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Raymond Sawaya, MD, Oral History Interview, July 16, 2013
Raymond Sawaya MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- The Brain Tumor Institute: history of, vision for
- Leadership: philosophy, skill, lessons
- MD Anderson in periods of change
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Leslie Schover, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 18, 2018
Leslie Schover PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education; gender politics and harassment in psychotherapy
- Research: sex/gender in the therapeutic relationship; patient views of fertility/sexuality; interventions for onco-fertility and sexuality
- Views on the evolving fields of sex therapy, onco-sexuality, and onco-fertility
- Onco-sexuality and onco-fertility at MD Anderson: acceptance by patients and clinicians; strategies to build acceptance
- Institutional challenges: setting up new programs, internal politics
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Leslie Schover, PhD, Oral History Interview, October 4, 2018
Leslie Schover PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Bringing business grants to the Department of Behavioral Science
- Entrepreneurship and creating a start-up company
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Donna K. Sollenberger, Oral History Interview, September 27, 2013
Donna K. Sollenberger and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Division of Surgery and Anesthesiology; developing collaborative/efficient operations
- Vice President for Hospitals and Clinics; roles, initiatives, perspective on institution
- Leadership: development of skills; stories of leadership challenges
- Institutional reorganization in the 1990s
- Financial challenges and managed care in the 1990s
- Developing a “customer focused” culture
- The Aim for Excellence Program
- Women in healthcare leadership
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Margaret Spitz, MD, Oral History Interview, October 13, 2016
Margaret R. Spitz MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background, education, emigration from South Africa
- History of the Division of Cancer Prevention
- History of the Department of Epidemiology
- History of the field of Epidemiology
- Epidemiology research: predictive models, lung cancer
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Margaret Spitz, MD, Oral History Interview, November 01, 2016
Margaret R. Spitz MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Conceptualizing “integrative epidemiology”
- Women at MD Anderson
- Training and education for a new generation of epidemiologists
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George M. Stancel, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 24, 2012
George M. Stancel PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Research: estrogen and uterine cancer
- Transformation of laboratory science and laboratory technologies
- Early years of the University of Texas Medical School; Building the Department of Pharmacology
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George M. Stancel, PhD, Oral History Interview, February 29, 2012
George M. Stancel PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
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Marilyn Stovall, PhD, Oral History Interview, May 10, 2012
Marilyn Stovall PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education
- Memories of the early years of MD Anderson
- Contributions to radiation therapy
- Effects of radiation on long-term cancer survivors
- A portrait of Dr. Robert Shalek, former Director of the Radiation Physics Center
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John Stroehlein, MD, Oral History Interview, December 5, 2012
John Stroehlein MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; military experience; retirement
- Working at Methodist Hospital; MD Anderson in comparison to other institutions
- Gastroenterology and oncology: history and evolution; development of team approaches
- Research overview
- Department of Gastroenterology: history of
- Department of Patient Affairs: functions, organization
- Data management initiatives
- Quality assurance initiatives
- MD Anderson growth; cultural change; changing relationship to Texas/Houston
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John Stroehlein, MD, Oral History Interview, December 12, 2012
John Stroehlein MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; military experience; retirement
- Working at Methodist Hospital; MD Anderson in comparison to other institutions
- Gastroenterology and oncology: history and evolution; development of team approaches
- Research overview
- Department of Gastroenterology: history of
- Department of Patient Affairs: functions, organization
- Data management initiatives
- Quality assurance initiatives
- MD Anderson growth; cultural change; changing relationship to Texas/Houston
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Louise Connally Strong, MD, Oral History Interview, August 8, 2012
Louise Connally Strong MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Overview and history of oncology genetics in the sixties and seventies
- Working with Alfred Knudson
- Research: longitudinal studies of inherited genetics patterns of neuroblastoma, aniridia, and Wilm’s tumor; discovery of the p53 tumor suppressor genes and link to Li-Fraumeni syndrome, survivorship
- Women at MD Anderson
- MD Anderson’s cancer screening program
- Ethics and genetic testing
- MD Anderson growth and cultural change
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Louise Connally Strong, MD, Oral History Interview, August 10, 2012
Louise Connally Strong MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Overview and history of oncology genetics in the sixties and seventies
- Working with Alfred Knudson
- Research: longitudinal studies of inherited genetics patterns of neuroblastoma, aniridia, and Wilm’s tumor; discovery of the p53 tumor suppressor genes and link to Li-Fraumeni syndrome, survivorship
- Women at MD Anderson
- MD Anderson’s cancer screening program
- Ethics and genetic testing
- MD Anderson growth and cultural change
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Steve C. Stuyck MPH, Oral History Interview June 11, 2013
Steve C. Stuyck MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- The Department/Office of Public Affairs: history and evolution of; services developed and encompassed; innovative activities to serve faculty, administration, patients
- Public Affairs and support of cancer prevention, education, philanthropy/development
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Steve C. Stuyck MPH, Oral History Interview July 13, 2013
Steve C. Stuyck MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- The Department/Office of Public Affairs: history and evolution of; services developed and encompassed; innovative activities to serve faculty, administration, patients
- Public Affairs and support of cancer prevention, education, philanthropy/development
- Working relationships with MD Anderson presidents
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Pamela “Sat-Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, May 01, 2018
Pamela Sat Siri Sumler and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background; experience of cancer and disease; spirituality and meaning
- Meditation and yoga as a life practice and spiritual orientation; massage, meditation, and teaching as spiritual practices
- Massage for oncology patients; working with patients undergoing treatment; developing guidelines for massage
- Massage at MD Anderson; building a service and its evolution; developing acceptance/addressing resistance of patients and clinicians; developing a training program for massage therapists
- Stories of work with patients
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Pamela “Sat Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, May 1, 2018
Pamela Sat Siri Sumler LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background; experience of cancer and disease; spirituality and meaning
- Meditation and yoga as a life practice and spiritual orientation; massage, meditation, and teaching as spiritual practices
- Massage for oncology patients; working with patients undergoing treatment; developing guidelines for massage;
- Massage at MD Anderson; building a service and its evolution; developing acceptance/addressing resistance of patients and clinicians; developing a training program for massage therapists
- Stories of work with patients
- Participation in research studies
- Hope for the future of alternative medicine under Peter Pisters
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Pamela “Sat-Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, September 10, 2018
Pamela Sat Siri Sumler and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Massage for oncology patients; working with patients undergoing treatment; developing guidelines for massage
- Massage at MD Anderson; building a service and its evolution; developing acceptance/addressing resistance of patients and clinicians; developing a training program for massage therapists
- Stories of work with patients
- Participation in research studies
- Hope for the future of alternative medicine under Peter Pisters
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Pamela “Sat Siri” Austin Sumler, LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT, Oral History Interview, September 10, 2018
Pamela Sat Siri Sumler LMT, BCTMB, CLT, E-RYT and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background; experience of cancer and disease; spirituality and meaning
- Meditation and yoga as a life practice and spiritual orientation; massage, meditation, and teaching as spiritual practices
- Massage for oncology patients; working with patients undergoing treatment; developing guidelines for massage;
- Massage at MD Anderson; building a service and its evolution; developing acceptance/addressing resistance of patients and clinicians; developing a training program for massage therapists
- Stories of work with patients
- Participation in research studies
- Hope for the future of alternative medicine under Peter Pisters
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Barbara Summers, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 23, 2014
Barbara Summers PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- A varied work and educational history
- History of nursing practice
- Development of leadership abilities
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Barbara Summers, PhD, Oral History Interview, April 01, 2014
Barbara Summers PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Activities and structure of the Division of Nursing at MD Anderson
- Oncology nursing at MD Anderson
- Development of nursing research
- MD Anderson’s Magnet designation
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Barbara Summers, PhD, Oral History Interview, April 29, 2014
Barbara Summers PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- The Nursing Congress
- Primary Team Nursing
- Professional Practice Mode
- Creating the Department of Nursing
- MD Anderson as a matrixed institution
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Peggy Taylor Tinkey, DVM, Oral History Interview, May 31, 2016
Peggy T. Tinkey DVM and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and temperament
- Education and transition from private practice to academic medicine
- Faith and commitment to animals; ethical and humanitarian dimensions of animal research
- Use of animal species in research
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Peggy Taylor Tinkey, DVM, Oral History Interview, June 7, 2016
Peggy T. Tinkey DVM and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
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
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Peggy Taylor Tinkey, DVM, Oral History Interview, June 24, 2016
Peggy T. Tinkey DVM and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Leadership Development
- The Gulf Coast Consortium Postdoctoral Laboratory Animal Medicine Residency Program
