Len Zwelling

Wire Tapping Trump Tower And Curing Cancer: Equally Likely By Leonard Zwelling What is crucial to understand is that Mr. Trump better hope that he’s wrong about the wire tapping of Trump Tower by President Obama. First, the President, Obama or otherwise, cannot order such a wiretap. It’s illegal. Second, if there were a wiretap […]

Woman Power For MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling The least the Regents can do up in Austin as they prepare to search for the next president of MD Anderson is make darned sure they don’t repeat the past mistakes. What do I mean? First, it would be helpful if those people in Austin responsible for

Is Ron Resigned To Not Resigning? By Leonard Zwelling From the reports in the press and the town hall outtakes I saw, it looks to me like Dr. DePinho isn’t going anywhere and there is no plan to move forward for MD Anderson. You can’t have the leader resign and not have a plan going

Active Measures Undermined Hillary and The Division Heads By Leonard Zwelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures “Active measures” is a Russian maneuver. The Russians dive deeply into undermining the mechanisms of another society in an effort to turn events their way. This is what they have been accused of doing to the United States during the last election cycle

EXTRA: Not A Wet Eye In The House: But Much More Work To Do By Leonard Zwelling This is not a happy day for MD Anderson despite what some might think. The premature resignation of a president is not a time for celebration. It means that things have really gone terribly wrong and this borders

DuBois: A Shoo-In; Clinton: A Shoo-In—Not So Fast By Leonard Zwelling When Dr. Kripke retired in 2007, it was generally acknowledged that her replacement, now no longer just the Chief Academic Officer, but officially a Mendelsohn-named Provost, would follow in Dr. Mendelsohn’s footsteps to the presidential suite. Sooner than anyone imagined, the Mendelsohn Presidency was

How The UT Land Deal In Houston Affected MD Anderson By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/UT-System-halts-Houston-expansion-after-mounting-10970480.php http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/Burned-orange-10977202.php Chancellor Admiral McRaven is a ramrod straight shooter. I have had the pleasure of meeting him and knew that I was in the presence of a thoughtful warrior when I was in his office. Of course the magazine covers of

Was DePinho Inevitable? By Leonard Zwelling It is by now a consensus that the hiring of Dr. DePinho was a huge error on the part of the University of Texas Board of Regents. The Regents never like to admit error, but the latest audits and the Chancellor’s maneuvers to protect the institution from any further

Fontaine: John’s Bannon, Ron’s Bannon By Leonard Zwelling When Dan Fontaine and I were still friends and colleagues (yes, I will admit to it), he told me two important facts. Both are looming large in my mind now. The first fact is that he wanted to retire at age 58. Dan graduated from the University

Lock Her Up? By Leonard Zwelling In all the discussion and news coverage about the $61.2M cost overrun that was the MD Anderson Watson Project, there has been no asking, from my reading, of the question of whether any laws were broken. It was obvious from the audit results that policies were not followed, but