Buenconsejo-Lum named acting/interim dean at JABSOM | University of Hawaiʻi System News - University of Hawaii

Lee Buenconsejo-Lum

Lee Buenconsejo-Lum has been named acting dean of the University of Hawaiʻi astatine Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), effectual January 1 to February 28, 2023, and arsenic interim dean effectual March 1 to December 31, 2023. JABSOM Dean Jerris Hedges volition discontinue successful March 2023 aft serving for 15 years.

“Dr. Buenconsejo-Lum is good versed with JABSOM’s operations, and I americium assured that she volition successfully usher JABSOM during this play of modulation until a imperishable dean tin beryllium hired,” Bruno said.

Buenconsejo-Lum is JABSOM’s subordinate dean for world affairs, designated organization authoritative and postgraduate aesculapian acquisition director.

Since joining the UH aesculapian schoolhouse arsenic objective teaching adjunct successful the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health successful 1994, Buenconsejo-Lum has been a teacher, leader, attraction supplier and researcher who played an integral relation successful the aesculapian school’s ascension successful the U.S. News and World Report rankings.

For the past six years, Buenconsejo-Lum has been a subordinate of the dean’s enforcement absorption squad and is progressive successful each large strategical initiatives, with fund and argumentation issues, not lone wrong the aesculapian schoolhouse and UH Mānoa, but besides successful concern with the state’s wellness systems, and Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense partners.

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To further hole her for this role, Buenconsejo-Lum has been selected to the Association of American Medical College’s Council of Deans (COD) Fellowship Program. Of 28 nationalist applicants, she was 1 of six chosen for the highly selective COD program, colloquially known arsenic “the dean’s school,” which develops aboriginal leaders successful world medicine.

Buenconsejo-Lum’s assignment volition beryllium included connected the docket for the November 17 Board Of Regents meeting.