A Brief Hx of Medical Technology at UHM University of Hawaii at Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine Division of Medical Technology 2007
1939: Talks Begin Dr. Eric Fennel (The Clinic) Dr. AR Keller (Dean, College of Applied Science) Dr. DL Crawford (President, UHM) Dr. Philip Hillkowitz (Chair, Registry of MT) Ann Scott (Registrar, Registry of MT)
1940: Professors Enlisted Dr. Frank Dillingham (Chemistry) Dr. ON Allen (Microbiology) Dr. C Hamre (Zoology)
1943 Dr. Paul Bachman (Dean of Faculties) appoints a committee to plan a new curriculum
1944: Med Tech in the College of Applied Science Dr. Eric Fennel -- Director Dr. OA Bushnell Dr. Mickey Boyles Adams Dr. Elizabeth Bushnell Dr. George Chu Dr. IL Tilden Grace Oishi
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University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1949 Bachman Hall under construction at lower right
Grace Oishi (Kagawa) teaching a lab
Milestones Medical Technology moves to the College of Nursing Louise Wulff hired as chair School of Medicine established Pat Taylor hired as faculty; Medical Technology moves to School of Medicine, Department of Pathology, and relocated to Snyder Hall
Leahi Teaching Lab: Started in 1968 Pat Taylor
Med Tech Club, 1968
Snyder Hall Lab Louise Wulff counseling
Technicon AutoAnalyzer II, a workhorse in the 1960s and 1970s
1969 Division of Medical Technology joins the Department of Allied Medical Sciences in the Medical School
1973 MEDT 366 summer clerkship begins. Affiliate labs expand over the next two decades to islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, Kauai, and Molokai, as well as Saipan and California.
November 1976 with Joyce Ogawa
Bachman Hall
Varsity Theater lecture hall:
BBL Fibrosystem: a reliable coagulation timer since the 1970s
Cheryl Sugiyama and Karen Roeller
Leslie at the East-West 5 lab in 1981
Kapiolani-Childrens Medical Center 1982 Lori Pias
Sharon and Leah in the 1980s
The Queens Medical Center 1983
Secretary Day, 1987 Snyder Hall
With Technicon SMA 12/60 in Snyder 410
Class of 1987 on the Snyder Hall stairs
Fronk Clinic 1988 Linda Nelson
Sue Pang and Joyce Ogawa, Snyder Hall
Graduation, 1992: Rainbow Stadium
Division moved to the Biomed Building in 1992
Commencement at the Rainbow Stadium: 1980s and 1990s
Biomed C208 Lab: MEDT 251
Kaiser Permanente, 1993, with Mary Nakamura
MEDT 451 Hematology in Biomed C208
Straub Clinic and Hospital, 1993 Wilma Ogimi
Andre, Pat and Ellen
Class of 1997 Graduation Party
Norma and Kay preparing for lab in Biomed C208
Kauai Veterans Memorial Hospital, 1997 Ethel Kauahi and the gang
Class of 2001 with Dean Edwin Cadman
Class of 2004 in Biomed C104
Class of 2007
Photo Credits RM Kamins, RE Potter. Málamalama: A History of the University of Hawaii (1998) UH Bookstore. University of Hawaii: A Portrait (1992) Websites Private collections