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Linda Elting, PhD, MPH, Oral History Interview, February 19, 2015
Linda E. Elting MPh and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Career shift from a classified employee to faculty member
- The epidemiological perspective on healthcare issues
- Creating a unique niche in epidemiology studies: value of care
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Linda Elting, PhD, MPH, Oral History Interview, March 5, 2015
Linda E. Elting MPh and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research on treatment for infections, value of care, effects of health policy, Texas health care systems
- Training clinicians and researchers to take a population focus on treatment and care delivery
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Linda Elting, PhD, MPH, Oral History Interview, March 26, 2015
Linda E. Elting MPh and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research on treatment for infections, value of care, effects of health policy, Texas health care systems
- Training clinicians and researchers to take a population focus on treatment and care delivery
- History of MD Anderson Institutional Review Boards
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Linda Elting, PhD, MPH, Oral History Interview, April 23, 2015
Linda E. Elting MPh and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- History of MD Anderson Institutional Review Boards
- Women’s careers at MD Anderson
- Mentoring researchers and leaders
- MD Anderson growth and changes to MD Anderson culture
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Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, March 6, 2014
Carmen Escalante MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Evolution and growing acceptance of the internist’s role at MD Anderson
- Research: deep venous thrombosis, dyspnea and risk models, cancer-related fatigue
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Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 14, 2014
Carmen Escalante MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research: deep venous thrombosis, dyspnea and risk models, cancer-related fatigue
- Clinical activities in the chemotherapy service
- Establishing: the Cancer Fatigue Clinic, the Inpatient Hospitalist Program,
- Creation of the Department of General Internal Medicine
- The Emergency Medical Service
- The Chemotherapy Clinic
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Carmen Escalante, MD, Oral History Interview, May 23, 2014
Carmen Escalante MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Roles heading the Department of Internal Medicine
- Experiences as a woman professional in medicine
- Evolving status of women at MD Anderson
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Michael S. Ewer, MD, MPH, JD, LLM, MBA, Oral History Interview, May 24, 2018
Michael S. Ewer MD, MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background
- Service as Medical Officer on a Princess Cruises ship
- Intensive Care Services at MD Anderson; building the service
- Views of cardiology versus onco-cardiology; medical education
- Ethics Committee: formation; composition; evolution; purpose of ethical consults; developing an institutional philosophy of ethics; challenging cases; shifting institutional priorities and effect on ethics
- Research: cardiotoxicity of chemotherapeutic agents
- Institutional change
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Michael S. Ewer, MD, MPH, JD, LLM, MBA, Oral History Interview, July 25, 2018
Michael S. Ewer MD, MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Education and personal background
- Service as Medical Officer on a Princess Cruises ship
- Intensive Care Services at MD Anderson; building the service
- Views of cardiology versus onco-cardiology; medical education
- Ethics Committee: formation; composition; evolution; purpose of ethical consults; developing an institutional philosophy of ethics; challenging cases; shifting institutional priorities and effect on ethics
- Research: cardiotoxicity of chemotherapeutic agents
- Institutional change
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Isaiah Fidler, DVM, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 26, 2011
Isaiah J. Fidler DVM, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- The “seed and soil” theory; theory of cancer as a regulated, predictable process
- The practice of basic and translational research
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Isaiah Fidler, DVM, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 27, 2011
Isaiah J. Fidler DVM, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- The “seed and soil” theory; theory of cancer as a regulated, predictable process
- The practice of basic and translational research
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Michael J. Fisch, MD, Oral History Interview, February 5, 2015
Michael Fisch MD, MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
General Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background.
- History of and observations about the evolving field of General Medical Oncology
- Relationships between general medical oncology, supportive care, and palliative care
- Integrating these practices into MD Anderson treatment programs
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Michael J. Fisch, MD, Oral History Interview, February 13, 2015
Michael Fisch MD, MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
General Topics Covered:
- History of and observations about the evolving field of General Medical Oncology
- Relationships between general medical oncology, supportive care, and palliative care
- Integrating these practices into MD Anderson treatment programs
- Research into patient experience and symptom management
- Anecdotes about work with patients at MD Anderson and VIP patients overseas
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Michael J. Fisch, MD, Oral History Interview, February 18, 2015
Michael Fisch MD, MPH and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
General Topics Covered:
- Research into patient experience and symptom management
- Anecdotes about work with patients at MD Anderson and VIP patients overseas
- Social media and its potential for use in healthcare
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Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, Oral History Interview, February 5, 2014
Lewis E. Foxhall MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; a Texas upbringing and education
- Interests in primary clinical care, health populations, cancer prevention, and tobacco
- The Physician Relations Program
- Health policy work at MD Anderson
- Charity care programs
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Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, Oral History Interview, February 13, 2014
Lewis E. Foxhall MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Health policy work at MD Anderson
- Charity care programs
- External networks and initiatives with health care providers
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Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, Oral History Interview, March 11, 2014
Lewis E. Foxhall MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Health policy work at MD Anderson
- External networks and initiatives with health care providers
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Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, Oral History Interview, April 9, 2014
Lewis E. Foxhall MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Health policy work at MD Anderson
- Texas state law, health care delivery, the Affordable Care Act, healthcare economics
- Value based care
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Lewis E. Foxhall, MD, Oral History Interview, May 13, 2014
Lewis E. Foxhall MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Texas state law, health care delivery, the Affordable Care Act, healthcare economics
- Survivorship Programs
- Value based care
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Ralph S. Freedman, MD, PhD, Oral History Interview, February 4, 2012
Ralph S. Freedman MD, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; experiences in native South Africa
- MD Anderson history and culture in the seventies and since
- Research: immune mechanisms and gynecologic cancers; vaccines, T-cells, monoclonal human antibodies, inflammatory system, ecosinoids and inflammatory responses to tumors.
- Department of Gynecologic Oncology: building immunology research
- Institutional Review Board at MD Anderson
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital and indigent care
- The National Cancer Panel, the Drug Advisory Board
- Institutional change and growth
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Ralph S. Freedman, MD, PhD, Oral History Interview, March 1, 2012
Ralph S. Freedman MD, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; experiences in native South Africa
- MD Anderson history and culture in the seventies and since
- Research: immune mechanisms and gynecologic cancers; vaccines, T-cells, monoclonal human antibodies, inflammatory system, ecosinoids and inflammatory responses to tumors.
- Department of Gynecologic Oncology: building immunology research
- Institutional Review Board at MD Anderson
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital and indigent care
- The National Cancer Panel, the Drug Advisory Board
- Institutional change and growth
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Emil J Freireich, MD, Oral History Interview, July 23, 2001
Emil J. Freireich MD and Lesley W. Brunet
Major topics covered:
- Personal and educational background;
- Research: the continuous flow-blood separator; innovations in chemotherapy and combination therapy ;
- Collaborations with Dr. Emil Frei, III;
- The Department of Developmental Therapeutics;
- Building the culture of clinical research; training clinical researchers and physician-scientists ;
- History of cancer medicine, clinical research, translational research and education
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Emil Freireich, MD, Oral History Interview, July 30, 2001
Emil J. Freireich MD and Lesley W. Brunet
Major Topics Covered:
- Research: the continuous flow-blood separator; innovations in chemotherapy and combination therapy ;
- Collaborations with Dr. Emil Frei, III;
- The Department of Developmental Therapeutics;
- Building the culture of clinical research; training clinical researchers and physician-scientists ;
- History of cancer medicine, clinical research, translational research and education;
- Institutional politics as they influenced: Developmental Therapeutics, individual investigators, the standing of clinical research, the education of physician scientists;
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Emil Freireich, MD, Oral History Interview, August 06, 2001
Emil J. Freireich MD and Lesley W. Brunet
Major Topics Covered:
- The Department of Developmental Therapeutics;
- Building the culture of clinical research; training clinical researchers and physician-scientists ;
- MD Anderson presidents and the history and expansion of MD Anderson ;
- Institutional politics as they influenced: Developmental Therapeutics, individual investigators, the standing of clinical research, the education of physician scientists;
- The ethics of clinical research
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Emil Freireich, MD, Oral History Interview, August 13, 2001
Emil J. Freireich MD and Lesley W. Brunet
Major Topics Covered:
- The Department of Developmental Therapeutics;
- Building the culture of clinical research; training clinical researchers and physician-scientists ;
- MD Anderson presidents and the history and expansion of MD Anderson
- Institutional politics as they influenced: Developmental Therapeutics, individual investigators, the standing of clinical research, the education of physician scientists;
- The ethics of clinical research
