Leonard Zwelling

Dr. Zwelling is a board-certified internist and medical oncologist. He was trained at Duke University, Duke Medical School and Duke Hospital after which he completed his oncology training at the National Cancer Institute. He started his research career at NCI and in 1984 moved to The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology. He returned to business school at the University of Houston, graduating in 1993. He then gravitated to research administration.

Choosing Harvard’s New President: MD Anderson Figured It Out First

Choosing Harvard’s New President: MD Anderson Figured It Out First By Leonard Zwelling The new president of Harvard University is Lawrence S. Bacow, the former president of Tufts and a top official at MIT. He now is on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. In the article in the NY Times, notice …

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The House Call Is Gone But There Are Better Strategies Than the One Being Used By Academia

The House Call Is Gone But There Are Better Strategies Than the One Being Used By Academia By Leonard Zwelling https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-country-doctor-cant-forget-his-40-years-of-house-calls-1518134157 The Wall Street Journal on February 9 published this op-ed by Bob Greene about a retired Dr. Charles Kemper from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin who made house calls for 40 years. Dr. Kemper describes the …

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MD Anderson Is Too Big

MD Anderson Is Too Big By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/My-dad-s-cancer-has-made-it-clear-Our-health-12552137.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/prognosis/article/MD-Anderson-wants-name-removed-from-cancer-12552600.php Two articles in the Houston Chronicle on February 5 make the title of this blog abundantly clear. In the first, Ken Janda, the CEO of Community Health Choice, relates the difficulties he and his family faced navigating the health care system to care for their …

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CDC=Can’t Deny Conflict

CDC=Can’t Deny Conflict By Leonard Zwelling https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/01/31/health/ap-us-med-cdc-director-resigns.html Brenda Fitzgerald was the Trump appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her new boss of three days, Alex Azar, made the announcement of her resignation. It seems that Dr. Fitzgerald had purchased a host of tobacco and drug company stocks that put her in …

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