SELF-CARE & WELLNESS CENTER

Self-Care & Wellness Center & Wellness Research Unit

The Self-Care & Wellness Center at Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience promotes lifestyle choices as life skills in self-care. The choices we make in what we eat, when we eat, how active we are, our sleep habits, stress management, use of alcohol, tobacco and risky substances, and our social connections have a profound impact on our health and well-being.

Each of us makes choices every day that affect our health. With the myriad of health information resources available — sometimes providing conflicting information — it can be intimidating to know what constitutes the "healthy choice."
Through the Self-Care and Wellness Center you will learn the Six Pillars of Lifestyle Medicine:
Nutrition
Physical Activity
Sleep Hygiene
Stress Management
Social Connectedness
Avoidance of Risky Substances
Lifestyle Medicine

An evidence-based practice of helping individuals and families adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that affect health and well-being. It effectively promotes "lifestyle as medicine."

Brain health can be improved by changing our lifestyle behaviors, including the right nutrients in our daily diet and regular physical activity. Building a personalized wellness road map begins with assessing your health risks and your readiness to change unhealthy behaviors.

Meet Our

Multidisciplinary Team

Kore Kai Liow, M.D.


Neurology

Founder & Neuroscience Chair,
Hawaii Pacific Neuroscience
Clinical Professor of Medicine (Neurology), Clinical & Translational Research,
University of Hawai`i John A. Burns School of Medicine

Nicholas Anderson, MD


Sleep Medicine

Director, Sleep and Insomnia Center
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine,
University of Hawai`i John Burns School of Medicine

Paul Smith, M.D., M.P.H.

Self-Care and Wellness Center


Diplomate, American Board of Lifestyle Medicine
Residency: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
MPH: University of Hawaii
Medical School: University of Hawaii, John A Burns School of Medicine

Darren DuGas, M.D.


Neurology

Director, Video-EEG Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU)
Co-Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Sub- Investigator, Epilepsy Research Unit

Natalia Gonzalez Caldito, M.D.


Neurology

Director, MS & Neuroimmunology Center
Director, ALS & Neuromuscular Center & IV Infusion Center
Sub investigator, MS & Neuroimmunology & Neuromuscular Research Unit

Eonjung Angeline Kim, M.D.


Neurology

Director, Headache & Facial Pain Center
Sub- Investigator, Headache Research Unit

Michael Sonson, M.D.


Neurology
Alzheimer's and Memory Disorders


Director, Memory & Alzheimer’s Research Institute (MARI)

Candace Miyaki, D.O.


Sleep Medicine
Sleep Wake Center

Janette Abramowitz, M.D.


Neurology

Research Faculty, Brain Mapping Lab, Brain Research, Innovation & Translation Labs
Residency: Combined Neurology & Psychiatry University of Massachusetts Medical School Medical School: University of Massachusetts Medical School

Alexander Takayesu, M.D., M.P.H.


Psychiatry

Perinatal Psychiatry, Post Partum Depression
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Hawaii John A Burns School of Medicine
SubInvestigator, Center for Psychiatric Neuroscience

Chris Larrinaga, APRN-BC, MSN, CNRN


Neurology, Neuroscience

Sleep Medicine
Sub-Investigator, Clinical Research Center

Nicole Evans, PA-C


Neurology, Neuroscience

Sub-Investigator, Clinical Research Center

Qi Zhi, DNP, MPH, FNP-BC


Neurology, Neuroscience

Memory Disorders
Sub-Investigator, Clinical Research Center

Barbara Pitts, Ph.D.


Neuropsychology

Sub Investigator
Alzheimer’s Research Unit
Memory Research Scientist, Hawaii BRAIN Lab.

Qing X. Li PhD


Basic Science, Neuroscience

Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu

Our team is committed to reducing the disparity in health status of its racial and ethnic minority, rural, low-income, and other underserved populations.  We have therefore focused our efforts in caring for underserved, minority, diverse patient populations.  Click to review our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and work undertaken by Center for Neuroscience Diversity especially for the Asian Americans and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Population (AANHPI). 

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