Above: Son Jon with Yoshitsuge Hokama, PhD in Honolulu.
By Tina Shelton, UH Med Now
An anonymous donor has stepped forward, offering to “match” individual gifts to the Hokama fund up to $25,000
Jon Hokama didn’t choose academic medicine as a vocation. But from early childhood he was exposed to the field. His father, Yoshitsugi Hokama, PhD, is an award-winning scientist and Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Hawaiʻi (UH) at Mānoa.
