Ray Page, D.O. Ph.D.
Dr. Page is a medical oncolo-
gist and is the President and
Director of Research at The
Center for Cancer and Blood
Disorders.
PCT: How did you get into your
occupation?
RP: Well, it took 17 years of
education. I wanted to be a doctor
since I was 10 years old.
PCT: What is your favorite novel?
RP: “Emperor of All Maladies.”
PCT: What do you do to decompress?
RP: Fish with my kids.
PCT: What is something people don’t
know about you?
RP: I wore corrective shoes in grade
school, went on to play college
soccer.
PCT: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
RP: Being a caring doctor.
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PCT: If you could have lunch with
anyone, either living or dead from
history, who would it be?
RP: Nothing is better than lunch with
my wife . Otherwise, Dr. Bennett
Omalu.
PCT: If you had to do a job other
than what you’re doing, what would
you do?
RP: I have the most privileged job
in the world that I hope to never
give up. There will be no need for
an oncologist in heaven, so I think
I would make a pretty good street
sweeper there.
PCT: What is your impact to Parker
County?
RP: I take care of anyone with
cancer.
PCT: What is your definition of the
best day ever?
RP: A day taking care of patients
with NO Electronic Health Record,
quality reporting, interferences
from our 157 government agencies,
encumbrances from the payers, peer
to peer reviewers telling me what I
can›t do, prior authorizations and
denials, usurpation of my prescriptive
authority by Pharmacy Benefit
Managers, and ridiculous mandates
from administrators. How happy I
would be without these.
PCT: What’s the best piece of advice
you would give?
RP: Always seek the truth and have
the courage to question authority,
even with insurmountable odds and
even when you are told you are a
fool. Their facts are not always right.
PCT: What is the most interesting
thing you have ever done in your
life?
RP: While working on a graduate
degree, I worked for two years
at a funeral home on nights and
weekends. I helped out with
everything and I learned so much.
Angelo Spelios
Angelo was an Aviation Safety
Inspector for the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA).
He retired after 30 years of
service and was responsible for
certification of small air carri-
ers, flight schools, agricultural
aircraft operations, helicopter
operations and enforcement of
the FAA Regulations.
PCT: How did you get into your
occupation?
AS: Previous to the FAA, I was a
flight instructor for the Army’s initial
helicopter flight training, teaching
instrument flying and tactics to
student pilots. The FAA offered
more diverse challenges than flight
instructing. The FAA also offered
a chance for me and my family
to come back to Texas from Fort
Rucker, AL.
PCT: What is your favorite novel?
AS: Flight of the Intruder, by Stephen
Coonts. It takes place during the
Vietnam war. It is about a Navy A-6
two-seater attack airplane that oper-
ates from an aircraft carrier. At the
start of the book, the author puts you
in the pilot’s seat, at night, with poor
visibility and low clouds, ready to be
launched from an aircraft carrier for
a mission to North Vietnam. It gives
you an idea of what our Naval avia-
tors went through on these dangerous
missions.
PCT: What do you do to decompress?
AS: Since my retirement, I keep busy
by attending meetings and dinners
with fellow active and retired pilots.
I am a member of several active
and retired military organizations
that meet monthly for dinner and
fellowship. A very important position
that I enjoy very much is being a
director of The National Vietnam
War Museum, located just east of
the old Fort Wolters gate in Mineral
Wells. We [broke] ground last month
for construction of phase one of the
museum. This museum [has been] in
planning for the last 10 years.
PCT: What is something people don’t
know about you?
AS: After my active duty with the