Portrait by Arnold Kameda for UH Med Now.
It is still nearly impossible for those of us at the University of Hawai’i medical school to believe that Dr. Satoru Izutsu is going to be 89 in September 2017. He still brings the same vigor he has always brought to his multi-faceted career here, whether heading the weekly Dean’s Office executive meetings, leading global education or representing the school as Vice Dean at numerous public events throughout the year.
But this year, Dr. Izutsu plans his long-deserved and well-earned retirement. The occasion prompted the University of Hawai’i Alumni Association to write about Dr. Izutsu, a proud UH alumnus — and holder of the UH Distinguished Alumni Award — in a story that begins this way:
“Dr. Satoru Izutsu is going to be 89 in September 2017. As vice dean of the John A. Burns School of Medicine, he is preparing to call it a career. He remembers a piece of advice his father once told him, while he was still a boy on a Kaua‘i plantation: “You don’t have to save money, but travel—because travel is education.”
Read the full story from the UH Alumni Association
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