Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence (NHCOE)

NHCOE is so proud of our Nānākuli and Waianae Pathways to Health students representing the west side at JABSOM's summer Medical Diagnosis and Treatment program!

https://www.khon2.com/local-news/hawaii-high-schoolers-get-hands-on-experience-at-uh-medical-school/

E hoʻomaikaʻi to 4th year Native Hawaiian JABSOM student, Ashley Mainanai Lee, on receiving the U.S. Excellence in Public Health Award! We are so very proud of you!

Congratulations to our NHPI JABSOM graduates!
John A. Burns School of Medicine ʻImi Hoʻōla Post Baccalaureate Program

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1930043324000360?via%3Dihub

Our Indigenous Faculty Forum brought together 40 Indigenous professionals and allies to engage in experiences of learning and healing. Mahalo to our co-sponsor and partners from the Northwest Native American Center of Excellence and the indigenous health professionals, educators, researchers and community advocates from Hawaiʻi, the continent and Canada who shared space with us. Our Garden grows!

We had a wonderful virtual Forest Bathing session in our māla lāʻau lapaʻau with Dr. Miku Lenentine of Kapiʻolani Community College Center for Resilient Neighborhoods (CERENE) Program as part of our monthly JABSOM Mindful Practice sessions.

Congratulations, Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum for being a JABSOM Dean finalist! Dr. Buenconsejo-Lum’s presentation at JABSOM today is open to the public. Join in person or on zoom.

Did you know that about half of all physicians in Hawai‘i graduated from JABSOM, completed one of its fellowship or residency programs, or serves as faculty on different islands? The next JABSOM dean will play a key leadership role in systems change and a collaborative effort that impact us and future generations.

All are invited to join the public presentations in-person at the JABSOM Library Stacks or via Zoom. The first finalist public presentation on Tuesday, January 30th from 1:30 to 2:45pm is with JABSOM Interim Dean Dr. Lee Buenconsejo-Lum.

Join the Zoom or submit your comments/evaluation at the link:
https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/01/jabsom-dean-finalists-announced.html

Congratulations to Mitch Cadiz as the recipient of the inaugural Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation 2024 Scholarship! We are very proud of you, Mitch!

Hours away from the annual JABSOM Scholarship dinner, we feature JABSOM 2027 candidate Mitch Cadiz and his inspiring story as a future physician who desires to give back to his community. We extend a mahalo to The Clarence T.C Ching Foundation for their generous support towards JABSOM and for making dreams possible for students like Mitch.

Read more: https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/01/mitch-cadiz-profile.html

We are so proud of our very own Dr. Genia Taitano who is a recipient of the coveted HELP award. Dr. Taitano is a Chamorro physician who grew up on the remote island of Rota, the southernmost of the Northern Mariana Islands, where access to health care was severely limited.

Dr. Taitano successfully completed the ʻImi Hoʻōla program and graduated from JABSOM in 2016. The HELP award helped her to realize her goal to practice in a rural community, where she could raise her family. After completing a surgical critical care residency training at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) as well as a colorectal fellowship in Columbus, Ohio, Taitano now calls Hawaiʻi Island home, where she is primarily employed by Alii Health, a nonprofit healthcare organization whose mission is to provide the best possible care for the West Hawaiʻi community in collaboration and support of Kona Community Hospital.

Congratulations, Dr. Taitano for being a role model for all Pacific Islander students who strive to enter medicine and improve the health of their communities!

Aloha Kalikimaka from all of us at the Native Hawaiian Center of Excellence and ʻImi Hoʻōla!