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Pictured: Snapshots from the UHM Filgrad and Kīhei Ceremonies. Vina Cristobal photos. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, Deputy Director of Communications Despite the underrepresentation of both Native Hawaiian and Filipinos in higher education, the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Mānoa is proud to announce a record-year in graduating minority medical students. The UH John A. Burns School […]

Pictured: Dr. Hayashi narrates to the crowd as medical professionals demonstrate how to properly use a tourniquet on new JABSOM MDs. Vina Cristobal photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, Deputy Director of Communications On any given day, the person that saves your life might just be your spouse, your friend or the stranger standing next to […]

Pictured: A group of JABSOM MD 2019 graduates at the UH Mānoa commencement. Vina Cristobal photo. By Tina SheltonJABSOM Communications Director and Deborah Manog Dimaya, Deputy Director of Communications Hawaiʻi ’s neighbor islands have produced 13 new physicians who received their MD degrees May 11, 2019 from the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School […]

Pictured: High school students from Kamehameha Schools Kāpalama campus in the JABSOM healing garden. Vina Cristobal photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, Deputy Director of Communications The University of HawaiʻiJohn A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM) celebrated its inaugural Diversity Day on April 26, 2019. Visiting high school students from Kamehameha Schools participated in health […]

Our expert faculty are often asked to weigh in on subjects making health news headlines, so we thought you would like to hear some of what they have had to say as well. We begin with Plastic Surgery Division Chief Dr. F. Don Parsa, who is pictured in the halls of the University of Hawaiʻi […]

Pictured: Dr. Seang Seng. Deborah Manog Dimaya photo. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, Deputy Director of Communications Dr. Seang Seng remembers when he was just a young medical student in Cambodia, a Southeast Asian country known as an “Island of Peace.” He lived an ordinary life—that is, until the Khmer Rouge rose to power in 1975 […]