Robert S. Benjamin, MD, Oral History Interview, January 16, 2015
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- Research: landmark work on the cardiac toxicity of Adriamycin; intra-arterial delivery of Cisplatin to treat osteosarcoma
- Culture of Department of Developmental Therapeutics; Emil J Freireich, MD [Oral History Interview]
- Research collaborations with surgeons; building a multi-disciplinary service
- History of the Departments of Melanoma and Sarcoma
Interview Chapters
Chapter 12: Family Life and Life Balance
Chapter 13: Developmental Therapeutics in the 1970s: A Place of Optimism
Chapter 14: The Research Environment in Developmental Therapeutics
Chapter 15: Memories of J Freireich
Chapter 16: Research Projects at MD Anderson: A Shift from Clinical Pharmacology to Sarcoma
Chapter 17: Studies of Adriamycin and Cardiac Toxicity
Chapter 18: Studies Relating to Sarcoma Treatment
Chapter 19: Anthracyclines and Liver Function
Chapter 20: The Controversy over Randomized Trials
Chapter 22: Studies of Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumor
Chapter 23: Limb Salvage; an Informal Connection with an Italian Institute
Identifier
BenjaminRS_02_20150116
Publication Date
1-16-2015
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
Benjamin, Robert S. MD and Rosolowski, Tacey A. PhD, "Robert S. Benjamin, MD, Oral History Interview, January 16, 2015" (2015). Interview Sessions. 91.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/91
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About the Interview
About the Interview Subject:
Robert S. Benjamin, MD (b. 20 April 1943, Brooklyn, New York came to MD Anderson in 1974 as a fellow in the Department of Developmental Therapeutics. He is now a Professor in the Department of Sarcoma Medical Oncology. He first focused his research in the entirely new area of the pharmacology of cancer drugs. After a few years at MD Anderson, however, Dr. Benjamin shifted his focus to sarcoma medical oncology, and conducted landmark studies establishing chemotherapy treatments for the disease, leading to limb salvage and multi-modality treatment approaches. Dr. Benjamin served as Chair of the Department of Melanoma/Sarcoma and then the Department of Sarcoma—from 1993 to 2012. He has been known within MD Anderson culture as “King Pin” because of many pins patients have given him to wear on his lab coat.