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Norman Jaffe, MD, Oral History Interview, August 31, 2012
Norman Jaffe MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Working with Dr. Sidney Farber at the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute in Boston
- Cancer in pediatric patients; “total care” of pediatric patients; special challenges
- Research: solid tumors, osteosarcoma, eradicating metastasis with methotrexate
- The Department of Pediatric Oncology: history and evolution
- Pediatrics and survivorship
- Long-Term Surveillance Clinic
- Ski Rehabilitation Program
- International collaborations
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Lovell A. Jones, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 15, 2014
Lovell A. Jones PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; Evolution of awareness of minority issues and health disparity
- Evolution of research on the natural/synthetic estrogens and gynecologic cancers
- Development of combination therapies for ovarian cancer
- Overview of health inequity (health disparity) and minority health needs in the context of American culture, Texas, Houston, and MD Anderson
- Diversity at MD Anderson; climate for minorities; attitudes of leadership
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Lovell A. Jones, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 16, 2014
Lovell A. Jones PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Evolution of research on the natural/synthetic estrogens and gynecologic cancers
- Development of combination therapies for ovarian cancer
- Overview of health inequity (health disparity) and minority health needs in the context of American culture, Texas, Houston, and MD Anderson
- Diversity at MD Anderson; climate for minorities; attitudes of leadership
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Lovell A. Jones, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 30, 2014
Lovell A. Jones PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Overview of health inequity (health disparity) and minority health needs in the context of American culture, Texas, Houston, and MD Anderson
- Diversity at MD Anderson; climate for minorities; attitudes of leadership
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Lovell A. Jones, PhD, Oral History Interview, May 1, 2014
Lovell A. Jones PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Overview of health inequity (health disparity) and minority health needs in the context of American culture, Texas, Houston, and MD Anderson
- Diversity at MD Anderson; climate for minorities; attitudes of leadership
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Rebecca Kaul, MBA, Oral History Interview, February 24, 2016
Rebecca Kaul MBA and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education
- Roles in healthcare before joining MD Anderson
- Definitions of “innovation” and the role of an Innovation Officer
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Rebecca Kaul, MBA, Oral History Interview, April 25, 2016
Rebecca Kaul MBA and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Assessment of MD Anderson and status of innovation
- Relationship between technology and workflow and service delivery
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Examples illustrating how technology can intervene in complex healthcare problems
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Michael Keating, MD, Oral History Interview, May 13, 2014
Michael Keating MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major topics covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Faith, values, and the practice of medicine
- Research: combination therapies, Fludarabine, Cytarabine
- Impact of research on patients; patient commitment to treatment
- Setting up leukemia databases at MD Anderson
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Michael Keating, MD, Oral History Interview, May 20, 2014
Michael Keating MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major topics covered:
- The history of translational research at MD Anderson
- The Department of Developmental Therapeutics
- MD Anderson culture
- Changes at MD Anderson with growth
- The Moon Shots Program
- Leadership at MD Anderson
- Global Research Foundation
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Eugenie Kleinerman, MD, Oral History Interview, May 21, 2014
Eugenie S. Kleinerman MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
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Eugenie Kleinerman, MD, Oral History Interview, May 29, 2014
Eugenie S. Kleinerman MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major topics covered:
- Areas of research; development of her translational approach
- History of translational research at MD Anderson
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Eugenie Kleinerman, MD, Oral History Interview, June 04, 2014
Eugenie S. Kleinerman MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Leading the Division of Pediatrics
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Eugenie Kleinerman, MD, Oral History Interview, June 18, 2014
Eugenie S. Kleinerman MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Women in medicine and at MD Anderson
- Views on change at MD Anderson with shifts in executive leadership
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Alfred G. Knudson, Jr., MD, PhD, Interview, March 5, 2013
Albert G. Knudson, Jr. MD, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Educational background and military experience
- Development of interest in pediatric cancer
- The two-hit model: discovery and implications
- Mentoring and advice for young scientists
- The Graduate School of Biomedical Science: history, effects
- Personal characteristics
- Perspectives on the fields of cancer biology and neuroscience
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Ritsuko U. Komaki, MD, FACR, FASTRO, Oral History Interview, November 6, 2018
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background: experiences in Hiroshima, Japan, in aftermath of the atomic bomb
- Japanese versus American attitudes about radiation: impact on evolution of radiation therapy, radiation oncology
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Ritsuko U. Komaki, MD, FACR, FASTRO, Oral History Interview, November 28, 2018
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Educational path: Japan, early experiences with US monitoring of bomb aftereffects
- Research: radiation dosage and fractionation and preservation of normal tissue, impact on breast and lung cancer, integration into multi-modal treatment;
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Ritsuko U. Komaki, MD, FACR, FASTRO, Oral History Interview, December 19, 2018
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Radiation oncology at MD Anderson: work with Gilbert Fletcher; evolution of radiation oncology; establishing the Proton Therapy Center
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Ritsuko U. Komaki, MD, FACR, FASTRO, Oral History Interview, January 23, 2019
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Impact of gender and culture on career, impact of marriage on career
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Ritsuko U. Komaki, MD, FACR, FASTRO, Oral History Interview, February 21, 2019
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Views of MD Anderson culture, institutional change; experiences of administrative shifts within the Division of Radiation Oncology; critique of division culture
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Margaret Kripke, PhD, Oral History Interview, December 13, 2007
Margaret Kripke PhD and Lesley W. Brunet
Major topics covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Research: Photoimmunology
- Women Faculty Organization: founding, purpose, institutional support of
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Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., Oral History Interview, March 28, 2012
Margaret L. Kripke PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Research: photo-immunology and skin cancer; creating a new field of study; establishing new laboratory at MD Anderson
- Physician-scientists at MD Anderson
- Career shift into administration; leadership
- Building research at MD Anderson; supporting faculty
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Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., Oral History Interview, March 29, 2012
Margaret L. Kripke PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Physician-scientists at MD Anderson
- Career shift into administration; leadership
- Building research at MD Anderson; supporting faculty
- Women faculty; Women Faculty Organization; Women Faculty Programs; women and leadership
- The President’s Cancer Panel
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Leon Leach, MBA, PhD, Oral History Interview, November 5, 2012
Leon Leach MBA, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; faith
- Career track in corporate insurance
- Changing economic environment of healthcare, late nineties to 2013
- MD Anderson as a fiscal institution: history of operations, bringing sophistication to
- Tools and strategies for economic forecasting, growth, and fiscal stability
- Fiscal leadership in an academic institution
- Strategic initiatives: The Proton Therapy Center, sister institutions, satellite centers, capital campaigns
- The MD Anderson presidents; Ronald DePinho; The Moon Shots
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Leon Leach, MBA, PhD, Oral History Interview, November 5, 2012
Leon Leach MBA, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; faith
- Career track in corporate insurance
- Changing economic environment of healthcare, late nineties to 2013
- MD Anderson as a fiscal institution: history of operations, bringing sophistication to
- Tools and strategies for economic forecasting, growth, and fiscal stability
- Fiscal leadership in an academic institution
- Strategic initiatives: The Proton Therapy Center, sister institutions, satellite centers, capital campaigns
- The MD Anderson presidents; Ronald DePinho; The Moon Shots
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Leon Leach, MBA, PhD, Oral History Interview, November 27, 2012
Leon Leach MBA, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; faith
- Career track in corporate insurance
- Changing economic environment of healthcare, late nineties to 2013
- MD Anderson as a fiscal institution: history of operations, bringing sophistication to
- Tools and strategies for economic forecasting, growth, and fiscal stability
- Fiscal leadership in an academic institution
- Strategic initiatives: The Proton Therapy Center, sister institutions, satellite centers, capital campaigns
- The MD Anderson presidents; Ronald DePinho; The Moon Shots
