Olson, James Stuart and Lesley Williams Brunet

John Mendelsohn, M.D. is the third person who has served as president of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Under his leadership and direction, the institution has emerged as the nation’s premier cancer center. It has more than doubled in size and has been named the top cancer hospital in the nation seven out of the past nine years in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals" survey, including 2010.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 31, 1936, Mendelsohn earned both bachelor’s and medical degrees from Harvard University and spent a year in Scotland at the University of Glasgow as a Fulbright Scholar in biochemistry. Following his residency training in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, he completed a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health and completed a fellowship in hematology-oncology at Washington University Medical School.

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