UH Med Now - Family Medicine

Dr. Kanoe Quibelan is a third-year resident of the University of Hawaiʻi Family Medicine Residency Program. She is a 2016 alumna of the Imi Ho’ola Post-Baccalaureate Program and received her MD from the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) in 2020. As Quibelan is preparing to graduate from residency in June 2023, she shares […]

Days before her formal induction to the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng reflects back on her career. “I started as an electrical engineer. I was one of those people who, during the AIDS crisis, understood that things weren’t just about numbers. It was about people, so I went back into medicine,” she said. […]

Congratulations to JABSOM’s own Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum. She is Hawaii’s 2022 Immunization Champion Award winner. This highly-selective award goes out to one person in each state. The CDC Childhood Immunization Champion Award, now hosted by The Association of Immunization Managers (AIM), chose Dr. Buenconsejo-Lum for her work to increase HPV vaccine uptake and promote the […]

We are sad to announce that Professor Gregory G. Maskarinec at JABSOM passed away at home on June 16, more than 2 years after being diagnosed with esophageal cancer and a long journey of treatments, complications including COVID, and lots of pain and suffering. In his remembrance, we are presenting this excerpt from a recent […]

Although the majority of medical students at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM) receives scholarship support (73.4% in the graduating class of 2021), the financial burden for medical school remains exorbitant. According to the latest Financial Aid Summary Report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, 74% of students […]

On behalf of the Office of Global Health and International Medicine (OGHIM) and the Office of Medical Education (OME) at  JABSOM, the UH Global Health & Social Justice Work Group, the East-West Center, Noguchi Medical Research Institute (NMRI), the Office of Public Health Studies, and Dr. Yoshihisa Asano, Ph.D. (NMRI), we invite your submission of […]