Dr. Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health. She directs all activities related to emerging infections, disease surveillance and investigations, immunizations, and emergency responses related to those areas (e.g., Hawaii’s response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic). Aside from her duties for Hawaii, Dr. Park serves on the National Advisory Committee on Children and Disasters, which advises the US Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary and Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) on issues related to children and disasters, specifically regarding the nation’s preparedness and capacity to respond. Additionally, Dr. Park is the President and an Executive Board member for the Council of State & Territorial Epidemiologists, the senior states leadership and decision-making body for reviewing nationally notifiable conditions and establishing disease reporting and surveillance standards. Dr. Park has served on several other national committees as well as working groups to address various topics including guidelines for pediatric anthrax vaccines and smallpox management, and has provided talks locally and nationally on various infectious disease and public health response related topics.
Dr. Park is a former Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where her work included activities in bacterial respiratory diseases, West Nile Virus, methicillin resistant and vancomycin resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and SARS. She has worked internationally with the World Health Organization and CDC in activities such as polio elimination, vaccine preventable disease surveillance and program assessment, and epidemic disease investigation and response.
Dr. Park completed her undergraduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her medical education at the Boston University School of Medicine, her pediatrics residency at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford, and her pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco. She continues to practice clinically, occasionally covering the pediatric infectious diseases inpatient service at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children in Honolulu, HI, and is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine.
We have an amazing line up of community service events and we need your help to make it a success!
Kalihi Uka Elementary School 3rd grade students will be receiving their dictionaries from the Rotary Dictionary Project on March 8 and we need volunteers to help present these dictionaries to the children. Come to promote literacy in our local schools and inspire students to seek knowledge!
Kalihi Uka Elementary School Dictionary Distribution
Fern Elementary School needs volunteers to assist with their upcoming beautification project on Saturday, March 30, 2019. The campus needs external improvements done including moving rocks and basic gardening around the campus. Please come down and lend a hand to make Fern Elementary a wonderful place for students to learn, grow, and play!
Fern Elementary School Beautification
Saturday, March 30, 2019
9:00am-11:00am
Fern Elementary School
1121 Middle St, Honolulu, HI 96819
Deadline: March 18, 2019
Please come wearing comfortable clothing and covered shoes!
Spring time is around the corner and we will be decorating the Ronald McDonald Judd Hillside House to spruce up the facility and welcome in a cheerful season for the families residing there while their children receive treatment. Volunteers will be making simple DIY crafts and putting up these decorations in the common areas of the house OR putting together care baskets for each family living at the Ronald McDonald House filled with travel necessities and on the go snacks. Please wear comfortable clothing and get ready to tap into your inner interior decorator!
Glen Suzuki met with Makati West sister club members, PP Jan Tambunting (on the right) and PE Enrico Tensuan (on the left). Glen met with them to discuss possible projects that we can participate in to strengthen our sister club relationship. Had lunch at Manila Golf and Country Club which is the premiere private golf course in the Philippines.
Please join us at our club's prestigious Mary Kawena Pukui Award Luncheon on March 15th: noon - 1:30 PM at the Plaza Club honoring Hardy Spoehr. The cost for our club members is $23 for an upgraded buffet lunch, and $40 for guests. Spouses and guests are welcome. Let me know if you have any questions. President Stan Wong is looking forward for great support from our membership for this event. Mahalo!
HARDY SPOEHR
Hardy Spoehr grew up on O‘ahu, spending much of his time around Bishop Museum. He graduated from Punahou School and received degrees from Wesleyan University and University of Hawai‘i. He has additional certificates in management, ornithology and historic preservation.
As an adult, Hardy has lived in Hawai‘i and Rarotonga (Cook Islands) working as a teacher and an administrator in agencies such as The Nature Conservancy, ALU LIKE, Hawai‘i County Parks and Recreation, Department of Hawaiian Homelands, and the congressional Kaho‘olawe Island Conveyance Commission from 1990-1993.
Hardy is the executive director of Papa Ola Lōkahi, the Native Hawaiian board of health, founded in 1988 and authorized by the Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act. His staff won’t let him retire.
Hardy has been awarded the Meritorious Service Award from the Department of Hawaiian Homelands, and the Kako‘o o Kalaniana‘ole Award from the Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, at which time he was gifted the name Ka-malu-mālama-o-ka-ho‘ola, the caring peace that brings well-being.
In his spare time, Hardy paddles with Anuenue Canoe Club, referees ILH football, blows the bagpipes in the Celtic (KEL-tik) Pipes and Drum Band, is a philanthropist, and, with wife Joyce, dotes on his six grandchildren.
HAWAIIAN HEALTH
Hardy Spoehr will describe the health status of Native Hawaiians, its historical context, and the many efforts to improve the health of our people through policy, programs, direct services, research, data & information, health education and prevention, workforce development and outreach.
