Ka'ohimanu Dang Akiona earned her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Before, during and since the pandemic, she has worked tirelessly to advocate for access and equity in health care from education, testing, vaccination and treatment, focusing on the highest risk, the vulnerable and the marginalized. She and her team developed effective mobile care models that focused on bringing doctor's care to where it is needed most- including community and street medicine outreach, care for the homebound, and even houseless. She strives to improve access to care for all, especially our frontline essential workers.

In her current capacity, she will provide direct patient care as well as aesthestics and skin care support, while maintaining her relationships with University of Hawai`i in Hilo as their Team Doctor, and with  Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center and Kuleana Health as community physician consultant. She is also working hard to recruit other much needed providers to join the fight for better access to care.

Dr Knox has practiced full spectrum Family Medicine in a number of academic and progressively more rural locations. He recently retired but Dr Akiona knows the community still needs his good heart, great humor and stellar clinical skills. Humble but incredibly skilled , he provides extensive knowledge and guidance to our team and patients. 

He  lives in Hilo with his lovely wife and pupper. He has two awesome grown children (including a son who is a spine surgeon) and 2 grandsons. He plays the bagpipes and has practiced martial arts for the greater part of his life. He has taught countless physicians and is one of Dr Akiona's personal heroes.

Jaynice has an infectious laugh and gives the best hugs. She has been a key anchor on Dr. Akiona's team for several years and has been through primary care, behavioral health, pain management, and street medicine as well as large- and small-scale pandemic screening/testing and vaccination. She works closely with Dr Akiona to support all aspects of clinical operations and growth.

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