{"id":13058,"date":"2016-12-19T10:18:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T20:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/?p=13058"},"modified":"2020-02-16T10:31:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T20:31:22","slug":"department-of-family-medicine-university-of-hawaiis-dr-chien-wen-tseng-appointed-to-u-s-preventive-services-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/department-of-family-medicine-university-of-hawaiis-dr-chien-wen-tseng-appointed-to-u-s-preventive-services-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Family Medicine: University of Hawaii&#8217;s Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng appointed to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"13058\" class=\"elementor elementor-13058\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-699dfb98 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"699dfb98\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4d6d28d\" data-id=\"4d6d28d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-21f6c957 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"21f6c957\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-large\">Department of Family Medicine: \u201cAn honor\u201d, says University of Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng, of appointment to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-426b55f4 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-post-info\" data-id=\"426b55f4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"post-info.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"elementor-inline-items elementor-icon-list-items elementor-post-info\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-46f67bb elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/author\/hi-vizibility-marketing\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"far fa-user-circle\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-author\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tUniversity Health Partners of Hawaii\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<li class=\"elementor-icon-list-item elementor-repeater-item-a474e5f elementor-inline-item\" itemprop=\"datePublished\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/2016\/12\/19\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-icon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<i aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"fas fa-calendar\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-icon-list-text elementor-post-info__item elementor-post-info__item--type-date\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<time>December 19, 2016<\/time>\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-75752757 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"75752757\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" 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class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7082e2a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7082e2a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"UHMedNowTitle\"><p><em>By Tina Shelton, UH Med Now<\/em><\/p><\/div><p><strong>December 19, 2016 &#8212;<\/strong> The New Year will bring significant changes in the country\u2019s political power structure, and with it, some uncertainty for Democratic stronghold Hawai\u2019i. But the State gains an important voice in health care, with the appointment of a local doctor to a national panel that helps set health guidelines in America.\u00a0<em>UH Med Now<\/em>\u00a0spoke to Dr. Chien-Wen Tseng, associate professor and family medicine doctor at the University of Hawai\u02bbi (UH) John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), who has been appointed to the U.S. Preventive Task Force (Task Force). She will be giving Hawai\u2019i and its diverse citizenry a voice (for the first time ever) on a panel that makes critical recommendations for health screenings.<\/p><p>The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is an independent, volunteer panel of 16 national experts in prevention and evidence-based medicine. Members analyze current scientific evidence and determine the preventive health standards for our nation. Those become new guidelines likely to recommended by physicians, and \u2013 importantly \u2014 be covered by health insurance.<\/p><p>Members are appointed to serve a 4-year term. In recent years, the Task Force established numerous clinical screening guidelines covering breast cancer, high blood pressure, depression in children and adults, and preventive medications such as aspirin to prevent heart disease and colon cancer.<\/p><p><strong><br \/>About Dr. Tseng\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>Dr. Tseng is the Hawai\u02bbi Medical Service Association (HMSA) endowed chair in health services and quality research, an associate professor, and the associate research director in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.jabsom.hawaii.edu\/FamilyMedicine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department of Family Medicine and Community Health<\/a>. She is also a physician investigator with the nonprofit Pacific Health Research and Education Institute, an affiliate of the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System. Dr. Tseng is an active physician and a teacher of primary health care and preventive care to medical students and family medicine residents. As a family physician, Dr. Tseng\u2019s research focuses on improving quality of health care and lowering financial barriers to care, such as reducing the high cost of drugs for chronic and acute diseases.<\/p><p>Dr. Tseng, a graduate of Punahou School, received a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.A. in mathematical sciences from Rice University, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and an M.P.H. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She earned her M.D. from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed her residency in family medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Tseng as a visiting scholar with the Robert Graham Center for Policy and Research in Washington, D.C. She is also an alumnus of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Program at UCLA and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-71a46dd3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"71a46dd3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1c3543be\" data-id=\"1c3543be\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-66d3c49 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"66d3c49\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/news-all\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">&lt;&lt;   &nbsp;Return To News<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Year will bring significant changes in the country\u2019s political power structure, and with it, some uncertainty for Democratic stronghold Hawai\u2019i.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21740,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-health-partners-uhp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/27499083214_f2f0404027_z.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13058"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13069,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13058\/revisions\/13069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}