UH Med Now - Geriatrics

Community members filled up the Sullivan Conference Center as the inaugural cohort of the John A. Burns School of Medicine Dr. Rosita Leong Mini-Medical School of Healthy Aging, more commonly known as “Mini-Med School”. That first gathering happened in the spring of 2014. Eight years following that first cohort, the Mini-Med School is back in […]

Dr. Gina Fujikami (JABSOM MD 2008) recalls when she and her family found out that her grandfather had developed Alzheimer’s Disease. At the time, they did not know much about the disease in terms of diagnosis, treatment or its likely course– they literally felt “in the dark.” Now, as a geriatrician, Fuijkami proudly joins the […]

Race categories have been included in the U.S. Census since 1790 and have changed repeatedly to reflect the politics and social attitudes of the times. In 1997, the U.S. Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) acknowledged that race and ethnicity categories were social-political constructs and not anthropologically or scientifically based. The 1997 OMB Directive […]

Against the backdrop of the diverse minority-majority state of Hawaii, this study seeks to better characterize associations between idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) with sociodemographic variables and medical comorbidities. Our results not only better characterize IIH, but also highlight socioeconomic and racial disparities in diagnosis. – Information provided by: Dr. Kamal Masaki, professor and chair of […]

  This past week, there has been global coverage about the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)’s revision to its 2016 recommendation on the use of aspirin to prevent the first heart attack or stroke in adults without a history of such cardiovascular events. Each year in the United States, 1.2 million persons will […]

AAMC 2021 Virtual Career Night offered tempting specialties By Paula Bender, JABSOM News A virtual Career Night isn’t the same as face-to-face encounters between practitioners and medical students, but it makes it easy to share personal and professional experiences.  The John A. Burns School of Medicine’s (JABSOM) second virtual Career Night. Dr. Wendell Foo (JABSOM […]