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Leon Leach, MBA, PhD, Oral History Interview, January 9, 2013
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, April 29, 2013
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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Norman Leeds, MD, Oral History Interview, May 30, 2017
Norman Leeds MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education; two-career marriage
- Professional trajectory prior to MD Anderson
- Participation in and perspectives on the formative years of neuroradiology
- Research contributions to neuro-radiology Change at MD Anderson
- Views on assuming leadership roles
- Mentoring
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Norman Leeds, MD, Oral History Interview, June 20, 2017
Norman Leeds MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education; two-career marriage
- Professional trajectory prior to MD Anderson
- Participation in and perspectives on the formative years of neuroradiology
- Research contributions to neuro-radiology Change at MD Anderson
- Views on assuming leadership roles
- Mentoring
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Eleanor MacDonald, Oral History Interview, May 19, 2000
Eleanor MacDonald and Louis J. Marchiafava PhD
Major topics covered:
- Cancer Prevention in Boston
- History of the College of Surgeons in Boston
- Facilities at the Baker Estate in the 1940s
- Development of biostatics coding and card system for epidemiology
- Cancer Statistics in Texas
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Mary Catherine Bussey Boice McGready, Oral History Interview, 2016
Mary Catherine McGready and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background
- Memories of Ernst Bertner, MD and early employees of MD Anderson
- Memories of the Baker Estate, first site of MD Anderson
- Perspectives on Houston in the 1940s
- The role of medical librarian
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Marvin L. Meistrich, PhD, Oral History Interview, April 11, 2017
Marvin L. Meistrich PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background
- Educational path
- Research: spermatid nuclear proteins, spermatogenesis, impact of chemotherapy on oncofertility; cryopreservation and transplantation
- Attitudes toward addressing issues of oncofertility and sperm banking at MD Anderson
- Research culture
- The Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, history of
- Institutional change and growth
- Retirement process
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Marvin L. Meistrich, PhD, Oral History Interview, May 2, 2017
Marvin L. Meistrich PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background
- Educational path
- Research: spermatid nuclear proteins, spermatogenesis, impact of chemotherapy on oncofertility; cryopreservation and transplantation
- Attitudes toward addressing issues of oncofertility and sperm banking at MD Anderson
- Research culture
- The Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, history of
- Institutional change and growth
- Retirement process
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Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, Oral History Interview, May 23, 2016
Gordon B. Mills MD, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background; educational path
- Professional path prior to MD Anderson
- Research areas: immunology, targeted therapy, interleukin-2, Women’s Cancer Moon Shot
- Institutional development: Department of Systems Biology, Kleberg Institute, Zayed Institute
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Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, Oral History Interview, September 1, 2016
Gordon B. Mills MD, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research areas: immunology, targeted therapy, interleukin-2, Women’s Cancer Moon Shot
- Institutional development: Department of Systems Biology, Kleberg Institute, Zayed Institute
- Leadership and contributions in a collaborative context
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Gordon B. Mills, MD, PhD, Oral History Interview, November 9, 2016
Gordon B. Mills MD, PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Institutional development: Department of Systems Biology, Kleberg Institute, Zayed Institute
- Mentoring
- Leadership and contributions in a collaborative context
- The value and challenges of team science; creating a team-science culture
- The value and challenges of collecting and “curating” big data
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Patrick Mulvey, Oral History Interview, May 11, 2015
Patrick Mulvey and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Coming to MD Anderson
- The Office of Development under presidents Charles A. LeMaistre, John Mendelsohn, and Ronald DePinho
- Working with MD Anderson presidents
- The evolution of fundraising as a practice
- Changes in MD Anderson’s donor base
- MD Anderson’s capital campaigns
- Mechanisms for making appeals for donations
- The Moon Shots Program and fundraising
- The MD Anderson mission and culture
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Patrick Mulvey, Oral History Interview, May 19, 2015
Patrick Mulvey and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Coming to MD Anderson
- The Office of Development under presidents Charles A. LeMaistre, John Mendelsohn, and Ronald DePinho
- Working with MD Anderson presidents
- The evolution of fundraising as a practice
- Changes in MD Anderson’s donor base
- MD Anderson’s capital campaigns
- Mechanisms for making appeals for donations
- The Moon Shots Program and fundraising
- The MD Anderson mission and culture
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Walter Pagel, ELS, Oral History Interview, August 1, 2012
Walter Pagel ELS and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- The craft of the scientific editor
- A reader-centered philosophy of editing
- Department of Scientific Publications: history, role of, services for faculty and institution
- MD Anderson publications (e.g. The Heart Bulletin, The Year Book of Cancer, Cancer Bulletin, Breast Diseases, Neuro-oncology, The First Twenty Years, the Cancer Care Series)
- Electronic publishing
- Work with national biomedical editing organizations
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Walter Pagel, ELS, Oral History Interview, August 10, 2012
Walter Pagel ELS and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- The craft of the scientific editor
- A reader-centered philosophy of editing
- Department of Scientific Publications: history, role of, services for faculty and institution
- MD Anderson publications (e.g. The Heart Bulletin, The Year Book of Cancer, Cancer Bulletin, Breast Diseases, Neuro-oncology, The First Twenty Years, the Cancer Care Series)
- Electronic publishing
- Work with national biomedical editing organizations
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James Jarell “Jake” Pickle and Clifford Drummond Oral History Interview, March 15, 2005
James "Jake" Jarrell Pickle, Clifford Drummond, Lesley W. Brunet, and Earl Walborg
Major Topics Covered:
- Sources of land for MD Anderson Research Park in Smithville and Bastrop, Texas
- Legislators and others instrumental in advocating in the Legislature
- R. Lee Clark’s vision for a research facility; personal motives for locating the facility outside of Houston
- Local and governmental considerations in approving land for a laboratory
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William Plunkett, PhD, Oral History Interview, March 25, 2013
William Plunkett PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowksi PhD
Major Topics Covered
- Personal and educational background
- View of history of biomedical sciences; evolution of team science
- Research: nucleoside analogues; gemcitabine, fludarabine; mechanisms of cell death, DNA repair
- Research collaborations: with Pharma; importance of collegiality; inter-disciplinary discussions
- The CLL Moon Shot Program
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William Plunkett, PhD, Oral History Interview, April 10, 2013
William Plunkett PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowksi PhD
Major Topics Covered
- The Department of Developmental Therapeutics
- Memories of Emil J Freireich, MD
- The CLL Moon Shot Program
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William Plunkett, PhD, Oral History Interview, May 08, 2013
William Plunkett PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowksi PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- The Department of Experimental Thereutics: origin of; strategic plan for; training initiatives; department culture
- MD Anderson’s Conflict Resolution Process
- Research Integrity Officer: roles; cases, research issues; ethics
- MD Anderson executive leadership: views on
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Donald A. Podoloff, MD, Oral History Interview, April 02, 2015
Donald A. Podoloff PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Comparison of private practice and work in MD Anderson’s academic context
- Views on radiology: evolution of the field and shift from imagine of forms to function; integrating radiologists into multi-disciplinary care teams
- Views on medical education and its impact on research innovation
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Donald A. Podoloff, MD, Oral History Interview, April 23, 2015
Donald A. Podoloff PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Views on training radiologists at MD Anderson
- Research: imaging of living systems
- Evolution of radiology at MD Anderson
- The Center for Advanced Biomedical Imaging –history of, economics of, potential impact on MD Anderson
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Donald A. Podoloff, MD, Oral History Interview, June 04, 2015
Donald A. Podoloff PhD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research culture at MD Anderson
- Growth at MD Anderson
- Ethics in medicine and research
- Faith
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Carol Porter, DNP, RN, FAAN, Oral History Interview, January 4, 2018
Carol Porter DNP, RN, FAAN and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal background and education
- Emergency management: training and experience prior to MD Anderson, 9/11; importance of emergency management training to a nursing career; leadership in emergency management
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Carol Porter, DNP, RN, FAAN, Oral History Interview, January 25, 2018
Carol Porter DNP, RN, FAAN and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Vision for evolution in the Division of Nursing
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Carol Porter, DNP, RN, FAAN, Oral History Interview, July 6, 2018
Carol Porter DNP, RN, FAAN and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Leadership issues in nursing
- Emergency management: training and experience prior to MD Anderson, 9/11; importance of emergency management training to a nursing career; leadership in emergency management