"It was good day yesterday as Dr. Spero Manson and I welcomed Dr. Keawe Kaholokula into the National Academy of Medicine" - Jerris Hedges, MD. Dr. Manson and Dr, Hedges are both members of the National Academy of Medicine. Dr.…
Congratulations to PIKO Year 1 Pilot Investigator, Dr. Kelsie Okamura, for publishing her pilot project, “'Allowing Space for Voice…All Our Voices': Understanding Ho‘ouna Pono Implementation Through Educational Leadership Perspectives in Rural Hawai‘i Schools," in School Mental Health. Her paper uses…
Kelsie Okamura, PhD, PIKO Year 1 Pilot Congratulations to Dr. Kelsie Okamura, PIKO Pilot Year 1 awardee, for receiving the NIH Director's Pioneer (DP1) award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This five-year grant award for $4,250,000 focuses…
https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/06/realities-of-vape-use-in-rural-hawaii.html JABSOM MED Weekly (June 21, 2024): Posted by Matthew Campbell "[Normally] it [would] be pretty easy to say "no," but, like, if it was a good friend I knew that was trying to hook [me into using] it, then…
Congratulations to Dr. Peter Washington and his Research Team for recently receiving the New Innovator Award from NIH. This award is part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, and Dr. Washington is one of 85 recipients to receive this prestigious…
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Associate Professor Mapuana Antonio of the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health is the first faculty to be formally appointed the Queen Liliʻuokalani Distinguished Professorship in Native Hawaiian Culture. Dr. Antonio was a…
The RECOVER Initiative is a NIH sponsored multi-center cohort study recruiting 17,680 participants nationally to understand PASC (Post-acute sequelae of SARS-Cov-2), syndrome more commonly called 'Long COVID' disease. Long COVID refers to a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing…
