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Richard E. Wainerdi and the Texas Medical Center (Hardcover)
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Richard E. Wainerdi and the Texas Medical Center (Hardcover)
Series: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History
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In 2012, Richard E. Wainerdi retired as president and chief
executive officer of the Texas Medical Center after almost three
decades at the helm. During his tenure, Wainerdi oversaw the
expansion of the center into the world’s largest medical complex,
hosting more than fifty separate institutions. “I wasn’t
playing any of the instruments, but it’s been a privilege being
the conductor,” he once said to a newspaper reporter. William
Henry Kellar traces Wainerdi’s remarkable life story from a
bookish childhood in the Bronx to a bold move west to study
petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Wainerdi went
on to earn a master’s degree and a PhD from Penn State University
where he immersed himself in nuclear engineering. By the late
1950s, Texas A&M University recruited Wainerdi to found the
Nuclear Science Center, where he also served as professor and later
associate vice president for academic affairs. In the 1980s,
Wainerdi took charge of the Texas Medical Center, embarking on a
“second career” that ultimately expanded the center from
thirty-one institutions to fifty-three and increased its size
threefold. Wainerdi pushed for and ensured a culture of
collaboration and cooperation. In doing this, he developed a new
nonprofit administrative model that emphasized building consensus,
providing vital support services, and connecting member
institutions with resources that enabled them to focus on their
unique areas of expertise. At a time when Houston was widely known
as the “energy capital of the world,” the city also became home
to the largest medical complex in the world. Wainerdi’s success
was to enable each member of the Texas Medical Center to be an
integral part of something bigger and something very special in the
development of modern medicine.
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