Billy Kenoi, 52, died January 26, after a long battle with leukemia.
Kenoi started his post-secondary education at Hawaiʻi Community College and the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo before transferring to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He later earned a law degree from
UH Mānoa’s William S. Richardson School of Law.
He went on to become a public defender in Hawaiʻi courts and moved into politics, becoming Hawaiʻi County mayor at age 39. Kenoi also worked as a lecturer at Hawaiʻi
CC 2004–09 and again 2017–18.
“On behalf of the entire
UH Hilo community, I extend my deepest condolences to Billy Kenoi’s ʻohana, colleagues and friends,”
January 20, 2021
by Abigail Roth
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students have led the effort, on campus and nationally, to advocate for first-generation and low-income (FGLI) students in medicine, creating organizations and developing resources to help students access and navigate medical school. This includes working to end the default perception that FGLI students are high-risk in medical school, and replace it with the recognition that their diverse perspectives significantly enhance medical education and will improve how health care is delivered.
YSM fifth-year MD-PhD student Mytien Nguyen, MS, played a central role in the creation of two toolkits, one for first-generation medical school students and another for their advisors and families, launched nationally through the AAMC in November 2020. She says the student toolkit would have been helpful when she started medical school, a time when there was no first-generation or low-income identity student group at YSM or any othe
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JONESBORO, AR – New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University’s Class of 2024 celebrated a rite of passage on their medical school journey Monday evening as NYITCOM at A-State held a virtual White Coat Ceremony to formally recognize a milestone event for its 124 first-year student doctors.
Medical students are typically coated at the start of the fall semester with large, in-person gatherings, but this year’s events were held virtually due to the pandemic. However, each member of the Class of 2024 was still recognized for taking the critical first step in their medical education. The ceremony featured a slideshow with the future physicians pictured in their white coat.
From Staff Reports
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education (ACHE) announces the upcoming retirement of Thomas H. Webb Jr., chief operating officer, and Dennis Bauer, chief financial officer, two of ACHE’s founding members of the senior leadership team.
In a news release, CEO Kyle D. Parker, JD, stated, “Tom and Dennis have been an important part of the financial planning, construction of facilities and subsequent execution of various physical and academic projects of the Arkansas Colleges of Health Education since 2014. Ever since the sale of Sparks Health System in 2009, these two have been an integral part of the vision of ACHE and its colleges and programs. I am proud to call these exceptional men my friends.”
MOULTRIE, Ga. — Fifty-nine students in the Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) class of 2024 recently received their white coats in a virtual ceremony.