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Pictured: Dr. Lee, Mele Look and Dr. Lew, editors of new books. By A.J. McWhorter, UH Med Now Faculty at the University of Hawai’i (UH) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) contribute to new books as part of their scholarly endeavors. This “Booknotes” Section of UH Med Now features some of the most recent […]

Pictured: Three of the panelists, the emcee and a speaker. By Tina Shelton, UH Med Now, JABSOM Communications Director Do YOU know who the first woman physician to graduate from an American medical school was? That question, posed by Dr. Kalani Brady, captivated the audience right from the start, at the 2017 Women in Medicine […]

Pictured: Liana Medina working in the Lehrer Lab at JABSOM By Tina Shelton UH Med Now The University of Hawaiʻi is expanding its studies of a proposed vaccine for the deadly Ebola virus. A new grant of nearly $112,000 awarded to a graduate student working with Dr. Axel Lehrer at the John A. Burns School […]

Listen to the words spoken. Watch the outpouring of love displayed. It happened on the campus of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), on March 12, 2016. The ceremony was a Hoolewa, to celebrate the life of a remarkable Native Hawaiian physician, our kauka, Dr. Richard Kalani Akana Blaisdell, MD, […]