Faculty
Gregory H. Botz, M.D.
Dr. Gregory H. Botz is a professor of anesthesiology and critical care at MD Anderson. He received his medical degree in 1990 from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. He completed an internship in internal medicine at Huntington Memorial Hospital and then completed a residency in anesthesiology and a fellowship in critical care medicine at Stanford University in California. Dr. Botz is board-certified in anesthesiology and critical care medicine.
Dr. Botz joined the Department of Critical Care at MD Anderson in 1998 and is currently medical director of the Transfer Center, the Acute Care Training Center and the Medical Emergency Rapid Intervention Team. As a clinician-educator, Dr. Botz serves as regional faculty for the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care training programs, and he is a national consultant for the Society of Critical Care training programs. He is a junior editor for the American Board of Anesthesiology Joint Council on In-Training Examinations and is a member of The University of Texas System Health Care Components ICU Quality Improvement Collaborative.
Dr. Botz is a 2004 graduate of the Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program in Health Care Delivery Improvement. He is a member of the steering committee and faculty for the Clinical Safety and Effectiveness training program. He is the current University of Texas Chancellors Health Fellow in Quality of Care and Patient Safety.
Thomas W. Burke, M.D.
Dr. Thomas W. Burke is executive vice president and physician-in-chief at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He joined the institution in 1988 after serving in the United States Armed Forces. Dr. Burke is responsible for oversight and strategic planning for patient care delivery throughout the hospital, clinics and outreach programs. One of his major goals is to enhance patient services through increased efficiency of human, fiscal and space resources.
Dr. Burke received his undergraduate degree and medical degree from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and provides clinical care for women with gynecologic malignancies. Dr. Burke has written or contributed to chapters on vulvar and endometrial cancers for several textbooks and has authored or co-authored more than 130 original medical articles.
Dr. Burke is currently a member of the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Surgeons, the Felix Rutledge Society and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. His clinical and educational activities have been recognized through his national and international presentations on gynecologic cancers as well as by several teaching awards and nominations to Woodward and White's "Best Doctors in America" and Good Housekeeping's "Best Doctors for Women." Dr. Burke is committed to clinical excellence, improving patient outcomes through research driven patient care and enhancing patient service.
Thomas W. Feeley, M.D.
Dr. Thomas W. Feeley is vice president of medical operations and head of the Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is the Helen Shafer Fly Distinguished Professor of Anesthesiology. Dr. Feeley received both his undergraduate degree and his M.D. from Boston University and trained in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at Harvard’s Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He was a faculty member at Stanford University for 18 years prior to coming to MD Anderson in 1997 to serve as head of the newly created Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care. The division is responsible for all anesthetic, critical care and pain management in the institution and provides oversight of the operating rooms in conjunction with the Divisions of Surgery and of Nursing.
As vice president of medical operations, Dr. Feeley provides oversight of medical aspects of patient safety, quality management, communication, clinical computing, capital resource allocation and a variety of diverse special projects as assigned by the physician-in-chief.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Feeley provides patient care services in the delivery of anesthesia in the Ambulatory Surgery Center.
Lewis E. Foxhall, M.D.
Dr. Lewis E. Foxhall is vice president for health policy at MD Anderson and medical director, Office of Physician Relations, and chair of the Uncompensated Care Advisory Committee. He is an associate professor in the Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention. His medical career has included experience in private practice and academic medicine, health policy development, cancer control initiatives, teaching and other educational endeavors.
Dr. Foxhall actively participates on numerous cancer-control policy development efforts. He is director of the Texas Cancer Council-funded Texas Cancer Data Center and previously chaired the Texas Health Care Information Council. Dr. Foxhall recently served as chair of the Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was appointed to be a member of the State Health Services Council, Texas Department of State Health Services by Governor Rick Perry and currently chairs the Harris County Public Health System Council. Dr. Foxhall has been an ACS volunteer since the early 90s. He serves as a delegate to the National Assembly and serves on the Advocacy and Public Policy Committee as well as the Primary Care Advisory Committee. Dr Foxhall’s interests are in community-based cancer prevention and early detection and access and quality of care for low-income populations.
Brent C. James, M.D., M.Stat.
Dr. Brent James is the executive director of Intermountain Healthcare's Institute for Health Care Delivery Research and vice president of medical research. He is a national leader in applying quality management principles to reduce costs by improving health-care delivery. Dr. James is at the forefront of Intermountain Healthcare's quality effort, adding a strong emphasis on patient care, clinical medicine and the scientific method to IHC's management strategy. He has been instrumental in showing that quality improvement is a natural extension of clinical research and medicine's long-standing commitment to patient care.
Dr. James received his M.D. (1978) from the University of Utah School of Medicine, followed by residency training in general surgery. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, and holds a visiting lectureship in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. His undergraduate degrees in computer science (1974) and medical biology (1975) supplement a Master of Statistics degree (1983), all from the University of Utah, with subsequent fellowship training in biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health (1983).
Dr. James came to IHC in 1986 from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was assistant professor of biomedical computing in the Department of Biostatistics and a biostatistician with the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. Prior to that he served as the Cancer Department assistant director and consultant on computers for the American College of Surgeons.
Victoria Jordan, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Dr. Victoria Jordan specializes in applied statistics and quality improvement. As the director of quality measurement and engineering at MD Anderson Cancer Center, she currently leads Quality Engineering and Clinical Informatics within the Office of Performance Improvement. Quality Engineering provides expertise to the organization in process and system improvement by applying quality tools and methodologies that support safety, timeliness, effectiveness, efficiency, equity and patient-centeredness. Through Clinical Informatics, her area provides accurate and timely process and outcomes data (internal and comparative) to process owners in support of the needs of the EVP of Clinical Operations, the EVP of Research and division heads.
Dr. Jordan’s research interests include statistical quality control, Six Sigma, process optimization, mathematical simulation of patient flow and applied statistics. She is the co-author of a McGraw-Hill textbook, Design of Experiments in Quality Engineering, and author of several peer reviewed articles.
Dr. Jordan received her Ph.D. from Auburn University in industrial engineering with an emphasis in applied statistics. She holds an M.B.A. from Ohio State University, an M.S. in industrial engineering from Auburn University and a B.S. from the University of Kentucky in statistics, with minors in computer science and mathematics. Dr. Jordan is a member of the American Society for Quality, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Industrial Engineers. She is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt (certified by ASQ and BMGi) and has over 25 years of experience providing management and statistical consulting in manufacturing, service and heath care organizations.
Kenneth W. Kizer, M.D., M.P.H.
Former president and CEO of the National Quality Forum, Dr. Kenneth Kizer was appointed CEO of Medsphere, Inc., a health IT company based in California, late last year.
"Ken Kizer has long been a driving force in using performance measurement to improve health care," says Dennis S. O'Leary, M.D., president of Joint Commission. "His successes in transforming the Veterans Health Administration health-care system and in rapidly and aggressively establishing the National Quality Forum as a central force in the realm of quality measurement and improvement provide exemplary models of leadership in service of high-quality health care across the United States."
As the undersecretary for health in the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) from 1994 to 1999, Dr. Kizer was the highest ranking physician in the federal government and the chief executive officer of the veterans health-care system, where he transformed the manner in which care is delivered and measured in the VA. The VA maintains the largest integrated health-care system in the nation, with a budget of more than $20 billion, approximately 200,000 staff and more than 1,100 sites of care delivery. Today, the VA is recognized as a model of excellence in health care due to Dr. Kizer's leadership and aggressive goals for improvement.
Dr. Kizer serves on numerous national and international advisory boards and panels, and he sits on the governing boards of a number of organizations and institutions. He is often asked to consult with foreign countries about public health and health-care matters, and he is frequently quoted in the press. Dr. Kizer is an honors graduate of Stanford University and UCLA. He is board certified in six medical specialties or subspecialties and has authored more than 400 original articles, book chapters and other reports in medical literature.
Ellen F. Manzullo, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Ellen F. Manzullo is a professor of medicine and deputy department chair in the Department of General Internal Medicine, Ambulatory Treatment and Emergency Care at MD Anderson. She also serves as the associate medical director of the institution's Ambulatory Treatment Center. Dr. Manzullo received her medical degree from The University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1986. She subsequently completed her internship and residency in internal medicine at UT Medical School in 1989. Upon completion of her residency training, Dr. Manzullo joined the faculty of MD Anderson. She is board certified in internal medicine and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
Dr. Manzullo's clinical interests focus on the treatment of comorbid conditions in the cancer patient. She has been the primary author or co-author on peer-reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and reviews on topics such as oncologic emergencies, preoperative evaluation of the cancer patient and cancer-related fatigue. Dr. Manzullo has also been the chair of conferences related to oncologic emergencies and the internal medicine care of the cancer patient. Dr. Manzullo has served the institution on multiple committees such as the Quality Council, Patient Safety Committee, Ethics Committee and the Executive Committee of the Medical Staff. Currently she is the chair of the Medical Records Committee and the MD Anderson Physician Network Quality Council.
Dr. Manzullo is a graduate of the Intermountain Healthcare Delivery Improvement Program.
Maurie Markman, M.D.
Dr. Maurie Markman is vice president for clinical research at MD Anderson. For more than 20 years, Dr. Markman has been engaged in clinical research in the area of gynecologic malignancies, with a particular focus on new drug development and exploring novel management strategies in female pelvic cancers.
Dr. Markman has been the primary author or co-author on more than 800 published peer-reviewed manuscripts, reviews, book chapters, editorials or abstracts, and he has edited or co-edited 10 books on various topics in the management of malignant disease, including Atlas of Oncology and the most recent edition of Principles and Practice of Gynecologic Oncology. In addition, Dr. Markman has served on numerous editorial boards, including the Journal of Clinical Oncology and Gynecologic Oncology, and he is the North American Editor of the Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. Dr. Markman is currently chair of the Medical Oncology Committee of the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), the United States National Cancer Institute-sponsored cooperative group focused on the management of female pelvic malignancies.
Kevin W. McEnery, M.D.
Dr. McEnery is an associate professor of radiology and serves as deputy division head of informatics for the Division of Diagnostic Imaging at MD Anderson. He oversaw the implementation of the MD Anderson's PACS (Picture Archive and Communication System), which currently has available over 100 million diagnostic images.
Dr. McEnery serves as co-chair of the institution’s Clinical Operations IT Steering Committee as well as a member of both the institution's Clinical IT and Research IT Steering Committees. He is the co-inventor of ClinicStation, MD Anderson’s in-house developed electronic health record. He has presented scientific papers at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) and Society of Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) and has the prepared award winning scientific exhibits as RSNA and SCAR. Dr. McEnery has been a lecturer in the Informatics Refresher Course at the RSNA annual meeting as well as Health Information Management Systems Society on the subject of enterprise image distribution.
Alan H. Morris, M.D.
Dr. Alan H. Morris is professor of medicine and adjunct professor of medical informatics at the University of Utah, and director of research and associate medical director of the Pulmonary Function and Blood Gas Laboratories at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah.
He has experience in the conduct of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) multi-center randomized clinical trials of treatments, including innovative therapies, for ARDS patients. He is principal investigator of the four-hospital Utah Critical Care Treatment Group (CCTG), which is a part the ARDS Network for clinical trials of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes (NHLBI). Since 1994 Morris has directed the CCTG, which includes the LDS, Cottonwood, McKay Dee and Utah Valley Regional Medical Center Hospitals.
He is also principal investigator for the NIH-NHLBI Re-engineering Clinical Research in Critical Care contract.
Doris Quinn, Ph.D,, M.S.N.
Dr. Quinn is director of process improvement and quality education in the Office of Performance Improvement at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
She has experience in assisting program directors and faculty in developing teaching and measurement strategies for the ACGME/ABMS Competencies with a focus on system-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement); teaching quality improvement tools and methods to the medical students, nurses, staff and physicians; serving as consultant at institutions for process redesign efforts (examples are hospital units, clinic redesign, Office of Research, the IRB, News and Public Affairs, Emergency Alert System of the University and many others); teaching and applying qualitative research and program evaluation techniques; mentoring business, engineering, medical and nursing students for improvement related projects. She has developed several Web-based quality improvement courses for engineering students, residents, faculty, managers and staff.
Dr. Quinn has been involved in process improvement since 1987, when she started as a Quality Coach for an HCA hospital. She met Dr. W. Edwards Deming in 1988 and was invited to travel with him on consulting and teaching assignments until his death in 1993. In 1990 she was invited to join the Quality Resource Group at Corporate HCA where her duties included mentoring hospital leaders in the use of survey data, developing educational workshops and materials on quality improvement and teaching hospitals how to implement quality improvement. She has lectured both nationally and internationally on use of survey data, process improvement and clinical redesign, has published extensively in the field of quality improvement and has been a consultant to healthcare organizations interested in process improvement and redesign.
Dr. Quinn is the co-developer of a teaching/assessment tool called "The Healthcare Matrix" which uses the IOM Aims for improvement and the ACGME Competencies to assess and improve healthcare. She has presented the Matrix at over 40 medical schools and other healthcare institutions, has been a speaker at nine national and five international meetings.
Dr. Quinn has a master’s degree in curriculum design and a doctorate degree in policy development and program evaluation from Vanderbilt University School of Public Policy, Nashville, TN, with a specialty in formative evaluation.
James L. Reinertsen, M.D.
Dr. James Reinertsen heads The Reinertsen Group, an independent consulting and teaching practice helping health-care leaders create organizational environments in which the work of nurses and doctors can thrive. Dr. Reinertsen is senior fellow at the Institute for Health Care Improvement, heading IHI’s leadership development sector. He also serves clients such as Sutter Health, Intermountain Healthcare and The Henry Ford Health System. He has continued to lead health-care thinking as a subcommittee member of the Institute of Medicine’s work that produced the landmark publications, "To Err Is Human" and "Crossing the Quality Chasm."
From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Reinertsen was CEO of both CareGroup, a six-hospital, 1,400-physician system, and of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of the Harvard Medical School. During his tenure at CareGroup, he was also professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Reinertsen has authored more than 40 articles in journals such as Health Affairs, Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, New England Journal of Medicine and the Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement. Dr. Reinertsen’s new book, "Ten Powerful Ideas for Patient Care Improvement," coauthored with Dr. Wim Schellekens, CEO of the Dutch Institute for Quality, was published by Health Administration Press in April 2005.
Dr. Reinertsen received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1973, and completed an internship at San Francisco General Hospital in 1974, and a residency at the University of California Hospital in 1976. He a 1969 summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College in Minnesota.
Dr. Reinertsen makes his home in Alta, Wyoming.
Margaret B. Row, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Row, an internist who specializes in oncologic emergency medicine, is associate vice president for global clinical programs. She is responsible for the implementation of professional, business and support operations for clinical aspects of global oncology, including all clinical programs outside of 1515 Holcombe. In addition to working closely with Global Academic Programs, Global Business Development and Clinical Operations, GCP also collaborates closely with the clinical divisions and departments, Quality Improvement, the Physicians Network and other departments inside MD Anderson and outside 1515 Holcombe.
Dr. Row received her medical degree with distinction in 1994 from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., followed by residency training in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. She was chief medical resident at the Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 1996. Dr. Row received a Masters of Business Administration from The University of Texas in 2007.
After spending three years in a group practice with St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Dr. Row joined MD Anderson in the Department of General Internal Medicine, Ambulatory Treatment and Emergency Care in 2000. She served as section chief of emergency care from 2001 through 2007 and the associate medical director and medical director of the Emergency Center from 2002 through 2007. She has been involved in many clinical process improvement projects centered on streamlining physician processes, improving patient safety, the evidenced based treatment of neutropenic fever and reducing patient wait times in the Emergency Center.
Dr. Row is a 2004 graduate of the Intermountain Healthcare Advanced Training Program in Health Care Delivery Improvement.
Kenneth I. Shine, M.D.
Dr. Kenneth I. Shine joined The University of Texas System as executive vice chancellor for Health Affairs in 2003. In that capacity, he is responsible for the six UT System health components and their aggregate operating budget of almost $6.1 billion. Former president of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Shine was the founding director of the RAND Center for Domestic and International Health Security.
Dr. Shine is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.) School of Medicine. A cardiologist and physiologist, he received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1961. Dr. Shine is chair of the Food and Drug Administration's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Dr. Shine is a member of many honorary and academic societies, including Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American College of Physicians and was elected to the IOM in 1988. He served as chairman of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 1991-1992, and was president of the American Heart Association from 1985-1986.
Richard Theriault, D.O., M.B.A.
Dr. Richard Theriault is professor of medicine in the Department of Breast Medical Oncology at MD Anderson. Dr. Theriault received his medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri. Dr. Theriault’s postgraduate training included a rotating internship and residency in internal medicine at Normandy Osteopathic Hospital in St. Louis. He also completed a residency in internal medicine at Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa and a fellowship in medical oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Theriault is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology. He received his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Houston.
Dr. Theriault has authored or co-authored over 100 original articles in peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology and Cancer. He serves as a reviewer for journals such as the Journal of the American Medical Association and British Journal of Cancer. Dr. Theriault chairs the Institutional Review Board-2 at MD Anderson, and he is the center’s member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Breast Cancer Guidelines Panel and for the NCCN Guidelines Steering Committee. He has served as a panel member for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research program and as a scientific reviewer for the NCI/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Dr. Theriault’s research interests include breast cancer bone metastasis and breast cancer during pregnancy.
Eric J. Thomas, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Eric Thomas is an associate professor of medicine at The University of Texas Houston Medical School. Dr. Thomas attended The University of Texas at Austin and The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at UT Southwestern affiliated hospitals. In 1994, he completed a general internal medicine fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and received a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University.
Dr. Thomas then joined the Harvard Medical School faculty before joining UT Houston Medical School in 1998. Dr. Thomas is a general internist at Memorial Hermann Hospital and teaches students and residents at UT Houston Medical School. Since 1992, he has conducted research on patient safety, and his work was cited numerous times in the Institute of Medicine's landmark report on medical error. With funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Dr. Thomas has collaborated closely with Dr. Robert Helmreich and numerous other colleagues throughout the UT System to translate safety practices from aviation to healthcare. Dr. Thomas’s current research focuses on measuring provider attitudes relevant to patient safety (safety “culture”), measuring and improving teamwork, close-call reporting and organizational learning.
Frank Tortorella, M.B.A., J.D., F.A.C.H.E.
Frank Tortorella, vice president of clinical support services, directs, plans and implements clinical support systems at MD Anderson. He provides administrative oversight for Patient Resources, Patient Access Services, Case Management, Clinical Nutrition, Dining Services, Rehabilitation Services, Health Information Management, Social Work and Chaplaincy.
Mr. Tortorella has more than 20 years of healthcare administration experience. Prior to coming to MD Anderson, he held a variety of positions including vice president of ambulatory care and chief financial officer with Advocate Northside Health Network in Chicago, Ill.
Mr. Tortorella is board certified in healthcare management and is a fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and American literature from Harvard University, a Master of Business Administration with a specialization in healthcare administration from the University of Chicago and a Doctor of Jurisprudence with a concentration in health law from Loyola University of Chicago.
Mr. Tortorella serves on the board of directors for the National Runaway Switchboard, the federally designated national communication system for runaway youth. Additionally, he is an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
Garrett L. Walsh, M.D.
Dr. Walsh attended Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he received his Bachelor of Arts (Life Sciences) in 1979, and his M.D. in 1983. He completed his surgical internship at Mount Sinai Hospital at the University of Toronto in 1984, and his general surgical residency at the Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University in Montreal in 1988.
During this time he did research on the use of skeletal muscle to assist failing hearts and completed a Master of Science degree at McGill (1988). He went on to continue his training in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at McGill and was chief resident at the Montreal General Hospital, The Royal Victoria Hospital and the Montreal Children's Hospital from 1988-1990.
Dr. Walsh is board certified in surgery, thoracic surgery and surgical critical care. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and is a fellow of the American College of Critical Care Medicine Board. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in thoracic surgery.
Dr. Walsh joined the staff of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at MD Anderson in 1990 as a faculty associate and was promoted the next year to assistant surgeon and assistant professor of surgery. In 1996 he was promoted to the position of associate surgeon and associate professor of surgery. He received the prestigious 1999 Faculty Senate Award for Patient Care. He holds a joint appointment with the Harris County District (Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital). In 2001, he was promoted to professor of surgery.
Dr. Walsh has a strong commitment to residency, nursing and patient education. He has presented several hundred lectures on all aspects of surgery of the chest, has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and has authored or co-authored 39 book chapters. He has served on many institutional committees, serves on the Clinical Ethics Committee and has collaborated on over 90 research protocols. Dr. Walsh is equally devoted to the mission of MD Anderson.
Ronald S. Walters, M.D., M.B.A.
Dr. Ronald S. Walters is the medical director for clinical operations, which includes Managed Care Programs, the Case Management Program, the Department of Medical Informatics, the Department of Practice Outcomes and the Physicians Network Program at MD Anderson. He began his career at MD Anderson in 1979, having completed a residency in internal medicine in Chicago, Illinois.
From 1979 to 1988, Dr. Walters was an attending physician in the Department of Leukemia, and from 1988 to 1996, the Medical Breast service, at MD Anderson. He then chose to join a private practice of medical oncology in Houston between 1996 and 2000, after which he returned to MD Anderson to accept his present positions. Dr. Walters completed further education, receiving master’s degrees in business administration (1996), health administration (1998) and management of computing and information systems (2000). His wide range of responsibilities places him in charge of the coordination of numerous data collection efforts regarding clinical practice of oncology at both the MD Anderson and the community.