Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 23, Number 4, 1 April 2006 — ʻAhahul o nā Kauka [ARTICLE]

ʻAhahul o nā Kauka

Dr. Dee-Ann Carpenter-Yoshino has been elected president of the board of directors of 'Ahahui o nā Kauka, the Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians. CarpenterYoshino, who replaces Dr. Kalani Brady

as the 'ahahui president, is an internal medicine specialist with a group practice in Wahiawā and an assistant professor with the Department of Native Hawaiian Heahh at the University of Hawai'i. The daughter of OHA Trustee Dante Carpenter, Carpenter-Yoshino is president and founder of Friends of 'Imi Ho'ōla and has served on the board of 'Ahahui o nā Kauka since 2002. Directors Dr. Kekuni Blaisdell and Dr. Noa Emmett Aluli founded 'Ahahui o nā Kauka in 1998, as a professional association of Native Hawaiian allopathic and osteopathic physicians. Its mission is to ehampion superior heakh and wellness for Native Hawaiians and their families E3