{"article":[{"id":"e0a251350a00007e76b65821fd278097","title":"The Heart of JABSOM","summary":"At the 60th Anniversary Gala, the JABSOM Media and Communications team unveiled The Heart of JABSOM, a short video featuring Ryan Keliʻi Shontell, Dr. Geri Young, Dr. Venkataraman Balaraman, and Dr. Keolamau Yee. The student, alumni, and faculty were chosen to be featured to represent the school’s hyperlocal approach to research, its commitment to rural education, and the way students are taught to provide care with aloha.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Native Hawaiian"},{"category":"Research"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Alumni News"},{"category":"Student Life"},{"category":"Rural Health"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/10/video-lobby.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/10/the-heart-of-jabsom.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"10/12/2025"},{"id":"34b54b030a00007e34b7a28126798a8c","title":"Dr. Marian Melish celebrates 50 years of medicine & research in Hawaiʻi","summary":"Throughout her medical career, renowned infectious disease expert Dr. Marian Melish has been making key contributions in science. Whether it be making discoveries crucial to understanding Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome, diagnosing the first case of Kawasaki Disease in Hawaiʻi and being at the state’s forefront during the COVID-19 pandemic. The humble pediatrician and professor at the University of Hawaiʻi medical school says that her passion for her work initially stemmed from her day to day as a clinician. “Mostly, I am a working doctor with her eyes open because all of my experiences have started from cases.” ","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Research"},{"category":"UH Manoa"},{"category":"Faculty"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/09/2025-marian-melish-library.webp","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/09/2025-marian-melish-50-yrs.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"09/11/2025"},{"id":"5aae77ed0a00007e2688df5a15b7f230","title":"Tumaini Rucker Coker, MD, MBA Named JABSOM Pediatrics Chair","summary":"Tumaini Rucker Coker, MD, MBA has been selected as the new chair of the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Pediatrics Department. Dr. Rucker Coker comes to JABSOM from the University of Washington School of Medicine where she served as Professor and Division Head of General Pediatrics.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Pediatrics"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/04/tumaini-rucker-coker-upscaled.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/04/coker-named-pediatrics-chair.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"04/18/2025"},{"id":"ba87fa010a00007e6e78f404a965738f","title":"Match Day 2025: A Class Committed to Hawaiʻi","summary":"With the state continuing to face a physician shortage, JABSOM had a strong showing in the primary care specialties that Hawaiʻi needs the most.66 percent of the Class of 2025 will enter Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine or OB-GYN.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Rural Health"},{"category":"MD Residents"},{"category":"Family Medicine"},{"category":"OB-GYN"},{"category":"Psychiatry"},{"category":"Student Life"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Surgery"},{"category":"Workforce Development"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/03/class-of-2025-match1.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/03/match-day-2025.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"03/21/2025"},{"id":"68e90ae50a00007e560c071e2970910c","title":"JABSOM MD students create dialogue on disability education at inaugural Disability Day","summary":"JABSOM MD students and faculty mentors launched the inaugural Disability Day as part of a second-year medical student course. ","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Geriatrics"},{"category":"Collaboration"},{"category":"Student Life"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Community Outreach"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/03/2025-disability-day.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/03/2025-jabsom-disability-day.html","feature":"no","startDate":"03/05/2025"},{"id":"9b0d63950a00007e4dd80f01e053ab8e","title":"Dr. Venkataraman Balaraman Selected as Interim Pediatrics Chair ","summary":"As the national search for JABSOM's next Pediatrics chair wraps up, Dr. Venkataraman Balaraman will step into the interim role.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Pediatrics"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/01/exterior.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2025/01/interim-pediatrics-chair.html","feature":"no","startDate":"01/24/2025"},{"id":"0a9fb1780a00007e2ac102c7cf4821b1","title":"Microplastics’ effect on lung health part of pioneering UH study","summary":"A groundbreaking project launched by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa to study the impact of microplastics on respiratory health has earned a three-year, $352,126 grant from the National Science Foundation.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Faculty"},{"category":"UH Manoa"},{"category":"Collaboration"},{"category":"Research"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/_images/_misc/_placeholders/ocean-beauty-shot.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/07/microplastics-and-lung-health.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"07/31/2024"},{"id":"442604550a00007e54a887edaf0fefb2","title":"Match Day 2024: More than half of JABSOM students match to Primary Care","summary":"For a second consecutive year, 100 percent of JABSOM students matched into a residency program. As Hawaiʻi continues to grapple with a physician shortage, more than half of JABSOM students are entering much-needed primary care specialties of Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Pediatrics. ","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"OB-GYN"},{"category":"Ophthalmology"},{"category":"MD Residents"},{"category":"Pathology"},{"category":"IN THE NEWS"},{"category":"Graduate Medical Education"},{"category":"Family Medicine"},{"category":"Psychiatry"},{"category":"Surgery"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Rural Health"},{"category":"Workforce Development"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/03/jabsom-2024-match-day.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/03/match-day-jabsom-students-match-to-primary-care.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"03/15/2024"},{"id":"3e7135d50a00007e5bdaaf4693840806","title":"Dr. Lynn Iwamoto Receives First-Ever Hawaiʻi Health Partners Member of the Year Award","summary":"For more than three decades, Dr. Lynn Iwamoto has served Hawaiʻi as a Neonatologist at Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women & Children while training the next generation of pediatricians as a JABSOM faculty.Those decades of service have been recognized over the last 12 months. In June 2023, Iwamoto was on the cover of Honolulu Magazine and featured as one of the state's top doctors. This month, she was honored by Hawaiʻi Pacific Health and Hawaiʻi Health Partners as the Member of the Year for making the healthcare landscape safer for patients. Iwamoto created the Maintenance Certification Program, which gives physicians credit for their quality and patient safety work. ","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Alumni News"},{"category":"Faculty"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Care"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/01/lynn-iwamoto-award.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2024/01/iwamoto-named-hawaii-health-partners-member-of-year.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"01/24/2024"},{"id":"b0a067c90a00007e46a2533f0ddaf408","title":"JABSOM Alum, Professor Inspires Through New Book","summary":"The COVID-19 pandemic brought a lot of uncertainty to the world. Many were turning to health experts for answers, and one reassuring voice was JABSOM Assistant Clinical Professor Dr. Theresa Wee. The 1979 JABSOM graduate didn't just offer medical guidance. Through blog posts, she combines her practical healthcare expertise with personal encounters of loss, resilience, and the guiding presence of faith. Her readers related to her experiences and found comfort and solace in her posts. Now that the worst of the pandemic is likely behind us, Dr. Wee published \"My Covid-19 Diary: Practical Tips and Scriptures for Improbable Times from an American Doctor\". ","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Community Outreach"},{"category":"Alumni News"},{"category":"Faculty"},{"category":"Family Medicine"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/09/theresawee","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/09/my-covid-diary-wee.html","feature":"no","startDate":"09/19/2023"},{"id":"4faf521a0a00007e76609c25f0022e0d","title":"Clerkship to Immediate Care, JABSOM Students Assist Maui Fire Survivors","summary":"JABSOM students provide hands-on care for the hundreds who survived the deadliest US wildfire in over a century. Each student would treat or interact with upwards of 20 people daily in the two weeks after the Maui fires.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Rural Health"},{"category":"Native Hawaiian"},{"category":"Community Outreach"},{"category":"Psychiatry"},{"category":"Care"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Family Medicine"},{"category":"IN THE NEWS"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/08/Ashley working.jpeg","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/08/jabsom-students-provide-care-for-maui-survivors.html","feature":"yes","startDate":"08/31/2023"},{"id":"d32cc7d40a00007e45b7aaca7314e9dc","title":"A Family of Healers: The Murayama Family","summary":"Kenric, the patriarch, is a 1985 JABSOM graduate and Chair of the Department of Surgery. His wife, Norma, is a former nurse and Friends of the Medical School president. Their son Matthew is a second-year Family Medicine resident in Riverside, CA. Their other son, Michael, graduated from JABSOM in 2018 and is practicing pediatrics. Their youngest daughter, Sarah, is a member of JABSOM’s class of 2023 and graduated on May 14.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Friends of the Medical School"},{"category":"OB-GYN"},{"category":"Alumni News"},{"category":"MD Residents"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"UH Manoa"},{"category":"Family Medicine"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/05/Murayama-family.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/05/family-of-healers-murayamas.html","feature":"no","startDate":"05/14/2023"},{"id":"d27a99820a00007e45b7aacaab3b7e0e","title":"Tok Doc: Dr. Kara Wong Ramsey","summary":"Dr. Kara Wong Ramsey, neonatologist and assistant professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine (UH JABSOM), admired how other doctors used their platform as medical professionals to share information on social media and decided to make and upload her own videos with the intention of raising awareness about COVID-19 and addressing vaccine hesitancy.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"UH Manoa"},{"category":"Graduate Medical Education"},{"category":"Community Outreach"},{"category":"Pediatrics"},{"category":"Faculty"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/04/KWR-cover.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2023/04/tok-doc-kara-wong-ramsey.html","feature":"no","startDate":"04/19/2023"},{"id":"1c18ad440a00007e6607c7e56c3b6fda","title":"Four Decades on the Garden Isle, Dr. Geri Young Looks Back at Her Life of Service on Kaua’i","summary":"Dr. Geri Young was born and raised in Honolulu and grew up in Waipahu. She went to Pomona College in California before returning to Hawai’i to attend JABSOM. Young says between her experience on the continent and living in a large city like Honolulu, the opportunity to learn in a rural setting like Kaua’i is unique.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"Alumni News"},{"category":"Faculty"},{"category":"Rural Health"},{"category":"IN THE NEWS"},{"category":"Pediatrics"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2022/10/GeriYoung-featurephoto-1.png","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2022/10/dr-geri-young-profile.html","feature":"no","startDate":"10/03/2022"},{"id":"bebd1dd80a00007e770ebac123865bab","title":"Annual Research Day spotlights works done by pediatric residents, fellows","summary":"The Annual Raul Rudoy, MD, MPH Resident and Fellow Research Day highlights scholarly work done by the pediatric residents and neonatal fellows at the University of Hawaiʻi Department of Pediatrics and Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children.","teaser":"","categories":[{"category":"MD Residents"},{"category":"Research"},{"category":"Pediatrics"}],"imageURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2019/06/pediatricresearchday.jpg","imageALT":"","articleURL":"https://jabsom.hawaii.edu/news-events/news/2019/06/pediatric-residency-research-day.html","feature":"no","startDate":"06/03/2019"}]}