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…
