sentences:  It was also one of the first studies on Kanaka Maoli health conducted largely by Kanaka Maoli themselves.3
  
  Director, Center for Hawaiian Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.Blaisdell served as Interim Director from 1987-1988.Blaisdell served on the Dissertation committees for nearly a dozen Native Hawaiian PhD candidates, including Lilikala Kame'eleihiwa and Kamana'opono Crabbe.