Len Zwelling

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

Hang On. It’s Almost Over By Leonard Zwelling (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/ibms-watson-proves-useful-at-fighting-cancer-except-in-texas/) Here is yet another article about the fiasco that was Lynda Chin, IBM Watson and Price Waterhouse Cooper. Over $60 million came off the bottom line of MD Anderson’s budget and that does not count the opportunity cost of using the MD Anderson faculty and staff

Fast Forward: America In Four Years Looks Like MD Anderson Now By Leonard Zwelling https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/?mc_cid=b1ed05da98&mc_eid=ff67b66aee In this piece sent to me by son Richard, David Frum, a former W speechwriter, paints a picture of how Donald Trump’s election in 2016 could lead to an autocratic America. He ends the piece this way: “Those citizens who

Is The MD Anderson Financial Recovery True Or Fake News? By Leonard Zwelling That’s a hard one. First, it would seem easy to define true vs. fake information. But that no longer seems to be the case. The President of the United States says that intelligence leaks are real, but the news about them is

Ron and Lynda’s Excellent Adventure By Leonard Zwelling https://cms.utsystem.edu/sites/utsfiles/documents/system-audit/ut-system-administration-special-review-procurement-procedures-related-utmdacc-oncology-expert-advis/ut-system-administration-special-review-procurement-procedures-related-utmdacc-oncology-expert-advis.pdf Buried among the reports on the UT System website is one recent one to the Chancellor that describes the findings of a UT System audit of the Oncology Expert Advisor Project led by Lynda Chin until her departure from MD Anderson in 2015 (link above). This

“Take Me To Your Leader”: In Washington, In Houston, In Austin By Leonard Zwelling If the proverbial aliens landed on the Potomac today and tried to ascertain who was really in charge of the American government, they may well have a dilemma. “Take me to your leader,” they might ask. Would you send them to

The Best And The Brightest—NOT! By Leonard Zwelling It’s bad enough when we have seen the death of truth due to a President of the United States who is only occasionally acquainted with it. When irony dies, that is sad indeed. In Marc Tracy’s op-ed in the New York Times on February 5, he, a