SHERREL L. HAMMAR, MD is a former Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics and Interim Dean of the University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine. He came to Hawaiʻi in 1971 as director of the outpatient department at Kauikeolani Childrenʼs Hospital, and with an appointment at JABSOM. Dr. Hammar was named Chair of Pediatrics in 1973 and interim Dean in 1996.

 

Here are Dr. Hammarʼs reflections:

 

Coming to Hawaiʻi & Kauikeolani

It was not a big outpatient department. It had a lot of problems. And it had financial problems because it brought in very little revenue...

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Kauikeolani and the University of Hawaiʻi Medical School

Well, I got offered a job here at the Kauikeölani Childrenʼs Hospital and the University of Hawaiʻi, the medical school, was just getting started at the time…

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Chairman of Pediatrics

I think building up the faculty, because they just had only, really only two or three in our department. And by the time I finished...

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A Merger & Two Entrances

I remember that there was a lot of scuffling about it (laughs). There were several wonderful stories about it...

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