Randal Wada, M.D.ProfessorDivision / Specialty: Hematology Oncology
Medical School: Emory University
Internship/Residency: Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Research Interest: His current areas of research are focused on interprofessional education, precision medicine/molecular targeting, quality improvement, and umbilical cord blood banking for transplantation.
Community Involvement: Dr. Wada is the Division Chief for Hematology and Oncology. He is a tenured faculty member in the SONDH with a joint appointment in JABSOM. He is director of the Pediatric Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Transplantation program at the Kapi‘olani Children’s Blood and Cancer Center. Dr. Wada serves as the medical director of the Hawaiʻi Bone Marrow Donor Registry and the Hawai‘i Cord Blood Bank, both of which are part of the National Marrow Donor Program network. He is also the medical director of the NMDP Collection Center for bone marrow donation at Kapi‘olani Medical Center, and associate director of the NMDP Apheresis Center. Dr. Wada actively participates in the teaching programs at JABSOM and SONDH, where in addition to conferences to medical students and residents, he lectures to undergraduate and graduate students in nursing, and serves as PhD/ DNP thesis advisor to students in the School of Public Health and SONDH. He is active on a number of committees, both at the University and nationally, with organizations such as the Beat Childhood Cancer Consortium, the National Marrow Donor Program, and the Society for Behavioral Medicine.
Publications / Scholarly: Wada RK, Glaser DW, Bantum EO, Orimoto T, Steffen AD, Elia JL, Albright CL. Hawaii’s multiethnic adolescent and young adult survivors of childhood cancer: How do their health behavior risks compare to state and national samples? Hawaii J Med Public Health
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