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Pictured: A single envelope contains life-altering information– where our future MDs have “matched” to. By Deborah Manog Dimaya, Deputy Director of Communications In a single moment, medical school seniors from the United States and around the world will find out in which U.S. Residency Program they will train for the next three to seven years. […]

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 […]

Pictured: Dr. Seng at JABSOM. Tina Shelton photo. By Tina Shelton, JABSOM Communications Director When Dr. Seang M. Seng graduated from the University of Hawaii (UH) medical school in 1988 it was a triumph unlike any other. His was a conquest over evil. He had survived the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge and all […]

Pictured: Class of 2022 MD Candidate Ken Stridiron and then fellow Imi Hoola Post Baccalaureate Program students going over the complex health problems they reviewed during a class in May 2018. From UH News The University of Hawaii at Manoa continues to garner attention for its world-class excellence in academics and research across multiple subject […]

Pictured: Dr. Fox and former President Obama embrace after the introduction. Dr. Leanne Kealoha Fox recently became the first “JABSOM” grad we know of to have the opportunity to introduce the former president of the United States, Hawaiʻi-born Barack Obama, in a public ceremony in Hawaiʻi. Dr. Fox, who received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences […]

Pictured: UH Mānoa undergraduate student Jasmine Padamada at the lab bench (L) and visiting a temple in Thailand (R). Photos courtesy of Padamada. Does traveling across the globe to conduct your own international research for two months interest you or someone you know? The Minority Health and Health Disparities International Research Training (MHIRT) Program at […]