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![]() Date: December 16th, 2022 in JABSOM News, Willed Body Program Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, JABSOM continues to have reduced need for anatomical gifts. Therefore, JABSOM will not be accepting/processing additional donor Anatomical Gift Donation forms after Tuesday, December 20, 2022. Any planned donations will require that the original-signed Anatomical Gift Donation forms be postmarked by December 20, 2022 to be processed. We will […] Continue Reading![]() Date: May 4th, 2022 in anatomy, Collaboration, COVID-19, Donors, Faculty, Giving, staff, Willed Body Program Challenges arose from the COVID-19 pandemic when the anatomy department at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) had to pause the donations of cadavers to its Willed Body program in early in 2020 (the program will resume accepting applications as soon as it is able and we will post a story when that […] Continue Reading![]() Date: November 8th, 2021 in anatomy, Giving, JABSOM News, UH Manoa, Willed Body Program It was a beautiful, sunny afternoon when we met with Frederick “Fred” Dauer, who flipped through his wedding album to show us photos of him and his late wife, Claire M. Dauer. How serendipitous that this meeting happened on what would have been Claire’s 73rd birthday. They had known each other for over 40 years […] Continue Reading![]() Date: September 24th, 2021 in anatomy, Collaboration, JABSOM News, Research, staff, Student Life, Willed Body Program Quite early in their education at JABSOM, medical students find themselves facing the Mann-Labrash Osteology Collection for Anatomy class. This is part of the program when the students meet the silent teachers of the Willed Body Program, people who donated their body to science and for the education of the next generation of medical doctors. […] Continue Reading![]() Date: July 17th, 2020 in anatomy, Collaboration, Donors, Research, Willed Body Program Robert Mann, PhD, DABFA, FCPP, Adjunct Professor in Anatomy and Pathology, talks to his audience while Kiana Miller readies the bones and monitors the chats. Kiana plans to seek a graduate degree in Physical Anthropology beginning in the fall of 2020. Robert Mann, PhD, DABFA, FCPP, and Adjunct Professor in Anatomy and Pathology, presented a […] Continue Reading![]() Date: July 9th, 2020 in anatomy, Community Outreach, JABSOM News, Student Life, Surgery, Willed Body Program First-year medical students participate in the Willed Body Ceremony by scattering the donors’ ashes into the sea as families and friends watch. Until further notice, the Willed Body program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) is not accepting applications for new donors. Donors who are already enrolled into the program will […] Continue Reading1 2 Next » |