CALVIN SIA, MD was a primary care pediatrician for more than forty years at Kauikeolani Childrenʼs Hospital and Kapiʻolani Medical Center. During his decades of service to the two hospitals, Dr. Sia wore many hats including Chief of Staff, Board Member, and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine. Dr. Sia has devoted his career to innovative grassroots pilot projects that began in Hawaiʻi and have become national models. Widely known as the father of the Medical Home concept of care, Dr. Sia has won national recognition from many organizations including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Here are Dr. Siaʼs reflections:
On Being a Pediatrician
I think the satisfaction is watching that little baby smile at you when you help that baby get along...
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Pediatric Pulmonary Center at Kauikeolani
One of the major problems on premature babies or low-birth-weight infants is respiratory difficulty-breathing difficulty-called bronchial pulmonary dysplasia...
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The Importance of Research
Being an open-staff hospital—an open-staff hospital meant we have independents...
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Outreach Into the Community
One of the things we did was Poison Control Center, because kids, children one to two [years old], accidents, poisoning, very common...
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Responsibility
When I started practice and becoming chief of newborn services at Kapiʻolani and then chief of staff...
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Research and the 60s
As we look at childrenʼs hospitalʼs future, we needed to combine maternal job, the delivery of the babies...
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Return to a Look Back
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