Ranaella Steinberg Doctor of Veterinary Medicine What kind of medicine do you practice? I practice integrative veterinary medicine. That would be a combination of conventional medicine and what you would call complementary or alternative medicine. What is alternative/complementary medicine? It is herbal medicine, acupuncture and also nutrition as being a larger part of health and [...]
Dr. Bryan Gushiken Radiologist at Kapiolani Women’s Center Where did you receive your schooling/training? I attended the University of Southern California and medical school at UCLA. I did my residency, radiology and fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. How long have you been in practice? Since 1997. What does a traditional mammogram look [...]
Dr. Robert Sloan Director of the Concussion Care Center at Castle Medical Center Where did you receive your schooling/training? I did my undergraduate studies in nutrition at UH Manoa, then I went to the University of California, where I majored in biology and religious studies. After that, I worked as a San Jose State University [...]
Where did you receive your education and training? I attended medical school at Penn State University, and my internship, residency and fellowship training were at Harvard Medical School. In addition to my position at Pacific Endoscopy Center, I am a gastroenterologist at Pali Momi Medical Center and a professor of medicine at UH JABSOM. How [...]
Editor’s note: The following interview is with a reader who contacted Rasa Fournier in response to the Dec. 12 Doctor in the House column on radiation exposure in the Pacific Islands. Terry Scheidt worked at ground zero during U.S. nuclear testing exercises in the Pacific. Here is his firsthand account of, quite literally, the fallout [...]
Where did you receive your schooling and training? I went to the University of Hawaii School of Medicine. After graduating from medical school I went to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and did my internal medicine training, and then specialty training in hematology and oncology. I also did a bone marrow transplant fellowship at City of [...]
Dr. Neal Palafox Researcher at the John A. Burns School of Medicine Where did you receive your schooling/training? I was born in Hawaii. I went to University Lab School and then Whitman College in the state of Washington. I came back to Hawaii and went to the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), and [...]
Pet owners have a challenging dilemma as they select from a wide range of pet foods. Some owners come into our practice touting the virtues of the food they buy for their pets, while others look for guidance. This is the story about Ruby, who needed advice for her favorite pooch. “Doc, I want to [...]
Dr. Kerry Dillberg Dillberg Integrated Healthcare Please tell us about your practice. Our office is called Dillberg Integrated Healthcare because we believe that nothing in the body occurs in a vacuum. Every aspect of our health is influenced by the stresses we are exposed to. In my practice, I use chiropractic, acupuncture, nutrition, detoxification, bioidentical [...]
Dr. Rupa Wong Pediatric ophthalmologist at Honolulu Eye Clinic Where did you receive your schooling/training? I attended Duke University, and then earned my medical degree at Cornell University Medical College. After graduation, I did my residency in ophthalmology at New York University and Manhattan, Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital. At Harvard’s pediatric hospital, Children’s Hospital [...]
