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Monday’s announcement that Kāhi Mōhala is set to join The Queen’s Health System (QHS) allows the John A. Burns School of Medicine to expand its training experiences for students, residents, and fellows in the specialty of psychiatry. Currently, JABSOM Department of Psychiatry faculty serve QHS as Queen’s University Medical Group physicians, providing care for child […]

Tucked away in the Biomedical Building on the University of Hawaii’s UH Mānoa Campus is the Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) Department. The MLS department offers a program that educates, trains and develops students who later play a crucial part in generating data needed to assist health care providers in making patient diagnostic and treatment decisions. […]

Dr. Griffin Rodgers, director of the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), met with JABSOM, UH Cancer Center, and College of Engineering faculty from the Diabetes Research Center (DRC) alongside Dr. Robert Rivers, Program Director of NIDDK and the National Institutes of Health on May 20. The purpose of their visit was […]

The JABSOM Homeless Outreach and Medical Education (HOME) Project provides students with hands-on experience for patient care through its clinics for houseless populations. To improve patient care in the community and to identify health disparities in Hawaii’s communities, two JABSOM students began to develop a database for their patients. Created by MD 2024 candidates Dylan […]

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) welcomed six inaugural students of the Kauai Medical Training Track program in August. The new multi-pronged program was funded by a $10-million commitment from Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg with the goal of helping address the physician shortage and directly improve the […]

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 […]