Janet M. Bruner, MD, Oral History Interview, June 4, 2012
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Overviews of pathology and neuropathology, approach and practice in team settings
- Research: molecular genetics
- MD Anderson Neuropathology Laboratory: operations
- Developing the MD Anderson Tissue Bank
- The Department of Pathology, subspecializing
- The Department of Hematopathology
- Women and leadership at MD Anderson
Interview Chapters
Chapter 01: Neuropathology and MD Anderson's Neuropathology Services
Chapter 02: The Young Scientist and the Pathologist's "Eye"
Chapter 04: Discovering Neuropathology and Houston
Chapter 05: Practicing Pathology at MD Anderson
Chapter 06: A Sketch of Pathology Research
Chapter 07: The MD Anderson Tissue Bank
Chapter 08: Few Women at MD Anderson in the early Eighties
Chapter 09: The Neuropathology Lab in Detail
Chapter 10: Becoming the First Woman Chair of a Clinical Department
Identifier
BrunerJM_01_20120604
Publication Date
6-4-2012
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
Bruner, Janet M. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Janet M. Bruner, MD, Oral History Interview, June 4, 2012" (2012). Interview Sessions. 85.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/85
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Diagnostic neuropathologist Janet M. Bruner, M.D. (b. 1949, East Liverpool, Ohio) joined the MD Anderson in 1984 as a faculty associate in the Department of Pathology and was promoted to assistant professor in 1985. She is a full professor in that department and since 1994 has also held a joint appointment in the Department of Neuro-oncology. Her clinical interests focus on brain tumor neuropathology, molecular diagnostics, and molecular genetics. Dr. Bruner served as Chair of the Department of Pathology for 12 years –the first woman chair of a clinical department at MD Anderson (appointed in 1998). She has been Deputy Head of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine since 1998.