SERVICE SET AUGUST 9 FOR FORMER DEAN TERENCE ROGERS
Date: July 22, 2008

Dr. Terence Rogers A memorial service for Terence A. Rogers, former Dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, will be held August 9, 2008 at 3 p.m. at Kawaiaha‘o Church in Honolulu. A reception will follow on the church grounds.
Rogers, who died July 16 at Kuakini Medical Center at the age of 83, willed his body to the medical school, to help future medical doctors learn their profession. His memorial service will include musical performances by some of our medical school's most successful graduates, including the director of the Hawai'i Department of Health.

Dr. Rogers came to Hawai‘i in 1964 and was instrumental in developing the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s Pacific Biomedical Research Center. In 1967, Rogers helped form the medical school, which opened to its first class, offering two years of medical instruction. In 1973, under Rogers’ leadership, (he became Dean of the medical school in 1972), the John A. Burns School of Medicine became a full, four-year institution granting medical degrees.
Dr. Ben Young, a psychiatrist and former dean of students at the medical school and a close friend of Rogers, credits Dr. Rogers with opening up the field of medicine to include more Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island physicians. Rogers asked Young to begin what became the medical school’s Imi Ho‘ola Program. The program, a fifth year of college study, prepares disadvantaged students for medical school. To date, Imi Ho’ola has seen 194 students become physicians.
“Our medical school became an instrument not only for training physicians, but also for social change,” said Dr. Young.
Dr. Young wrote an obituary announcing the death of Rogers to the school’s faculty and students which documented Rogers’ journey from his boyhood in England through his leadership at the University of Hawai‘i.
The memorial service on August 9 will include musical tributes by physicians in Hawai‘i. Dr. Rogers is survived by his life companion, Tomi Satake Haehnlen, of Honolulu, and his children, Keith, Clare and Valerie of Canada, Patrick of France, and two grandchildren.
Gifts in Dr. Rogers' memory may be made payable to the University of Hawai‘i Foundation, Terence A. Rogers, PhD Memorial Fund, to benefit the students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine.