University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
MD Anderson Services Corporation (formerly MD Anderson Cancer Center
Outreach Corporation) was established in 1989 as a not-for-profit corporation to enhance revenues of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center by establishing joint ventures in selected markets, providing additional referrals to the institution, contracting for delivery of inpatient and out-patient management, using existing UT MD Anderson Cancer Center reference laboratory services, and fostering additional philanthropy in distant areas.
Charles LeMaistre
He left Emory in 1959 for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School as a professor of internal medicine. He later was named associate dean and then became vice chancellor for health affairs. He was elected as chancellor of the University of Texas System in 1971. As chancellor, he directed a huge expansion of the UT System that included new medical schools in Houston and San Antonio and new universities in Dallas, Odessa and San Antonio. In 1978 he was named president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. During his 18-year tenure, M. D. Anderson has become a world leader in outpatient care for cancer patients and has the nation's largest ambulatory treatment and ambulatory surgery programs in cancers. He has served as national president of the American Cancer Society and as president of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Cancer Fund.