James M. Bowen, PhD, Oral History Interview, March 27, 2000
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background; inspiration/commitment to oncology research
- Research: virology, immunology
- Brief history of the Departments of Biochemistry, Biology, and Physics
- Portraits of R. Lee Clark and Charles LeMaistre
- MD Anderson culture: basic sciences and scientists in a clinical setting
- Building the basic sciences
- Division of Prevention: creation of
- Administrative reorganizations in the 70s and 80s
- Leadership
- MD Anderson and the Texas Medical Center
- The MD Anderson mission
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: Experiences with Cancer Bring a Young Scientist to MD Anderson
Chapter 04: A Year Away; Reorganization of the Basic Sciences; a Return to a Faculty Position
Chapter 05: NIH-Sponsored Contracts Spur A Large and Influential Virology Program at MD Anderson
Chapter 06: A Love of Teaching and Discovering that Administration Can Impact Research
Chapter 08: Charles LeMaistre Becomes the Second President
Chapter 10: Taking on Executive Roles to Develop Education Under Charles LeMaistre
Chapter 11: Prevention: Acting VP for Cancer Prevention and Adding Prevention to the Mission Areas
Chapter 12: MD Anderson and Other Texas Medical Center Institutions
Identifier
BowenJM_01_20000327
Publication Date
3-27-2000
Publisher
The Historical Resources Center, Research Medical Library, The University of Texas Cancer Center
City
Houston, Texas
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Topics Covered
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas System. M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute
Subject Headings
Bowen, James M.; Clark, Randolph Lee, 1906-; LeMaistre, Charles A.; Dmochowski, Leon; Haas, Felix Levere, 1917-; Derrick, William Sheldon, 1916-1986; Russell, William O., 1910-; Becker, Frederick F.; Levin, Bernard, 1942-; Taylor, H. Grant, 1903-; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center -- history; Universities -- organization & administration -- Texas; Hospital Administration -- organization & administration -- Texas; Faculty, Medical -- Texas; Hospitals; Laboratories, Hospital; Hospital Departments; Hospitals, Special -- organization & administration -- Texas; Hospitals, Special -- history -- Texas; Virology; Universities and colleges -- Faculty; Houston (TX); Oral History; Interviews;
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Bowen, James M. PhD and Marchiafava, Louis J. PhD, "James M. Bowen, PhD, Oral History Interview, March 27, 2000" (2000). Interview Sessions. 109.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/109
Conditions Governing Access
Open
About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Microbiologist James M. Bowen joined the M. D. Anderson faculty in 1964 as an assistant professor of virology after a one year postdoctoral research fellowship, advancing to full professor less than a decade later. Between 1982 and 1994, he served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and during this time coordinated one of the most extensive educational programs at any cancer center. He also assisted in establishing cancer prevention as one of MD Anderson’s mission areas and established the framework for a new Division of Prevention. He served briefly as VP of that Division in 1994, before retiring that year.