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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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 →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
Read more →The University of Hawaiʻi medical school has deployed its first full-time compensated faculty member to Hilo. This spring, Dr. Kareem Khozaim became the first Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health (OB-GYN) physician in Hilo employed by University Health Partners, or UHP, the JABSOM faculty practice plan. UH OB-GYN
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