James D. Cox, MD, Oral History Interview, March 19, 2004
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background, military experience
- Leadership: leadership roles, the experience of leadership
- MD Anderson administrative structure: restructuring under Charles LeMaistre, MD [oral history interview]; the divisional system
- Institutional politics, controversies
- Executive leaders and department chairs: personalities, leadership styles, leadership commitments
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: The Path to Radiation Oncology
Chapter 02: Appreciation for Surgeons and Surgery in Collaboration with Radiology
Chapter 03: Military Experience
Chapter 05: Inside Institutional Structures: Personalities and Remaking the Division System
Chapter 06: On Executive Leadership Styles within the Division System
Identifier
CoxJD_01_20040319
Publication Date
3-19-2004
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
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center -- history; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Division of Radiotherapy; Radiation Therapy Oncology Group ; Research; Clinical Trials as Topic; Neoplasms -- radiotherapy ; Hospitals, Special ; Laboratories, Hospital ; Radiation Oncology ; Radiology Department, Hospital ; Houston (Tex.) ; Oral History ; Interviews;
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Cox, James D. MD and Brunet, Lesley W., "James D. Cox, MD, Oral History Interview, March 19, 2004" (2004). Interview Sessions. 120.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/120
Conditions Governing Access
Open
About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Radiation oncologist James D. Cox, MD (16 July 1938 – 14 August 2018) came to MD Anderson in 1988 to serve as Vice President of Patient Care and Physician-in-Chief (’88-’92). He is a Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. In 1995 he became Head of the Division of Radiation Oncology and Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology. In this interview, Dr. Cox explore MD Anderson’s administrative structure, its transformations and its leaders.
Abstract:
Dr. James D. Cox discusses with Lesley W. Brunet his career at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Topics include his education and his career prior to and including his tenure at MD Anderson.