{"id":101302,"date":"2019-08-13T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T01:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=101302"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T01:42:59","slug":"healthcare-students-international-leadership-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/13\/healthcare-students-international-leadership-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare students excel at international leadership conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>Students from <a href=\"https:\/\/kapiolani.hawaii.edu\"><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a> competed well at the 42nd Annual Health Occupation Students of America (<abbr>HOSA<\/abbr>)&#8212;Future Health Professionals International Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida. The national conference\u2019s 11,525 delegates included <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr>\u2019s international chapters from American Samoa, Canada, China and Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kapiolani-hosa-2019-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kapiolani-hosa-2019-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Students at HOSA\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kapiolani-hosa-2019-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kapiolani-hosa-2019-1-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kapiolani-hosa-2019-1-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kapiolani-hosa-2019-1.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Janci Sakuma<\/strong>, Medical Assisting, 2nd place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irene Ruby Navasquez<\/strong>, Medical Spelling, 6th place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winmae Duldalao<\/strong>, Medical Assisting, made it to round 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kelsey Nakamoto<\/strong>, <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> and First Aid, made it to round 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ashley Rimando<\/strong>, <abbr>CPR<\/abbr> and First Aid, made it to round 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charletta Wilson<\/strong>, Nursing Assisting, made it to round 2<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mae Dorado<\/strong>, Advisor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/manoa-hosa-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/manoa-hosa-2019-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Students at HOSA\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/manoa-hosa-2019-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/manoa-hosa-2019-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/manoa-hosa-2019-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/manoa-hosa-2019.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Josephine Kaohi<\/strong>, Prepared Speaking, 4th place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lacye Yata<\/strong>, Prepared Speaking, 9th place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alden Chong<\/strong>, Sports Medicine, 5th place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Guo<\/strong> and <strong>Aime Le<\/strong>, Public Health, 7th place<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brycen Kawamoto<\/strong>, ran for executive council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hilo-hosa-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hilo-hosa-2019-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Students at HOSA\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hilo-hosa-2019-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hilo-hosa-2019-130x73.jpg 130w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hilo-hosa-2019-630x353.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/hilo-hosa-2019.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Daniel Kimura<\/strong>, Medical Terminology, top 10 finish<\/li>\n<li><strong>Travis Taylor<\/strong>, National Geographic Learning Academic Testing event of Human Heredity, top 20 finish; presided as the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr> Postsecondary\/Collegiate Voting Delegate in the election of the upcoming International <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr> Executive Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr> Chapter was also recognized for its participation in the <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr> Happenings event, in which local chapters are required to submit a newsletter showcasing their activities and achievements.<\/p>\n<h2>More about <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr><\/h2>\n<p><abbr>HOSA<\/abbr> is an international student organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Health Science Education Division of the Association for Career and Technical Education. <abbr>HOSA<\/abbr> provides a unique program of leadership development, motivation and recognition exclusively for secondary, postsecondary, adult and collegiate students enrolled in health science education and biomedical science programs or have interests in pursuing careers in health professions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students from <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> <abbr>CC<\/abbr>, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo and <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa competed at the 42nd Annual <abbr title=\"Health Occupation Students of America\">HOSA<\/abbr>&#8212;Future Health Professionals International Leadership Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[63,660,71,14,9],"class_list":["post-101302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101305,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101302\/revisions\/101305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}