1. Marc Straus is an American oncologist, art collector, poet, and writer.
24 Facts About Marc Straus
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Marc Straus is the author of more than 40 scientific papers on the treatment of various types of cancer.
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Marc Straus's father was an orphaned immigrant who came to the United States at age 15 and later owned a textile business on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
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From 1969 to 1971, Marc Straus was a staff associate at the National Cancer Institute.
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Marc Straus served as SesenioCacancer rcer Research internist at the National Cancer Institute Veteran's Administration Medical Oncology Branch from 1972 to 1974.
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Marc Straus is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed and published scientific papers pertaining to the treatment of cancer.
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Marc Straus is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.
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In 1982, Marc Straus started CarePlus, a publicly trade home nutrition company.
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In 1991 Marc Straus took a poetry workshop at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
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Marc Straus was later awarded a writing residency at Yaddo, an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York.
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In 1999 Marc Straus was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award Lecture in the Humanities from Yale University Medical School.
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Marc Straus left his full-time medical practice in 2006 and began focusing on his poetry.
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Marc Straus's poems have been published in more than 100 journals including Kthe enyon Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly.
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Marc Straus' work was the basis of a 2004 exhibition at Lehigh University called "THE BRIDGE: A Journey Through Illness" with a catalog and essay by poet John Yau.
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Marc Straus made his first art acquisition of four Milton Resnick paintings while still a teenager.
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Marc Straus has written some 35 articles in leading publications on art collecting and art criticism and was president of the Aldrich museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield Connecticut.
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Marc Straus funded the establishment of the school's first Jewish Studies program.
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In June 1978, two nurses and two trainees who worked with him at the Boston University School of Medicine alleged that Marc Straus had ordered them to falsify patients' records, had failed to get proper consent from patients, and had improperly administered drugs.
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Marc Straus denied personal involvement in wrongdoing asserting his innocence and maintaining that he had been framed by disgruntled subordinates.
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Marc Straus resigned from his posts at Boston University Medical Center Hospital and BUSM.
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BU refused, leading Marc Straus to conclude that the internal evaluation of his work was tainted because of investigator bias and lack of protection for the records.
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One year later, Marc Straus filed a $33 million lawsuit against five of his former co-workers, charging they had conspired to discredit his work.
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Marc Straus strongly denied that he had engaged in any wrongdoing alleging that his signature had been forged.
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In October 1982, Marc Straus published a paper in Cancer Treatment Reports, a journal funded by the National Cancer Institute.