Below is a list of physicians who have graciously offered their time to serve as mentors and/or provide shadowing opportunities. Availability of mentors is currently limited to JABSOM students only.
- If you are a pre-medical student, mentorship and access to shadowing experience can be found through the UH Medical Student Mentorship Program (MSMP).
If you are a JABSOM medical student interested in shadowing one of the physicians listed below:
- Before selecting a mentor, consider reading the ACP article on selecting a mentor.
- For non-Kaiser mentors, e-mail IMIG at uhimig@hawaii.edu
- For Kaiser mentors, e-mail Ms. Kristine “Krissy” Mai, the Program Coordinator for the Kaiser Permanente Hawaii Internal Medicine Residency Program at kristine.n.mai@kp.org for more information.
Mentor list
General IM
| Doc | Specialty | Setting – location | Faculty Member | Mentoring | Shadowing | Research |
| Lisa Camara, MD | General IM | Kaiser clinic | Yes | X | X | |
| Steven Dang, MD | General IM | Clinic | No | X | X | |
| Gautam Deshpande, MD | General IM | senior students (3rd and 4th year) at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan for a month rotation | Yes | X (international medicine) | X (mentoring) | |
| John Houk, MD | General IM | Private Practice | Yes | X | X | |
| Janet Onopa, MD | General IM | Queen Emma Clinic | Yes | X | X | |
| Macario Rivera, MD | General IM | Hilo VA Clinic | Yes | X | X | |
| Sonny Wong, MD | Cardiology | Private Practice | Yes | X | X | |
| Sarah Brown, MD | Internal Medicine (Hospitalist) | Kaiser Permanente | No | X | X | |
| Zamir Moen, MD | Internal Medicine (Hospitalist) | Kaiser Permanente | No | X | X | |
| Ben Tamura, MD | Internal Medicine and Bariatric Medicine | Kaiser Permanente | No | X | X | |
| Travis Nakamura, MD | General IM | Private practice in Kuakini | Yes | X | X |
IM Specialties
| Doc | Specialty | Setting – location | Faculty Member | Mentoring | Shadowing | Research |
| Matthew Lau, MD | Allergy and Immunology | Clinic | Yes | X | X | |
| Sonny Wong, MD | Cardiology | Private Practice | Yes | X | X | |
| Jenelyn Lim, MD | Geriatric | LTC, ALC, SNF | No | X | X | |
| Ben Tamura, MD | Internal Medicine and Bariatric Medicine | Kaiser Permanente | No | X | X | |
| Daniel Fischberg, MD PhD | Pain and Palliative Care | Yes | X | X | X (pain/palliative med) | |
| Samuel Evans, MD | Pulmonary/Crit Care | Critical care, VA Pulm Clinic | Yes | X | X | X |
| Alvin Furuike, MD | Pulmonary/Crit Care | Private Practice | Yes | X | X | |
| Shanon Makekau, MD | Pulmonary/Sleep Med | Kaiser inpt/clinic, sleep lab | No | X | X | |
| Dennis Boulware, MD | Rheumatology | Kaiser Permanente | No | X | X |