, MPH retired from her post as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) medical school and Chief Medical Officer to University Health Partners of Hawaiʻi, the JABSOM faculty practice plan, at the end of September 2020. Dr. Blanchette, who founded […]

White Coat Ceremony for the University of Hawaii – Mānoa JABSOM class of 2020 brand new Internal Medicine residents at The Queen’s Medical Center. The first graduating class of COVID-19 in their masks. MASK UP!    This most recent Communication Protocol applies to all JABSOM employees and learners, including those working on the UH Manoa […]

Attendees at a JABSOM Mini Med School event in 2014.   According to Ritabelle Fernandes, MD, MPH, of the Palliative Medicine division in the Geriatric Medicine Department at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), “There is growing evidence of the effectiveness and cost savings associated with palliative care.”  Dr. Fernandes, and her colleagues […]

Pictured: President Kevin Webb and Scott Nilsen of Islands Hospice present a $50,000 check to the MD 2019 scholarship recipients Kellie Kurasaki, Keolamau Yee and Laura Kurata. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, UH Med Now Islands Hospice has created a new scholarship for fourth-year University of Hawaiʻi (UH) medical students who plan […]