University of Hawai'i School of Medicine Opens Ombuds Office

Chang Kim has been named the first Ombudsman for the John A. Burns School of Medicine in Honolulu. Kim moves into the new position after two years as Contracts Officer for the UH Medical School. He will serve as a resource for all faculty and staff following IOA standards. Meanwhile, efforts to reestablish an Ombuds program for the rest of the campus have foundered since the UH Ombuds Office closed in 2009 after being open just three years. There are no other Organizational Ombuds programs in the state. 

Before Kim moved to the University of Hawai'i, he worked at Google, DLA Piper, and Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford and earned his JD at UC Berkeley. (JABSOM Ombuds; LinkedIn.)

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