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Chien-Wen Tseng with JABSOM, UH, HMSA, Hawaii Pacific Health and authorities leadership.

A University of Hawaiʻi astatine Mānoa prof has earned the highest grant successful the fields of wellness and medicine. Chien-Wen Tseng of the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). She is the 3rd UH module subordinate to beryllium selected for NAM.

Tseng is 1 of 100 caller members inducted into the academy successful 2022 done a process that recognizes individuals who person made large contributions to the advancement of the aesculapian sciences, wellness attraction and nationalist health. Established successful 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, NAM addresses captious issues successful health, science, medicine and related policy, and inspires affirmative actions crossed sectors.

Chien-Wen Tseng

Tseng was the archetypal doc from Hawaiʻi nominated to service connected the United States Preventive Services Task Force. The NAM cites Tseng for ensuring “medication entree for 1 successful 4 Americans incapable to spend their prescriptions. Her enactment connected Medicare Part D cause benefits supported 2020 authorities to redesign Part D to support 48 cardinal patients from losing sum mid-year.”

“The accidental to service connected the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, to enactment connected America’s nationalist guidelines for preventive care, is 1 of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to serve,” she said. “For me, it was truly astir radical not being capable to spend their medications oregon not being capable to spend wellness care. We knew what was right. We knew the attraction radical needed, it conscionable came down to a dollar sign, and that wasn’t close for me.”

Joining JABSOM Dean Jerris Hedges, Tseng’s predetermination to NAM makes her the 2nd progressive UH subordinate successful this exclusive club. Suzanne P. Murphy, retired UH Cancer Center researcher, was elected successful 2010.

“It’s tremendous designation for the prime of module we person present astatine the John A. Burns School of Medicine,” Hedges said. “It’s besides incredibly important for the radical of Hawaiʻi due to the fact that Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng impacted the lives of our colonisation and the remainder of the nation. The older we get, the much medications we whitethorn require, and truthful uncovering a mode that we tin supply the due medications astatine a tenable outgo has been a large portion of her work.”

While Tseng feels privileged to articulation this exclusive club, she said getting present couldn’t person happened without enactment from the community, co-workers and patients.

“As overmuch of an unthinkable grant it is to go a subordinate of the NAM, I’ve honestly been doing what I emotion and what’s meaningful my full life. Much of this grant goes to JABSOM Dean Hedges, my department, my co-faculty, residents who person supported maine and taught maine each these years, and the patients who marque this each real,” she said. “I besides privation to admit the enactment of the HMSA seat of wellness services and prime research. They truly protected my clip to service connected the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and enactment connected Medicare portion D cause benefits.”

Read much connected the JABSOM website.