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Medical School sponsors Halloween Carnival for homeless shelter kids
Date: October 30, 2006
Nearly 100 homeless children at the Next Step transitional shelter in Kaka’ako will enjoy a special Halloween carnival tomorrow evening with help from student and staff volunteers from the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine. The party will be from 6 to 9 p.m. at the shelter.
Children will enjoy games, craft booths, balloon artists, a movie, an inflatable jumper, and goody bags filled with treats – all donated from members of the Medical School, along with businesses and community groups.
“Our goal is to provide some fun for kids at the shelter, to make them feel special, because they have it hard in so many other ways,” says Dr. Jill Omori, Director of the Homeless Outreach and Medical Education Project, which is coordinating the event with the Family Medicine Interest Group, a UH student group.
Among the groups donating goods and services are:
Party City; Longs Drugs (Moiliili); Wal-Mart (Keeaumoku); Koga Engineering; HECO; Darrell Miho Photography; Faces of Paradise; Inflatables Inc.; McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii; Sodexho; Meadow Gold; Mililani High School World Awareness Club; Halau Hula Kawahineali’inoho’ikeanuenue; Botek Mopeds; and Ben Franklin Stores.
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'Imi Ho'ola offers support to underprivileged
Date: October 18, 2006
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Grant to UH aims at improving Pacific Islander health care
Date: October 13, 2006
The University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine is receiving a federal grant of $400,000 to continue an interdisciplinary project aimed at improving the training of health care workers in the Pacific Islands, utilizing distance-education technologies where feasible.
A major UH Manoa partner participating in the four-year, $1.6 million project is PEACESAT, which enables the UH Medical School to coordinate long-distance health training via satellite and other distance-education technologies.
The U.S. Health Resources Service Administration award was made available in direct response to advocacy and the Institute of Medicine Report detailing great disparities in availability of continuing education for the full spectrum of the health workforce in the U.S. Associated Pacific Island entities.
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Candidates for JABSOM dean's post to visit UH campus
Date: October 04, 2006
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Federal grant to UH Manoa aims at improving patient medical care
Date: October 03, 2006
The University of Hawaii at Manoa has been chosen to participate in a national program aimed at speeding the translation of medical discoveries into improved medical care.
A planning grant of $190,350 from the National Institutes of Health will fund a joint initiative between units at UH Manoa, as well as community and industry partners. Included in the UH Manoa consortium are the John A. Burns School of Medicine, Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, Pacific Biosciences Research Center, the Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Anthropology, Department of Psychology, and Department of Information and Computer Sciences.
“We will work together in an interdisciplinary fashion to evaluate and develop new treatments and insights into disease prevention that can be more efficiently delivered to patients,” says David Easa, MD, Director of Clinical Research at JABSOM.
UH Manoa is one of 52 recipients of a Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) grant announced today by the NIH. Included among other recipients are Harvard, Stanford and Brown universities.
“The CTSA program encourages our nation’s research institutions to foster productive collaboration among experts in different fields, lower barriers between units, and find ways to better service the medical needs of the community,” says UH Manoa Vice Chancellor Gary Ostrander, who is serving as Interim Dean of JABSOM and is the principal investigator of this research initiative.
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