George M. Stancel, PhD, Oral History Interview, February 29, 2012
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Major Topics Covered:
- Biomedical education, curriculum-building, ethics
- The Graduate School of Biomedical Science
- Role as Executive VP of Academic and Research Affairs Leadership in multi-institution environments; multi-institution programs
- The first uterine SPORE
- Leading faculty; building collaborations
Identifier
StancelGM_02_20120229
Publication Date
2-29-2012
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
Stancel, George M. PhD and Rosolowksi, Tacey A. PhD, "George M. Stancel, PhD, Oral History Interview, February 29, 2012" (2012). Interview Sessions. 192.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/192
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Dr. George M. Stancel (b. 1944,Chicago, Illinois) was recruited in 1972 to help establish the new University of Texas Medical School. Dr. Stancel is a Professor in the UT Medical School’s Departments of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, and Gynecologic Oncology. His research has focused on hormones, estrogenicity and carcinogenicity, and mechanisms to predict susceptibility to uterine cancers. He has served as Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Texas Health Science Center since 1999). In 2011 he was appointed Executive Vice President for Academic and Research Affairs of UT Health Sciences Center.
Original Interview Profile: George M. Stancel
Submitted by: Tacey A. Rosolowski, Ph.D.
Date revised: 3 June 2014
This four-hour interview with gynecologic endocrinologist Dr. George M. Stancel, Ph.D. (b. 1944,Chicago, Illinois), takes place in two session on 24 January 2012 and 29 February 2012. Dr. Stancel’s has had both a research and administrative career. He is Dean of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHC, appointed ’99). In 2011 he was appointed Executive Vice President for Academic and Research Affairs of UTHC. Tacey A. Rosolowski, Ph.D. conducts the interviews, which take place in a conference room in the Vice President’s office at the UTHC office tower near the main MD Anderson campus.
Dr. Stancel earned his B.S. in Chemistry at the College of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota (1966). He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 1970 at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan and went on to postdoctoral work in endocrinology in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Dr. Stancel came to Houston in 1972 as an assistant professor of pharmacology, when he was recruited (for his “pioneering spirit”) to help establish the brand new University of Texas Medical School. Dr. Stancel is a Professor in the UT Medical School’s Departments of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, and Gynecologic Oncology. When Dr. Stancel tells of coming to Houston to help build the new medical school, he notes that all of the individuals involved went on to high-level administrative roles.
Dr. Stancel offers the perspective of a researcher dedicated to education with a unique experience in institution-building and development. He talks about his research into estrogen and provides vivid descriptions of the transformation of laboratory science since the midseventies. Dr. Stancel has also had an impact on education and discusses curricula-building, educational philosophy and its practice at the Graduate School of Biomedical Science. He provides an interesting view of the inner working of institutions at all phases of their development. He is candid and complete in his responses and offers many vivid stories inflected with humor.