"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…
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…
