Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 33, Number 6, 1 June 2016 — First Hawaiian woman ranked master physician [ARTICLE]

First Hawaiian woman ranked master physician

Dr. Majorie Mau has heeome the first Native Hawaiian woman recognized with the title "master" physician by the American College of Physicians. Mau treats patients on Moloka'i at the Lau Ola Clinic in Honolulu, whieh is run by University Health Partners of Hawai'i. As a scientist, she has also been conducting research on metabolic disorders affecting Native Hawaiians and Paeihe Islanders. She has brought more than $20.9 million in funding to the University of Hawai'i John A. Bums School of Medicine, where she was the founding chair of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health. Mau is graduate of Kalani High School and Creighton University, and she holds a master's degree from the Harvard School of Puhlie Heahh. She is the director of the Center for Native and Paeihe Health

Disparities Research and holds the Myron B. Thompson Endowed Chair for Native Hawaiian Heahh at the UH medical school.