James M. Bowen, PhD, Oral History Interview, March 27, 2000

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

Identifier

BowenJM_01_20000327

Publication Date

3-27-2000

Publisher

The Making Cancer History® Voices Oral History Collection, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

City

Houston, Texas

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 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

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.

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