Browsing by Subject "Cancer Center"

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    Interview with David Brown
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-05-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Brown, David M.
    David Brown begins by describing his childhood and education in Illinois. He discusses his experience attending medical school in the 1960s and his decision to join the University of Minnesota’s Department of Pediatrics. He describes his experiences with Ellis Benson and others with whom he worked in the Department. He discusses the role of women in laboratory medicine and his work in comparative endocrinology. He explains the differences in the administrations of several different deans of the Medical School and the School’s changing relationship with the University (and later, Fairview) Hospital. He describes some of the issues of town/gown in Minneapolis and in Minnesota at large, especially related to pediatric medicine. He describes his decision to become an administrator and his own tenure as Dean of the Medical School, the development of the Masonic Cancer Center, and the University’s ALG scandal. He concludes with his retirement and his discovery of a passion for art.
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    Interview with Frank Cerra
    (University of Minnesota, 2014-07-31) Cerra, Frank B.; Tobbell, Dominique
    Dr. Frank Cerra begins part one of his interview by describing his undergraduate education at SUNY Binghamton, his medical education at Northwestern University Medical School, and his residency at SUNY Buffalo. He then describes his recruitment to the University of Minnesota, his early goals, and his growing administrative roles. He describes the leadership implications of investigations into Antilymphocyte Globulin (ALG) on the Medical School and the merging of University Hospital with Fairview Health Services. He then discusses the following topics: his interest in surgery; the culture of the University of Minnesota’s Department of Surgery; his work with the pharmaceutical industry and the College of Pharmacy; his work developing a critical care program at the University; and his relationships with the hospital directors, hospital nursing, and the School of Nursing. In part of two his interview, Dr. Cerra intersperses reflections on finances and relations among different levels of administration in the University, the AHC, and University Hospital. He also discusses the following topics: his relationship with Neal Gault; strategic and long-range planning; the goals of the AHC; the formation of University of Minnesota Physicians; the establishment of the Biomedical Ethics Center (later the Center for Bioethics) and the Masonic Cancer Center; the investigations into ALG and Dr. John Najarian; the establishment of the Center for Drug Design; William Brody as Provost of the AHC and issues surrounding faculty tenure; and the establishment of the Institute for Health Informatics. In part three of his interview, Dr. Cerra expands on the decision to merge University Hospital with Fairview Health Services, particularly focusing on logistics, culture, and reception. He also discusses failed attempts to create a unified children’s hospital in the Twin Cities. He then reflects on the following topics: the major challenges and achievements of his tenure as senior vice president; the merging of the positions of Senior Vice President of Health Sciences and Dean of the Medical School; the creation of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute and the Biomedical Discovery District; and the medical device industry in Minnesota. He concludes by describing the University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic partnership in research.
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    Interview with John Kersey
    (University of Minnesota, 2011-05-09) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Kersey, John
    John Kersey begins by describing his background, including his education and why he went into medicine. He describes his experiences during his residencies, being appointed a Medical School faculty member, and as a faculty member. He discusses faculty and research at the UMN Medical School while he was a student, the reorganization of the Health Sciences in 1970, the effort to establish a children’s hospital in Minneapolis in the 1960s, relations between UMN faculty pediatricians and community pediatricians, teaching, Homecare for the Dying Child Program, and hospitalists. He talks extensively about cancer research and treatment work, touching on topics including his own research and other work, funding and the NIH, clinical research versus laboratory research, informed consent and medical ethics, cancer research in the 1970s, the development of medical and pediatric oncology and chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation, cancer research funding, the bone marrow transplantation program, nurses who worked on cancer treatment, the Masonic Center in the 1970s, the Cancer Coordinating Committee, the development of organ transplantation treatments, the Comprehensive Cancer Center in the 1980s, the Cancer Detection Center, ALG, experimental treatments, and clinical research. He talks about James Dawson, Mead Cavert, and Robert Good.
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    Interview with Seymour H. Levitt
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-04-04) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Levitt, Seymour H.
    Levitt begins by describing his childhood and his decision to study medicine. He describes his time in the military. He discusses the choice to do two residencies (radiology and internal medicine) in San Francisco. He describes the changes that have occurred in therapeutic radiology over the course of his career. He discusses his tenure at other universities and the decision to come to the University of Minnesota to build the therapeutic radiology department. He describes using linear accelerators in place of cobalt machines at the University of Minnesota. He discusses the influence of foreign physicians on American radiation therapy and the conflicts among physicians treating people with cancers. He also discusses the culture of the medical school. He describes his involvement with the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and the Masonic Cancer Center. He discusses the implications of the ALG litigation on the Medical School and the University of Minnesota. He also discusses the sale of the University Hospital to Fairview Health Systems. He concludes with the impact of changing imaging technologies on his field.
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    Interview with Yusuf Abul-Hajj
    (University of Minnesota, 2012-08-06) Tobbell, Dominique A.; Abul-Hajj, Yusuf J.
    Dr. Yusuf Abul-Hajj begins his interview by reflecting on his education, his choice to pursue medicinal chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, the difficulties of transition and travel between Palestine and the United States, and the Arab community in Minneapolis. Dr. Abul-Hajj then describes his early career in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Minnesota, with particular attention to the clinical pharmacy movement, the creation of the Pharm.D. program, and problems that consequently arose within the basic science, research-oriented departments of the College. He then discusses the following topics: collaboration between the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and the Chemistry Department; the revival of social and administrative pharmacy; relations between clinical and basic science faculty in the College; collaborations between faculty in Medicinal Chemistry and faculty in the Medical School; the appointment of Gilbert Banker and his tenure as dean of the College; collaboration between Medicinal Chemistry and the pharmaceutical industry; his own research on estrogen and cancer; drug development in academia; and the creation of the Center for Drug Design.
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    Prospectus for the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, June 20, 1988
    (University of Minnesota, 1988) University of Minnesota. Medical School