Peggy Taylor Tinkey, DVM, Oral History Interview, June 7, 2016
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Department of Animal Medicine and Surgery: history, evolution, current status
- The care of laboratory animals
- Examples of research, complexities of research, role of veterinarian, controversies over research
Identifier
TinkeyPT_02_20160607
Publication Date
6-7-2016
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
Tinkey, Peggy T. DVM and Rosolowksi, Tacey A. PhD, "Peggy Taylor Tinkey, DVM, Oral History Interview, June 7, 2016" (2016). Interview Sessions. 267.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/267
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About the Interview Subject
Peggy Taylor Tinkey (b. 10 March 1959, Tuscola, Illinois) came to MD Anderson in 1993 as an Assistant Veterinarian in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery and advanced to faculty status in 1998. She is now a Professor in that Department and has served as Chair since 2006. (The Department is housed in the Division of Basic Science Research.) Dr. Tinkey also has a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathobiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University in College Station, TX. Under Dr. Tinkey’s leadership, the Department has offered continually expanding support to MD Anderson researchers and developed processes of state of the art care for research animal populations.