UH Med Now - AHEC

When Jonathan Carino was a Pearl City High School student, he never thought he’d end up walking the halls of the John A. Burns School of Medicine as a first-year student. “Growing up, the health care I was used to was traditional and plant-based from my grandma,” Carino remembers. “When we got sick, grandma would […]

Millions view Hawai’i as ‘paradise,’ and the hundreds entering Waikiki’s Hilton Hawaiian Village for Hawai’i Pacific Basin Area Health Education Center’s (AHEC) Health Workforce Summit got a reminder of what makes the state so appealing to the rest of the world. While Saturday’s conference was in one of the world’s most iconic cities, it was […]

Claudine Chan-Naruse was recently honored as a nominee to the 2021 Research Corporation of the University of Hawaiʻi (RCUH) Outstanding Employees of the Year Awards. These awards encourage, recognize, and reward RCUH employees who have made demonstrable, significant, and exemplary contributions to their project. She was nominated by Dr. Kelley Withy, professor and director of […]

As the state begins to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, Hawaiʻi UTelehealth, a free health service tool developed by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), is reminding the public its behavioral health telemedicine program is still available for neighbor island residents through August 31, 2023. The online telepsychiatry and telepsychology platform allows individuals to […]

The Joint Healthcare Opportunities Conference (JHOC) went virtual in April 2021. Thirty middle and high school students were presented with a video scenario in which people may catch COVID-19 and went through different breakout sessions led by various healthcare departments that help patients with the infectious disease. Presentations and workshops were led by the departments, […]

By Deborah Dimaya, Interim Communications Director Already in dire need of more doctors, Hawaii’s physician shortage was exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has challenged continued physician practice in Hawaiʻi and is expected to increase the relative shortage of physicians for the state for the next several years as older physicians leave their practice. […]