Put your name on medical school

By Beverly Creamer
Advertiser Education Writer

Opportunities to name classrooms, labs, a lanai, wings, floors, the auditorium, the cafeteria and much more in the new $150 million John A. Burns School of Medicine in Kaka'ako are now up for grabs. They were approved recently by the University of Hawai'i Board of Regents.

That means for a gift of $15,000, you may name a work station after yourself if you're so inclined.

For $50,000 you can call a simulated doctors' office after yours truly, while for $75,000-$150,000 you can choose a conference room to take your moniker.

For $100,000, you may attach your John Smith plaque to a clinical skills room. For $500,000, you get a computer lab.

Up there in the heady realm of $1 million, you have a wide range of choice: a lanai, a healing garden and a problem-based learning center.

For $2 million you could score the cafe — run by the Culinary Arts program at Kapi'olani Community College — or the access grid 3-D board room, the hub of the education building, which is already up and running.

For $3 million, the simulation center is available.

For $5 million you'll get the main lobby or one of the building's six wings or the health sciences library, a state-of-the-art collection with a major part of its database stored electronically.

And for $10 million — the top of the line — an entire floor could be yours.

There are four of them, and one imagines it's first come, first served.

The private donations will be used for continuing support of the new medical school, including paying salaries for the renowned researchers already being recruited.

And if the naming opportunities at the new medical school are a mite rich for your blood, consider moving to the Windward side and taking a gander at the Paliku Theatre at Windward Community College. For $1,000, a shiny plaque with your name will be attached to one of the 294 seats.

There are a multitude of other opportunities there as well, including the green room for a mere $50,000.

Reach Beverly Creamer at bcreamer@honoluluadvertiser.com or 525-8013.