Creative Pedagogy Award

The HMSA Center for Learning Innovation Creative Pedagogy Award

Overview

The HMSA Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) is the JABSOM Office of Medical Education’s home for innovation, collaboration, and support for cutting edge work in health professions education. The CLI provides monetary and consultative support for selected medical education innovation projects within the UH JABSOM system.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026-2027 HMSA CLI Creative Pedagogy Award!

Our winners are…

• "ForTheWards: AI-Enabled Pre-Training for Clinical Communication and Oral Presentation Skills" 
  Dr. Benjamin Berg, Dr. Dennis Bolger, Dr. Jannet Lee-Jayaram, Dr. Slaton Case (Resident)
• "Scanning to Win! A Team-based Image Acquisition Competition to Promote POCUS Use on Internal Medicine Wards"
  Dr. Christina Chong, Dr. Kuo Lian, Dr. David Spinks, Dr. Shunsuke Kondo (Resident), Sarah Abdul-Ghani (rising MS4)
• "Project STAR-AI: Specialty Tailored Avatars for Residency AI Simulations"
  Dr. Alexander Bos, Dr. Jill Omori, Jesse Thompson, Sean Choi (rising MS4), Brandi Mikami (rising MS4), Ryan Shontell (rising MS4)

These projects were chosen based on their sound design, creativity, and long-term sustainability to benefit learners in the UH JABSOM system. This award is among the first initiatives under the HMSA Center for Learning Innovation (CLI). The Office of Medical Education will provide each awarded team up to $2,500 for their medical education innovation projects.

• "Mana Wahine: A Strength’s Based Approach to Advancing Gender Equity within the Department of Medicine" 
  Dr. Nani Morgan, Dr. Dee-Ann Carpenter, Dr. Elizabeth Koehler, Dr. Florence Kan, Dr. Charlotte Park (Resident), Dr. Chika Takarada (Resident), Dr. Awapuhi Lee (Resident), Helen Victor, Kristin Liana Garcia
• "ʻŌlelo Med: The Influence of ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language) in a Medical Education Curriculum"
  Dr. K. Kanoho Hosoda, Dr. Ashley M. Lee (Resident), Kiara L. T. Arakawa-Taum (MS4), Corina Edgington (MS4), Selena Vanapruks (MS4)
• "Escaping the ICU: Gamification-based Learning Room Through Escape Rooms for Critical Care Medicine Education"
  Dr. Brent Matsuda and Dr. Christian Capirig (Resident)

• "Integrating One Health Education into the JABSOM MD Curriculum"
  Dr. Jordan McMillan
• "Developing a reusable uterine model for gynecology simulations"
  Dr. Paris Stowers and Dr. Shandhini Raidoo
  
• "Cook With a Kauka - A Culinary Medicine Workshop Series for Health Professions Students"
  Dr. Vanessa Wong and Dr. Monica Esquivel
  

Winners of the 1st annual HMSA CLI Creative Pedagogy Award (2023-2024)

• “Street Medicine Training Curriculum in the JABSOM Department of Family Medicine and Community Health”
  Dr. Patty Tran, Ms. Cynthia Kim, Dr. Rob Carlisle, Dr. David Siemann, and Dr. Cherisse Kawamura
• “Streamlining the Generation of Neurology Exam Animations for Teaching and Assessment”
  Dr. J. Douglas Miles, Mr. Jordan Peterson (MS2)