Robert S. Benjamin, MD, Oral History Interview, March 6, 2015
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Description
Major Topics Covered:
- History of the Departments of Melanoma and Sarcoma
- The Melanoma/Sarcoma Center
- A clinician’s critical perspective on institutional changes under Dr. Ronald DePinho
Interview Chapters
Chapter 25: The Section of Melanoma/Sarcoma: A History of Reorganization at MD Anderson
Chapter 26: From Section to Departments: Reorganizing Melanoma and Sarcoma
Chapter 27: The Melanoma/Sarcoma Center: An Early Multi-Disciplinary Center
Chapter 28: The Clinical Research Committee
Chapter 29: Changes at MD Anderson Under New President, Ronald DePinho
Identifier
BenjaminRS_03_20150306
Publication Date
3-6-2015
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, March 6, 2015" (2015). Interview Sessions. 92.
https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewsessions/92
Conditions Governing Access
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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.