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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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Charles Aubrey LeMaistre, MD, Oral History Interview, May 24, 2012
Charles Aubrey LeMaistre and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Contributions to the anti-smoking movement
- Leadership of MD Anderson
- Multi-disciplinary care
- Cancer prevention at MD Anderson
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Charles Aubrey LeMaistre, MD, Oral History Interview, October 24, 2012
Charles Aubrey LeMaistre and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Developing outpatient services
- Managed care crisis
- The Board of Visitors
- Research on keratin
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Bernard Levin, MD, Oral History Interview, February 7, 2013
Bernard Levin and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background; evolution of political conscience
- Leadership
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Bernard Levin, MD, Oral History Interview, February 8, 2013
Bernard Levin and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- The Division of Cancer Prevention: establishing and evolution of; controversies over; culture of
- Views on translational research, research collaboration and multi-disciplinary care/research
- Leadership
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Bernard Levin, MD, Oral History Interview, May 31, 2013
Bernard Levin and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research: collaborative international projects
- Section of Gastro-intestinal Medical Oncology; expanding;
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Bernard Levin, MD, Oral History Interview, July 8, 2013
Bernard Levin and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Research: Celebrex –colon cancer study; portable infusion pump; intra-arterial therapy pump; early detection; biomarkers, colon cancer; chemoprevention;
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Bernard Levin, MD, Oral History Interview, August 27, 2013
Bernard Levin and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Service to national organizations: Early Detection Research Network; GI Tumor Study Group; National Colorectal Cancer Committee
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Bernard Levin, MD, Oral History Interview, August 28, 2013
Bernard Levin and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Cancer prevention: public policy roles; expanding public awareness of; funding initiatives Ethics; views on conflict of interest; evolution in the future
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Benjamin Lichtiger, MD, PhD, MBA, Oral History Interview, June 11, 2012
Benjamin Lichtiger and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Philosophy of Transfusion Medicine: an integral part of patient care and the diagnostic/treatment team
- Transfusion services at MD Anderson; a “boutique blood bank”; individualized patient needs
- Bringing business practices to blood services:
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Benjamin Lichtiger, MD, PhD, MBA, Oral History Interview, June 12, 2012
Benjamin Lichtiger and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Lean manufacturing for MD Anderson blood services
- Views of MD Anderson presidents and Emil J Freireich, MD
- MD Anderson research culture
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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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John Mendelsohn, MD, Oral History Interview, September 28, 2012
John Mendelsohn MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- MD Anderson mission and culture
- Indigent care
- Overseeing MD Anderson growth: mission areas, translational research, physical plant
- Dr. Mendelsohn’s “cancer care cycle” and the MD Anderson Institutes
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John Mendelsohn, MD, Oral History Interview, September 26, 2012
John Mendelsohn MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Personal and educational background
- Overview of research career
- Administration and institution building at UCSD and Memorial Sloan Kettering
- The MD Anderson presidents
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John Mendelsohn, MD, Oral History Interview, October 17, 2012
John Mendelsohn MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
Major Topics Covered:
- Global Programs, sister institutions
- The Cancer Care Cycle and the MD Anderson research institutes
- The Zayed Institute for Personalized Care
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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
