Docs Talk Story

In this episode, we talk story with Dr. Gregg Kokame, the Chief of Ophthalmology at JABSOM. Dr. Gregg Kokame is the first person in the Asia Pacific region to successfully complete a bionic eye surgery. He is also heavily involved in research and has over 100 publications and over 70 clinical trials. 

In this episode we talk story with Dr. Kareem Khozaim, a Ob/Gyn in Hilo! He attended medical school at University of Cincinnati, Ob/Gyn residency at Indiana University, and spent time in American Samoa and Kenya before serving at Bay Clinic and Hilo Medical Center for the past 4 years. Join us as we talk about global health,  rural medicine, and existing stereotypes in Ob/Gyn! 

In this episode we talk story  with Dr. William Haning, a psychiatrist and addiction medicine physician as well as a Professor of Psychiatry at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. He attended medical school and residency at JABSOM where he completed Psychiatry and later completed an addiction medicine fellowship at Tripler Hospital. Dr. Haning has worked in a variety of places, such as the military, OCCC, and Hawaii State Hospital. He currently works at Queen’s medical center where he has practiced for the past 40 years. Join us as we talk about about the evolution of psychiatry and addiction medicine over the years, exploring a life in psychiatry, and combatting physician burnout. 

Today we talk story with Dr. Fay Gao, a neurologist specializing in movement disorders. In this episode, we learn about the pathway to movement disorders specialist, as well as the lifestyle and patient population that a movement disorders specialists sees. 

In this episode, we talk story with Dr. Janet Berreman, the Kauai District Health Officer for the Hawaii State Department of Health. Dr. Berreman was born in New York and raised in California. She attended medical school, residency, and fellowship at UCSF where she completed Pediatrics with a Primary Care focus and took a Chief Residency year training in Ambulatory Pediatrics. She went on to practice as a pediatrician at the Lyndon B. Johnson Tropical Medical Center in American Samoa for 4 years before coming to Hawaii where she worked as Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center’s first pediatrician and as a JABSOM clinical faculty for 11 years. Dr. Berreman then moved back to California and earned her Master of Public Health at UC Berkeley. While there, she served as the City of Berkeley Health Officer for 10 years. She has been in her current role and has been calling Kauai home for the last 4.5 years. Join us as we talk about public health, COVID-19, and taking advantage of every opportunity that comes your way! 

In this episode, we talk story with Dr. Stacy Brown, a Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology doc at Queen’s Medical Center! Dr. Brown attended medical school at Cornell and went on to do her neurology residency and Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology fellowship at Yale. She is also an assistant professor at JABSOM and Program Director of Neuroscience Research at Queen's. Join us as we talk about being open to unexpected opportunities, training in a traditionally male-dominated specialty, and the complementary nature of research and patient care. We hope Dr. Brown’s passion shines through this episode, as she talks about how rewarding her profession is and how it impacts her own outlook on life!

In this episode, Charissa talks story with Dr. Greg Sakamoto, a dermatologist who has his own private practice in Honolulu. Dr. Sakamoto is a Hawaii boy who grew up in Waialua and attended medical school here at JABSOM. He went on to pursue an internship in internal medicine at the University of Hawaii and then completed his residency at the Harvard Medical School Dermatology Residency Program in Boston, Massachusetts. Join us as we talk about the variety of conditions that can affect our body’s largest organ, tips on starting your own practice, and identifying and preventing burnout. We hope you are as inspired as we are by Dr. Sakamoto’s commitment to his patients and by how this commitment guides his approach to providing medical care.  

In this special episode, Enze and Rylie co-host an episode with Drs. Oishi and Tam to discuss balancing life outside of medicine. Dr. Oishi is a general surgeon at Kuakini, and Dr. Tam is an internal medicine doctor and faculty at JABSOM. We hope you enjoy this fun episode full of practical advice for medical students, from preclerkship years all the way until match day. 

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Robert Ruggieri, an Emergency Medicine physician who worked at Queen's Medical Center before opening Queen's Island Urgent Care in 2006. Tune in to hear about his journey to Emergency Medicine, a typical day of an Emergency Medicine physician & Urgent Care physician, the process of undertaking the business side of medicine, and advice for medical students hoping to go into Emergency Medicine!

To start off Season 2, we talk story with Dr. Daniel Fischberg, a pain and palliative care specialist at Queen’s Medical Center. Dr. Fischberg is a MD/PhD, attending medical school at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and earning his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from City University of New York. He completed his internal medicine residency at Mount Sinai Hospital and went on to pursue a Pain & Palliative Care fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Join us as we address some misconceptions about palliative medicine, discuss its role in compassionate care, and talk about how we can approach every patient with humility.