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Causes: Health, Health Care
Mission: Ucera is a non-profit organization established to further the missionsand visions of the john a. Burns school of medicine (jabsom) and other health sciences schools of the university of hawaii (uh). It contributes to thier goal of improving the health care status of the citizens of hawaii and the pacific by supporting the education, research and clinical activities of the schools. It supports financial diversification of the school by developing revenue generating initiatives in collaboration with hospitals, government agencies and other entities.
Programs: Clinical and professional services - 1) provide health care to the general public, with special attention to the poor and other underserved populations of hawaii and the pacific region. 2) specialty clinics - multi-specialty faculty practice at clinics located at various sites including: 677 ala moana blvd, honolulu, hi 96813; 1319 punahou street, suite 800, 801, 900; queen's outpatient center; physician's office buildings at queen's; leahi hospital; molokai general hospital; physicians center at mililani and surgical consultants of hawaii located at kuakini hospital. Provide physicians on the university of hawaii faculty with a base of ob/gyn, endocrine, internal medicine, geriatric, surgical, and psychiatric patients from which they can educate medical students and residents. 3) queen's hospital and hawaii pacific health/kapiolani hospital/wahiawa general contracts - provide faculty members to treat patients and to provide specialty clinical services to hospitals. 4) veteran's administration specialty clinics - provide specialist physicians to treat patients at the va medical & regional outpatient clinic. This population tends to be indigent and underserved. The va clinic is also a teaching site for the university of hawaii john a. Burns school of medicine and provides a base of teaching patients.
medical school and faculty support - in general, provides funding tobuild and sustain the infrastructure of the john a. Burns school of medicine and its departments and those of the other health sciences schools of the university of hawaii. Provide additional resources to recruit, retain, and develop qualified faculty at jabsom and the other uh health sciences schools.
educational support - 1) in general, provide education and clinicaltraining for the university of hawaii health sciences schools' students. 2) international training program (inl-fs) - provide international medical students and residents with u. S. Training experiences at the university of hawaii john a. Burns school of medicine. 3) office of medical education (ome-me) - provide simulated patients for clinical skills training and examinations for school of medicine students and residents.
research support - ucera has a queen's medical center contract to conduct cardiovascular research and education consulting for about 6 hours per week. There was no other research activity during the year. Ucera is in position to accommodate research activities that require hipaa compliant handling of protected health information (phi). Education support - ucera supports the hawai'i journal of medicine & public health, which is a peer-reviewed medical journal which provides new scientific information in a scholarly format with a focus on the unique, multi-culture and enviromental aspects of the hawaiian islands and pacific rim regions.