Carin Hagberg, M.D., FASA, FACHE, Oral History Interview, February 26, 2026
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Educational background
- Neuroanesthesia and difficult airway management in cancer treatment
- Leadership: role of Chief Academic Officer
- Biomedical publishing; authorship
- International standards for airway management
- The impact of Hagberg and Benumof’s Airway Management
- Guidance and advice for students
- Professional accomplishments
Interview Chapters
- Chapter 01: Choosing Anesthesiology and Difficult Airway Management
- Chapter 02: Two Tenures at MD Anderson
- Chapter 03: Specialty The Importance of Anesthesiology and Airway Management in Oncology
- Chapter 04: Fostering Achievement as the Chief Academic Officer
- Chapter 05: The Importance of Hagberg and Benumof’s Airway Management to Anesthesiology
- Chapter 06: Guidance for Future Clinicians and Researchers
Identifier
HagbergC_01_20260226
Publication Date
2-26-2026
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
Anesthesiology | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Oncology | Oral History
Recommended Citation
Hagberg, Carin M.D., FASA, FACHE and Garza, Jose Javier MSIS, "Carin Hagberg, M.D., FASA, FACHE, Oral History Interview, February 26, 2026" (2026). Interview Sessions. 285.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/285
Conditions Governing Access
Open
About the Interview
Interview Information
Interview Date: February 24, 2026
Interviewer: Jose Javier Franco Garza
Interview Length: 1 hour, 7 minutes
About the Interview Subject
Since 2018, Dr. Carin A. Hagberg has served as the Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She joined the institution in 2016 as Division Head in the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine. She serves as the Bud Johnson Clinical Distinguished Chair and Professor with Term Tenure in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, and as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at the UTHealth McGovern Medical School.
Dr. Hagberg’s research and clinical specialty is neuroanesthesia and difficult airway management. Additionally, she is the lead editor of Hagberg and Benumof’s Airway Management, currently in its fifth edition.