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BY Lori Baker

A picture is worth a thousand words, and Jordan Pietz is helping tell MD Anderson’s stories with his artistic talents and scientific knowledge.

Pietz works as a senior medical illustrator at MD Anderson, translating complicated scientific information into easy-to-understand drawings. He finds this job particularly meaningful after his own experience with childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

“It was difficult on several...

Senior medical illustrator Jordan Pietz

BY Lori Baker

It takes a team to make discoveries. But MD Anderson has taken this concept well beyond the traditional partnership between students...

BY Lori Baker

Completing cancer treatment is a big deal. Frequently, it’s celebrated through a bell ringing ceremony with family and care team members....

BY Lori Baker

The career of Carin Hagberg, M.D., has come full circle. She began her career at MD Anderson as a research assistant in the clinical immunology laboratory of Evan Hersch, M.D., and under the supervision of James Reuben, Ph.D., before receiving her medical degree from McGovern Medical School. In 2016, she returned to MD Anderson as division head of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine. And in August 2018, the nationally and...

Chief academic officer Carin Hagberg, M.D.

BY Lori Baker

Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D., is a true global citizen whose passion for discovery put his career on a winding path with universities and pharmaceutical...

BY Lori Baker

Surgeons at MD Anderson are using extreme heat and cold as their weapons against some forms of cancer.

They’re finding that the minimally...

BY Lori Baker

Susan Gilchrist, M.D., loves to take on a challenge and to build things. Her latest passion is building a program that helps cancer patients...

BY Lori Baker

Some of cancer’s secrets are hiding in patients’ blood. Uncovering them involves only a simple blood draw.

MD Anderson is taking innovative...

BY Lori Baker

Tucked away in our Head and Neck Center are three artists. But instead of choosing the perfect color for a painting, they select the perfect...

BY Lori Baker

Ava can’t take her eyes off the laptop screen. But it’s not a game or a movie that has so fully captured the 7-year-old’s attention. It’s...