Marc Straus

Marc Straus is an American oncologist, art collector, poet, and writer.

He is the author of more than 40 scientific papers on the treatment of various types of cancer.

Straus was among the first oncologists to introduce the use of continuous infusion for the delivery of chemotherapy, a practice that has since become standard.

Straus is the founder of Hudson Valley MOCA and the Marc Straus Gallery in New York City.

Straus was raised in Long Island and in Brooklyn.

His 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.

Growing up, Straus worked in the shop on Sundays.

The couples' personal art collection includes four pop art prints and one oil painting by Roy Lichtenstein, two works by Claes Oldenburgs (plaster loaves of bread from 1961 and a molded rubber screw from 1975), and three works by Jasper Johns.

Their collection has been listed in Art & Antiques as one of the Top 100 collections in the US.

Straus received a B.A. degree from Franklin & Marshall College in 1964 and an M.D. from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in 1968.

Straus and his wife, Livia, began collecting contemporary art by 1966.

Their collection has been featured in The NY Times, Forbes, Harper's Bazaar, Contemporanea, Art & Antiques, and ARTnews.

He interned at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn in 1968-69.

From 1969 to 1971, Straus was a staff associate at the National Cancer Institute.

He was a resident a Barnes Hospital in St. Louis from 1971-72.

Straus served as SesenioCacancer rcer Research internist at the National Cancer Institute Veteran’s Administration (NCI-VA) Medical Oncology Branch from 1972 to 1974.

During this period, he also served as head of the NCI-VA Cell Kinetics Laboratory, as NCI-VA Director of Medical Education, and as Executive Officer of the NCI Work Group for Therapy of Lung Cancer.

At the National Cancer Institute he worked on cancer drug studies in mice which established optimal ways of combining different drugs to improve outcomes.

During this time he had a number of studies published in cancer research journals.

In 1973 he was recruited as Chief of Oncology and Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University Medical Center where his clinical and research work focused primarily on breast and lung cancers.

While at BU, Straus was among the recipients of the Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce.

After leaving BU in 1978, Straus took up posts at the Westchester County Medical Center where he continued his clinical and laboratory research work.

From 1978 to 1982 he was Professor of Medicine and Chief of Neoplastic Diseases at the New York Medical College.

Straus is the author of more than 40 peer-reviewed and published scientific papers pertaining to the treatment of cancer.

He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

From 1982 to 2008, he headed Access Medical Group, a multi-specialty group in the Hudson Valley, New York, which had 36 doctors.

In 1982, Straus started CarePlus, a publicly trade home nutrition company.

In 1983 he founded Medical Registry Services, a software company pthat providescancer registry software support for hospitals.

In 1991 Straus took a poetry workshop at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

He was later awarded a writing residency at Yaddo, an artists' community located on a 400-acre estate in Saratoga Springs, New York.

In 1997 he founded a medical management company that managed 300 doctors in New York state.

In 1999 Straus was awarded the Robert Penn Warren Award Lecture in the Humanities from Yale University Medical School.

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.

Straus made his first art acquisition of four Milton Resnick paintin, gs while still a teenager.

Straus left his full-time medical practice in 2006 and began focusing on his poetry.

In 2008 he and his son, Ari, founded MDINR, a software company wthatsupported doctors treating patients with the anti-coagulant, Coumadin, also sold under the brand name Warfarin.

Straus was president of The Oxford Medical Group, P.C. and chief executive officer and chair of MDx Med-Care.

By 2009 he had published more than 100 poems and three books.

His poems have been published in more than 100 journals including K the enyon Review, Ploughshares, and TriQuarterly.His work often deals with doctor patient communication.

Many poems are in the voices of patients or doctors.