
Below are the last few Doctor In The House columns

Dr. Lance Yokochi
Occupational medicine, Principal investigator of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST)
What is the Pacific Health Research Institute?
It’s an independent, nonprofit organization started by a group of Straub physicians back in 1960.
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Wailua Brandman, Aprn-Rx Bc
Where did you receive your schooling and training?
I went to graduate school at Yale and graduated in 1994. I became a clinical nurse specialist in adult psychiatric mental health nursing.

Dr. Jonathan Cho
Oncology is a very interesting field because there are new developments occurring all the time.
Read Column>>Dr. Laurie Tom
Endocrinologist
How long have you been practicing?
I started my private practice at Queen’s in 1992. I practice general endocrinology and metabolism, but just by the nature of the specialty and diseases that it encompasses, people with diabetes are a significant portion of my practice because the disease is so prevalent.
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Dr. Thomas Kane
Medical director of The Queen’s Medical Center’s Joint Center
Where did you receive your schooling and training?
I completed my undergraduate studies at Santa Clara University. I earned my M.D. from the University of California-Davis Medical School. I completed four years of general surgery residency in Sacramento.
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Teresa Fredericks
Registered nurse, certified instructor of Billings Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning
The Billings Ovulation Method is basically fertility awareness, so the woman knows her fertile days and non-fertile days.
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Dr. Trudy Guo
Psychologist
Where did you receive your schooling and training?
I received my undergraduate psychology degree from Stanford University and my doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Hawaii. I did an internship at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Martinez, Calif.
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Tanya D’avanzo, PH.D., ABPP-CN
Clinical neuropsychologist
Can you talk about the creative process of therapy and how you’re involved with that? I function as a neuropsychologist and am not directly involved with the art therapy program, although there are many similarities with the process of adjustments after brain injury and the creative process.
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Dr. Alan Cheung
Medical director of Transplant Institute of the Pacific at Hawaii Medical Center East
Where did you receive your schooling and training?
I graduated from Harvard Medical School in Boston. After that I did a general surgery residency at the University of Washington in Seattle and a transplant fellowship at the University in Minnesota. I’ve been back in Hawaii since 1992.
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Dr. Warren Tomamoto
Pulmonologist
I graduated from Laupahoehoe High School on the Big Island. I received my bachelor of science degree from University of Hawaii and my medical degree from John A. Burns School of Medicine at University of Hawaii in 1977.
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