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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.
At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense
complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers
state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research
in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical
schools, four schools of nursing, and schools of dentistry, public
health, and pharmacology occupy the thousand-acre campus.
But none of this would exist if not for the generosity and vision
of Monroe Dunaway Anderson, who, in 1936, established the
foundation that bears his name. The M. D. Anderson Foundation
ultimately became the driving force behind creating and shaping
this leading-edge medical complex into what it is today.
"Enduring Legacy: The M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas
Medical Center" provides a unique perspective on the indispensable
role the foundation played in the creation of the Texas Medical
Center. It also offers a case study of how public and private
institutions worked together to create this veritable city of
health that has since become the largest medical complex in human
history.
Historian William Henry Kellar caps off a decade of research on
institutions and characters associated with the Texas Medical
Center. He draws on oral histories, extensive archival work, and a
growing secondary literature to provide an absorbing account of
this leading institution of modern medicine and the philanthropy
that made it possible.
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