Title
Sidney Wallace, MD, Oral History Interview, November 29, 2011
Files
Download Full Interview Transcript (802 KB)
Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Overview of interventional radiology and history of emerging field
- Research: devices and techniques, collaborations
- Angiographic Interventional Laboratory: Setting it up, its operation
- Interventional radiology at MD Anderson; Impact on care
- Working with Dr. Cesare Gianturco and Dr. Gerald Dodd
- The Dunn Chemistry Research Laboratory
- Training interventional radiology clinicians and researchers
- Experiences as a cancer patient
- Artwork: a practicing sculptor and painter, lecturer on artists
Publication Date
11-29-2011
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
Disciplines
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Wallace, Sidney MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Sidney Wallace, MD, Oral History Interview, November 29, 2011" (2011). Interview Sessions. 182.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/182
Conditions Governing Access
Open
About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Dr. Wallace joined MD Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute in 1966 as an Associate Professor and Head of the Section of Diagnostic Radiology. At the time of these interview sessions, Dr. Wallace was a Professor Emeritus in the Division of Diagnostic Imaging. He was serving as Deputy Division Head of Research when he retired in 1996. Over the course of his career he established laboratories and institutes that have spurred the evolution of Interventional Radiology. He has overseen work on devices and procedures such as embolization, chemoembolization, infusion for treatment of tumors, and methods for biopsies. Dr. Wallace was speaks about his experiences as a cancer patient at MD Anderson.