UH Med Now - OB-GYN

A quiet, dedicated, and long-time staff member at JABSOM has been awarded the national Donna Wachter Clerkship Coordinator Award. In 1999, Lisa Kellett joined the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Women’s Health as its medical student coordinator. Ever since, Kellet has been instrumental in maintaining the high caliber of JABSOM’s OB/GYN Clerkship. “She is thoughtful, […]

Ilana Buffenstein, MD candidate 2022, has recently been published at psychiatrist.com/pcc: The Primary Care Companion for CNS Disorders. Co authors from JABSOM’s Department of Medicine’s Miki Kiyokawa, MD, and Psychiatry’s William Haning, MD, mentored Buffenstein during her study that produced the article “Severe Hypothyroidism in a Hypomanic Patient with Sepsis.”  “My case report discusses an […]

In the December Hawai’i Journal of Health & Social Welfare (HJHSW) the article “Advocating For a Culture of Support for Lactating Medical Residents in Hawai‘i,” (p.304) tells the story of resident and faculty representatives from the Hawai‘i Residency Programs and the University of Hawai‘i John A Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) who participated in an […]

Dr. Melanie Maykin, a maternal-fetal medicine fellow at the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), has an article published today (Nov. 10, 2021): Discriminatory regulations on postpartum sterilization for Medicaid recipients propagate health inequalities in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas. “We’re excited to bring awareness to this issue, especially as we reflect […]

Scant data is available about the dietary habits of expectant and new mothers and their infants in the Native Hawaiian (NH) community. When many different populations and cultures are lumped together by surveys and the federal census into that “other” category it is impossible to tease out any data of value. NH are one of […]

  The Honolulu Chapter of the Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS) Foundation, Inc., announced that two of its 19 University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) 2021 ARCS Scholars  are PhD candidates at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).  ARCS co-President Cheryl Ernst announced the $5,000 awards to doctoral students and Alexandru Sasuclark. […]