This lecture is one in a series of nine monthly interviews conducted during the 2015-2016 academic year. The series is sponsored by the Houston History of Medicine Society, in collaboration with UTHealth’s McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, and Baylor College of Medicine. This year’s theme is “Living History: Made at the Texas Medical Center” and includes interviews with researchers, physicians, faculty and patients who contributed to, witnessed or were involved in major medical events and changes from the mid-twentieth century to the present.