Congratulations to Dr. Marjorie Mau
University of Hawaiʻi Native Hawaiian Health Professor Marjorie Mau, MD, has become the first Native Hawaiian woman to be recognized with the title of “Master” physician by the American College of Physicians.
In addition to treating patients at the University Health Partners of Hawaiʻi-operated Lau Ola Clinic in Honolulu and on Moloka‘i, Dr. Mau is a prolific scientist who has conducted groundbreaking research in metabolic disorders among Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. She is one of the top-funded researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), having brought more than $20.9 million in external funds to the medical school, helping to fuel Hawaiʻi’s biomedical research economy.
Dr. Mau’s newest honor places her into a very exclusive community of faculty physicians to receive the rank of Mastership. She joins JABSOM Professor S. Kalani Brady, MD and the late JABSOM physician faculty members Irwin Schatz, MD on the list of physician-faculty at the University of Hawaiʻi to achieve the rank of Mastership.
About Dr. Mau
Dr. Mau is a graduate of Kalani High School and Creighton University, where she earned her undergraduate and medical degrees. She also holds a master’s degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is principal investigator and director of the Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research, and holds the Myron P. Thompson Endowed Chair for Native Hawaiian Health at the University of Hawaiʻi medical school. She was the first Native Hawaiian female endocrinologist, and founding chair of the Department of Native Hawaiian Health at JABSOM. In 2010, the National Institutes of Health recognized Dr. Mau and seven other scientists presented as mentors to young scientists around the country in its “Biomedical Faces of Science” program.