sentences:  In 1965, while in Chicago, Blaisdell received the national Lederle Medical Faculty Teaching Award, and thus became known to Dean Windsor Cutting, former Stanford Medical School dean and newly appointed first dean of the University of Hawaii School of Medicine.In 1966, Blaisdell became the first Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the newly established University of Hawai'i School of Medicine.1,2 He and his wife joined others in lobbying for a four-year medical school.He continued platelet atherosclerosis research.