Roscoe "Ike" Robinson served as Vice Chancellor of Vanderbilt University's Medical Center from 1981 to 1997; his tenure was approximately three times longer than that of most medical center chiefs. When Robinson retired in 1997, Vanderbilt University Medical Center had become a billion-dollar enterprise, with the best overall patient care facility in the region, world-class research, and a medical school voted repeatedly by its graduates as the country's best. ?Onward and Upward? offers insight into the reasons for that success.
