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CANCER CENTER CONSTRUCTION TARGET: MID 2010
Date: January 30, 2009
Cancer Research Center of Hawaii's Michele Carbone
HONOLULU – With lease negotiations with the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority successfully concluded for a site next to the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Kaka‘ako, discussions with Townsend and Company progressing, and Hawai‘i hospital CEOs endorsing a proposed matrix-style clinical care system, the University of Hawai‘i’s Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i research and clinical trials facility is aiming for a projected groundbreaking in mid-2010, with an opening date in late 2012 or early 2013, university officials told legislators on January 29, 2009.
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ACCREDITATION FOR FORMER SPEECH PATHOLOGY/AUDIOLOGY
Date: January 27, 2009
CSD Classroom
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION SCIENCES and Disorders (CSD) at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, formerly the Speech Pathology/Audiology program, has won a five-year accreditation, through 2012.
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INTERIM CANCER CENTER HEAD RECOGNIZED AS LEADING U.S. SCIENTIST
Date: January 26, 2009
Dr. Michele Carbone, left, in Miami
MICHELE CARBONE, M.D., Ph.D., interim director of the Cancer Research Center of Hawai‘i, director of the Cancer Center’s Thoracic Oncology Program, and Pathology Department chair at the John A Burns School of Medicine, was recognized for his achievement as recipient of the 2008 Landon Foundation-AACR Innovator Award for International Collaboration in Cancer Research during a conference held January 23.
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MUSIC THERAPY, MAORI EXPERTS HERE IN FEBRUARY
Date: January 21, 2009
Medical Education Building Auditorium
THE JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE HOSTS two internationally-renowned experts in their fields in events open to the public on February 2 and 3, 2009.
They include a music therapy performance and a speaker with insights into medicine and the Maori people of New Zealand.
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CROHN’S DISEASE SUFFERERS SOUGHT FOR MEDICAL SCHOOL CLINICAL TRIAL
Date: January 21, 2009
Dr. Amy Brown
AMY BROWN, PhD, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I's John A. Burns School of Medicine, is ready to begin a 16-week pilot, clinical trial to determine whether a balanced “Crohn’s Disease Diet” is an effective complementary treatment for Crohn’s disease.
Dr. Brown is seeking 60 adult patients, between ages 18-75, who suffer mild to moderate Crohn’s disease. The medical school has received a $109,423 grant from the Broad Foundation to conduct this dietary study.
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UH MEDICAL SCHOOL PART OF NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STUDY
Date: January 15, 2009
THE LARGEST CHILD HEALTH STUDY in the United States, the National Children’s Study, has a key component in Hawai‘i, where the University of Hawai‘i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine will begin outreach this year to recruit (beginning 2010) some 1,000 O‘ahu families to take part.
The study will follow 100,000 American children from before birth to age 21 to identify genetic and environmental factors that contribute to health disorders and conditions of childhood and adulthood. Researchers will be seeking information to treat and prevent some of the nation’s most pressing health problems, including autism, asthma, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
*Click here to read Tom Finnegan's story in The Honolulu Star-Bulletin
*Click here to read more in the Honolulu Advertiser
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UH MEDICAL SCHOOL HAS ROLE IN NATIONAL CHILDREN'S STUDY
Date: January 14, 2009
The largest child health study in the United States, the National Children’s Study, has a key component in Hawai‘i, where the University of Hawai‘i’s John A. Burns School of Medicine will begin outreach this year to recruit (beginning 2010) some 1,000 O‘ahu families to take part.
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WELLNESS CENTER FEATURED AT HEALTH FAIR
Date: January 09, 2009
Dr. Elizabeth Chen-Christenson performs the harp
THE WELLNESS CENTER AT THE JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE was "front and center" at the 4th Annual Students Community Health Fair. A team of physicians from the center, headed by Dr. Rosanne Harrigan, demonstrated the latest in care from the Department Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Dr. Harrigan is Chair of the Department.
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MAYOR, LT. GOV. ATTEND HEALTH FAIR
Date: January 09, 2009
Mayor Hannemann says health and family are the most important things in life. (Photos by Ron Paik)
MAYOR MUFI HANNEMANN TOLD STUDENTS AT THE JOHN A. BURNS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE that he often tells city employees who work for him that health and family should come first in their lives. Mayor Hannemann, a former star student basketball player, leads city workers in exercise once a month through a program he founded called "Healthy Honolulu."
The mayor was a special guest of medical students at their 4th annual Community Health Fair, which drew hundreds of Hawai'i residents, including former Governor John Waihee, Lieutenant Governor James "Duke" Aiona and State Representative Tom Brower.
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LOOKING FORWARD AT UCERA
Date: January 05, 2009
Dr. Patricia Blanchette
Dr. Patricia Lanoie Blanchette has been named interim Chief Operating Officer of University Clinical, Education & Research Associates, or UCERA. UCERA, a non-profit corporation, is the primary faculty practice organization for physicians involved in the clinical, academic, and research activities of the John A. Burns School of Medicine.
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HAWAII STATE GRANT HELPS AIDS CLINICAL RESEARCH RECOVER
Date: January 05, 2009
Dr. Cecilia Shikuma
The Hawaii AIDS Clinical Research Program has raised more than $20 million to support research and care for HIV-positive people since 2007 when the state Legislature allocated $1.2 million to the program after it lost a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases because some clinical trial units were closed, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports.
Cecilia Shikuma, director of the program and a professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii, said the program lost access to data management and other services when it lost federal funding and has "had to reinvent for our site how to do all those things." Shikuma said that although it has been "hard work" to adjust to the funding changes, program officials are "very pleased" with the outcome. She added that the program is "still financially shaky but it's allowing us to survive."
*Click here to read the full account in the Kaiser Network Daily Report, based on an article by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
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AIDS CLINIC RAISES MILLIONS; EXPANDS OUTREACH
Date: January 05, 2009
Dr. Cecilia Shikuma
The Hawaii AIDS Clinical Research Program has raised more than $20 million to support research and care for HIV-positive people since 2007 when the state Legislature allocated $1.2 million to the program after it lost a $1.6 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases because some clinical trial units were closed, the Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports.
Cecilia Shikuma, director of the program and a professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii, said the program lost access to data management and other services when it lost federal funding and has "had to reinvent for our site how to do all those things." Shikuma said that although it has been "hard work" to adjust to the funding changes, program officials are "very pleased" with the outcome. She added that the program is "still financially shaky but it's allowing us to survive."
*Click here to read the full report from Kaiser Network.org, based on a report in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
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