2015 - Dr. Lawrence K.W. Tseu

Location: Ala Moana Hotel (Hibiscus Ballroom)
Date: Thursday, February 19, 2015
Emcee: Felipe Ojastro

DR. LAWRENCE K.W. TSEU was raised in Kalihi, Oahu and graduated from St. Louis College in 1951.  He went on to join the U.S. Air Force for the next four years during the Korean Conflict.  After his service, he attended Brigham Young University and graduated in 1958.  He then went on to graduate from Northwestern University Dental School in 1962 and was later the recipient of the prestigious Alumni Merit Award from the University’s Alumni Association.  With his hard working and self-motivated personality, Dr. Tseu opened his own private practice of cosmetic dentistry in Honolulu in 1963, and in the process garnered honors as the America’s Top Dentist by the Consumers’ Research Council of America and Honolulu Magazine.  He ran a successful practice for nearly 50 years before retiring in 2011.  Dr. Tseu remains very active in the community and is proud to serve on the Board of Regents at St. Louis School and the University of Oxford, where he is the chairman of the Tseu Medical Institute.  He is also a member of the Chaminade University Board of Regents.  In 2010, Dr. Tseu made a generous $1 million gift to Chaminade to establish the Dr. Lawrence K.W. and BoHing Chan Tseu Center for Nursing Education to honor his late wife, BoHing Chan Tseu.  The gift enabled Chaminade to create new, state-of-the-art facilities, including nursing laboratories and a suite equipped with life-like human simulation mannequins.  From being named Hawaii’s Philanthropist of the Year in 2006, to his roles as the President of the Jackie Chan Charitable Foundation and Co-Chair of the American Cancer Society, there is no doubt that Dr. Tseu’s passion is giving back and supporting the community.