Family Medicine Residency
About
Aloha and e komo mai (welcome) to the University of Hawaiʻi Family Medicine Residency Program! We are a community-based 7-7-7 program sponsored by the UH John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM). Our hospital sponsor is Pali Momi Medical Center, a community hospital that serves central and leeward Oʻahu. This setting provides an ideal environment to care for and learn from patients across a broad range of cultural backgrounds, lived experiences, and medical needs.
Our training experiences are as varied as the communities we serve, including maternal-child health, geriatric care, substance use disorder treatment, community outreach, and care for individuals experiencing housing instability, among many others. We are a RHEDI program and are committed to ensuring comprehensive reproductive health training. Our continuity clinic provides team-based care including clinical pharmacy, behavioral health, and community health navigation and serves as the home base for our ʻohana of students, residents, faculty, and staff.
Our program was established in 1994 in Wahiawā, where it served the community for over 20 years before relocating to Pali Momi in 2017. A few years later, in 2020, our continuity clinic site also moved to a newly renovated facility at the Pali Momi Outpatient Center in ʻAiea. Since our founding, we have trained over 170 residents and are proud that over 80% continue to serve in Hawaiʻi and the broader Pacific. Opportunities for all and a welcoming environment have been integral to the mission of our program since its inception, and we remain committed to fostering these values in our work today.
To prepare family physicians to be compassionate, resilient, and effective leaders in improving the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific Basin.
We believe that the foundation of a health system is built upon a strong base of primary care and we seek to achieve this through:
- Providing broad training for a diversity of career paths
- Promoting health fairness and trauma-responsive care
- Fostering clinician well-being and resilience
- Cultivating efficacy in community and population-based health
- Advancing education and scholarship in Family Medicine
Core Faculty
The core faculty are those that work within the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine. They are responsible for the bulk of the teaching, precepting, and curriculum development for the residency, Medical Student Teaching and Sports Medicine fellowship programs.
The other faculty have clinical appointments with our department and all volunteer their time to work with our residents and medical students. The clinical faculty responsible for residency teaching includes over 100 community physicians, many of whom are active medical staff members at Pali Momi Medicial Center and preceptors/supervisors at the various rotation sites (Tripler Army Medical Center, Hilo Medical Center, and private offices). Faculty responsible for medical student teaching include a wide variety of talented family physicians throughout Hawaii and the Pacific Basin.
ALLEN HIXON, MD, MA
Department Chair
Pali Momi Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
THOMAS QUATTLEBAUM, MD
Program Director
Pali Momi Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
LEIMOMI KANAGUSUKU, MD
Associate Program Director, Director of Inpatient Medicine
Pali Momi Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
ROBERT CARLISLE, MD
Clinic Medical Director
Pali Momi Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
YURIANNA SANTOS, MD, MHA
Program Administrator
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
KOMAL SOIN, MD, MPH
Director of Maternal Child Health & Women’s Health
Pali Momi Outpatient Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
PATTY TRAN, DO
Core Residency Faculty
Pali Momi Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
CYNTHIA KIM, LCSW
Director of Behavioral Health
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
KANA MAEJI, DO
Musculoskeletal Medicine Lead Faculty
Pali Momi Medical Center, Kapiʻolani Medical Center for Women and Children
SEIJI YAMADA, MD, MPH
Clinical Faculty, Medical Student Sub-Internship Director
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
NEAL A. PALAFOX, MD, MPH
Founding Program Director
Professor, Population Sciences in the Pacific Program at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center.
STEVEN HANKINS, MD, MPH, MTS
Inpatient Clinical Faculty
Pali Momi Medical Center
CAMLYN MASUDA, PHARMD
Clinical Pharmacy Lead
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
TERESA SCHIFF, MD
Medical Director of Hawaiʻi HOME Project
Pali Momi Outpatient Center, Office of Medical Education
LEE BUENCONSEJO-LUM, MD
Interim Dean of JABSOM
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
CHIEN-WEN TSENG, MD, MS, MPH
Director of Research
Residency: University of Washington Family Medicine Residency Program
DAMON LEE, MD
JABSOM Family Medicine Clerkship Director
Pali Momi Outpatient Center, Office of Medical Education
ASHLEY WOOD
Training Coordinator
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
Christin Ohme
Rotation Coordinator
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
DESIREE NAVARRO
Clinic Operations Manager
Hawaii Pacific Health | University Family Medicine at Pali Momi Medical Center
Program Details
Curriculum
Family Medicine Residency
PGY-1
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service: 10 weeks
- Medical Intensive Care Unit: 4 weeks
- OB1 Labor & Delivery: 4 weeks
- General Surgery: 4 weeks
- Emergency Medicine (Wahiawa): 4 weeks
- Newborn Nursery: 4 weeks
- Family and Community Medicine: 2 weeks
- Introduction to Behavioral Health: 2 weeks
- Ambulatory Pediatrics: 4 weeks
- Sports Medicine: 2 weeks
- Surgical Subspecialties: 2 weeks
- Ambulatory Medical Selective: 2 weeks
- Night Float: 1 week
- Elective: 2 weeks
- Vacation: 3 weeks
PGY-2
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service: 8 weeks
- Night Float: 3 weeks
- Family Medicine and Behavioral Health: 4 weeks
- Pediatrics Wards: 4 weeks
- Pediatrics Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks
- Geriatrics: 4 weeks
- Veterans Health: 4 weeks
- Outpatient Gynecology: 4 weeks
- Obstetrics 2 Family Planning: 4 weeks
- Inpatient Cardiology: 2 weeks
- Ambulatory Medical Selective: 2 weeks
- Elective: 6 weeks
- Vacation: 3 weeks
PGY-3
- Family Medicine Inpatient Service: 6 weeks
- Night Float: 4 weeks
- Family and Community Medicine: 4 weeks
- Pali Momi Emergency Medicine: 4 weeks
- Behavioral Health and Addiction Medicine: 4 weeks
- Selective – Rural and Public Health (Kauaʻi or Oʻahu): 4 weeks
- Community and Developmental Pediatrics: 4 weeks
- Sports Medicine and Orthopedics: 4 weeks
- Outpatient Cardiology: 2 weeks
- Palliative Medicine: 2 weeks
- Elective: 11 weeks
- Vacation: 3 weeks
Conferences
Weekly didactics are held on Wednesday afternoons and serve as protected time for resident learning. These conferences cover a 24 month curriculum and use a variety of formats to promote engagement and active learning including interactive lectures, small group breakouts, skills-based workshops, and POCUS practice.
Rotation Sites
Schedule
Kapiolani
Queen Kapiolani founded the Kapiolani Maternity Home in 1890 to improve maternal and child health in Hawaii, a mission that has evolved into the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children (KMCWC), a leading provider of exceptional care for Hawaii’s families for over 130 years. Located in Honolulu, KMCWC hosts Family Medicine residents’ obstetrics and gynecology rotations, where they deliver obstetric continuity patients and provide newborn nursery care. It also supports inpatient and community pediatric rotations as well as the pediatric emergency medicine rotation. Family medicine residents work alongside OB/GYN and pediatric residents, enhancing the learning environment through interdisciplinary collaboration and comprehensive care training.
Pali Momi Outpatient Center
University Family Medicine at Pali Momi located in ʻAiea, HI is the continuity clinic for our residents and serves as one of the foundations for service learning in our program. We provide comprehensive care to a demographically diverse and medically complex patient population using a team-based approach with integrated behavioral health, clinical pharmacy, and a community health navigator on site. As residents progress in training, their time in clinic and continuity panel will correspondingly increase. For more information about our clinic, please see the following website: University Family Medicine at Pali Momi
Pali Momi Medical Center
Pali Momi Medical Center, also located in ʻAiea, is the primary hospital site where our residents train and serves as the other main foundation of our residency program. We are the only residency program based at this hospital and maintain our own Family Medicine Inpatient Service staffed by our residents and faculty. Pali Momi serves as a healthcare leader for Central and West Oahu and is recognized annually for outstanding quality and patient experience. For more information, please see the following website: Pali Momi Medical Center – About Us
Queen’s Punchbowl
Founded in 1859 by Queen Emma and King Kamehameha IV to address health care needs during epidemics, The Queen’s Hospital has evolved into The Queen’s Health System, now a leading provider of whole-person care in Hawai‘i and the Pacific Basin. Located in the heart of Honolulu, the Punchbowl location hosts Family Medicine residents for their Medical ICU rotations, where they work alongside Internal Medicine residents under the guidance of skilled critical care attending physicians. Additionally, Family Medicine residents train alongside OB/GYN residents and attending physicians during their gynecology rotation, fostering a well-rounded educational environment.
Queen’s Wahiawa
Wahiawa General Hospital (WGH), a nonprofit opened in 1957, serves over 150,000 residents in Wahiawā, Central O‘ahu, and the North Shore. Now The Queen’s Medical Center – Wahiawa, it was the original site of the Family Medicine Residency Program from 1994 to 2020. It currently hosts the Adult Emergency Medicine rotation, where family medicine residents work with emergency medicine attending physicians to address the urgent needs of the surrounding rural communities.
Applying to our Program
How to Apply
- Candidates for residency may apply through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS)
- Applications are reviewed holistically by faculty and the program director with attention to applicants’ life experiences, attributes, clinical competency, and academic metrics. As a program, we value applicants who demonstrate strong teamwork and communication skills, a commitment to serving our population in Hawaiʻi and/or the Pacific, resiliency, and an enthusiastic approach to feedback and lifelong learning.
How to Apply
- Completed ERAS application by November 1
- Official transcripts demonstrating passing scores for:
- USMLE Steps 1 and 2 and/or
- COMLEX Level 1 and 2
- At least three Letters of Recommendation with at least one from a family physician.
- Graduated from medical school in 2020 or later.
- Personal Statement illustrating:
- Who you are
- Why Family Medicine
- Why the University of Hawai’i Family Medicine Residency Program
Additional requirements:
- Must be fluent in English (both oral and written)
- Matched applicants who do not have a social security number will need to arrive in Hawaii 30 days prior to the start date
- International Medical School graduates will be required to be ECFMG certified
- J1 VISA sponsorship is the only visa sponsorship available
Interview Info
- Interviews will be offered through ERAS email on a rolling basis
- All interview sessions will be conducted virtually on one (1) day via ZOOM
- A typical interview day includes:
- Interview Registration
- Morning Report
- Orientation with the Program Director
- Interviews with 2 Faculty, 2 Residents, and the Program Director
- Orientation with the Program Administrator
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Visiting Students
Prospective Applicants and Students
Learn more about us and help us get to know you by joining us for a Sub-I rotation experience! We accept visiting students throughout the year for a 2-4 week inpatient and outpatient experience where you will have the opportunity to contribute to our team. For more information or to apply, please contact Lira Quitevis at liraq@hawaii.edu.
Residents
Class of 2027
Sathwik Booreddy, MD
Home Town: Foster City, CA
Medical School: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Carter Buuck, MD
Home Town: Hillsboro, OR
Medical School: Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
Melissa Gozun, MD
Home Town: Mililani, HI
Medical School: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine
Akiko Kawai, MD
Home Town: Okinawa, Japan
Medical School: Nagoya University School of Medicine
Nataliya Panova, MD
Home Town: Siberia, Russia
Medical School: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine
Peter Tamura, MD
Home Town: California
Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Maria Weisgerber, DO Home Town: Cincinnati, OH
Medical School: Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine
Class of 2026
Samuel Andrade, MD
Home Town: Ko’olaupoko, O’ahu
Medical School: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine
Alyssandra Baniqued, MD
Home Town: Waipahu, HI
Medical School: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine
Eun Ah Cho, DO
Home Town: Oahu, HI
Medical School: A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona (SOMA)
Kyle DeBoy, DO
Home Town: Salamanca, NY
School: Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
Jaimie Fong, DO
Home Town: Honolulu, HI
School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
Francisco Sapigao, MD
Home Town: Waipahu, HI
School: University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine
Marguerite Susich, MD
Home Town: Berkeley, California
Medical School: Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
Class of 2025
Julie Lee, DO
Home Town: South Korea
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
Agnes Serranilla-Sonido, MD
Home Town: Philippines
Medical School: University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
David Siemann, DO
Home Town: Kaneohe, HI
Medical School: Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Christopher Paul McDonald Carbullido, DO
Home Town: Guam
Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
Anthony Kwon, MD
Home Town: Kaneohe, HI
Medical School: John A. Burns School of Medicine
Karolyn Lam, DO
Home Town: Mililani, HI
Medical School: A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
Larissa Wong, DO
Home Town: Born in Malaysia, raised in San Diego, CA
Medical School: Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, California
Community Engagement
Youth Diabetes Coaching Project at ‘Aiea High School
Service Learning with Native Hawaiian community organizations focused on restoring identity and ‘aina (land)
Sports Physicals at local schools
Parents and Children Together Out of School Program for At Risk Youth
Salary & Benefits
Contact
Family Medicine Residency Program
98-1005 Moanalua Rd, Ste. 3030
Aiea, Hawai’i 96701
fmrpaa@hawaii.edu
P: (808) 649-1782
