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

2/23/46

University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1949Bachman Hall under construction at lower right

Grace Oishi (Kagawa) teaching a lab

Milestones

• 1959 -- Medical Technology moves to the College of Nursing

• 1963 -- Louise Wulff hired as chair• 1965 -- School of Medicine established• 1967 -- 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: 1966 - 1976

BBL Fibrosystem: a reliable coagulation timer since the 1970s

Cheryl Sugiyama and Karen Roeller

Leslie at the East-West 5 lab in 1981

Kapiolani-Children’sMedical Center

1982

Lori Pias

Sharon and Leah in the 1980s

The Queen’s Medical Center1983

Secretary Day, 1987 Snyder Hall

With Technicon SMA 12/60 in Snyder 410

Class of 1987 on the Snyder Hall stairs

Fronk Clinic1988

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, 1997Ethel 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 Hawai‘i (1998)

• UH Bookstore. University of Hawaii: A Portrait (1992)

• Websites

• Private collections