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Rising Menace of Dengue Fever
Date: July 23, 2007
UPI International JABSOM'S DUANE GUBLER
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UH Medical School Makes Virology Cover
Date: July 23, 2007
The colorful cover of the July 2007 journal Virology looks familiar to many around the Department of Tropical Medicine and Medical Microbiology at the John A Burns School of Medicine. It is a figure submitted by the University of Hawaii medical school team whose manuscript also appears inside the journal.
“Human Polyomavirus JC Infects Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Independent of Serotonin Receptor 2A” is co-authored by U.H. Manoa Graduate assistant Moti Chapagain, Assistant Researcher Saguna Verma, Assistant Researcher Frederic Mercier, Professor Richard Yanagihara and Professor Vivek R. Nerurkar.
Virology is a high-impact, peer-reviewed medical journal.
COVER PHOTO: Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved
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Incoming Students Receive Coats And Commendations
Date: July 23, 2007
Photo by: Dave Au
Sixty-two incoming students at the University of Hawaii’s John A. Burns School of Medicine began to feel like the doctors they will become, in a ceremony at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Hotel.
With their parents on hand, the students each received a lab coat and stethoscope, marking their entry into the Class of 2011. And the students, 37 women and 25 men, were administered a beginner’s Hippocratic Oath, “to never do harm”.
Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona each signed an official Commendation presented to each student by State Health Director Chiyome Fukino.
The Class of 2011 began studying in late July. The 62 students were chosen from among 1901 applicants.
All but 7 of this year’s class of 62 are in-state students, residents of Hawaii.
The medical school’s mission is to teach and train high quality physicians, biomedical students, and allied health professionals for Hawai'i and the Pacific, and to conduct both clinical and basic research in areas of specific interest to our community and region. The school is the most culturally and ethnically diverse medical school in the country and its student body mirrors the rich diversity of the state's population.
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Key Democrat Supports Governor Signing Tobacco Funding for Medical School
Date: July 19, 2007
Honolulu Star-Bulletin article by Richard Borreca and B.J. Reyes
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UH researchers want to import avian flu virus
Date: July 12, 2007
KHNL-TV story
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Tobacco Settlement Funds approved for support of UH Medical School
Date: July 09, 2007
Governor Linda Lingle signed SB 1283 into law, after originally planning to veto it.
SB 1283 allows the use of funds from the Hawaii Tobacco Settlement Special Fund to pay for the John A Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) operating expenses in addition to paying debt service for the new Kakaako facility over the next four years.
“We are grateful to Governor Lingle for her willingness to listen to our concerns about the importance of this measure to JABSOM’s success and sustainability,” said Dr. Gary K. Ostrander, Interim Dean of the Medical School.
“We appreciate the state legislators’ and governors’ long-term vision in recognizing JABSOM’s significant role in the state economy as well as its contribution to the health and well being of the people of Hawaii. We are honored that Governor Lingle upheld this vision today by signing this important bill (S.B1283) into law.”
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