University of Hawai’i (UH) regent Douglas Shinsato, John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) Dean Jerris Hedges, leaders in UH Hilo health programs, local physicians and area health system leaders met last Friday in Hilo to celebrate the establishment of the medical school’s first permanent clinic outside
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Our faculty practice plan, University Health Partners of Hawaii, offers a variety of specialty services and treatments specifically for women. Our Dr Richard McCartin talks more about it in the Doctors & Discoveries segment on Hawaii News.
Read more →Effective July 1, 2019, our third and fourth year residents began rotating in Hilo for a one month rotation in gynecologic surgery. While there, each resident is supervised by our faculty, seeing patients in the departmental faculty practice and participating in their surgical care. This rotation offers
Read more →Our faculty Dr Scott Harvey is working with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health and Hawaiʻi lawmakers to reduce the number of women dying in Hawaiʻi during childbirth. Mothers in Hawaiʻi — like the United States as a whole — are dying of pregnancy-related complications, or maternal
Read more →Senator Kai Kahele visited our Department on December 10, 2018, meeting with our Chair, faculty, and key KMCWC leaders. As a representative of the 1st Senatorial District and the chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee, Dr. Kahele was interested in learning about our departmental efforts to
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