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Welcome to Hawaii's newest Internal Medicine Chief Residents

(July 2021) It's our pleasure to acknowledge and welcome the 2021-22 Internal Medicine Chief Residents.

Yue Fang, MD and Diana T. H. Kim, MD
Kaiser Permanente Medical Group Residency Program

Matthew Byrne, MD and Michael Adbo, MD
Tripler Army Medical Center Residency Program

Chanavuth Kanitsoraphan, MD, Eric Wien, MD, and Dane Kurohara, MD
University of Hawai‘i Internal Medicine Residency Program

(February 2021) The following medical students and residents/fellows received awards for their outstanding abstracts and presentations:

Research

First Place (Resident): Aaron Brown - Extraperioteneal Bladder Rupture Presenting as a Pseudo-Acute Kidney Injury
Second Place (Resident): Yue Fang - A Case of Afebrile Weil's Disease: Protean Manifestations Without the Hallmark of Infection
Third Place (Resident): Jean Kim - Subclinical Hypothyroidism Is Associated with Hypertension in Women: A Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis
First Place (Student): Brendan Seto - Causally Observed: Evaluating the Methodology of Large, Non-Randomized HCQ Studies
Second Place (Student): Mathew Kobylinski - The novel association of DNA viruses with Helicobacter pylori in gastric carcinogenesis Student Research
Third Place - tie (Student): Michael Meno - Telehealth amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perception of Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Cancer Patients
Third Place - tie (Student): Robert Mun - Culturally Considered Care and the Underestimation of Disease Burden Among Native Hawaiian Diabetes Mellitus Patients

Case Reports

First Place (Resident): Victoria Mank - Cardiac Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
First Place (Student): Jessica Shiosaki - Serum Diagnosis of Early Colorectal Cancer in a Multiethnic Cohort