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05/21/1996
Michael Korda, William R. Fair
A conversation with Michael Korda & Dr. William R. Fair
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A conversation about about prostate cancer, currently the fastest growing type of cancer among men in the U.S., with Michael Korda, editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster, and Dr. William R. Fair, chief of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering.


William R. Fair
William R. Fair (1936 - 2002) was chief of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1984 - 1997. An expert on prostate cancer and urologic tumors, Dr. Fair continued to work there until 2000, and in 2001 he and his son helped found a complementary medicine center in Manhattan called Haelth. Dr. Fair was also the Florence and Theodore Baumritter/Enid Ancell Chair of Urology, and Emeritus Professor of Urology at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Member Emeritus at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Dr. Fair served on the Cancer Advisory Panel for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and was the editor-in-chief of 'Molecular Urology' and the associate editor of 'Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine', and on the editorial boards of other highly respected journals. He published extensively in the areas of urology and oncology, and chaired the Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the American Urological Association, and the Clinical Advisory Board of Haelth, LLC.
Source - University of North Texas libraries, Stanford Urology News http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/whccamp/members/wrf.html http://urology.stanford.edu/newsletters/UrolNews_V1_N2.pdf
William R. Fair (1936 - 2002) was chief of urology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center from 1984 - 1997. An expert on prostate cancer and urologic tumors, Dr. Fair continued to work there until 2000, and in 2001 he and his son helped found a complementary medicine center in Manhattan called Haelth. Dr. Fair was also the Florence and Theodore Baumritter/Enid Ancell Chair of Urology, and Emeritus Professor of Urology at the Joan and Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Member Emeritus at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. Dr. Fair served on the Cancer Advisory Panel for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and was the editor-in-chief of 'Molecular Urology' and the associate editor of 'Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine', and on the editorial boards of other highly respected journals. He published extensively in the areas of urology and oncology, and chaired the Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the American Urological Association, and the Clinical Advisory Board of Haelth, LLC.
Source - University of North Texas libraries, Stanford Urology News http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/whccamp/members/wrf.html http://urology.stanford.edu/newsletters/UrolNews_V1_N2.pdf
























