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On average one person in Hawaiʻi dies by suicide every two days. From the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health HONOLULU –The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) Emergency Medical Services and Injury Prevention System Branch (EMSIPSB) in partnership with the Prevent Suicide Hawai‘i Task Force is hosting a series of community events across the state for […]

From the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health Gov. David Ige’s Joint Task Force on Rat Lungworm Disease is announcing new preliminary guidelines for the clinical management of angiostrongyliasis, more commonly known as rat lungworm disease. The new guidelines may be used by Hawai‘i physicians immediately and provide clear diagnosis, treatment, and management guidance for timely […]

Pictured: Graduates of the Medical Officer training program Class of 1995. Ten years after Dean Rogers’ death, his legacy at JABSOM and in the Pacific endures. By Greg Dever, MD (JABSOM MD 1978) During the early days of the medical school under the University of Hawaiʻi medical school’s first dean, Dr. Windsor Cutting and overlapping […]

Pictured: Dr. Terence “Terry” Rodgers, former Dean of JABSOM. The publishers of this article by Dr. Terry Rogers, visionary former dean of the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), graciously granted permission for us to repost this article, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Dr. Rogers’ death. This paper is […]

Pictured: Dr. Wee, Howard Lee, Dr. Craig Kadooka during a “Walk with a Doc” event. By Lea Hong, The Trust for Public Land (Honolulu, HI) Get a glimpse of what Oahu’s recreational future might be when three of Honolulu’s South Shore parks are temporarily linked for a day, a first step in creating a Lei […]

Pictured: Damon Lee, MD (Faculty); Graduates Brooke Yorita, MD; Cedric Kuo, DO; Adriann Bruce, MD (Co-Chief Resident); Christina Marzo (Co-Chief Resident); Bao Pham, MD; Shirley Hirata, MD; Seiji Yamada, MD (Faculty). Photo by David Tanaka. By Heidi Kubo, JABSOM Department of Family Medicine All six of the newest doctors to graduate from the University of […]