Dr. Lee Ellen Buenconsejo-Lum serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at JABSOM. She oversees the continuum of medical education programs and works on strategic alignment with numerous stakeholders to ensure JABSOM’s graduates and faculty are able to meet the needs of Hawaii and the Pacific in the context of a rapidly changing healthcare environment. Since March 2020, she has been the JABSOM and a UH liaison to numerous State committees, with HI-EMA and HDOH to assist with Hawai‘i’s and UH’s COVID-19 pandemic response.